Word: french
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...states with small populations and struggling economies. Last year, when 15 of the 28 students at Maine's Allagash High School protested the dearth of humanities courses, the University of Maine decided to fill the gap. This fall the university will offer more than 20 courses, including elementary French and algebra, to 23 Maine schools...
...world of French haute couture was atwitter over the news. After nearly 30 years as artistic director of Christian Dior, celebrated couturier Marc Bohan, 62, had been unceremoniously ousted. Succeeding him at the house that has long epitomized French fashion: Milanese designer Gianfranco Ferre, 45. Dior's managing director, Beatrice Bongibault-Dhjan, implied that Bohan's departure was sort of his idea. Said she: "It was elegant of Bohan to know when to leave...
Mais non, said Bohan. In an interview with Figaro, he claimed that the changeover had come as a terrible blow. French couturiers were irked that Dior had not chosen a replacement from the ranks of Gallic designers. In fact, Dior is getting ready for the hot competition that will result from European unification in 1992. In the past decade Ferre has won numerous prizes for sophisticated ready-to-wear clothing that might sell better in the broader market than Bohan's classical creations...
Yasser Arafat speaks passable English but hardly a syllable of French. So it was no slip of the tongue when the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization chose to use a French word during a live interview on France's TF1 television channel. At one point, Arafat declared as caduque -- a legal term meaning null and void -- the controversial 1964 P.L.O. charter, which calls for the destruction of Israel...
...sense, rationing medical care is a form of triage -- the mellifluous French term, derived from wartime practice, for giving medical attention to the most likely survivors. This goes against the American grain. According to a 1987 Harris poll, more than 90% agreed with the statement that "everybody should have the right to get the best possible health care -- as good as the treatment a millionaire gets." But another survey, by the Public Agenda Foundation, found that only one person in ten would accept a $125 tax increase to support a national insurance program for catastrophic illness. As medical costs rise...