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However Sara Germain, who helped organize theevents, said: "The only problem with the laser wasin people's minds...
...then Sartre was famous as the leading exponent of the creed known as existentialism (Being and Nothingness, 1943) and the chief guru to the postwar denizens of St. Germain des Pres. De Beauvoir was not far behind. She won the prestigious Prix Goncourt for her fourth novel, The Mandarins, an astringent survey of the Paris literary life as well as a memoir of her own affair with ^ Chicago Novelist Nelson Algren. More enduring fame came from her monumental manifesto The Second Sex (1949), one of the cornerstones of modern feminism...
...customers, but in others it is more difficult. For one thing, Soltner feels, Americans have become more sophisticated and know about food and products, and he finds that rewarding. Yet a surprisingly large number of specialties remain from the original menu, among them the creamed pea soup, creme Saint-Germain, the mignonettes of beef in puff pastry, the salmon in crust, and snails in tiny terrines with shallot and garlic butter. Recently Soltner worked out a new and delectable variation on those snails, combining them with the traditional herb butter and Riesling wine and baking them inside crusty brioches...
...movement to force all banks and S and Ls in the U.S. to buy federal insurance. Says one congressional staffer: "Given the weakened condition of the thrift industry, another crisis is likely to happen unless there are changes made in the current system." Rhode Island Democrat Fernand St Germain, chairman of the House Banking Committee, has asked federal regulators to advise him on whether they believe private insurance is adequate...
...Germain sees the move toward financial deregulation in recent years as partly responsible for the new banking troubles. Before 1980, banks and S and Ls were subject to federal ceilings on the interest rates they could pay depositors. Now bankers have much more freedom to pay what they wish, and competition has pushed rates up. That in turn has led the S and Ls to make riskier investments to cover the handsome payouts. In the past, thrifts generally limited their loan business to home mortgages. Now many have plunged into higher-yielding but more dangerous ventures, ranging from office-building...