Word: fran
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...storybook romance," but it was more clearly a dynastic marriage of the kind traditionally made for good, practical reasons by European nobility. In Rainier's case, the practicality was not hard to see. Rainier's Grimaldi clan dates its ascendancy in Monaco from 1297, when his ancestor François the Cunning sneaked into the palace disguised as a monk. By a quirk of French law, Monaco's citizens would lose their tax and military exemptions if Rainier failed to produce an heir to the throne. What Grace got, in addition to a title (Her Serene Highness...
That honor was returned last Saturday, with affection. Among those film celebrities, pop notables and real and Graustarkian dignitaries who attended her funeral were Nancy Reagan, French President François Mitterrand's wife Danielle, Ireland's President Patrick Hillery, Gary Grant, Frank Sinatra's wife Barbara, Film Mogul Sam Spiegel, Racing Driver Jackie Stewart, Diana, Princess of Wales, Prince Bertil of Sweden, Princess Benedikta of Denmark, Don Juan de Bourbon, father of Spain's King Juan-Carlos, Holland's Prince Bernhard, Grand Duchess Josephine of Luxembourg, Michael, former King of Rumania, Frederika, former Queen...
...Luxembourg Gardens. He never got there. As startled passers-by looked on, Tanase was shoved into a car and spirited away. Since the missing writer had been an outspoken critic of Rumanian President Nicolae Ceauşescu, human rights groups immediately blamed the Rumanian secret police. French President François Mitterrand warned that Tanase's disappearance could "seriously affect" relations between the two countries, and he postponed a visit to Rumania...
...government's aggressive push into computers. Convinced that the technology is a key to industrial development in the 1980s and 1990s, the French are investing heavily in the field, building their own Silicon Valleys in Brittany and Lorraine. The Ministry of Industry even had the Académie Française, which is the mighty guardian of the French language, approve a shiny new word to go along with the new hardware: informatique. Some French officials are already worried about new examples of dreaded Franglais like le hardware and le software...
...seizure of banks by the Mexican government may also be ineffective or counterproductive. After French President François Mitterrand nationalized his country's banks in February, many edgy foreigners pulled bank deposits out of France, and that helped push the franc to record lows. Bruce Bagley, an associate director of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, thinks investors will be even more hesitant to keep money in Mexico's nationalized banks because of the government's reputation for corruption...