Word: french
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...restaurant, a handsome, prematurely gray lawyer, Edward Pell, is enduring a meal of fried chicken and french fries. Pell lives in Greene, Rhode Island but comes to New Hampshire "five or more times a year." His interest in politics is greater than normal because he is a cousin of Rhode Island's Democratic Senator, Claiborne Pell. Surely he has encountered some of the politicking, or heard a lot of talk about...
...three years. As that deadline approaches, the roly-poly former economics professor has become the target of increasingly heavy fire from trade unions, the leftist opposition and even the largest party in his own coalition, the Gaullists. Last week, at the insistence of Gaullist Leader Jacques Chirac, the French parliament was called into emergency session for the first time since World War II. Although Barre has succeeded in stabilizing the franc by turning France's trade deficit into a surplus, he has been unable to lower inflation, currently 10.2% annually. Moreover, his policies led to a one-third increase...
Barre's steel measures are part of what has been dubbed "the new French revolution." That is the Premier's attempt to reduce the government's traditionally massive interference in the country's economic affairs. Though railways, utilities and many industries have long been nationalized, Barre is insisting that state-owned companies turn a profit. His model: West Germany's free-enterprise-oriented economy. Barre's government has already dismantled an archaic system of price controls that contributed to inflation because it eliminated incentives to lower prices in a competitive market. Now the Premier...
Steel has been the key money-losing sector. French steel companies, which have been kept going by uneconomic government subsidies, were not prepared for the crisis that resulted from a worldwide decline in demand, accompanied by aggressive competition from Japan and the Third World. While a French worker takes 11.2 hours to produce a ton of steel, the same job is done in Germany in 7.9 hours and in Japan in 5.9 hours. That is partly because French plants have antiquated machinery requiring greater manpower. A more productive steel industry, the Premier argues, "is a matter of survival for France...
...Cheyenne and Blackfeet have epitomized the noble savage for over a century. But the image of the hawk-nosed, bonnetted warriors is a romanticized stereotype of the Plains Indian. In fact, they are no more American or native than the colonists or conquistadors. It was the coming of the French, the Spanish and the English--their wars and their horses--that transformed certain long-since-forgotten tribes into the Indians Americans have come to view as really Indian...