Word: ferrand
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...loss of innocence into Small Deaths. At the time, Ramsay recalls, "many students were worried about not getting a job. But I always felt you were at college to take risks." Hers paid off at Cannes. Her second short, Kill the Day, a nightmarish junkie tale, won the Clermont-Ferrand Prix du Jury, and 1997's Gasman, about the tangled relationships of a family on its way to a Christmas party, reclaimed the Cannes prize. It also won her an invitation from BBC Scotland to write and direct Ratcatcher. Her work to date may be art-house, but Ramsay wants...
...Like all company executives, he spent six months on an assembly line before becoming part of the management team. In 1991, following Michelin's acquisition of the American tire company Uniroyal-Goodrich, he was named ceo of Michelin's U.S. unit. He returned to the company's Clermont-Ferrand headquarters in 1993 to prepare for the succession. Just months later Edouard faced media and political ire when, on the same day Michelin revealed a quarterly profit increase of 20%, it announced restructuring plans that would eliminate 7,500 European jobs. "Those painful moves anticipated changes that have occurred and reflected...