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...Finally, through these mild French send-offs and bureaucratic forms of address, I had joined the ranks of the Metro Meter Maid. Phrase by phrase, rule by rule, I built my own bureaucracy...
...last 20 years, French companies and workers have taken a very serious turn towards free markets and competition, which has made people more comfortable in trusting business and economic forces," says Jacques Bille, a senior civil servant and former political adviser. "But when trouble arises, that French individual goes into collective mode and expects the state to intervene and safeguard stability. That attitude has differentiated us starkly [from the Americans], until...
...while France is hardly protected from the downturn - the Paris CAC 40 stock index dropped 2.3% Monday after the French government nearly halved its 2009 growth estimates to 1% - at least one factor might limit the damage to a degree. In the course of the last 15 years, which saw a boom in France's real estate values, no lender would grant credit to an applicant with more than a 33% debt-to-income level. French banks have also always favored fixed-rate mortgages over more enticing but perilous variable-rate loans. The French real estate market is slowing...
...bitter custody battle with Palin's sister Molly McCann and was accused of threatening members of the governor's family. The investigation has since been painted by John McCain and Palin backers as a purely partisan exercise, particularly because the committee chair, state senator Hollis French, is an Anchorage Democrat who made several seemingly prejudicial statements to the media early on, including that the probe could yield an "October surprise" right before the election. Palin spokeswoman Meg Stapleton says French has already made up his mind about the governor's guilt and at this point is "just leading people into...
...Alaska senate inquiry is moving ahead. Last week, after many of Palin's aides and associates, as well as her husband, reversed their positions and refused to testify in front of the legislative committee, French said the senate investigator would issue findings on the matter in early October with or without their testimony. As if to parry that move, Palin's lawyer, Thomas Van Flein, met with the personnel board's investigator on Monday and promised that he would furnish a list of who would be interviewed on Tuesday. The McCain campaign told the Associated Press that after Tuesday...