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...Panama Canal with his bare hands, "I took the Canal Zone, and let Congress debate." Teddy's battering-ram shoulder did wonders, but private concerns had already made attempts to cut through the isthmus, even in failure showing it could be done. T.R. knew the time was ripe. Soil conservation was a science long before Franklin Roosevelt lifted it to the top of the national agenda and we began to heal the washed and windblown land. Ike grasped the importance of a huge interstate highway system. His endorsement helped push 23,500 miles of superhighways across the country...
...minute meeting with Bush, Trudeau addressed the issue that concerns Canadians most: whether the U.S. will test the low-flying, turbofan-powered cruise missile in northeastern Alberta. The Prime Minister repeated his personal view that the U.S. should be allowed to conduct the tests on Canadian soil, but he told the Vice President bluntly that the full Cabinet had not yet given its consent to the project. Eager to defuse any tension, Bush later declared that President Reagan has "a driving, motivated desire" to achieve strategic arms reductions with the Soviets. He also acknowledged that Canada's agreement with...
...voter for the Greens, I can say that this movement does not have much to do with romanticism or nationalism. The Greens reject capitalism and the style of living that accompanies it. The West Germans have to change their political attitudes drastically to prevent a "ground zero" on German soil...
Dubbed Sunflake City with its part-sun and part-snowflake emblem. Grand forks lays claim to some of the richest agricultural soil in the world. The terrain's predominantly agricultural setting is responsible for the city's relatively miniscule 5.8 percent unemployment rate. "We really have no major industries aside from agriculture," Haggerty says...
...virtues of a bygone era. How to remedy a flagging economy with a record 2.54 million unemployed provoked sharply different ideological approaches. The defense issue was equally divisive. Torn over the consequences of either deploying or refusing to accept a new generation of NATO missiles on their soil, West Germans were threatened by Moscow and exhorted by Washington to the point where they bitterly called it the superpower election...