Word: decentering
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...start-up in Bordeaux or Toulouse in the technology field," says economist and author Alain Minc, "the question for the boss is whether to stay in Toulouse or move to London, not Paris. Formerly, they had to go to Paris to be close to the banks and have a decent work force." "France no longer passes through Paris but through Alsace, Provence, Brittany," says journalist Yannick Le Bourdonnec, author of a book on the regional trend. "Paris no longer imposes itself on the image of France...
...being a little worried that I was missing out on some killer internship or summer job, now I'm seeing everything I'm missing out on by being too afraid to come here for a year. Its so easy to compare Oxford to Cambridge, and to be homesick for decent food and familiar newspapers and the Boston Red Sox. But by knowing that I'll be back in my natural habitat so soon, it's just as easy to avoid immersing myself in the culture; for six weeks, it wouldn't be hard to pretend that Oxford is just Harvard...
...Dems, but they've been burning it too, to the tune of $68 million so far ("investments," in the flack-speak of nervous GOP staffers). House Democrats have been more careful, and still the money keeps rolling in, because these days George W. has them looking like the only decent bet in town...
...city. It is wedged precariously between the mighty Mississippi and Lake Pontchartrain, and most of it was once swampland. Aggravating the problem is the fact that much of New Orleans is below sea level, so that after a good rain, the water just settles in. There is now a decent pumping system, which helps. Old-timers, however, still talk of the days when, after a bad storm, bodies washed out of the cemeteries...
...slip the previous week. Some, in a rush or in disgust, hadn't even cleaned out their cubicles. Thorsen and 14 others remained as independent contractors, keeping the site running while its owner, Hollywood Entertainment, based in Portland, Ore., worked out the details of how to give it a decent burial...