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...sharply raising federal taxes on existing oil and gas production. Some of the resulting revenues would then be used by the federal government to help finance generous tax breaks for Canadian-controlled energy companies so that they could explore for oil on federally owned frontier lands such as the Northwest Territories and the Yukon. The plan would put foreign companies operating in those regions at a severe disadvantage, but it would help shore up a sense of Canadian national identity throughout the country...
...begins this loopy yarn, set in the misty, myth-ridden hills and bogs of County Donegal, northwest Ireland. Once his victim is buried deep in the peat, Roarty begins to receive demanding notes from "Bogmailer."The mystery meanders with Irish indirection to a surprising last-minute plot twist, employing a cast of tavern regulars that Flann O'Brien or Dylan Thomas would have stood to a round...
...Intern was unconvinced, for he was from the Northwest where the winters are also cold, but, as he was quick to point out, there still remained vestiges of an art to living. Maybe it was the pioneer spirit, he thought. Or maybe it was something in the croissants on the East Coast. Whatever it was, he didn't like...
Coke salesmen became increasingly nervous. One of them, identified only as Tin, spotted Pepsi Salesman Thongyu Meksuk putting up Pepsi posters in a small open-air restaurant on the outskirts of Khampaeng Phet, about 200 miles northwest of Bangkok. Such point-of-purchase advertising is important in Thailand, since about 96% of soft drinks are consumed where they are bought. Coke and Pepsi have long squabbled over prime space in cafés and other public places...
With that, the Solar Challenger continued its climb to 2,000 ft. and headed northwest toward the English Channel. Five hours and 23 minutes later, after a flight of 230 miles at speeds no more than 47 m.p.h., Ptacek touched down at Manston Royal Air Force Base on the southeastern coast of England some 20 miles north of Dover. His odyssey might have made Icarus drop with envy. In a historic feat, Challenger had managed to cross the Channel powered only by the glinting rays...