Word: canadas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, the deficit with Japan, which reached $58.6 billion last year, remained this nation's largest. The trade gap with Canada also narrowed in March, to $1.5 billion from $1.9 billion in February...
Despite strong anti-CFC laws in the U.S. and Canada, many countries . continued to allow the compound to be used as a propellant in aerosol products and as a cooling agent in refrigerators, air conditioners and other appliances. Finally, last week representatives of 31 nations, including Britain, West Germany and the Soviet Union, agreed that by 1992 they would cut back on their production of chlorofluorocarbons by 20%. Mostafa Tolba, executive director of the U.N. Environment Program, felt the agreement did not go far enough. He warned, "If we mess up this planet, we can't go and look...
...would become Canada's largest corporate takeover, and it is already a political football. When the House of Commons returns to work this week from Easter recess, lawmakers may take up the proposed $3.9 billion buyout of Dome Petroleum by the Canadian arm of Chicago-based Amoco, fifth largest U.S. oil company. Dome's board, faced with $4.9 billion in debt, last week accepted the offer. But Toronto-based TransCanada PipeLines, which underbid Amoco by $600 million, vows to keep up the fight...
...Broadbent, leader of the socialist New Democratic Party, calls the Amoco bid a "black day for Canada," because it would tip foreign control of the $49 billion petroleum industry well past 50%. The deal could also test Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's vow to seek friendly foreign investment...
...season progresses, a new phase of the game will begin -- trading. Phones will ring at all hours. Wives will issue ultimatums. Owners traveling in Europe, Asia or northern Canada will search desperately for box scores. The circulation of USA Today, the best day-to-day source of baseball intelligence, will soar. Thousands of man-hours will be expended thinking about baseball, talking about baseball and contemplating baseball. But until tomorrow, when the major leagues start play, things will be quiet. "You've read the book," quips the Tooners' Larry Fine, traded by Reuters from New York to London during...