Word: productive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's Rick Haney, a product of Duluth East High School, was whistled for a questionable hooking penalty at 16:33 of the final period, and the potent UMD power play notched a crucial score
...export earnings go to service that debt. The world price of grain has fallen by 20% to 25%, and because of that we have lost $850 million in potential income, despite a record harvest. Trade agreements discriminate against Latin America. We are having problems selling some of our products abroad. Yet to pay our debts we must have foreign currency, and to earn foreign currency we must export. An even greater problem for us is inflation. We inherited a budget in which the deficit constituted 16% of the gross national product. In the year that I have been in office...
...vote of 157 to 56. The call for such a vote, however, was a reminder to Mulroney that he faces a formidable task in delivering on his campaign promises and turning around the Canadian economy, currently saddled with a $26.5 billion budget deficit. This year's gross national product is expected to increase by 3%, a decrease from last year's growth of 4.7%. Mulroney must also protect the value of the Canadian dollar, which has held its own against other currencies but which fell against the U.S. dollar to 73 cents last week from 77 cents last September. Most...
...cars, he revs up and zooms off, quoting himself, zigzagging between '60s idiom ("flip out," "bummer") and mild profanity, tossing away irreverent asides like empty beer cans. Hyperbole comes naturally, and repeatedly: to the analysts in Detroit, he said Chrysler's admittedly successful mini-van is "the hottest new product . . . in your lifetimes." Says Douglas Fraser: "I'm a hip shooter. I'll admit it. But Lee, Lee is a hip shooter deluxe...
After ringing out 1984 with an ebullient growth spurt, the U.S. economy seems to have sobered up considerably at the start of 1985. The Commerce Department projected last week that the gross national product in the first quarter of the year will grow at a sluggish annual rate of 2.1%, less than half the 4.3% clip of the previous three months. The news about inflation, however, was less discouraging. Consumer prices rose in February at an annual rate of 4.2%, about the same moderate pace...