Word: coeurs
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...were met by a cordon of gray leather-jacketed Swiss police and platoons of reporters and photographers. Inside, the oil ministers lived like the modern-day kings they have become. They dined on sumptuous meals that included filet de truite fumée, poussin de Bresse aux morilles and coeur de Charolais róti aux herbes...
...mile deep, the largest excavation in the world, alone has produced copper-over 11 million tons-than any other mine in history. The Climax mine near Leadville, Colo., last year supplied 49 million lbs. worth of molybdenum, a blue-gray mineral used primarily in strengthening steel. Mines in the Coeur d'Alene district of Idaho led the Mountain States in production of lead ($49 million) and zinc ($24 million) last year. Silver and gold, those minerals that helped build and bust 19th century boom towns like Goldfield, Nev., and Silver City, Idaho, are still being mined in great quantities...
...paraphrase Dustin Hoffman's cri de coeur in the film Kramer vs. Kramer: "What law is it that says a person is better suited to look after a child just because she is a woman...
...English actor, director (The L-Shaped Room) and novelist, homes in onTheo Gittings, who bears a passing resemblance to Blunt. Theo, a brilliant, alienated invert who becomes a pillar of the literary establishment, is compared by critics to E.M. Forster (a fellow homosexual who issued the closet cri de coeur: "If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country"). Theo's career as Communist agent is unraveled after his death by bestselling Writer Anthony Stern, a straight second cousin who had been his social...
...nation does not seem ready to return to the gold standard, the soaring prices of precious metals are encouraging one company to have a go at using silver in lieu of money. Sunshine Mining Co., owner of the country's largest silver mine, the Sunshine in the Coeur d'Alene mining district of Idaho, plans to raise $50 million to expand mining operations by issuing silver-backed bonds. In the 19th century bonds were redeemable in gold, but American companies have not offered securities supported by precious metals since...