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Canada's economic indicators underline the general worsening of the country's economic health. Unemployment now siphons off 8.2 per cent of the labor force, and this figure, bad as it is, conceals severe regional disparities and unknown numbers of the 'hidden unemployed.' Canadian inflation is running at 8.6 per cent, and the dramatic drop in value of the Canadian dollar on international money markets is expected to help sustain this high rate...
...never formed a national government. Usually winning between 16 and 22 per cent of the national popular vote, and never having won a single seat in Quebec, the NDP does not have a realistic chance of forming a government in the near future. About the most the NDP can realistically expect in Canada's upcoming election is to repeat its 1972 electoral performance and gain the strategic balance of power position in Parliament...
...director's slow pace. His portrayal of the thief with the heart of gold never falters. When he accidentally discovers that the Brink's fortress is no more than a poorly protected warehouse of money waiting to be hit, he rushes out and buys his wife a 100 per cent muskrat coat to celebrate his upcoming...
Where else but Harvard could a group of students figure out a way to give Playboy tons of publicity (local and even national it is rumored, not to mention a front page Crimson article and a full page of Crimson opinions) without the magazine having spent one cent on advertising...
During the ACSR meeting of Nov. 29, 1978, the following hypothetical situation was discussed: if the whole Harvard community (variously defined as 90 to 99 per cent) were to favor the initiation of a shareholder resolution in a company, should the Harvard Corporation be bound to take the action? The answer of these members was no, because, in the words of one, it was "too much democracy." Since some committee members have shown what I consider paternalistic attitudes towards South African blacks, suggesting that blacks do not know what is best for themselves, I wonder why these members should doubt...