Word: jeans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government price controls and other austerity restrictions. Accompanied by a goat on a leash, symbolizing the marchers' refusal to be scapegoats for the squeeze, the middle-aged multitude was tear-gassed by the police at the Pont d'Alma in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower. Said Jean Brunei, vice president of the 1.5 million-member Small and Medium Business Confederation: "We are demanding the freedom to manage our own businesses as we choose." Farmers, meanwhile, were planning to pursue their running protest against the government's failure to secure higher prices for their commodities. In Brittany...
...strongest among left-wing Socialists and some Communists. They argue that instead of meekly accepting painful austerity, the government should 1) withdraw from the European Monetary System, which links seven major European currencies; 2) correct the trade imbalance through protectionist import restrictions; and 3) concentrate on creating jobs. Jean Poperen, the party's deputy leader, last month charged that the government was losing its "popular support" and called for a return to the "class struggle" as the Socialists' central theme. Edmond Maire, leader of the Socialist-dominated Confédération Française Démocratique...
...this, as in other stories, Fisher has proved to be a true and worthy descendant of Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, the great 19th century French epicure whose classic The Physiology of Taste Fisher lovingly translated in 1949. "Gastronomy rules all life," he wrote. "The newborn baby's tears demand the nurse's breast, and the dying man receives, with some pleasure, the last cooling drink." -By Patricia Blake
Political Concerns. In a prepared paper, former French Foreign Minister Jean François-Poncet submitted that although its long-range objectives remain the same, Soviet foreign policy has shifted emphasis in recent years. "Since the invasion of Afghanistan," he explained, "the pendulum of confrontation has swung back to Europe...
When sophomore Captain Deborah Kaufman and freshman Erika Smith walked off the court following their 6-3, 6-2 trouncing of Princeton's number two pair of Jean Weinberg and Susan Whitney, the Crimson camp roared in applause of the culmination of Harvard's most successful season to date...