Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Strutting through a rippling forest of fleur-de-lis flags, some 200,000 Quebeckers staged a joyous wake for the accord that failed -- the three-year effort to meet the province's demands for special constitutional status. Time ran out on the so-called Meech Lake accord only two days before St. Jean- Baptiste Day, the traditional holiday of Quebec, and French Canadians made the most of the coincidence. Revelers and elaborate floats jammed three miles of Montreal's Rue Sherbrooke last week, celebrating the pride and power of nationalism. "Quebeckers to the streets," they shouted, "Canadians on the sidewalk...
Canada's 123-year-old confederation has been based on a "misunderstanding" all along, says Charles Taylor, a political science professor at Montreal's McGill University. "Quebec already has a de facto special arrangement. We have our own provincial pension plan, immigration arrangements, income tax. But as soon as you say to the rest of Canada, 'Let's make it legal,' all hell breaks loose...
...past decade, TIME's worldwide editions have devoted entire issues to a single, very compelling topic: the Soviet Union in 1980, Japan in 1983, immigrants to the U.S. in 1985 and the Soviet Union again in 1989. Two weeks ago, for the first time, we prepared a special issue on German unification expressly for our international audience. American readers will find highlights from this issue in the magazine this week...
...decision to produce a special issue overseas reflects not only the importance of the subject but also our commitment to a global audience. With an Atlantic circulation of 510,000, TIME is the largest international weekly newsmagazine in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The same is true in Asia, with 270,000 copies sold weekly. We also sell 350,000 magazines a week in Canada, 90,000 in Latin America and 145,000 in the South Pacific. With an additional 4 million issues in the U.S., we have a worldwide circulation of more than 5.3 million, for an estimated...
...conference also approved a landmark special fund that would provide $240 million over the next three years to help poorer countries switch to chemicals that are more expensive but less harmful than CFCs for use as refrigerants, solvents and propellants in spray cans. The fund, proposed long before the London meeting, had been a major sticking point until a few weeks ago, chiefly because the Bush Administration had declined to support it. Consequently, such populous developing nations as India and China continued to refuse to sign the Montreal Protocol. Bush finally reversed himself, under withering criticism from inside and outside...