Word: foch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...northern half of France and its Atlantic coast; the southern half could remain an autonomous state under Petain, with its capital in the sleepy resort town of Vichy. But he insisted that the armistice be signed in Compiegne, just outside Paris, in the same railroad car where Marshal Foch had made the Germans sign the armistice in 1918, the site marked by a stone tablet placing blame for the war on "the criminal pride of the German empire." CBS correspondent William Shirer, who was standing nearby, reported that Hitler's face was "afire with scorn, anger, hate, revenge, triumph." Once...
Tapie enjoys the fruits of his success. He whizzes around France in a dark blue Mercedes or his personal twin-engine Falcon jet, and lives in Paris in a stylish Avenue Foch apartment with his wife and three children. Between takeovers, he cheers for the soccer team he owns, the popular Olympique of Marseilles. His plans for next fall include sponsoring an entrepreneurship camp for unemployed youth. "The rewards of business are not simply money," grins this cheerleader of capitalism. "It is the pleasure, the game, liberty, mobility, the possibility of creating. I believe in dreams, risk and laughter...
...brilliant, late-summer sky above the eastern Mediterranean, F-14 jet fighters from the U.S. carrier Eisenhower roared over Beirut and headed toward the mountains of Lebanon. Only a few hours earlier, Super Etendard strike fighters from the French aircraft carrier Foch had conducted similar exercises. Officially, both the American and French warplanes were on reconnaissance flights. In reality, they were sounding a warning to Druze militiamen in the Chouf Mountains of Lebanon: from that day forward, the planes could be ordered to strike and destroy any artillery that continued to fire at troops of the four-country multinational force...
...where the smart money and the most luxurious dreams currently reside. When construction is finished within two years, 21 high-rise condominium towers will dominate the skyline west of Beverly Hills. They will outprice any concentration of privately owned apartments in the world, including Paris' fashionable Avenue Foch and the moneyed battlements of Manhattan's Park and Fifth Avenues...