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Meagre existence: Marked-down prices on cans of fruit juice are a bonanza to disabled Alfred Pettersen, 57, who must make do on a disability pension of $243
Meagre existence: Marked-down prices on cans of fruit juice are a bonanza to disabled Alfred Pettersen, 57, who must make do on a disability pension of $243

Meagre existence: Marked-down prices on cans of fruit juice are a bonanza to disabled Alfred Pettersen, 57, who must make do on a disability pension of $243

Date1/28/1982
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Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, who said he saw little hope that world oil prices would come down. Jean Paul Drolet, assistant deputy minister for mineral development at Ottawa, centre, said our mineral
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