Word: french
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Eiffel Tower of Paris has always looked a bit like an oil derrick. Now a consortium of French energy companies led by Societe Nationale Elf Aquitaine is exploring the possibility that there may actually be oil under the city's venerable streets. Last week four 14 1/2-ton trucks completed a series of seismic tests that took them lumbering down the Champs Elysees and past such landmarks as the Arc de Triomphe, the Place de la Concorde and the Louvre...
...shops offer 450 items, ranging from a $1.25 heart-shaped pen to a $100 crystal plate, and the airport location guarantees captive high-income customers. Foreign travelers seem to appreciate that members of the sales staff speak seven languages, from French to Chinese. If sales at the Express Shops take off, Bloomingdale's plans to open stores at other airports, both in the U.S. and abroad...
...cats and pigeons, whose damp silence was occasionally broken by film units; Orson Welles and Bernardo Bertolucci are among the directors who have sought evocative locations in its Piranesian gloom. Meanwhile developers covetously eyed it, dreaming of the slow-motion arc of the wrecker's ball. In 1971 the French government, under President Georges Pompidou, issued a demolition order...
Guttmann is concentrating in History and Literature, specializing in France and Germany. She is fluent in both languages. "Some of the interview questions were in French, so, of course, candidates are expected to be fluent in both English and French," said Guttmann...
West European leaders acknowledge that the terrorist threat to their countries cannot be solved without a concerted effort. The day after Besse's murder, French Interior Minister Pasqua and his West German counterpart, Friedrich Zimmermann, agreed in a two-hour meeting to begin exchanging members of their antiterrorist liaison teams in an attempt to develop a regular flow of information between the two countries...