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...rates of unemployment in the West, at 11.2%. During his campaign, Chretien promised to create 120,000 jobs in the public sector, most of them building and repairing Canada's eroding infrastructure. But, says John Clinkard, chief economist of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce in Toronto, "the fiscal cupboard is essentially bare. The Liberals can play around the edges with fiscal policy -- but they can have no significant increases in spending...
...adjuster (strong safety innon-Resticspeak), potentially the most importantspot on the defense, Restic's cupboard is bare ofreturners--or even major letter-winners...
...adjuster (strong safety innon-Resticspeak), potentially the most importantspot on the defense, Restic's cupboard is bare ofreturners--or even major letter-winners...
...adjuster (strong safety innon-Resticspeak), potentially the most importantspot on the defense, Restic's cupboard is bare ofreturners--or even major letter-winners...
...with a skull and some musty books, of death. Where Harnett is weakest and most derivative is, precisely, where he tried to tell his stories. He liked mild, kitschy allegorizing. His invocations of the past (the classical bronze and the broken copy of Cervantes' Don Quixote in The Old Cupboard Door, 1889, for instance) are parlor antiquarianism with nothing to say about history. What they respond to is the diffuse sentimentality about the past felt by people ill at ease with the rawness and bustle of the American republic, in the days before bric-a- brac became "collectibles...