Word: canadas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While both sides agreed on the goal of free trade, working out the details proved to be maddeningly complex. Just three weeks ago, Simon Reisman, Canada's chief negotiator, stormed out of the talks in Washington and flew home. The major sticking point was agreement on a mechanism to resolve trade conflicts. At Mulroney's insistence, the Canadians returned to the bargaining table, but the wrangling continued until the deadline day. Finally Mulroney's chief of staff, Derek Burney, asked U.S. Treasury Secretary James Baker when would be a good time for the Prime Minister to call the White House...
...wave started on July 4 and will continue through Labor Day." While warmer temperatures might boost the fish catch in Alaska and lumber harvests in the Pacific Northwest, he says, the Great Plains could become a dust bowl; people would move north in search of food and jobs, and Canada might rival the Soviet Union as the world's most powerful nation. Bretherton admits that his scenario is speculative. But, he says, "the climate changes underlying it are consistent with what we believe may happen...
...into such American strongholds as biotechnology and supercomputers. Western Europe is coming up fast in aeronautics and office equipment. The newly industrialized countries are staking out their turf as low-cost producers of everything from steel to TV sets. And the U.S. may face a fresh competitive breeze from Canada as a result of the free-trade agreement the two countries reached...
showing percentage of world export market held by United States, Japan, Western Europe, Canada, Newly Industrialized Countries and other countries...
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