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...Mulroney reminded his listeners, Canada is by far the U.S.'s largest trading partner. Total commerce between the two countries last year exceeded $90 billion, an amount that surpassed U.S. trade with Japan by more than $27 billion. Moreover, said Mulroney, the second largest U.S. trading partner "is not Germany or Japan but Ontario, a province of Canada." Looking up from his text, he added, "How do you like them apples...
...admissions office will send out a record-breaking 659 early acceptance notices today, giving good news to more than one-third of Harvard's largest early application pool ever...
Emery's two largest customers, General Motors and IBM, rack up huge air courier bills. The service pays its way, however, by allowing them to keep on hand smaller stockpiles of spare parts. Says John C. Emery Jr., chairman of the firm founded by his father: "Companies are controlling their inventory by relying on us for fast delivery of vital shipments." At its Memphis headquarters, Federal Express stockpiles supplies for 64 of its commercial customers in a giant warehouse called the parts bank. From this source, the company can dispatch items wherever they are needed...
...nation's largest package shipper is still UPS (estimated 1983 sales: $6 billion), which has been dubbed the Brown Giant for its fleet of 62,000 chocolate-colored trucks. UPS, which started in Seattle in 1907 with six messengers and two bicycles, last year delivered 1.8 billion parcels, twice as many as the U.S. Postal Service. UPS got into overnight service in September 1982, promising arrival by 3 p.m. the next day at prices lower than Federal's. Now UPS delivers by noon, but Federal has moved up its arrival time by 90 minutes...
...largest Briggs Athletics Center of the year Saturday night witnessed the Harvard men's basketball team's finest performance of the still young season, which is quick becoming one of the squad's finest campaigns ever...