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Beginning in the late 1970s, however, Kwanzaa began to attract coverage in the mainstream press . The attention grew as Karenga modified his rhetoric to appeal to a broader audience, and as interest in multiculturalism burgeoned in the late 1980s.
Merchants played an active role in creating the urban culture that burgeoned at the end of the 17th century, the so-called Genroku era.
When Alberta and Saskatchewan acceded to provincial status in 1905, and the country’s mining, lumber, paper, and pulp industries burgeoned, Laurier championed a new transcontinental railway that would take a more northerly route to serve them — the state-owned Canadian National Railway (C.N.R.)
Their tough-minded pragmatism survives today not only in Tokyo but also in the dynamic industrial zone that has burgeoned around it in such towns as Kawasaki and Yokohama.
With the growth of tourism as a major industry, resort facilities have burgeoned in smaller islands such as Penang, Pangkor, and Langkawi on the west coast of the peninsula, Tioman on the east coast, and around Sabah’s offshore nature reserve near Kota Kinabalu.