Word: kleine
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...former television reporter with an expressive, Silly-Putty kind of face, Ralph Klein went straight from covering city hall to running it in 1980. Now in his third term and a tireless polisher of his city's image, Klein is full of rosy facts and rousing figures about the Games. Some 80,000 visitors will jam the hotels, and every event should be close to a sellout. The Canadian organizers expect to turn a $23 million profit. In addition, Calgary will inherit state-of-the-art facilities, such as the $31 million indoor speed- skating oval and the ski jumps...
...mayor and Olympic officials are trying to stare down one looming controversy as the opening ceremonies approach. A tribe of Indians, the Lubicon Lake Band from northern Alberta, is protesting the Games to bring $ attention to a century-old unsettled land claim. "I support their claim," says Klein, who speaks a dialect of the Blackfoot language. "I oppose their methods." Local police and the Mounties are prepared for demonstrations -- and for the ever present threat of international terrorism. Although security experts privately believe the risk posed by terrorists is low, they are taking no chances. The Olympic Village has been...
...this is not an outtake from one of Calvin Klein's erotic "Obsession" commercials or a Duran Duran video. This luscious footage comes direct from Bernardo Bertolucci's latest film, The Last Emperor...
...owners have tried to recreate a bit of French style: the Denver store features a bistro and a sweeping operatic staircase backlit by a skylight. The merchandise is more eclectic: such famous French names as Claude Montana and Hermes are well represented, but so are Perry Ellis, Anne Klein and other American labels...
...need to recognize that power is not a badthing," said Ethel Klein, associate professor ofpolitical science at Columbia University...