Word: canadas
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...Middle East; in 1983, Mexico and Panama. TIME has also reversed the process: in May 1981 the magazine arranged for 22 leading European and South African businessmen to meet U.S. policymakers in Washington. Last week, in a similar exercise, TIME invited the chief executives of some of Canada's largest corporations and financial institutions to the U.S. capital for three days of discussions with such officials as Secretary of State George Shultz, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole...
...Canadians, all members of Canada's Business Council on National Issues, cheerfully faced up to 14-hour days that began with breakfast meetings and ended with after-dinner speeches. With them were TIME editors, correspondents and company officers, led by Time Inc. Editor in Chief Henry Grunwald, Board Chairman Ralph Davidson and TIME Managing Editor Ray Cave. The topics ranged from acid rain to Star Wars, but it was the U.S. budget deficit and its effect on interest rates and the dollar that dominated the discussions. Most Administration officials and Congressmen agreed with Senator Dole, who described his effort...
More important, however, is the rivalry aspect of this matchup. Clarkson is in Potsdam, 40 minutes south of Canada in upstate New York and about a million miles from anywhere...
...millionaire. At the heart of his fortune were the energy finds and lucrative investments that had been made by Mesa, which Pickens formed in 1964. Some properties acquired by Mesa rose staggeringly in value. In 1959, for example, Pickens scraped together $35,000 to invest in drilling sites in Canada. Mesa sank the income from those sites into new wells and in 1979 sold its Canadian operations to Dome Petroleum for $600 million...
...budget, has plunged UNESCO into a financial crisis. To make matters worse, Britain and Singapore have announced that they will pull out at the end of the year. West Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands and Denmark have also threatened to withdraw if reforms are not made quickly, and Japan and Canada have hinted they too might leave...