Word: extractions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...investors have blamed much of Canada's trouble on two policies initiated by Trudeau. In 1973 his government created the Foreign Investment Review Agency (FIRA) to screen foreign takeovers and, more recently, to approve new foreign investment in Canada. U.S. businessmen have complained about government arm twisting to extract additional economic concessions in exchange for investment approvals. Lengthy FIRA delays in considering their investment applications have also caused many businessmen to send their money elsewhere. In 1980 Ottawa launched the National Energy Program (NEP), which was designed to increase Canadian oil and natural gas production. In addition...
...Reagan's plan to solve the Palestinian problem by linking the Israeli-occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip to Jordan. The Arabs at Fez had come closer than ever before to a recognition of Israel's right to exist, but the President hoped to extract a more explicit commitment from his visitors. "We believe the time has come to stop talking about talking about peace and start sitting down at the table," a senior State Department official said on the eve of the visit. Although Reagan did not get the statement he sought, he hailed...
...Brown to Brzezinski: "I think we have an abort situation. One helicopter at Desert One has hydraulic problem. We thus have less than the minimum six to go." C-130s to be used to extract. Request decision on mission termination from the President literally within minutes [because of the importance of completing the operation at night...
...loaded planes, the helicopters' swirling blades had kicked up clouds of dust. In the poor visibility, one of the helicopters had flown into the nose of the airplane, which itself was preparing to take off. The two aircraft were engulfed in flames, and it was impossible to extract the bodies of the dead Americans. All others were loaded into the other five C-130s and left Desert One, en route to Masirah, a small island off the coast of Oman. Our men had been on the ground about three hours...
Such difficulties are not surprising. "These pills are made from kidney-bean extract," explains Dr. Victor Herbert, chief of the hematology and nutrition laboratory at the Bronx Veterans Hospital in New York. "There is a chemical in beans that reduces the speed of starch digestion. If you don't digest the starch, then it goes down into your colon, where bacteria ferment and make gas out of it. That gas can give you nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps and diarrhea, as well as making you socially unacceptable...