Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first game ever for the Montreal Expos...
...give me the opening day 1969 double play combinations (second baseman and shortstops) for the four expansion teams of that year? (Hint: The teams were the Seattle Pilots, the Kansas City Royals, the Montreal Expos, and the San Diego Padres...
...story granite headquarters of the Sun Life Assurance Co. in Montreal was once the largest office building in the British Empire, the secular cathedral of the English-speaking business elite in the world's second largest French-speaking city. Now it is a symbol of panic in the face of Quebec's threat to separate from the rest of Canada. Last week Sun Life's 1 million policy holders voted by a 5-to-1 ratio to transfer the headquarters to Toronto, Canada's bustling financial capital. Sun Life (assets: $5.5 billion) thus became the biggest...
Quebec politicians described Sun Life's move as "economic blackmail"; the federal government protested it would hurt "national unity." Still, some small companies have already quit Quebec entirely, and many big firms, including the Royal Bank of Canada, the Bank of Montreal, Northern Telecom Ltd. and the Royal Trust Co., have simply moved key departments. As long as managers worry about the possibility, however remote, of one day waking up to find themselves marooned in a small nation, some will continue to flee...
...Mount Royal Brass Quintet, comprised of members of the Faculty of Music of McGill University, Montreal, performs its Boston debut on May 15. The year-old group will play brass works by Bach, Dahl, le Jeune, Calvert, Schuller, and Ewald...