Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days later, Mitterrand's government announced a broad series of austerity measures. In addition to hefty cutbacks in government spending, they included a $285 limit on the amount of currency Frenchmen will be allowed to take abroad and a 1% income tax surcharge to help cover the $1.9 billion social security deficit. To many experts, the emphasis on "rigor" was strangely reminiscent of the policies of former President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and his Premier, Raymond Barre, an approach that Mitterrand had harshly criticized during the 1981 presidential campaign...
...city's 20 districts. With his well-oiled political machine running so smoothly, Chirac, 50, also boosted his chances of becoming the opposition's leading candidate in the 1988 presidential elections. Appearing before his supporters on election night, Chirac triumphantly declared, "The majority of Frenchmen have served an unequivocal warning to the government." Former President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, who campaigned for the center-right, though he was not a candidate himself, said the next day, "France is breathing easier this morning...
...recession. When inflation started to leap out of control, the government switched directions, clamping on a four-month wage and price freeze and then imposing an austerity program that limited wage increases and lowered unemployment benefits. One of the right's most damning accusations is that middle-class Frenchmen have suffered a net loss of purchasing power under the Socialists...
...Barbie trial could prove a long and lacerating experience for a nation that has still not fully come to terms with its wartime past, especially if Barbie should begin to give the names of Frenchmen who collaborated with him. Says Lyon Newspaper Editor Bernard Villeneuve: "For France, this affair will be an exorcism. This has marked our political life for 40 years. While I do not want to deny the past, I do think that my generation is tired. They would like to put it behind them once and for all." It might not prove so easy. The Butcher...
Barbie's return to Lyon brings back painful memories of a France torn between cowardly collaborators and dashing members of the Resistance. Many Frenchmen, particularly those on the extreme right of the political spectrum, actively assisted the Nazis in their gruesome work. Leftists today, on the other hand, still enjoy reliving their halcyon days when the communist underground inspired brave fighters to risk their lives in dangerous sabotage missions against the Germans. Thus the French socialist president Francois Mitterand, in his very first symbolic act in office, solemnly paid a visit to Moulin's tomb in the Pantheon of Paris...