Word: french
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thus the election amounted to a series of national opinion polls that invited voters to criticize those in power without taking the risk of sending them packing. The outcome came as a blow to most of the ten leaders who will meet this week in the French city of Fontainebleau to deal with issues that have condemned the Community to semiparalysis. Said a senior official in Brussels: "Insofar as everyone emerges weaker, it is not good. There are only negative signs...
Wands and his French colleague, Dr. Dominique Bellet, announced Tuesday that they had developed the new test, which examines the blood levels of alphafetoprotein (AFP), a substance produced in the liver of fetuses but which usually disappears after birth...
...flexibility of American workers has helped spur employment gains in other ways. While French or German workers are usually reluctant to pick up and move to get a new job, Americans seem to be born under a wandering star. Four years ago, Bill Lehto, 27, moved to Fort Worth after losing his $7-an-hour job outside Detroit. Now working as a factory machine operator, Lehto earns an hourly wage of $7.90. "I like it here," he says. "Costs are much less, and on weekends we head out to hit the bass in the rivers and lakes. You get over...
Georgia is not the first state to turn to foreign aid for teaching talent. In the past 14 years, Louisiana has hired as many as 300 French teachers a year from Belgium, Quebec and France to teach in Cajun classrooms. Although the state has been trying to train Louisiana natives to teach French, the supply of teachers continues to lag behind demand. Furthermore, in the 1985-86 school year, all public schools in Louisiana will be required to teach a second language in grades 4 through 8, which will create the need for about 360 new French teachers...
...Director Ariane Mnouchkine, the troupe attempts to create a theater of pure metaphor, stripped of the last trace of realism. Believing that all Westerners are too close to Shakespeare to really see him, Mnouchkine borrows from the traditions of the Orient to seek the dramatic core of his plays. French, from her own translation, is the language coming from her actors' mouths, but the dramatic idiom in the three productions she brought to Los Angeles is Asian: Japanese for Richard II, Indian for Twelfth Night and a mixture of both for Henry IV, Part I. The actors either paint...