Word: french
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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France's grandes ecoles, the elite graduate schools in which its political, business and professional leaders are trained, not only provide a ticket to the upper reaches of French life but also serve as a repository of the nation's highest culture and learning. Imagine the shock, then, when France's top business school, Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, decided to offer a management program next fall that will be taught in English. Reason: English has become the language of international business...
H.E.C. is not turning into an overseas branch of the Harvard Business School, however. The new classes will involve only 30 students of the school's total enrollment of 900. Despite these limitations, H.E.C. expects opposition from the French cultural establishment. Nonetheless, says H.E.C. Professor Benjamin Stora, "to be competitive in international business today is to use a language other than French. In France, you have to be brave to say that...
...signs leading from the airport into Vancouver boast IT'S OUR YEAR! C'EST NOTRE ANNEE! And so it is, in English, French and just about every other language of the globe. Surrounded on one side by snowcapped mountains, on the other by chill Pacific waters, the San Francisco of Canada, as it is often called, now has an additional adornment, a world's fair. Open since the beginning of the month, Expo 86 is already a success by the most firmly pedestrian standard: crowds are standing in line to love...
...time of adolescent hope, particularly for people entering their 30s and 40s. She writes, "Your father, think of it, Bayard, was rebuilding slums. There was to be warmth and light, Shakespeare and the beat of African drums . . . Your mother wrapped in a slave's headcloth above a bastard dashiki. French champagne with grits. See the good of it before you laugh...
...police last week as 10,000 antinuclear demonstrators marched in Hamburg. But perhaps the most stunning response to the Chernobyl accident came from France, which relies on the atom for 65% of its electric power. After first assuring its citizens that the nuclear cloud had passed them by, the French government admitted last week that radiation readings in some regions had been 400 times as high as normal. While that was alarming enough, red-faced French officials compounded the problem by insisting that their failure to notify the public was not a serious omission, because the radiation posed no health...