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...Canada is open and ready for business." With those words, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney underscored his government's commitment to loosening trade restrictions last week in the third of TIME's Distinguished Speakers Program series. The forum was inaugurated by President Reagan in February 1984 at his alma mater, Eureka College in Eureka, Ill., and followed last December with an address by former Democratic Vice Presidential Nominee Geraldine Ferraro at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Speaking at the University of Chicago, Mulroney used the occasion to drive home his view that protectionist trade policies lead only to isolation...
...Interstate 44 in Missouri, motorists heading east toward St. Louis glide past the giant Six Flags amusement park and the big fireworks emporium across the road, past the eager little town of Eureka, past billboards inviting them to visit the Black Madonna Shrine and the Meramec Caverns. But then comes a quick stretch where the familiar green interstate signs are disfigured by blank areas, apparently painted over. There down to the left of the highway by the river, weeds and tall grass obscure a whole area...
Marsha Adams entered, tall, striking mother of two. She bent down, tore off the printout, held it lightly as a feather. I peeked. Eureka! There it was, the National Debt -- $1,823,105,258,488.19, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 1985, 11 a.m. When Marsha was born in 1956 the Debt had been only one-seventh as big. Did the burden crush her, I blurted? Not really, she said. She whisked it across the hall to be fed into more computers, which ultimately spewed it out to cringing auditors and suffocating finance ministers around the globe. Then what? Well, said Marsha...
...Quakers who are 5-4 (1-0 EITA) on the year, also visited the Eureka State this spring and played some of the same teams the Crimson...
...answered no were equally impassioned in their replies. Among Landers' favorite responses was one from Eureka, Calif.: "I'm 62 and voting NO. As long as my old man is able to shake the walls and wake up the neighbors downstairs, I want to get in on the action. And I'll take an encore any time...