Word: manitoba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the tests end, the overall winner is a dark horse: a turbocharged, fuel-injected, gasoline-burning entry from the University of Manitoba. It is not the most fuel-efficient entry, however. That title goes to the car from Mankato State University in Minnesota, which burned propane gas at a rate of 11.41 miles...
...Mostly concentrated in Ontario, New Brunswick and Manitoba, with smaller numbers scattered in the other six provinces...
...already considerable powers under Canada's founding British North America (BNA) Act of 1867. Among them: a provincial veto over federal decisions concerning natural resources, a greater say in the operation of the Bank of Canada and a hand in the appointment of Canada's Supreme Court judges. Says Manitoba Premier Sterling Lyon: "English Canada tends to see Ottawa's tunnel vision [toward Quebec] as distracting from real issues...
...questions put to DRI's computer range from economic esoterica ("What is the price of strawberries in Manitoba?") to the effects of broad economic trends on specific products ("How will the change in personal income for August alter the price of chlorine?"). Eckstein, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, has the answers because he has built by far the world's largest bank of economic statistics-more than 3.5 million series of figures about the U.S. and 127 other countries. These data are constantly updated by his staff of 250 economists and analysts from...
Penny Dubesky Winnipeg, Manitoba...