Word: ottawa
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...states of the U.S. Midwest. "I really see you as very, very strong allies," he told a meeting of Great Lakes Governors in Cleveland. "More so than many parts of Canada." The implication that Ontario might line up with Michigan, Wisconsin or Ohio against sister provinces--or even Ottawa--if economic interests required it was hard to miss. Was this sedition...
...occurred with a minimum of government planning. But that may have to change. An early sign of the complications ahead is the expected demise of external tariffs sheltering the auto pact, after last month's World Trade Organization interim ruling that they discriminated against Japanese and other automakers. While Ottawa ponders whether to appeal the ruling, doomsayers are predicting the end of the "sweetheart" tariff holiday that they claim has underwritten Great Lakes prosperity for the past three decades. But the tariff ruling is probably irrelevant...
...many U.N. types, the glitterati are an unwelcome distraction. "Celebrities draw a lot of attention, but we are trying to do this without the flashing lights," Macedonian UNICEF representative Eddie McLoughney told the Ottawa Times. "We learned a lot from Gere's visit. The problem is the focus can end up on the celebrities and the stir they cause rather than the plight of the children." Certainly, for harried aid workers spending their days trying to keep the teeming camps organized, peaceful and above all sanitary, the pint-sized stampedes set off by goodwill ambassador Moore's cratefuls of Teletubbies...
...running. He's a finalist again this year. Opposing teams scored an average of 1.87 goals per game against him in the regular season, vs. the league average of 2.63. He's known as the "Dominator," which he demonstrated in shutting down the younger, faster and just plain better Ottawa Senators to win the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs, 4-0. After beating him, 4-2, in the opener of the second round, which continues this week, Boston Bruin players emphasized that Hasek is human. Keep saying that, guys...
...players did not wear names, it would be hard to pick out who was the greatest player of all time. Even in his prime, Gretzky wasn't very fast; his shot was oddly weak, and he was last on the team in strength training. As he said in Ottawa on Thursday, "Maybe it wasn't talent the Lord gave me. Maybe it was the passion." He would operate from his "office," the small space in back of the opponent's goal, anticipating where his teammates would be well before they got there and feeding them passes so unexpected he would...