Word: social
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...accept it unless Mulroney called an election. The trade agreement quickly became the central issue of the campaign. Mulroney defended it as a strong effort to liberalize trade and spark economic growth, while his opponents--Liberal John Turner and New Democrat Ed Broadbent--argued that it jeopardized Canadian social programs...
DESPITE the overwhelming advantages of a cooperative continental economy, Mulroney should keep in mind the warnings of the agreement's opponents. While the current agreement does not disallow social programs, as some of Mulroney's opponents erroneously charged, it does encourage further talks to reduce government subsidies to business, and cutting these subsidies may endanger such programs. "Government subsidies" could come to mean universal health care...
Mulroney must be careful to use the trade agreement to increase Canada's economic vitality without sacrificing his nation's cultural identity. The pact ought to give Americans a chance to examine Canadian social programs. In this regard, the pact could end up making the U.S. more like Canada, instead of making Canada more like...
Perhaps Newsweek or Time will pick up on this and other surveys showing similar trends towards careers in academia and public-service, and suddenly proclaim that our generation has found its way. Having become repulsed by Ivan Boesky and all he represents, our generation would seem to be as socially and politically active as it should be. Future professors of social history may even point to the response to the College survey as indicating that Harvard students were somehow in the "vanguard" of a broader movement towards more socially-productive careers than selling junk bonds...
...someone interesting to follow. After all, everybody has to buy groceries at some point, and in the quiet, wooded streets of Reading that point seemed to be Atlantic Foods. Streams of post-retirement-age couples wandered through with armfuls of catfood and spaghetti, looking unworried about the future of Social Security. A few young office folks pulled up their striped cuffs to scoop sprouts and avocados from the salad bar. Then came a guy with Bon Jovi hair and a black, flapping fringe coat; I didn't actually see what he bought, but it was heavy and clinked. Wherever...