Word: occurance
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Early in the Carter Administration, a flare-up of Quebec separatism led a U.S. official to guess that the big divorce would occur in 1990. He predicted that Pierre Elliott Trudeau, still vigorous at 70, would come out of semiretirement and run for the U.S. Congress. There were chuckles at the joke, but no joy at the prospect of Canada's cracking...
...that today no one questions Quebec's potential ability to survive as an independent country. The province's economic dynamism and cultural solidarity have given its politicians and businessmen a remarkable degree of self-confidence. Still, many participants in the debate do not believe a final split need occur. "When you come right down to it," says Alain Dubuc, an editor of the Montreal daily La Presse, "Quebeckers don't want to separate. What we need is a simplification of the relationship." Dubuc envisions a Canada of regions rather than provinces, held together in a loose structure similar...
...electoral politics are criticized for trying to undermine this valuable organization and even question the concept of service" and "anyone who challenges" the tactics and rhetoric of the PBHA Steering Committee...is instantly portrayed as a heartless snob who would like to argue that such stifling tactics do not occur; they most certainly do. However, Cohen makes two errors, perhaps in attempting to keep matters simple...
...however, explosions will occur closer to home. Though Chapman's party says it plans no purges, it will systematically install inerrantists as moderates retire. The seminary in North Carolina has already been torn apart over this effort, and the one in Kentucky will doubtless be next. Meanwhile, desperate anti-Fundamentalis ts are labeling the rival force as power mad and "demonic." A schism does not appear imminent, but as the conflict moves to the state and local level, anti-Fundamentalists may carry out a de facto split, diverting money from the national denomination into their own causes...
...later session of the Moscow party committee. In his book Against the Grain, Yeltsin reports that Gorbachev phoned later to offer him the deputy chairmanship of the State Construction Committee, which he accepted. Gorbachev then told him he would permanently be barred from politics. Writes Yeltsin: "It did not occur to him that he had created and put in motion a set of democratic processes under which his word as General Secretary ceased to be the word of a dictator...