Word: complexity
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Free trade will hardly mean the end of all Canada-U.S. commercial disputes. Naturally enough, in a dense and complex trading relationship, some issues are almost always simmering. Among the most sensitive is a long-standing U.S. complaint that Canada illegally protects West Coast fish processors. And by Dec. 6, the Reagan Administration must rule on the continuation of a punitive 35% tariff on imports of Canadian cedar shakes and shingles...
Amid the brawl for his company, Johnson has remained aloof from most outsiders and workers at RJR Nabisco headquarters in the elegant Galleria complex north of Atlanta. "We don't know what is going on," says an employee. "Some of us are going to lose our jobs, but we don't know who, or where." Feelings of helplessness were hardly confined to the South. Said a 15-year employee at an RJR Nabisco cookie plant in Fair Lawn, N.J.: "When you're at the bottom of the ladder and you got money men at the top, you take...
...That child is getting fat as a butterball," Bonnie had declared happily ; that very morning at a meeting of other families whose foster children carry HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus. Tina's doctors have lately totted up her symptoms and moved her into the category called AIDS-related complex, or ARC. Bonnie takes this as a hopeful sign: the child has a whole stage to go before full-blown AIDS. Tina's birth mother, a drug addict with AIDS, is less optimistic. She phoned not long ago and remarked, "Tina's going...
...Pritzkers is Philip Anschutz of Denver, a billionaire oil and mining magnate. They have since combined forces with an acknowledged master of the hostile game, HARRY GRAY, 69, the taciturn former chairman of United Technologies, who heads his own investment firm. The First Boston group is offering a highly complex package of cash, securities and stock warrants, which is still only a hazy proposal rather than a firm bid. The sheer size of First Boston's bid persuaded RJR's board to give the group until Nov. 29 to make the offer more concrete. If successful, the high-rolling group...
...White House complex actually embraces the main mansion, Blair House for guests and the Old and New Executive Office Buildings. In rare harmony, the Administration and Congress have poured in at least $50 million over eight years to redo and upgrade the buildings. Private donors have added $12 million in cash and gifts. Not included in those totals are the Secret Service operations, the limousines run by the Army, the White House "airline" of Marine helicopters and Air Force One plus backup. The Huey helicopters will soon be replaced by a faster, sleeker model. The Boeing 707s will be upgraded...