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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Roughly 70 percent of Canadian-American trade is already tariff-free, and the agreement will eliminate the remaining barriers over the next 10 years. The agreement also eases crossborder investment, installs new rules to govern trade for the service industry and gives the United States nondiscriminatory access to Canadian oil, gas and uranium...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Trading Places | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

Acting President Ghulam Ishaq Khan is not bound to invite Bhutto to form a government. But it is hard to imagine his sidestepping her without unleashing a furious reaction. Bhutto handily won all three National Assembly seats she contested (two of which will have to be filled in by-elections), and her party was carried to victory mainly on the strength of her blazing speeches and dazzling charisma. Standing in a convoy of speeding jeeps, her head held high and covered with a colorful dupatta, or scarf, this 35-year-old Western- educated wife and mother attracted frenzied adulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan Addressing the Future, Avenging the Past | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

...Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, in yet another deft diplomatic thrust, announced that he would make a surprise visit to the United Nations next month. The President and President-elect ruled out any impromptu superpower bargaining. Still, complained a senior Bush foreign policy adviser, "we're already being expected to govern. It isn't fair, but we aren't able to ignore those expectations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Markets Vote | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

...October 1873, the Harvard University Foot Ball Club received a letter from Yale asking for delegates to a convention interested in setting up a code of rules to govern intercollegiate football. In addition to Harvard, Columbia, Rutgers, Princeton and Yale had also shown interest in playing the sport...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: Harvard: The Real Home of Football | 11/19/1988 | See Source »

Peretz, who is also a lecturer on Social Studies, began his speech on the presidential campaign by saying, "I am going to talk about the election--about why Dukakis lost and why Bush won't be able to govern...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Short Takes | 11/18/1988 | See Source »

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