At a meeting on October 29th, the First Nations Summit, an umbrella group of British Columbia's natives, accused the authorities of foot-dragging, trying to force natives to give up aboriginal rights as a precondition for treaty talks, and failing to prevent the areas in dispute from being stripped of resources.

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Recognising that this would allow the economy to grow faster without fuelling inflation, Mr Greenspan allowed the boom to continue and unemployment to fall, dragging many disadvantaged workers back into the labour force.

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