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...million Frenchmen believe that they cannot be wrong

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Paris Bourse Is Magnifique | 8/4/1980 | See Source »

...Frenchmen had much experience in the market, but buying stock quickly became a new national obsession. French television now carries stock market reports on the 1 p.m. news. Mutual funds were quickly formed to attract small investors. The value of one of the most popular, ADF 5000, has increased 46.8% in the past two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Paris Bourse Is Magnifique | 8/4/1980 | See Source »

...years in Greece and is followed by time in the reserves. Many West Europeans also volunteer for their country's armed forces, of course; of the 495,000 members of West Germany's Bundeswehr, for example, 270,000 are volunteer, and over half of the 590,000 Frenchmen in uniform joined voluntarily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Out of Step with the Rest | 6/9/1980 | See Source »

...cost of the vast U.S. arsenal imposes a greater burden on Americans than on citizens of any other allied country. Last year U.S. defense spending amounted to $510 for each American, compared with $396 for West Germans, $349 for Frenchmen, $314 for Britons and $124 for Italians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Storm over the Alliance | 4/28/1980 | See Source »

...does Buckley, who never offers bait without a barb. Oakes expresses "dismay over the mind-boggling incapacity of Frenchmen to govern themselves." Acheson recalls John Stuart Mill's observation that while Conservatives are not generally stupid, "stupid people are generally Conservative." The Soviet intelligence chief pays the author a compliment by quoting from a National Review article on an assassination attempt that "had all the earmarks of a CIA operation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Barbed Bait | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

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