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...Chirac, an old friend of Dehecq's, personally called Liliane Bettencourt, the biggest shareholder in L'Oréal - which in turn owns a big stake in Sanofi - to win her support for the bid. Neither party will comment. German union and government leaders fear that any deal will ax German jobs. But the big threat to French plans comes from Aventis itself. It insists the firm is worth far more than...
...next day, Bush is famously decisive and anchored in his beliefs, charging forward, not looking back. You expect that when one party reclaims the White House some redecorating is in order: Bush might replace those portraits of Franklin Roosevelt with cousin Teddy's. But Richard Nixon didn't ax the Peace Corps, while Bush let AmeriCorps go through several near-death experiences even though it was the one program Clinton personally asked him to protect. Over at the Agency for International Development, officials spent $100,000 on a collage to cover up a bronze plaque honoring Hillary Clinton...
...Picture New York-based Eastman Kodak announced plans to ax up to 15,000 jobs - more than one-fifth of its global work force - as part of its painful shift from traditional film to digital photography...
...remember that my first-grade teacher was a real battle-ax, but if I had ever spoken to her as did the 6-year-old in your article who told his teacher to "shut up, bitch," I would have been tasting laundry soap for days. We were exposed to as much violence in the movies and on TV as the current crop of kids. We also had working mothers, but our parents knew how to set and enforce limits and didn't hesitate to do so. It's up to the parents to raise their children. Too many of them...
...back onto the mattress-like crash pad, the talk turns to the impact of climbing on the natural environment--a hot topic among climbers. Kurt Hack, 37, from South Bend, Ind., points to a cedar tree that grows right up the side of the boulder. Someone has used an ax to cut climbing steps into the trunk all the way to the top of the boulder. "Whoever did that didn't know much about low-impact climbing," says Hack...