Word: winging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Growing up in Foxboro, Ontario, however, Carswell was more interested in playing left wing in hockey than running track. Carswell did not run scholastically until his school, Lakefield College, added a track and field team when he was a junior...
...turned down the requests, declining to participate in anything that might help the right-wing movement...
...pants, clutching a slim, four-seat majority that will barely support any ready-made Liberal solution to such nagging problems as Qu?bec separatism, growing unemployment and a sagging national health care system. Taking up the position of chief opposition party is the Alberta-based Reform Party, whose right-wing, populist agenda dominated in the West. That was enough to push the separatist Bloc Qu?becois, the Reform Party's diehard foe, into the number two government heckler slot, further muddying the chances for a national referendum on Qu?bec independence. The Liberals now face a House of Commons sharply divided along regional...
...supports the measure, but opponents, who include religious and human-rights activists as well as industries fearful of low-cost Chinese competition, plan to make Beijing's alleged transgressions their Exhibit A. Referring to the ballooning $40 billion U.S. trade deficit with China, Gary Bauer, head of the right-wing Family Research Council, says, "The Chinese government needs our market, not the other way around...
...down? Russia is weak; the new Eastern and Central European democracies are fragile; Russia has the resources and, historically, the inclination to rise and threaten again. So now is the time to shelter those nervous fledglings of the former Soviet bloc so they can thrive under NATO's protective wing. As an added benefit, supervised membership may even ease regional hostilities that have destabilized Central Europe for generations. Then, if Russia keeps democratizing and ultimately proves to be no menace, it might join and form an undivided Europe...