Word: ltd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...industry-indeed, 90% of all Canadian plants that employ 5,000 or more workers. Many a Canadian suburbanite begins his day by brushing his teeth with Crest, grabbing a cup of Maxwell House instant coffee, hopping into a Mustang and heading for work at, say, Du Pont of Canada Ltd...
...Australia, too, the welcome mat is being pulled back a bit. Nationalist suspicion was brought to a head when ITT, internationally somewhat notorious because of its political troubles at home, tried to buy Frozen Foods Industries of Australia Ltd. The Australian Cabinet last week hurriedly decided in principle to restrict foreign takeovers, though formal rules are unlikely to be framed for months...
...profit margin: Houston's Browning Ferris Industries was ordered to pay back $40,000 to its customers within 90 days, as well as to reduce future prices by a total of $120,000. But Ford's decision to lower prices on its high-volume models, including its LTD, Maverick and Mustang, may well have been taken in an effort to avoid the enormous paperwork that would be required to make a refund to all first-quarter Ford buyers...
...experts of Genetics International Ltd., a New Zealand stock-breeding company, there was an obvious, if devious, solution. The breeders shipped French cows to Britain, where they were artificially inseminated. Their fertilized ova were removed and transplanted into the wombs of local Jersey and Friesian heifers. Then the surrogate British mothers were shipped to New Zealand, where officials passed them without the slightest beef...
...world, people have little use for alcoholic breath, but the Japanese have dreamed up a way to make it stop a car. Troubled by the steady increase in the number of drunken Japanese drivers and the traffic deaths they cause (1,200 last year), a Honda Motor Co. Ltd. engineer named Kazutaka Monden has developed a puritanical gimmick called the Sniffer that shuts off a car's engine when it detects alcoholic breath...