Word: canadas
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BILL 36 Russia, 3 Canada China Costa Italy, Rica France, Israel, Canada...
After stints at boarding schools in England and Canada, she entered Radcliffe College at the tender age of 16 to major in physics and minor in government...
...raise prices on its addictive product and not lose sales. In England a pack of smokes goes for nearly $5, vs. less than $2 in the U.S., and yet they still have plenty of smokers. But tobacco users are more price sensitive than you might imagine. Canada in 1994 had to repeal a stiff tobacco tax that had pushed prices past $5 a pack because a violent black market developed. U.S. consumption peaked at 640 billion cigarettes in 1981, which is when the industry started raising prices aggressively. When prices stabilized around 1992, so did demand...
...million acres in North Dakota and Minnesota were under chocolate-colored lakes, and potato, sugar-beet and grain farmers feared losing the planting season. As the water receded in Grand Forks and people began returning home to inspect damage estimated to top $1 billion, the Red whooshed toward Canada, bringing armies of small-town locals scurrying onto levees to hold back the river with sandbags and plywood. Mostly, they lost. There was some discussion of whether any of this could have been minimized. Some blamed the National Weather Service for underestimating the river after the melting of a record snowfall...
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn. JEAN ROBERT Quebec City, Canada...