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...annual pace, and inflation is only 4%. Falling oil prices may be one cause of the dollar's dip, but petroleum accounts for only about 5% of Canada's merchandise export revenues. Probably more damaging is the government's deficit, which was about $34 billion (Canadian) last year. To strengthen the dollar significantly, says Ben Gestrin, vice president of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, the government must prove that it will "pull its socks up." Translation: cut spending...
...President outlined his agenda for the coming year along lines designed to strengthen family and community bonds...
...with any particular government but with the values the two countries have come to share during their long and intimate association. Said Bosworth: "We will be judged--and we will judge ourselves--by the fate of democracy in this country and by the success of your national efforts to strengthen your democratic institutions and to ensure that they function effectively. We have a moral and political stake in a democratic Philippines, which transcends all our other interests here, strategic as well as economic...
...move considered crucial to the future of his government, President Jose Napoleon Duarte last week announced a long-awaited plan to strengthen El Salvador's economy. He told the country, in a televised speech and press conference, that the program creates a "war economy" designed to halt the "gangrene" that has afflicted El Salvador, which now has 45% unemployment and 40% annual inflation...
Some supporters of a ban believe the A.M.A. could strengthen its case by stressing that outlawing cigarette advertising is aimed at protecting minors. Critics of the tobacco industry scoff at its claims that cigarette ads are designed primarily to get smokers to stick with one brand or try another. "A rather small number of smokers switch," maintains Northeastern University Law Professor Richard Daynard. "The big payoff is in getting people to smoke, and the fresh market is entirely kids." Cigarette advertisers counter that they do not promote directly to a youth market, that they do not use sports or entertainment...