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...addition, Delanoë hopes that the easing of restrictions will give a boost to business in the city. Paris lost some 200,000 jobs over the 1990s, mostly to complexes around the periphery such as La Défense to the west. Recently, bank Crédit Foncier de France and insurance giants Aviva and Generali have moved operations - and jobs - from central Paris to the suburbs. Big projects won't happen in the historic heart of Paris, but rather at the edges: the old industrial quarter along the Seine in the 13th is already under development, and other sites...
...White House claims that the President went to Iraq to boost the morale of the troops, but he was in Baghdad for only 2 1/2 hours, and fewer than 600 troops saw him. Because of the secrecy, thousands of military personnel in the area didn't even know he was there. So how was their morale helped? Let's call the trip what it was: political grandstanding. FORREST G. WOOD Bakersfield, Calif...
...long as the U.S. wrests the accord’s future from Sharon and Arafat. As soon as he knew of the accord’s success, Sharon dismissed it as subversive and treasonous, because it skirted his government, courted Arafat’s approval and boosted the political stature of opponents like Beilin, intent on Israeli regime change. Arafat, meanwhile, has qualified his private support with public vacillation, at once praising the plan to U.S. and Israeli ears while insisting to hard-liners in the West Bank and Gaza that he will not compromise on settlements and the right...
Noor A. al-Dabbagh ’06, president-elect of the Society of Arab Students, said that Saddam’s capture will boost American credibility among the Iraqi people...
...Support for Bush’s policies is already pretty strong and I would guess that this would give a substantial boost in the polls,” Thernstrom said. “But two months from now this won’t show up unless there’s a change on the ground...