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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sells for 53? a gal. Thanks to energy royalties, Alberta is Canada's only province with no sales or gasoline taxes. Its property and income taxes are the lowest of any province; for a family of four earning $17,000, the overall tax burden is $912 a year, vs. $2,130 in Quebec...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Canada's Western Energy Boom | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

There is little chance, however, that Canada will soon raise its net oil sales to the U.S., now a rather modest 100,000 bbl. a day, (vs. 425,000 bbl. from Mexico). Dedicated to energy independence and fearful that conventional oil will decline in spite of the recent finds, Canada is not even fully exploiting Alberta's capacity of 1.8 million bbl. a day. Says Mitchell Sharp, the commissioner of Canada's Northern Pipeline Agency: "The U.S. should drop any ideas it might have about a North American energy common market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Canada's Western Energy Boom | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...case, called Fullilove vs. Kreps, focuses on a 1977 federal law authorizing grants to local governments for public projects with $4 billion to be allocated by Dec. 31, 1978. Noting that minority-controlled companies had been getting only 1% of all Government contracts, Maryland Democrat Parren Mitchell proposed an amendment guaranteeing such firms 10% of the $4 billion. The amendment passed, to the distress of the construction industry. All told, 27 suits were filed charging that the 10% set-aside was unconstitutional. Fullilove, the case that the Supreme Court chose to hear, was brought by H. Earl Fullilove and other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: How Far Can Congress Go? | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Women's basketball vs. SE Mass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Women's J.V. basketball vs. Brown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

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