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...very basic strategic change. The government of Barre and Giscard d'Estaing saw sufficient political support to enable it to take a longterm point of view. Even before then, able French bureaucrats had developed a strategy but it was more of inflating domestic demand and periodically devaluing the franc to bring French costs into line, but underinvestment in sectors involved in international trade left French industry ill-equipped for competition...
...Regine barred Dewi from the Paris motherhouse for slapping another customer. Dewi sued in court, and now she has won a clear, if toothless, decision: the joint, ruled a French judge, is a public place, and Dewi may not be barred from it. Regine was ordered to pay one franc (250) in token damages. "I declared war and I won," crowed Dewi. "A futile and idiotic affair," retaliated Regine. "One franc will not take her very far." Certainly not in her place, where champagne sells for $20 a glass...
...James Dines and Franz Pick, who for years have urged investment in gold as a safe hedge in an in flation-weary world economy. As gold soared, the dollar continued its plunge against foreign currencies, hitting an all-time low of 1.70 deutsche marks, and sinking against the Swiss franc, Japanese yen and British pound, though it recovered somewhat at week...
Directed by Franc Roddam Screenplay by Dave Humphries, Martin Stellman and Franc Roddam...
...hero of Quadrophenia is named Jimmy. Estranged from his family and bored with his London mailroom job, he has become a member of the mods, a loose, nationwide gang of motorbike dandies that sprang up with the Mersey sound. As the talented director Franc Roddam follows Jimmy and his cronies around, we watch a society being born. When The Who's pivotal song. My Generation, flips on at a boozy make-out party, the kids forsake their '50s dance steps for the tribal free-for-all that would typify the '60s. When the mods brawl noisily with...