Word: fran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most advanced nuclear-energy program is in France, where 22 reactors now produce more than 30% of the country's electric power, the highest percentage in the world. During last spring's presidential campaign, Socialist Candidate François Mitterrand dismissed nuclear power as "costly and uncertain" and promised to delay nine proposed plants. But as President, Mitterrand has curbed his antinuclear rhetoric and now plans to halt only three of the plants. Reason: his government is counting on the energy provided by nuclear reactors to help fuel an ambitious program of economic revival...
...loved this country where everyone greets passers-by and opens his door wide. Looking at America, every voyager has the eyes of Christopher Columbus." So wrote François Mitterrand about his first visit to the U.S., when he was a young politician in 1946. This week America's doors will open wide again for France's new President as he travels to Yorktown, Va., to join President Ronald Reagan in celebrating the bicentennial of the Franco-American military victory that ended the Revolutionary War. In addition, Mitterrand will spend five hours in meetings with Reagan before continuing...
...cautious policy by introducing a budget calling for 27% higher public spending and a $17 billion deficit. He made good on a longstanding pledge to take over private banks and key industries. He increased welfare benefits to families, the aged and the handicapped. But last week President François Mitterrand was forced to administer a dose of economic medicine...
...move. Since 1979, when parities were fixed within the European Monetary System, France's inflation rate has averaged more than twice West Germany's. This reduced the competitiveness of French products to the point where, even if Giscard had been reelected, a devaluation would have been necessary. François-Xavier Ortoli, Finance Commissioner for the European Community and a Finance Minister under President Charles de Gaulle, described Mitterrand's decision as "sound management." The price controls received less favorable reviews...
...wise, is an implicit commentary on his lugubrious single-mindedness. Lucie is a creature, as Rohmer sees her, of impulse and open air, while Anne is seen mostly in her cramped apartment, which can be seen as the logical extension of her cramped spirit. This, alas, is something François does not notice. The most the movie concedes him is the possibility that by sorting through his many wrong assumptions about the essentially innocent man he was following, he may have taken a small step toward extricating himself from his deluding passion. But like everything else in this sidelong...