Word: francoise
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Several governments in Europe are trying to introduce some dynamism into their economies. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has chopped the job rolls of Britain's nationalized steel industry by 52%. At the same time, her government has guaranteed loans totaling $465 million to 10,000 small businesses. Even the...
First France's Socialist government outraged the country by decreeing this spring that vacationers could each spend no more than about $425 abroad. Thousands of French travel agents took to the streets for banner-waving protests that helped force the government to ease the restriction. Now President Francois Mitterrand...
There were more than enough rumors and full-blown theories last week to tantalize those who were curious about President Francois Mitterrand's motive in expelling Soviet officials from France. Perhaps the most intriguing hypothesis centered on the unsolved murder of a top French intelligence officer two months ago...
"It is not normal that there should be more than 5 million French men and women who choose the Communist Party," Francois Mitterrand told his Socialist supporters back in 1971. Those may seem to be hypocritical words for a politician who later joined the Communists in an alliance and who...
Two years ago, American audiences had their first encounter with sensual, enigmatic French Actress Fanny Ardant, 32, in Francois Truffaut's The Woman Next Door. But European directors suddenly all seem to be Ardant fans. Though little more than a pretty face in French theater and television three years...