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• What I find highly ironic and, indeed, perturbing, is that U.S. trade laws have in their application proven much more effective in inhibiting legitimate, cross-border, long-standing supplier-customer transactions carried on within a Canada-U.S. free trade environment than they have in dealing with these "dump and jump" boatloads of predatory imports. Free Trade With the U.S.—Only in a Dream World
• The three are thought to have had a blazing row over a long-standing feud. The Sun
• Oxfam refutes the argument used by defenders of the WTO agreement that the impact will be minimal in the ‘Third World,’ since most diseases there are long-standing and can be treated using unpatented drugs.
• The KGB had a long-standing policy of planting `recruiters" in communities surrounding places like Sandia or Livermore. DESTROY THE KENTUCKY
• The remainder is paid from the general fund, in long-standing recognition of the value to the general public of having a safe, efficient air transportation system (which, BTW, is the envy of the rest of the world, including Canada). Matthew Yglesias » Nav Canada
• An influential government advisory panel yesterday recommended an end to long-standing opposition to manned space flight. Times, Sunday Times
• US studies have suggested that the shift of long-standing smokers to low tar filter cigarettes results in the smoker inhaling more deeply and retaining smoke longer.
• This suddenly changed the long-standing political antagonism between the East and the West.
• The commercialisation of Christmas is a long-standing theme of writers like myself.
• Her elder son's wife was a long-standing irritant, like an ill-perforated toilet roll.