Word: nova
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...Canada and Italyagreed that the global economy is not growing as robustly as it was only a year ago and promised to used the fund to avert worldwide financial instability. "We cannot walk away from our global leadership responsibilities," Clinton told reprters at the G-7 summit in Halifax, Nova Scotia. At the same time, he said the bailout fund will "help us prevent future Mexicos." In a nod to U.S. critics of the president's hastily-assembled peso plan, Clinton aides stressed that the International Monetary Fund would try to tap the resources of newly wealthy Asian countries...
...sooner had the leaders of thebig seven economic powers arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia today, than President Clinton and Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama were trading tough talk about their trade standoff. Clinton refused to budge: "Billions of dollars in American exports and thousands of jobs are at stake," Clinton said of the automobile dispute, insisting that he would imposeunprecedented trade sanctions against Japanif the standoff continues past June 28. Murayama replied that the two allies should not conduct business "with both of our fists raised...
...Cajuns are descendants of the Acadians, a band of French colonists who founded "l'Acadie" in 1624 in what is now Nova Scotia. Expelled by the British in 1755 -- an event still remembered locally as the "Grand Darangement" -- they eventually wound up in the isolated, rural southwest of Louisiana. There, sharing space with African Americans, many descended from French-speaking Creole "free men of color," they evolved their unique musical language...
Arguably one of the most original female artists on today's music scene, Sarah McLachlan's music is difficult to categorize, drawing elements from folk, blues, rock and even New Age. While Fumbling Towards Eastasy, her third album, was well-received the 26-year-old Nova Scotian has not yet reached super-star status...
...imagine that game? Two "prime-time players" in Randolph Childress from Wake and Kerry Kittles from Nova going head to head. Childress wins...