Word: franã
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...their sales to the Soviets, but they would not cancel any existing contracts. The other big exporter, Argentina, refused to cooperate at all with Washington. The West Europeans are not selling grain to the Soviets, but refused to curb their sales of high technology. Said French Foreign Minister Jean Fran??ois-Poncet: "We have no intention of modifying our commercial relations with the U.S.S.R." Added a German Foreign Ministry official with a keen sense of national 'priorities: "Which is more important to the West as a whole?West Berlin or Kabul...
...Western Europe, the plight of the Cambodians also sparked wide-scale efforts. For the French, who had ruled Cambodia for 90 years, until 1953, compassion ran high for their former colonial subjects. This week's U.N. conference is the result of an initiative by French Foreign Minister Jean Fran??ois-Poncet. His earlier appeal for more aid to Cambodia spurred a nationwide "S O S Cambodia" campaign that has raised $2 million from French citizens. Three French medical teams are working in refugee camps in Thailand, while the hospital ship lie de la Lumière, which is now headed...
...look first to see if the eyes are wide open and if they express intelligence," says Fran??ois Truffaut, whose films about children include the haunting The 400 Blows and Small Change. Truffaut also looks for "vivacity, above all vivacity." He usually does not prepare a detailed script for children. "I prefer giving them the essential ideas of the scene, and then letting them express the ideas with their own vocabulary. I think that's the biggest difference." Adolescent actors sometimes get the giggles, reports Truffaut, but they rarely have inhibitions, at least at the beginning. Says he: "They usually...
Laurence Wylie, 69, may be the only French-language teacher who starts his classes with a hard round of calisthenics. That tactic follows, with precise Gallic logic, from his basic premise: le fran??ais, in fact all language, is spoken mostly with the body. Says Wylie, a retired professor of French civilization at Harvard: "Just learning the rules of grammar and vocabulary isn't really enough...
...Mobil $34,736,045,000 Texaco $28,607,521,000 British Petroleum $27,390,915,000 Standard Oil of Calif. $23,232.413,000 Gulf Oil $18,069,000,000 Standard Oil (Indiana) $14,961,489,000 ENI (Italy) $12,500,000,000 Atlantic Richfield $12,298,403,000 Fran??aise des Pétroles $10,875,1 17,000 Continental Oil $9,455,241,000 Petrobrás (Brazil) $9,131,101,000 Elf -Aquitaine (France) $8, 341,081,000 *1977 **minus excise taxes...