Word: frenchman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mood. As thumbnail assessments go, that may have been incomplete, but it was not too far off the mark. France last week continued to be seized by a wave of train and other public-service strikes that have disrupted the country for a month. Not only was the typical Frenchman's mood even sourer than usual, but there were numerous signs that French political life, and daily life for that matter, was Italianizing at the edges. The successive crises that have beset the nine-month-old conservative government of Premier Jacques Chirac began to look like those of Italy...
MOST ENDURING An American who dreams like a Frenchman, Greg LeMond, became the first non-European ever to win the 23-day Tour de France...
...selection of a new managing director of the International Monetary Fund is usually a discreet affair, conducted almost exclusively behind closed doors. But the competition to replace Frenchman Jacques de Larosiere, who announced his coming departure in September, has generated -- in financial circles at least -- all the excitement of a tight horse race. Last week a winner hit the wire: Bank of France Governor Michel Camdessus, 53. When he takes over next month as chief of the IMF, which provides short-term emergency loans to troubled nations, Camdessus will become perhaps the second most powerful moneyman in the world, after...
Mexico's deal also marks a change in direction for the IMF, which earned a reputation as a tightfisted taskmaster under its outgoing managing director, Jacques de Larosiere, 56. The Frenchman announced two weeks ago that he would leave the fund at the end of the year for unspecified "personal and professional reasons." His successor is likely to be Dutch Finance Minister Onno Ruding or Bank of France Governor Michel Camdessus; neither man would stray far from the IMF's new moderate path...
...much booze and junk, so much energy spent to expand the boundaries of jazz. "Oh, yes, I'm tired," Dale croaks in his slow, reedy tones. "Of everything except the music." Francis (Francois Cluzet), a commercial illustrator who worships Turner's artistry, wants to change that. The mousy Frenchman is thrilled to be spoken to, listened to, used by his idol. He will manage Turner's life and finances, fight to free Turner from the embrace of asylums, badger his ex-wife for money to support the musician, leave his young daughter at home alone till dawn...