Word: development
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that control foreign investment in Canada and talked of easing federal government controls over energy prices. Mulroney, on the other hand, has promised not to make drastic cuts in Canada's generous social-welfare system and has said that he agrees with the Liberals on the need to develop job-training programs for young people, who have been hardest hit by the shrunken job market. In a notable break with Trudeau, both Turner and Mulroney have avoided gratuitous complaints about U.S. dominance of the Canadian economy...
...Communications, one of the new competitors of A T & T. Customers may charge calls to their monthly Sears bill. In California the company is experimenting with a telephone bill-paying service linked to its credit card. In February, Sears launched a joint venture with IBM and CBS to develop a home-information service called Trintex, which will probably involve bill paying, banking and shopping and other services through home computers...
...Saarinen, making drawings and models for office chairs. He eventually won acclaim for his own chairs but is just as proud of the tractors, lift trucks and airplane interiors he helped create during 25 years with Henry Dreyfuss Associates, a leading industrial-design firm. At Dreyfuss, he also helped develop an encyclopedic series of guidebooks for designers called Humanscale, which provides data about the dimensions and movements of the human body...
...this end, a committee named specifically to examine the importance of the patient is trying to develop ways in which students can better understand their clients...
...bonds. But most individual foreign investors, seeking to avoid the U.S. withholding tax, have favored certificates of deposit offered by overseas units of American banks and bonds issued by U.S. companies in foreign financial centers where taxes are minimal. Now that the American tax has been repealed, foreigners may develop a taste for bonds sold in the U.S. The prospect of increased foreign capital flows and stable interest rates could further fuel the bull market that was gathering force last week...