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Pinch, who is now at the Graduate School of Education, said Family Feud was the "show that best fit the criteria...
...admitted a number of very, very qualified people who we felt would be admitted in April," Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons '67 said, explaining that the criteria used in determining early admission are the same as those used during the regular screening process in the spring...
...confidence. If he loses that wager, disaffected voters may turn to the opposition Socialists in the 1998 parliamentary elections, which would produce a debilitating stalemate. The xenophobic far right could also make gains. Most worrisome, if Chirac's plans are thwarted, the country could fail to meet the economic criteria for founder membership in the European single-currency system in 1999. In that case, the future of European integration, the great project of the postwar era, could be fatally compromised...
TIME: Most European Union countries, including France, cannot yet meet all the criteria of the Maastricht Treaty. Wouldn't some delay in the single currency or a relaxation of the very strict criteria make sense...
Chirac: No. The criteria are what they are, but they simply express the need to act like responsible and serious people. So as far as I am concerned, I am not inclined to change anything at all. I do regret that France, in 1993, did not do what Germany and Britain did, that is, begin an effort to adjust and especially to reduce its deficits. This obliges us to do in 21/2 years what the others will have done in five. That's obviously more difficult...