Word: fran
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whole game, though, is the legendary man in purple, Viking quarterback Fran Tarkenton. Tarkenton--who holds NFL records for total passing yardage(41,798), touchdowns(308) and completions(3186)--has 16 years of experience and should finally guide Minnesota to a national championship...
SMALL CHANGE. François Truffaut's loving, lyrical and often surprisingly funny tribute to the spunky spirit of childhood-the movie is also a reminder that if it is to survive, it sometimes needs a little help from adults who can remember what being a kid was like...
...most international oil companies are tied by long-term contracts to particular supplying countries. Says Phillipe Laurance, an executive of Compagnie Française des Pétroles: "It's difficult to stop buying oil from a country just because it charges higher prices. You may find out later on that you're going to need to buy from that country again...
Meanwhile, company size rankings in the oil business could change. Four American companies−Exxon, Texaco. Mobil and Chevron−that import heavily from Saudi Arabia will be able to undersell such other producers as Shell, British Petroleum and Compagnie Française des Petroles, which rely more heavily on the higher-priced OPEC states. All in all. Yamani seems to have touched off a classic capitalist price war. That is scarcely what cartels are supposed to do. and OPEC least of all; its increases were once heralded as the start of a "new economic order." But that was before...
...risks he takes, Chirac's operations are meticulously planned and executed. Before picking a new name for his party, he consulted marketing experts and conducted polls on key words. It was discovered that rassemblement was better received than mouvement. République and française (which was later dropped from the name because Chirac thought it suggested a challenge to the government) struck responsive chords, though democratic did not. Indeed, a computer analysis revealed that De Gaulle had used the word only nine times in all his public speeches...