Word: ince
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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General Motors, Inc., New York...
...Canadians, all members of Canada's Business Council on National Issues, cheerfully faced up to 14-hour days that began with breakfast meetings and ended with after-dinner speeches. With them were TIME editors, correspondents and company officers, led by Time Inc. Editor in Chief Henry Grunwald, Board Chairman Ralph Davidson and TIME Managing Editor Ray Cave. The topics ranged from acid rain to Star Wars, but it was the U.S. budget deficit and its effect on interest rates and the dollar that dominated the discussions. Most Administration officials and Congressmen agreed with Senator Dole, who described his effort...
...learn that there was little resentment in Washington over Canada's $20.4 billion trade surplus with the U.S., largely because the government of Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney is perceived to be opening the country to increased U.S. investment. Said Alfred Powis, chairman of the giant resources company Noranda Inc.: "Whoever is in charge (in Washington) isn't spending a whole lot of time worrying about Canada, and that's all to the good...
...Speaker Tip O'Neill, a Democrat, weighed in with a stern reply to Reagan's "uncle" remark. Said O'Neill: "The U.S. has played 'uncle' in Latin America for far too long. It is time to play brother." Speaking to a group of Canadian business executives during a Time Inc. news tour in Washington, Delaware's Democratic Senator Joseph Biden charged that "we have simply been lied to" about the Administration's aims in supporting the Nicaraguan rebels. Said Biden: "If (Reagan) wants to overthrow the government, make the case to overthrow the government...
...attempt to bolster traditionally slow post-Christmas, sales. Apple Computer Inc. has dropped the Macintosh prices up to $300 to $1780 and $2330--according to officials at the Harvard Technology Product Center...