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Mulroney also has proposed measures to stimulate investment, a notion that should make U.S. firms happy. He is committed to revising the country's 1980 National Energy Program, a controversial act that allowed the government to claim a 25% stake retroactively in oil discoveries. The legislation infuriated U.S. oil companies, which have substantial holdings throughout Canada and off the Atlantic and Arctic coasts. Mulroney will also overhaul the Foreign Investment Review Agency, a 1974 Trudeau creation that monitors companies wishing to do business in Canada to ensure that their activities are in the country's interest. FlRA...
...generally accepted ethical rule that journalists must not trade in stocks they report about, especially under circumstances that would allow them to profit from the effects of publicity. But the notion of an implied contract with readers is potentially so sweeping and vague that attorneys representing organizations of reporters and editors, which have all but universally condemned Winans' conduct, said they might consider taking his side if he sought to have the indictment dismissed. Argued James Clayton, co-director of the Washington-based Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press: "There is no doubt that a reporter...
Moreover, the government's notion of turning Britain into a nation of stockholders has not panned out. The biggest buyers of stock have been large institutional investors rather than ordinary Britons, many of whom are unaccustomed to the idea of stock ownership after decades of nationalized industry. A majority of the new offerings are in the hands of life insurance companies, pension funds and banks, and chunks of the rest have not been sold. Speculation in the issues has been rampant as shareholders bought in, held briefly, then sold for a quick profit. The fact that relatively few investors...
...Government spends $2.3 billion a day and has so many departments, agencies and committees that a few years ago the experts quit counting after listing more than a thousand. Reagan has little notion how it all works but a lot of feeling that it is too big and too expensive and tries to do too much for too many people. Reagan believes a little neglect may be good...
...notion of a Labor-Likud coalition enjoys enthusiastic public support. But Peres may not be willing to pay the price that the Likud has set for its cooperation: it wants Shamir to stay on as Prime Minister. There are also deep differences over other issues. Labor supporters were angered last week when, with backing from the Shamir government, four Jewish families established a new settlement in the town of Hebron. Labor favors a freeze on settlements in the occupied territories, and the surprise move was certain to add another stumbling block to unity talks...