Word: canadas
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...World Health Organization planned to duplicate this effort. Actually, relatively few countries have facilities to make the vaccine; only a few areas in the world have a serious polio problem, for clinical polio is a disease that goes with high standards of hygiene and sanitation. Highest recent incidence abroad: Canada, New Zealand, Scandinavia. The six firms making the vaccine are selling it at cost to the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, but will otherwise sell for normal profit, an average $1.50 per shot...
...hidden, revolutionary keel design. The New York Yacht Club tried mightily, ignobly, and in vain to have the foreign boat disqualified. Meanwhile, the wonder from Down Under and its gritty crew blitzed the largest foreign field ever assembled in Newport-six other boats, from France, Italy, Britain, Canada and Australia. In two months the Australians won 48 of the 54 times they set sail. And yet, pitted against the New York Yacht Club's haughty ways and the American defenders' $9 million outlay to keep the Cup, the Aussies cannily managed all the same to come across...
...English-speaking electrician from the Quebec mining town of Baie Comeau, Mulroney was a labor negotiator before becoming president of the U.S.-owned Iron Ore Company of Canada. He insists that he will spell out specific policies only when Trudeau calls elections, as he must by February 1985. Generally, Mulroney favors increased defense expenditures, incentives to businessmen and investors, and the maintenance of major social programs. But he is also committed to a balanced federal budget and reduced government spending. He has yet to explain how he intends to reconcile these contradictory objectives. "Certainly there will be restraint, but spending...
...backseat of a Mercedes is piled with bags of chicken feed. A jogger is startled when Canada geese suddenly lift off from a soybean field. A sculptor thumbs through Hoard's Dairyman near the life-size statue of a Holstein, while down at Rose & Chubby's Luncheonette, commuters discuss optional features available on new eight-row corn pickers...
...makes the task of fundraising extremely problematic, because it is difficult to elicit funds for a cause whose effectiveness cannot be documented, Carstens says. Nonetheless, the IDAF raises millions of dollars a year that make their way to South Africa. But of the 10 national committees--in England, Ireland, Canada, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Holland, New Zealand, India and the U.S.--the American branch contributes the smallest amount, last year about...