Word: alain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only hope; the Socialist project is doomed to failure," his discourse was punctuated by loud laughter and catcalls from the audience; debate moderator Jean-Marie Cavada asked for silence. Ponia struggled on, but Cavada interrupted with more election results to announce. "I have the figures from former justice minister Alain Peyrfitte's district," Cavada said. The T.V. studio became silent in anticipation of learning the fate of a man called a "fascist" by many on the left. In Seine-et-Marne, Alain Peyrfitte has been defeated by..." Cavada's next words were drowned out by thunderous cheers...
...point, according to this view, the logical French gave the new President a clear-cut Socialist majority in order to avoid a constitutional deadlock or a messy coalition with the Communists. "Having opted for change, French voters knew enough not to throw the country into a political crisis," explains Alain of Paris' National Foundation of Political Science...
...power he has accumulated during his term. Few disagree that he has concentrated presidential authority to a greater degree than either De Gaulle or Georges Pompidou, his two Fifth Republic predecessors. "France is governed by an elected sovereign, a republican monarch, almost an enlightened despot " writes French Journalist Alain Duhamel [Giscard] is at the same time the Queen of England and Her Majesty's Prime Minister...
...have dispensed with that hopeless under-achiever altogether. So we look inward for the answers; personal mental-emotional-physical "health" is our supreme god and psychology, or sociophysiology, or physio-socio-psychology, or whatever they're calling the practice these days, is the new religion of millions. Director Alain Resnais has discovered a new high priest of the faith; his name is Dr. Henri Laborit and he's certain that he knows all of us better than we know ourselves...
...present 76 after the events of 1968. The number of graduate degrees awarded rose from 90,000 in 1967 to 145,000 a decade later. Many of the newer campuses are small schools in the provinces whose programs were sharply scythed by Saunier-Seïté. Said Alain Touraine, research director of the School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences: "Instead of both selective grandes écoles [the elite specialist schools outside the regular university system that train most of France's future leaders] and open-admission universities, we will have the grandes écoles...