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George Peapples, GM Canada president says the Quebec plant has problems
George Peapples, GM Canada president says the Quebec plant has problems

George Peapples, GM Canada president says the Quebec plant has problems

Date2/13/1986
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Original Toronto Star caption: George Peapples, GM Canada president says the Quebec plant has problems.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0072810F
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Good news, GM Canada president George Peapples tells workers in Oshawa that GM yesterday revoked its earlier decision to move Lumina production to Kansas
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George Peapples
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Running a railroad, even if it's government-owned, means behaving like a business. Jean Cormier, vice-president of public relations for Canadian National, says many people don't understand that. Cormier said that because of its government association, many people view the railway as inefficient, bureaucratic, wasteful. CN is out to change that, although it has many problems because it still is an Ottawa-operated and deficit-plagued entity.
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8/17/1976
Our son Matthew ought to be raised in a city like this, says Andrew Biemiller, formerly of Washington, D.C., a psychologist at the University of Toronto Institute of Child Studies. He didn't choose Canada because of the draft - his wife Frances was from Toronto - but he says the war has left the U.S. with unsolved problems.
Our son Matthew ought to be raised in a city like this, says Andrew Biemiller, formerly of Washington, D.C., a psychologist at the University of Toronto Institute of Child Studies. He didn't choose Canada because of the draft - his wife Frances was from Toronto - but he says the war has left the U.S. with unsolved problems.
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Not the answer: Visiting Israeli politician Haim Ben-Shahar says indexation is not the answer to inflation problems. And he should know, for in Israel, inflation is currently 130 per cent and has been a chronic problem for that state.
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Director of lifeline, a non-profit project to assist steel company workers with drug and alcohol addiction problems, Lloyd Fell says he has rehabilitated 108 workers who would otherwise have lost their jobs. Lifeline, set up by United Steelworkers and Tor
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