That's what I figured, and most references weren't that obscure this time, though I'm positively surprised if you got the hamburger one and the Caesar one.
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That's what I figured, and most references weren't that obscure this time, though I'm positively surprised if you got the hamburger one and the Caesar one.
If the hamburger one is Maldonado>Frsases, then yes. After a while, I actually did.
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And Dolph Lundgren is like Arnold Schwarzenegger, correct?
He's Ivan Drago.
I meant in that Jerry Brown succeeded him, and his being an actor-turned-politician.
I had to look Lundgren up, but I'd heard the name before.
A random wikibox in which IndyCar is America's racing sport,Dumont lives,and Dale Earnhardt does not die.
Yes, but whereas Ah-nold is a pretty shrewd guy, Dolph is actually an honest-to-God genius.
I don't know enough about Mr. Lundgren to say, but I'll take your word for it.
He's chemical engineer, or something, right?
For a while now I've been planning a new infobox series. I've already fleshed it out a fair bit, and have done most of the infoboxes already, and I'm quite proud of the overall quality of the series, so I feel that I'm ready to start posting it:
The Populist Problem of Preston Manning
Given the fact that they almost looked to be headed to victory, it's remarkable how turbulent the 1988 Canadian election was for the Liberal party. It's been well documented how, midway through the election (around the time of the debates), the Liberal national executive seriously considered removing John Turner as leader in favour of Jean Chretien, who by this time had been out of politics for two years. It was thought that Chretien would be a significant improvement over Turner, who had been hadn't been all that impressive in Question Period and who had run a terrible campaign four years earlier. Indeed, at the time the Liberals looked to be at severe risk of being overtaken by the NDP. Ultimately, Turner was kept on as leader and managed to run a surprisingly good campaign, doubling the Liberals' seat count despite failing to form the government. Suppose, however, that Turner was replaced by Chretien. The result? In my mind, not good.
The chaos of the Liberal leadership, stories of infighting, Chretien's inexperience of running a national campaign (particularly one already underway), etc. all doom the party to opposition right from the moment Chretien assumes the leadership, with Ed Broadbent's NDP overtaking the Liberals to form the official opposition (winning a handful of seats in Quebec in the process, a first for the party) and Brian Mulroney's Progressive Conservatives winning a relatively easy re-election with a second majority, despite a brief scare over opposition to free trade - the opposition is too split to really put the government at risk. While the Liberals lose over five percent in the popular vote, they nevertheless manage to slightly increase their seat count due to PC losses. While many pressure him to resign, Chretien ultimately decides to stay on as Liberal leader to help rebuild the party.
Despite having formed the opposition, the NDP becomes very weak due to the same reasons as OTL: the recession of the early 1990s leaving the party with unpopular provincial governments in Ontario and British Columbia. With the party significantly dropping in the polls, Broadbent finds himself practically forced into retirement, and he is replaced as NDP leader and Leader of the Opposition by personally-popular Yukon MP Audrey McLaughlin, who many see as the candidate best able to win back NDP support in Quebec, which had significantly dropped following the formation of the separatist Bloc Quebecois (of which NDP MPs François Beaulne and Remy Trudel had been founding members).
Seeing the weakness in the two main opposition parties, Brian Mulroney opts to stay on as PC leader and Prime Minister and fight the 1993 campaign. This proves to be ill advised, as Mulroney, despite being a "steady hand" and experienced campaigner, has become significantly unpopular, due to a combination of the poor economic state of the country and the multiple failed constitutional negotiations. Indeed, the constitutional chaos of Mulroney's second-term tars all well-established parties, and it is with this in mind that many voters seek an outsider party, which they find in the populist Reform Party and its leader, Preston Manning. Running a populist campaign attacking the Ottawa establishment (indeed, downplaying the party's socially-conservative policies), Manning and Reform experiences a significant boon in support - enough to ultimately win a minority government in the 1993 election (during which both Mulroney and Chretien are defeated in their own ridings). Though Manning’s minority is incredibly slow, he is able to govern after forming a coalition with the now leader-less Progressive Conservatives.
The Populist Problem of Preston Manning
Given the fact that they almost looked to be headed to victory, it's remarkable how turbulent the 1988 Canadian election was for the Liberal party. It's been well documented how, midway through the election (around the time of the debates), the Liberal national executive seriously considered removing John Turner as leader in favour of Jean Chretien, who by this time had been out of politics for two years. It was thought that Chretien would be a significant improvement over Turner, who had been hadn't been all that impressive in Question Period and who had run a terrible campaign four years earlier. Indeed, at the time the Liberals looked to be at severe risk of being overtaken by the NDP. Ultimately, Turner was kept on as leader and managed to run a surprisingly good campaign, doubling the Liberals' seat count despite failing to form the government. Suppose, however, that Turner was replaced by Chretien. The result? In my mind, not good.
The chaos of the Liberal leadership, stories of infighting, Chretien's inexperience of running a national campaign (particularly one already underway), etc. all doom the party to opposition right from the moment Chretien assumes the leadership, with Ed Broadbent's NDP overtaking the Liberals to form the official opposition (winning a handful of seats in Quebec in the process, a first for the party) and Brian Mulroney's Progressive Conservatives winning a relatively easy re-election with a second majority, despite a brief scare over opposition to free trade - the opposition is too split to really put the government at risk. While the Liberals lose over five percent in the popular vote, they nevertheless manage to slightly increase their seat count due to PC losses. While many pressure him to resign, Chretien ultimately decides to stay on as Liberal leader to help rebuild the party.
Despite having formed the opposition, the NDP becomes very weak due to the same reasons as OTL: the recession of the early 1990s leaving the party with unpopular provincial governments in Ontario and British Columbia. With the party significantly dropping in the polls, Broadbent finds himself practically forced into retirement, and he is replaced as NDP leader and Leader of the Opposition by personally-popular Yukon MP Audrey McLaughlin, who many see as the candidate best able to win back NDP support in Quebec, which had significantly dropped following the formation of the separatist Bloc Quebecois (of which NDP MPs François Beaulne and Remy Trudel had been founding members).
Seeing the weakness in the two main opposition parties, Brian Mulroney opts to stay on as PC leader and Prime Minister and fight the 1993 campaign. This proves to be ill advised, as Mulroney, despite being a "steady hand" and experienced campaigner, has become significantly unpopular, due to a combination of the poor economic state of the country and the multiple failed constitutional negotiations. Indeed, the constitutional chaos of Mulroney's second-term tars all well-established parties, and it is with this in mind that many voters seek an outsider party, which they find in the populist Reform Party and its leader, Preston Manning. Running a populist campaign attacking the Ottawa establishment (indeed, downplaying the party's socially-conservative policies), Manning and Reform experiences a significant boon in support - enough to ultimately win a minority government in the 1993 election (during which both Mulroney and Chretien are defeated in their own ridings). Though Manning’s minority is incredibly slow, he is able to govern after forming a coalition with the now leader-less Progressive Conservatives.
Australian Scientific Industries, better known as ASI, is Australia's largest corporation, and the forth largest globally.
Founded in 1982, the core of ASI was a defunct subsidiary of the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation, CAC Victoria, which was brought out by Millionaire entrepreneur Christopher Damsel. Damsel set about reshaping the company away from aircraft construction toward the new, exciting market of cybernetics, which at the time were slowly entering the public market.
In the lead up to the war, the military cybernetics market boomed, and ASI road the wave; by 1985, the company had four factories in Australia, becoming the only cybernetics manufacturer in the Southern Hemisphere. at this time 80% of ASI's contracts were military related.
After the war, ASI found itself in a favorable position to acquire a significant share in the global cybernetics market. With most of its competitors destroyed, and the demand for radiation resistant cybernetics booming, ASI began its meteoric rise.
As it expanded, the company began to diversify, moving into other industries. ASI purchased and absorbed many local subsidiaries of major corporations that ceased to exist in the war, quickly expanding its product base. As well, ASI began many construction ventures, eventually winning major contracts for the construction of the city domes.
The biggest coup in ASI's growth, however, was the purchase of several defunct American defense and aerospace contractors, most notably the Martin Marietta corporation, in 1991, beating out Japanese Zaibatsu and Brazilian Combinars and most significantly, the American giant BLMD. The purchase of Martian significantly boosted ASI's overseas market and its share of the defense industry.
Even with divesification, at its heart, ASI is a cybernetics corporation, and said cybernertics continue to form the lions share of its profits. ASI is a global leader in the manufacture and development of cybernetic technologies; some 60% of all cybernetics used in Australia are ASI products, while an amazing 98% of cybernetics in the country utilize ASI components. Globally, ASI controls roughly 30% of the Cybernetics market, with major exports to the United States. It also maintains a near domination of the Market in South America, despite attempts by the Brazilians to break their hold.
Due to its size, ASI has almost a universal presence in the life of the average Australian; One in three people in Australia will have at least one Artificial organ manufactured by ASI, most likely owns a car built by ASI motors, lives under a dome built by ASI construction, maybe sees a game at one of the many ASI stadiums, and if they go on a holiday, will fly on a plane built by ASI Aerospace (quite possible flown by the ASI owned Ansett Airlines)
Such is the extent of dominance of ASI in Australia (60% of ALL government contracts are held by ASI or ASI subsidiaries), it is a common on joke that the government is just a branch of ASI, although the actiual power dynamic between the Australian Government and ASI is much more complex than simple corporate dominance; their have been times when ASI has been called a branch of the Australian Government, acting against its own interests on orders from Canberra. Certainly, a balance has been maintained, either through force of law, or, according to rumor, force of violence
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