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Group of Seven (G-7)

The G-5 countries plus Canada and Italy.
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Group of Seven

Also called G-7. An informal group composed of the United States, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, and Canada (listed by nominal GDP). The G-7 represents the world's leading industrial democracies. Their finance ministers/secretaries meet annually to discuss economic cooperation and other matters. The G-7 does not have a permanent secretariat, but rather gives an informal forum for leaders to meet and discuss ideas.
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For example, visitors could travel into Group of Seven territory, take a guided canoe trip to a painting site, and listen as an interpretive guide speaks about the history of the Group in the area, giving travellers full insight into how the artists experienced the region.
The continued upward pressure on the yen despite massive intervention by the central bank even after the Group of Seven pronouncement deeply worries Japanese Investors and corporations with significant dollar exposure.
Azar Nafisi, formerly a literature professor in Tehran and now director of the Dialogue Project at the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies in Washington, has tethered her own exuberant digressions on living out this paradox to a memoir about a group of seven selected female students who, for three years, gathered in her apartment every Thursday to discuss banned works of Western literature.
Dustbin Nations (October 2000) was composed and performed by a group of seven, aged from nine to 17, from different parts of Uganda.
A group of seven men who were arrested for marching in the buff in a Gay Pride Day parade in Toronto last summer have now been tried for their crime.
The work's components were arranged in the gallery to resemble a study room, with a group of seven paintings lining the walls near a seven-sided wheel-shaped configuration of file cabinets and a circular worktable.
Because art history is an integral part of the program, I showed the children selected artworks of our Canadian artists who comprise the Group of Seven. My students have some notion of various art movements and are aware of the European stronghold on Western art until this century.
Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill on Friday evening in Halifax, Canada ahead of Group of Seven (G-7) finance talks starting there the same day, the Finance Ministry said.
German Finance Minister Hans Eichel will skip a meeting of top finance officials from the Group of Seven (G-7) industrial nations this weekend in Ottawa due to a back pain, the Finance Ministry said Tuesday.
The list was drawn up in June 2000 by the Financial Action Task Force, an arm of the Group of Seven nations.
The Group of Seven countries' meeting in Cologne, Germany in June 1999, produced an agreement for up to $100 US million in debt relief but stringent conditions were attached that some critics say make the commitment worthless.
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