Word: fonds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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French president Jacques Chirac is fond of certain things American: junk food, his summer-school days at Harvard, the South Carolina belle he almost married, Bill Clinton. Campaigning in the spring of 1995, Chirac enthused about the prospect of working with his U.S. counterpart; the two men, both gregarious, backslapping extroverts, had hit it off from their first meeting in Paris a year earlier. But how, a reporter asked, would sensitive Franco-American relations fare? "They will be excellent," Chirac predicted. Pause. "And contentious...
...Women's Studies department taught by two women in which we spent a lot of time talking about heroines and role models, especially in popular culture. Thelma and Louise were an option, but aside from the fact that they are fictional characters, I'm not sure I'm so fond of all the choices they made. Madonna is another possibility, but as much as I adore "Evita," I still can't get past envisioning her in her "Like a Virgin" phase. Looking out for a better option, over vacation I even watched the "Ladies Home Journal" salute to the "Women...
Many managers can slash their way to profits. Act II, growth, is the tough part, and that's where Martinez is right now. "You can't shrink your way to greatness," he is fond of saying. Sears has gained 10 million sq. ft. of selling space, mainly for apparel, in areas reclaimed from storage rooms and furniture departments that migrated to their own stores. To stock the shelves, new merchandising chief Robert Mettler, recruited from Robinson's, brought in popular national brands such as Champion, Arrow and B.U.M. and launched fashionable Sears-designed garments (imagine!) such as the Canyon River...
During the fall campaign, Bob Dole said on TV that General Motors has been replaced as the nation's largest employer by a temp agency, and he asked, "That's a good economy? I don't think so." You don't have to be running for President to be fond of tossing off that pat rejoinder. The police in Madison, Wisconsin, for example, reported that when they ordered a young scofflaw to approach their squad car, he replied, "I don't think so," and tried to run. (The cops caught him by his fanny pack...
Jaffe's students said they have fond memories of the professor's classroom enthusiasm...