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...decision will mainly benefit lumber companies in the American Northwest, which have chafed as the Canadian share of the U.S. softwood lumber market has risen from 19% in 1975 to 33%. But the tariff announcement stirred resentment in Ottawa, where it was pointed out that the U.S. Commerce Department three years ago found the same Canadian export practices to be acceptable. Canadian International Trade Minister Patricia Carney said the latest decision "cannot be justified" and added that her government would "pursue all avenues available to us to argue against this determination." There were worries that the softwood-tariff announcement would...
...prognosis looks pretty good. Under its new leadership, participation in Citystep has blossomed: the number of undergraduate teachers has doubled to 32; the number of children in the program has risen from about 85 to 120; and the group has its own Cabot House office, complete with a telephone, answering machine, and filing cabinets...
While Blacks comprise 10.1 percent of all undergraduates nationwide, their representation at Harvard is lower. The percentage of Black Harvard students in the Class of '83 was 8.3, but fell to 5.7 percent of the Class of '88 and has risen to 6.9 percent of this year's freshman class, according to figures from the Office of Admissions and Financial...
...persistent trade deficit has several underlying causes. While the dollar has fallen from its peak by more than 40% against the Japanese yen, it has dropped just 6% in relation to the Taiwanese New Dollar and has actually risen 3% against the South Korean won. In addition, import prices have not risen nearly as much as they were expected to. Typically, when the dollar weakens, foreign manufacturers boost prices of products sold in the U.S. because the money they receive from American consumers is worth less when converted into other currencies. So far, though, prices of imports, not including fuel...
Issam Sartawi, the one P.L.O. leader who advocated exactly the kind of solution Americans like to dream about, a Palestinian state living side by side with Israel, was also murdered, shot dead in Portugal in 1983. Not too many Palestinians have since risen to take up his cause. It is truer to say that terrorism is a root cause of the continuing Arab-Israeli conflict than vice versa...