Word: bayes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While American investors fumed, Canadian companies rushed in to buy the assets of U.S. firms in Canada, helped by generous financing from Canadian banks. In one of the biggest transactions, Canada's Dome Petroleum spent $3.2 billion acquiring Hudson's Bay Oil & Gas, a subsidiary of Connecticut-based Conoco Inc. In the nationalistic climate of 1980-81, Canadian companies spent more than $7.3 billion on the purchase of foreign-held assets, creating a massive drain on the economy. Severely compounding the problem, Canadians invested at least $19 billion in the U.S. during roughly the same period...
Question 2, as the ads say, is a killer. It would remove constitutional restrictions on the death penalty. If it is approved, the legislature will most likely create a Bay State death row as soon as it re-convenes...
...Question 3 mandates a formal statewide referendum, a "yes" vote tomorrow could logistically keep Massachusetts out of an agreement with other states. Not only could referenda planning drag on beyond the deadline for the joint approval of the states, but other states have also expressed reservations about dealing with Bay State negotiators, whose bargaining promises could be invalidated by the results of a popular referendum...
...including Mobil Corp. and British Petroleum Alaska Exploration. Their bid for that choice tract far outstripped the $129 million offered by Exxon and Marathon Oil, which was bought in March by U.S. Steel. Another group led by Texaco, which is seeking to increase its holdings in the Prudhoe Bay region, weighed in with the second-highest successful bid for a tract near the Sohio purchase: $219 million...
...Alaska's northern coast, where geophysical tests strongly point to the presence of oil and gas. What is more, these areas are only 40 miles or so from pumping station No. 1 on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, which was built to carry oil for the nearby Prudhoe Bay oilfields. That area was particularly attractive because it meant that only relatively short feeder lines would have to be built to get oil to the pipeline, which would carry it into U.S. markets...