Word: acte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Citing reports that militants plan violent confrontations, Deputy Attorney General Richard G. Kleindienst, a Justice Department spokesman, said that anything larger than a "small symbolic procession down the avenue" would be "an illegal act and we would attempt to stop it with minimum of force necessary...
...Act II. Suddenly, Perrier itself is attacked. Mysterious buyers corner 10% of its shares. On the theory of "Cherchez Pétranger," suspicion immediately falls on Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch giant whose own bid for Sapiem has been rejected after the French government persuaded Sapiem to resist any foreign liaisons. Unilever emphatically denies raiding Perrier, and so do other potential foreign rivals, notably Switzerland's Nestlé and the U.S.'s KraftCo, which are also reputed to have eyes on France's dairy industry...
...Act III. Enter Bel, France's largest cheese company, which may or may not have been behind the attack on Perrier to blunt its bid for Genvrain. Bel and Genvrain merge, and announce their combining as a fait accompli...
...Act IV. The state-run Crédit Agricole bank, acting as an interested go-between, buys up most of the Genvrain shares that had been offered to Perrier, and resells them in equal amounts to Perrier and Bel. Then, in a burst of amiability, the principals agree to share Genvrain. The agreement serves the government's purpose of keeping France's dairy industry free from foreign control, but represents rather less than a major gain for efficiency. The terms of the formula, originally proposed by the Ministry of Agriculture, were divulged last week: Perrier and Bel will...
...appearance, Douglas is a green version of his father, Kirk. Whether he can act will remain a mystery until he appears in a movie. Hail, Hero is only a moratorium on sense and taste...