Word: french
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...often happens in Canadian politics, Quebec provided the decisive margin last week. The Conservatives benefited, of course, from the fact that Mulroney is a native son, fluent in both English and locally accented French. The party also enjoyed the strong support of Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa, a Liberal but a believer in free trade and Quebec's prospects in a more open North American economy. Most important, Quebec's response reflected the degree to which the French-speaking province has become politically and culturally self-assured, apparently more confident than much of English Canada that its identity will...
...dickering and agreed to be acquired for $3.6 billion in an LBO put together by the company's management. Triangle Industries, which just two years ago acquired the packaging division of American Can in an LBO, agreed to be bought for $1.3 billion by Pechiney, the state-owned French metals firm...
...TENTH MAN (CBS, Dec. 4, 9 p.m. EST). Anthony Hopkins and Derek Jacobi lead a blue-chip British cast in Graham Greene's story about a French lawyer, imprisoned by the Nazis during World War II, who bargains to save his skin...
...spirit of calm and privacy. Even the cities lose their summer affectations. "People get a better feel for Parisian life," says Nicole Roques-Lagier, press attache for the Paris Tourist Office. "They see people going about their daily business, much more so than in the summer, when the French themselves are on vacation." It is easier to get a table in a restaurant, a seat at a spectacle or the attention of a salesperson on the Faubourg-St.-Honore...
Which is why the most successful left-of-center parties are precisely those that have seized the nationalist issue themselves. Take the French Socialists. There is no great debate in France about its place in the world. The Socialists learned decades ago to accept the Gaullist vision of French grandeur, with all the trappings, military (e.g., the force de frappe) and geopolitical (e.g., the intervention in Chad). Not surprisingly, the Socialists keep winning. This year Francois Mitterrand became the first President of the Fifth Republic to win re-election...