Word: canadas
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...himself a proponent of free trade, would direct Reagan to close American markets to Japanese products exactly as much as Japan closes its markets to American goods and would impose penalties on goods from countries that cannot be persuaded through negotiations to buy U.S.-made telecommunications equipment (possibly Japan, Canada and Brazil...
...example: loggers in the Pacific Northwest figure that the dollar's bloated exchange rate against its Canadian cousin (an American buck was worth $1.36 Canadian last week) gives Canadian lumber exported to the U.S. an automatic 30% price advantage, contributing to a $20 billion deficit in U.S. trade with Canada. With curiously bad timing considering the mood in Washington, Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney last week proposed a new trade pact that would open the two countries still wider to each other's goods...
...tend to limit ourselves to events of great literary significance, those involving very famous people, or on rare occasions, those we find simply irresistible fun." For every show he reviews in print, he estimates, he sees seven or eight more, on Broadway and off, across the country, in Canada and Europe...
...major foreign policy shifts of his Administration, early last week imposed by Executive Order a series of sanctions against South Africa that went a long way toward preempting a stronger sanctions bill already passed by the House of Representatives and pending in the Senate. At the same time, Canada and the members of the ten-nation European Community, with the notable exception of Britain, announced sanctions of their...
Princeton stroke Harry Becker, a member of Canada's Olympic team, said that his squad "didn't mean to let them go out as far as they did." He added that he "didn't know they were so far ahead...