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            Trump: US “open for business,” and economists mostly agree



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                                                                                                                                As  they  became  wealthy,
            “For them it’s been difficult                                                                                       the couple became known
            to  balance  their  patience                                                                                        for philanthropy. They gave
            with their frustration with us                                                                                      tens of millions to the United
            and our investigation — not                                                                                         Jewish Appeal, donated to
            unlike any other family who                                                                                         a  geriatric  hospital  in  To-
            have  suffered  such  a  sud-                                                                                       ronto and sent medicine to
            den  and  profound  loss,”                                                                                          disaster zones. Prime Minis-
            Gomes  said.    “They  have                                                                                         ter Justin Trudeau attended
            been  understanding,  co-                                                                                           the  funeral  and  Sherman
            operative and hopeful that                                                                                          is  posthumously  due  to  re-
            this  investigation  can  give                                                                                      ceive one of the country’s
            them some answers.”                                                                                                 highest  civilian  honors  this
            Toronto  police  investiga-                                                                                         year.
            tors  have  scoured  the                                                                                            Friends  and  family  say  the
            12,000-square-foot  home,                                                                                           couple  had  been  making
            hauled  away  the  couple’s                                                                                         plans  for  the  future.  They
            cars  and  even  checked                                                                                            had  recently  listed  their
            the sewers in one of Toron-                                                                                         home in Toronto for 6.9 mil-
            to’s  most  exclusive  neigh-                                                                                       lion  Canadian  dollars  and
            borhoods  for  clues.  Police                                                                                       they  were  building  a  new
            have  taken  125  witness    White House Communications Director Hope Hicks, center and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson,   home  in  the  city.  Gomes
            statements  and  analyzed    second from left, listen to President Donald Trump deliver a speech to the World Economic Forum,   said anybody who has had
            surveillance  video  in  the   Friday, Jan. 26, 2018, in Davos.                                                     access  to  the  home  in  re-
            neighborhood.                                                                                (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)  cent months is important to
            Sherman,  75,  was  known  2001 book about the indus-     “The  thought  once  came  Perhaps  I’m  surprised  that  them.
            for litigiousness and aggres-  try,  he  mused  that  a  rival  to  my  mind,  why  didn’t  hasn’t happened.”       The  chief  executive  of
            sive businesses practices as  might want to kill him.     they  just  hire  someone  to  Canadian  Business  maga-  Apotex,  meanwhile,  an-
            he developed Apotex Inc.,  “The  branded  drug  com-      knock  me  off?  For  a  thou-  zine  recently  estimated  his  nounced Friday he is leav-
            which  has  a  global  work-  panies  hate  us.  They  have  sand  bucks  paid  to  the  worth at 4.77 billion Cana-  ing  the  company.  Dr.  Jer-
            force of about 11,000.       hired  private  investigators  right person you can prob-  dian  dollars  ($3.65  billion),  emy Desai had been CEO
            In  “Prescription  Games,”  a  on us all the time,” he said.  ably  get  someone  killed.  making him the 15th richest  of Apotex since 2014.q
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