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...profile of the average French board member painted by the Ernst & Young report seems frozen in time: the person is typically a 59-year-old male from one of France's élite graduate schools. He probably serves on more than one board. (French law permits people to hold seats on up to five companies' boards at the same time.) French boardrooms are far less diverse than those in other nations; a survey last month by the independent Politico-Economic Observatory of Capitalistic Structures (PEOCS) indicates that the concentration of business power is greater in France than in most other...
...there's another way change could come to the top of France's economic pyramid: the foreigners who hold 40% of the CAC 40 companies' capital could increase that amount and then demand the kinds of shareholders' rights and powers they enjoy in the U.S. and Britain - and stage a mini-coup of the France Inc. boardrooms...
...There really is something indescribable about seeing the flame in person," said Palfrey, who arrived in Calgary, the site of the 1988 Winter Games, Monday afternoon. "While I was carrying it, I kept looking up at it because it was amazing to be able to hold it in my hand...
...central bank president Martin Redrado, Vice President Cobos, farmers and the country's media moguls who have begun reporting on corruption in her administration. She has also claimed that Redrado and Cobos are in league with the "vulture funds" and "river rats," as she terms the foreign creditors who hold a large part of the country's debt. "Cobos is the leader of the opposition and wants to be a candidate, but he could be a candidate without conspiring against the government," the President argued this week...
...procedural matters, which is not a big deal." Indeed, supporters point out that the terms of the treaty are far more favorable to South Korea than, for example, the terms of a similar treaty Japan signed with the U.S. in 1960. In that country, the U.S. military can hold suspected servicemen until a Japanese court indicts them, a stipulation that critics allege has handicapped investigations there...