Word: splintering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Canadians suddenly discovered part of their country might soon be missing. That day Quebec's predominantly French-speaking voters gave 41% of their ballots, enough to form a majority government in the province, to the left-of-center Parti Québécois, which only ten years ago was a splinter group on the fringe of provincial politics. Independence for Quebec is the party's main goal?indeed, its raison d'être. Some time next year the government is expected to hold a province-wide referendum. How the issue will be worded is uncertain, but in essence the voters of Quebec...
Legal echoes of its competitive battles will keep Kodak tied up in court for years, whatever the final Berkey verdict. GAF has filed an antitrust suit asking the courts to splinter Kodak into no fewer than ten separate businesses. Pavelle, a tiny New Jersey firm that sank into bankruptcy in 1975, has brought suit asking, among other things, that the trademark "Kodak" be as freely available to the public as the term aspirin. Polaroid has also sued, contending that Kodak's instant cameras and print film infringed on Polaroid patents. Most ominous of all, the Department of Justice...
Most of the violence and killing is the work of an assortment of 115 identifiable extremist political movements, splinter groups and urban guerrilla commandos, 94 belonging to the far left and 21 to the neo-Fascist right. Between January and October 1977, ultras of one stripe or another were responsible for 1,693 attacks on people and property, an increase of 40% over the previous year and almost three times the total of 628 in 1975. Italy was also Europe's most explosive society: more than 2,000 terror-connected bombings occurred there last year, almost double the number...
...previous support (to 16.7% of the vote), but elected only 17 members to the new Parliament. The other two English opposition groups, the conservative South African Party (three seats) and the Natal-based New Republic Party (ten seats) were virtually wiped out. So was a right-wing Afrikaner splinter group, the Herstigte Nasionale Party, which won no seats...
...Santa Claus and many religious leaders objected at first when Christmas Day became Christmas Long Weekend, but The Santa Corporation created Claus Reindeer Raceway to mollify the jolly golden-age elf, and the company paid spiritual operatives to develop splinter sects for Christmas Reformists...