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…upgrades could save two hundred and fifty lives a year, they balk at the $17-billion price tag involved. Since 1984 the federal government has only provided $2.2 billion to the provinces for roads and highways. Provinces east of Ontario have received $1.96…
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…. McElvaine, Robert S. The Great Depression. New York: Times Books, 1984. "Steinbeck Facts." National Steinbeck Center. 09/18/03. http://www.steinbeck.org/MainFrame.html…
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…with which the first quark combines(1985 Quarks).         After the discovery of 'bottom' and 'charm' it was believed that all quarks occur in pairs. This led to the effort to find 'top' quark. In 1984 the laboratory of the European Council for Nuclear…
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…In 1984, Congress passed the National Minimum Purchase Age Act, to encourage each state to enact a minimum legal purchase age (MLPA) of 21 by 1986. The result was impressive: an estimated 1,071 lives were saved in 1987 alone. From 1975 - 1996…
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…underground was made in 1984.' The spill of the Exxon Valdez caused the Environmental Protection Agency to be ctiticized for slow response in '89. Texas Eastern Gas Pipeline was fined $15 million for the contamination of PCB at 89 sites in '90. They were…
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…Nagasaki Shipbuilding Yard was said to have turnover in excess of 100% in 1910 before the introduction of the introduction of lifetime employment and seniority wages (Aoki 1984). The internal labour market in particular has marked differences with other…
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Category: /Literature
…-fiber foods. But in 1984, it was marketed and by 1987 around two million households had begun eating high-fiber cereals. This proves that people do respond to advertisement and if it has an appealing look then people will go and buy what is being advertised…
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…rested on a heart-shaped pedestal made of a sculpture in terracotta by Sébastien. Since the early 1980's the round-shaped pedestal has been progressively transformed and by 1984 took the shape of a pyramid. In 1992, Thierry de Bourqueney…
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…The cellular phone industry is consistently growing every year. Motorola introduced the first cellular phone about eighteen years ago, in 1984, the "DynaTac 8000X". It was large and cumbersome weighing in around two pounds or so and having a price tag…
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Category: /History
…led to a large deficit. A renewal of national self-confidence by 1984 helped Reagan and Bush win a second term with an unprecedented number of electoral votes. Their victory turned away Democratic challengers Walter F. Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro…
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