Word: ont
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Edward L. Ozog Burlington, Ont...
...formation of Poland's independent trade unions attacked the heart of Communist theology. As Adam Bromke, an expert on Eastern Europe at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont, writes in the current issue of Foreign Policy: "It undermines the legitimacy on which Communist power rests by refuting the claim of the Communist Party to be the sole authentic representative of the working class." Communist orthodoxy predicates authoritarian rule: a bedrock belief of Marxism-Leninism is the absolute dictatorship of the proletariat, as represented by its vanguard, the Party. In practical terms, Moscow-style Communism also insists on rigid central planning...
Last week, after Fox had raised nearly $2 million in pledges for cancer research, his run came to an abrupt end, more than halfway to his goal. Three miles outside Thunder Bay, Ont,, and 3,336 from his starting point, Fox began coughing and choking, with pain in his neck and chest. He bravely ran on, so as not to disappoint spectators who had waited for him, but soon checked into a local hospital for tests. The verdict: his cancer has spread. As he told reporters tearfully, "I've got it in my lungs...
...toughest problem was to find sufficient housing. After one of the twelve hotels in which TIME was allocated space turned out to be 43 miles from Detroit in Chatham, Ont., TIME Housing Coordinator Pamela Thompson had to scramble to rent apartments and rooms in a private club closer to the action. At one hotel being considered, a vigilant watch dog named Fifi bit Rauch's assistant, Emily Friedrich. "After covering an acceptance speech or interviewing dozens of delegates, no one should have to cope with Fifi," Friedrich decided, and she struck the establishment from her list...
Last week Ford Motor Co., which is expected to lose $1 billion on domestic car operations in 1980, announced the permanent closing of its assembly plant in Mahwah, N.J., shut down smaller operations in Dearborn, Mich., and Windsor, Ont, and cut 15,000 blue-and white-collar jobs. Time may be running short for Chrysler. Sales are off 26% from 1979's already depressed levels, and the company is making a herculean cost-cutting and consolidation effort in order to qualify for $1.5 billion in federal guaranteed loans. Even mighty General Motors last week put 12,000 more workers...