Word: edouard
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...such global cooperation? Prospects seem to be improving slightly. Last week, for example, French Finance Minister Edouard Balladur called for a meeting of the seven largest financial powers as soon as possible to stem turmoil on world financial markets. That represents a reversal of the previous French position and indicates a willingness to revise the Louvre agreement...
Trichet, 44, should know. His official job is chief domestic policy aide to French Finance Minister Edouard Balladur. But Trichet also presides over Paris Club affairs from behind his Louis XV desk in a spacious office overlooking the Louvre gardens. So far this year, representatives of 13 countries have come to Trichet to request rescheduling discussions. Among the visitors: Brazil, Argentina and Egypt. The previous record for the club was in 1985, when 17 countries renegotiated their debts, five of them twice...
Destiny offers a hero, Edouard, who has more vowels in his name than seem strictly necessary, and a heroine, Helene, who suffers from a superfluity of accent marks in hers. A lot of ink is wasted just getting these characters on the page. Given its initial investment, Bantam might have urged Beauman to save money by calling her romantic leads Ed and Helen. Anyhow, Edouard is impossibly rich and handsome; Helene is impossibly beautiful; together they are . . . a word comes to mind but then vanishes in the general miasma of implausibilities and sex, which is regularly rapturous and accompanied...
Bokassa denied any wrongdoing as the new trial got under way in the capital city of Bangui. "I am not a cannibal," he said. After shouting matches with the ex-Emperor, Prosecutor Gabriel Mbodou asked for more time to prepare arguments. Central African Judge Edouard Frank suspended the trial until...
Polls have shown that a strong majority of the French support cohabitation, and last week's confrontation probably does not mean that Mitterrand and Chirac will totally go their separate ways. As Finance Minister Edouard Balladur recently remarked, "In a western movie, the first one to draw his gun usually wins. In cohabitation, it is the opposite: the first one to draw is dead." Apparently, Mitterrand and Chirac still want to avoid that eventuality...