Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unity and perhaps even the survival of Canada. The bomb comes in the form of a threat by the separatist government of Quebec to seek independence for the country's largest province. Next week, at an extraordinary three-day meeting, Canada's national and provincial leaders will gather in Ottawa to discuss means of righting the country's grave economic problems, which include a galloping 8.5% unemployment and 9.5% inflation. But underlying the talks will be a nervous awareness that Canada's 111-year-old confederation is in danger and that, as Montreal Novelist Hugh MacLennan puts it: "This country...
...four bishops arrive uninvited when the world's Anglican bishops gather in England this July for their decennial Lambeth Conference, there may be a row. In the U.S., Bishop Chambers could face a trial by a court of Episcopal bishops for abetting the schism...
Nolan said he will put up posters this week asking students leaving the libraries to gather at the entrances on the hour and just before closing time at Lamont and Cabot libraries. Nolan said he would add more posters in other libraries if the project is successful...
When students of the gray world gather, the conversation-whispered, of course -often turns to the quality of intelligence services. The CIA and KGB rank, on a scale of 1 to 4, at the top. Here, with help from intelligence operatives in the U.S. and abroad, TIME rates the other services...
Japan. Tokyo's Cabinet Research Office aims to gather information about foreign countries' economic-policy intentions and industrial secrets. Political analysis is weak...