In the early 1980s, a high exchange rate, the product of tight fiscal policy and tight money, was the agent of recession and unemployment.

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Meanwhile, fiscal responsibility allowed Shero to lure in two prized free agent defensemen last month in Paul Martin and Zbynek Michalek.

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