Word: relaxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...obvious overture to disgruntled American investors, MacEachen promised that the Trudeau government would not "press the pace" of nationalization in the energy industry. He also pledged to relax the screening of foreign investors. But MacEachen had little good news for Canadians. He asked workers in public service jobs to accept a cut in wage increases, from 12.2% last year to 6% in this year's new contracts, and in effect raised taxes by limiting a provision that protected taxpayers from inflation-induced "bracket creep." The new budget did offer lower-interest loans to small businessmen and farmers and proposed...
...which, among other things, recognized Soviet domination over Eastern Europe]. That is a grave mistake, at least from two points of view. Including the U.S. and Canada in talks among European nations is an asset of enormous value. And in my opinion there is no other way gradually to relax the opposing European blocs and to involve individual Eastern European states in a direct and autonomous dialogue with the West...
...Japan. But there is a difference. American parents pay to get computers for their schools. Japanese parents, on the other hand, do nothing. Even teachers think it is unnecessary to have computers in the classroom. Japan won't be an industrial giant for long. American businessmen can relax...
...Call me if you convert.' That didn't happen, but I developed enormous respect for the ritual I was performing." Does this mean he has put away childish things like playing comic-book characters? Lois Lane and other fans of Krypton's finest surviving hunk can relax. Reeve will shortly pull on his red-and-blue undies and rev his wires for takeoff in Superman...
...council supports the freeze proposal, Kistiskowsky said, adding, "it's a good first step that would relax tension between the superpowers...