Word: francos
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...course, plenty of people make movies and play in the major leagues and run companies and write for magazines without high SATs. But good scores sure don't hurt. Besides, don't they measure something valuable - something beyond the diligence it takes to memorize the details of the Franco-Prussian War for a history exam? Much of the debate over the SAT boils down to this: Assuming we can measure innate intelligence, do we want a society that rewards genes? Are we afraid of what kind of society that might be? Or should we instead reward only the achievements...
...Conference Board director of consumer research Lynn Franco said what was on everyone's lips on the Street when the news hit: The expectations index is now in "territory normally seen prior to a recession." Translation: When layoffs, cutbacks, slowing growth and the r-word start to imprint themselves on the public mind, folks stop spending, and dread quickly becomes reality. (The last such sharp drop in the index? Right before the 1990 recession...
...reached the height of blasphemy in 1961 when he returned to Spain to make "Viridiana," a film that was instantly repudiated by the Franco government - right after it had won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. A biting social satire about a novice (Silvia Pinal) who visits her lecherous uncle's estate before taking her final vows, the film is rife with blasphemous images: a cross that doubles as a pocketknife, a cross of thorns being tossed on a blazing fire, a group of mangy beggars assembling into a "Last Supper" tableau vivant. The Spanish government banned...
...real strength of this ballclub is its pitching. The lefty-lefty duo of NLCS MVP Hampton and Leiter is dominant. When it's time to go to the bullpen, nobody is deeper than the Mets, who can toss out Rick White, Turk Wendell, John Franco and a surly Armando Benetiz to slam the door...
...world's fifth biggest economy; the No. 4 exporter; and a world leader in transportation (the TGV bullet train), aerospace (Airbus and the Ariane rocket, produced in France with European partners), telecommunications (mobile phones and wireless technology) and civil engineering (the dazzling new Normandy Bridge and the Franco-British Channel Tunnel). With assets like these, the country is well placed to benefit from the cyclical upturn lifting all European economies. Meanwhile, aggressive French firms are making their mark abroad. Vivendi last month announced a merger with Canada's Seagram that will give the new company control of Universal's film...