Word: foreign
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Hong Kong accounted for more than 22% of the 22,765 immigrants who arrived in British Columbia last year, and a major portion of the foreign investment. Just over 2,000 Hong Kong families brought more than $689 million with them, mostly to Vancouver. Other Hong Kong investors have poured millions into the city, a surge that was dramatized a year ago, when the choice 204-acre site of Expo 86 was sold for $260 million to Li Ka-shing, patriarch of one of Hong Kong's biggest trading families...
...last December, when condominium units developed in Vancouver by Li were snapped up in Hong Kong within 2 1/2 hours of the offering -- before they were even put up for sale in Canada. Says Susan Alexander, a member of a local group that is demanding stiffer government controls on foreign real estate buyers: "Our housing is being treated like a commodity on the stock exchange." Alexander is being evicted from a three-story, 20-unit apartment complex that will be replaced by a twelve-story, twelve-unit luxury condominium development...
...much heavier on the Soviet than the U.S. side, NATO and Warsaw Pact troops and weaponry would supposedly be equalized by 1996-97 at a level a bit below that now fielded by NATO. Still, Gorbachev essentially only filled in the details on a proposal made by Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze in March, moving closer to NATO's negotiating positions and repackaging them as his own. While he was at it, Gorbachev tossed in a hook. He called for a 55% slash in NATO helicopters and fighter aircraft, an idea the U.S. is certain to oppose strenuously...
...summit meeting at which the alliance will be hard pressed to heal the U.S.-West German split over SNF negotiations. Moscow moved swiftly, and with apparent success, to keep the rift open. Shevardnadze used a scheduled trip to Bonn Friday afternoon for meetings with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher to tout the Soviet proposal. He added a touch of salt to the new Soviet sweetness, warning that if the U.S. expands the reach of its short- range launchers as planned, the Soviet reaction might be to develop a new short-range rocket...
...FOREIGN MISSIONS. Spreading the gospel abroad was once a quintessential mainline activity, but today evangelical agencies sponsor four-fifths of American Protestant missionaries. Mainline strategists play down proselytism and insist that foreign countries should recruit their own workers. Similar woes affect the N.C.C.'s most successful agency, Church World Service, the overseas relief and development arm. Its expenditures have fallen substantially, and are now exceeded several times over by those of World Vision, the leading evangelical agency...