Word: cents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evident as in Canada. Oil-rich Alberta, led by Conservative premier Peter Lougheed, is in the midst of a boom. The other Western provinces feel alienated by the distant Ottawa government. The Maritime provinces are locked into a vicious economic cycle, with unemployment as high as 20 per cent in some areas, and despite federal investment incentives, practically separatist government clamors for "sovereignty association," a euphemism for secession. If Quebec were to secede, the Maritimes would be cut off from the rest of Canada. A chain of seceding provinces is not unforeseeable, for while Quebec is an enigma...
...Kemp's balanced budget, which Martin Feldstein, professor of Economics, has called something "politicians can digest in 30 seconds and talk about for months." Clark also said he would dissolve the nationally-owned corporation Petro-Canada, a concession to Lougheed, despite the fact that foreign multinationals control 95 per cent of petroleum sales. His promise ran into tough sledding, however, and he has weakly backed...
Although a Student Assembly poll reported in January that 52 per cent of students responding believed students should take whatever steps would be necessary to change the library's name, the poll met no response from officials...
Larsen cited Bok's gibe that women's groups at the Law School had demanded 51 per cent of the school's recruiting funds. Bok termed this "outrageous" and made a joke...
...very hard to estimate how big the jump will be--it's my guess it will be less dramatic than 50 per cent," Richard Lettieri, acting manager of the Massport Noise Abatement Office, said last night. There will not be an increase in night flights, Lettieri added...