Word: gauls
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Three Tiers. The Government will monitor both wages and prices by dividing the economy, like Caesar's Gaul, into three parts. Firms with annual sales of at least $100 million, which include all of FORTUNE'S list of the 500 largest U.S. corporations plus 800 others, and employee groups of at least 5,000 members will be required to notify the appropriate Government board 30 days in advance of raising wages or prices and obtain approval. The second tier of economic units, firms whose sales are between $50 million and $100 million annually and employee groups numbering...
...second from its own quarreling factions. With the Fifth Republic, he gave France its first strong governmental framework since the days of Louis Napoleon. He was indeed "I'homme du destin," as Winston Churchill once called him, and even his name, suggestive of both Charlemagne and ancient Gaul, was perfectly suited to the role he took upon himself. When De Gaulle died last week, just 13 days before his 80th birthday, President Georges Pompidou summed up the crusade: "He gave France her governing institutions, her independence and her place in the world...
Paris' Librairie Hachette decided to record a few choice passages from Charles de Gaulle's war memoirs. But who in all Gaul could possibly impersonate le Grand Charles! The choice: Paul-Emile Deiber, an admired Comedie Francaise actor. His past credits were impeccable-he has played both Zeus and Jesus Christ...