Word: french
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government has forecast growth of 2.8% this year, but Jean-Marie Chevalier, professor of economics at the University of Paris Nord, contends that it will be more like 2%. He cites soft consumer demand at home and still softer exports as causes for concern. Traditionally, some 30% of French exports go to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and other developing nations where lower oil revenues and large debt loads have sharply curtailed purchasing power. As a result, France's export earnings are bound to suffer. Sluggish growth may nudge up unemployment from 10.6% to 11% this year, Chevalier said...
This premature event looks like a real retrospective but is not one. It covers the past seven years of Salle's work and is -- to pinch a term from Jean Baudrillard, the French semiotician whose phrases are parroted everywhere in the art world today and recur like pious ejaculations in the exhibition catalog -- a "simulacrum." In days of yore, the aim of a museum retrospective used to be clear. It was to sum up a distinguished career, presenting the evidence of a long life's work. For a major museum to give a 34-year-old artist a retrospective would...
...Last March the E.C. effectively cut off some $400 million in U.S. grain exports to Spain after that country entered the Community. Unless adequate compensation was provided, the U.S. said, it would impose crippling 200% duties at 12:01 a.m. last Friday on such Community exports as British gin, French cognac and Dutch cheese. Finally, about four hours before the deadline last week, a settlement was reached and the shoot-out was called...
...high-ranking aid workers can rent colonial villas staffed by servants and still save large chunks of salaries that may exceed $80,000 a year. That is a sum past reckoning in a country in which the average annual income is about $300. Such imported luxuries as Cuban cigars, French perfumes and Scotch whisky are available in hard-currency stores that Mozambicans seldom enter. "I often wonder who is helping whom," says an Italian engineer who has spent 17 years in the impoverished African nation...
DURING THE month of Jaruzelski's mission to Italy and Whitehead's diplomatic initiative, Poland played host to Japanese prime minister Nakasone. The country will receive Britain's Margaret Thatcher and the French and German foreign ministers during the coming months...