Word: alain
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According to Jenkins, one of the rarest prints—a documentary from the 1950s by Alain Resnais and Chris Marker found only in America—is held...
Gerald L. Early, a professor at Washington University in St. Louis whose cultural commentary has appeared in The New York Times and other major national media, spoke in the first installment of this year’s three-part Alain LeRoy Locke Lecture Series...
...economic reality leaves politicians precious little wiggle room, and parties have to think twice before promising to bail out troubled companies or increase spending to stimulate the economy. "The crisis among the opposition coincides with economic turmoil in which the margins for maneuver are limited," says French political commentator Alain Duhamel. "Opposition parties can't identify what they could or would do differently if they were in power...
...country - costing the government j590 million. As it has in the past, the SVP is making immigration (legal and otherwise) a hot-button issue. But this time around the party is breaking out of its traditional elderly, agrarian base to attract younger and more liberal voters - like Pierre-Alain Favre, a 42-year-old computer programmer from Geneva who has always voted for more moderate parties. "Every night I see African drug dealers on the streets and I'm getting sick of it," he says. "I want these people out, so this year I'm voting...
...Stability and Growth Pact. Raffarin has dismissed the pact as "mathematics," but smaller states that have done their fiscal homework aren't amused. Yet making France pay a fine during an economic slump could hurt its neighbors, too. "We're ready to do what the Commission demands," Budget Minister Alain Lambert said last week, "as long as it bears no risk of pushing France into recession." The great hope for Raffarin is one that he admits remains largely outside his ken: a return to growth, starting in the U.S. and Japan and hopefully spreading to Europe by the beginning...