Word: alaine
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...despite union calls to hold out. The three-week strike, led by transport workers, was in protest against proposed reforms to the French social-security system, and in particular a tightening of the retirement scheme of France's 5.5 million public-sector workers. Following concessions made by Prime Minister Alain Juppe on the retirement issue, many workers voted to end the labor action, which had never gained the active support of private-sector employees as hoped...
...Alain, Roy or Chuckie Hughes, the two freshmen who, carried Harvard men's hockey to the NCAA Championship...
After the election, however, Chirac and Prime Minister Alain Juppe confronted a hard reality: to meet the budgetary requirements for joining Europe's single currency by 1999, France must drastically reduce its public deficit from 6% of its GDP, or $83.6 billion, to 3%. As a result, in a jolting reverse, Chirac has abandoned his pump-priming promises in favor of a two-year program of new taxes, limits on social spending, and a public-sector wage freeze...
...Janice M. Horowitz, Michael Quinn, Jeffery C. Rubin, Alain L. Sanders, Sidney Urquhart and Deborah L. Wells
Harvard junior Alain de Leonardis won his first bout last night in the sabre division...