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...Harvard students studying abroad in France found themselves in the middle of a riot-torn nation at the center of international media attention. Hundreds of thousands of French students have been occupying university campuses, on strike from classes, in protest of a new labor law, known as the Contrat Première Embauche. The law will allow employers to fire workers under 26 within a two-year trial period without advance notice. People opposed to the law fear it will worsen the already bleak job market for the younger generation. Harvard students studying abroad in France expressed mixed reactions about...

Author: By Nicholas A. Ciani, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Close-Up: French Riots | 3/23/2006 | See Source »

...Gaullist government aims at holding price increases to 3% during the last half of this year. It is relying on what one Finance Ministry official calls "a battery of tools to regulate prices without actually enforcing price controls." Under the French contrat de programme, for example, thousands of industrial and retail firms have signed agreements not to boost prices beyond the government-specified 3%. Even so, some price gains have already overtaken the wage increases. The cost of draft beer has risen 10% in Paris, a loaf of bread now costs 120 instead of 100 (a 20% jump), and many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Fighting Chance | 8/23/1968 | See Source »

...Contrat de Mariage de M. Bonabe Jean Catherine Alexis Marquis de Rouge avec Demoiselle Victurnienne Delphine Nathal de Rochechouart de Mortemart. Passé devant Me. Boulard et son collègue notarié à Paris Ies 27 et 29 décembre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 3, 1933 | 4/3/1933 | See Source »

...Rousseau's Political Influence and 'Le Contrat Social'," Professor Babbitt, Sever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 4/1/1932 | See Source »

Eamon de Valera, President of the Irish Republican Government, sent a note to the Free State Government offering to negotiate terms of peace. The document, which looks like a free translation of Jean Jacques Rousseau's Contrat Social, does not, however, make any allusion to a surrender of arms-a stipulation which, as the Free State Government has constantly emphasized, must precede any peace parley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pax Vobis | 5/5/1923 | See Source »

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