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...dozen years and a believer in the divine right of King George III. Other families were similarly split--John Hancock and John Adams had royalist in-laws--but none came asunder with quite the intensity of the Franklins. The result shocked contemporaries but, like imperceptible fissures that suddenly expand in an earthquake, took considerable time in the making...
...going to expand the antidrug program...
...warn them not to expect too much too soon. "U.S. firms won't be able to make a quick killing," says Fritz Ringling, an industry analyst with the Gartner Group. "The Japanese are looking for long-term relationships, not short-term flings." Among the American companies eager to expand their telecommunications activities in Japan are IBM and AT&T. Both have formed ventures with Japanese partners to develop telecommunications networks that will link computers together...
...part of that strategy is to encourage foreigners to build new plants and expand existing ones in Canada. To that end, Mulroney has announced his intention to close down Canada's decade-old Foreign Investment Review Agency, which screened all new foreign investments. In its place, he is creating Investment Canada, an agency that will, in the Prime Minister's words, "encourage and facilitate investment." Like its predecessor, however, Investment Canada will have the right to review potential foreign entrants into businesses deemed important to Canada's cultural heritage and national identity. Most direct takeovers of existing...
TIME'S economists predicted that the gross national product will expand 2% this quarter, down from the 4% they foresaw last September, and then grow a healthy 3% to 4% in 1985. That increase would be typical for the third year of an economic recovery. Board members predicted that the pickup will trim unemployment from the 7.2% rate it unexpectedly fell to in November to 7% by mid-1985. They look for joblessness to remain stuck at that relatively high level through...