Word: alain
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...promised 5%; shelving vital health-insurance reform until next year - may not be sufficient to the task ahead. His goals sound radical: pension reform, rationalizing the health care system, loosening labor markets, sweeping decentralization. But Raffarin is wary of risking social upheaval by moving too fast - when Prime Minister Alain Juppé did so in 1995, it triggered the crisis that resulted in his government's ouster. And Raffarin's critics ignore some significant achievements. Though economic liberals and some business leaders say it doesn't go far enough, pension reform at the very least is signed and sealed. Raffarin...
COVER: Reagan photograph by Alain Keler--Corbis Sygma. Letter: Ronald Reagan Library INSET: Matthias Clamer for TIME...
...music?the jingling of cash registers?can be heard in the city's restaurants, which are now reporting a post-SARS boom. Almost every week, there's a splashy opening of a hot new place. The next big debut: the InterContinental hotel's Spoon, managed by French chef Alain Ducasse...
...worked under until he changed it during the communist-hunting McCarthy era), he brought his low-key macho swagger to such '50s films as Machine-Gun Kelly before becoming a sensation in Europe as the co-star of France's Adieu l'Ami (1968), in which he and Alain Delon played a pair of burglars. In the U.S. he remained a solid, if unheralded, ensemble player in films such as The Dirty Dozen and The Great Escape, before starring as a vigilante who avenges the murder of his wife and rape of his daughter in the 1974 blockbuster Death Wish...
...Angeles, the newly opened Bastide restaurant of chef Alain Giraud has only tasting menus at dinner. In New York City, chef Gerry Hayden divides the menu at his chic Amuse into $5, $10, $15 and $20 columns so diners can customize their meals to suit their tastes--and wallets. In Chicago, there's newcomer Piattini ("small plates," in Italian). Mantis in Washington, which features pan-Asian tapas, recently opened its doors, and on the Strip in Las Vegas, the restaurant Prana has been offering Southeast Asian small plates to hungry gamblers since May. In Atlanta, there's a twist: trendy...