Word: mcniven
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...sour moments ahead. Like the U.S., Canada faces a continuing challenge to its competitiveness, especially as more highly skilled, high-paying jobs are likely to flee south to lower wage levels after ratification of the free-trade accord with Mexico. By the year 2000, said TIME panelist James McNiven, the dean of management at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the number of Canadians working in manufacturing jobs will have dropped from today's 20% of the work force to only 8%. Most other jobs will be in the services area, including such sophisticated sectors as environmental engineering and computer...