Word: libertate
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...autobiography (Plon; 216 pages), Jean-Christophe Mitterrand argues that his father?s political ambitions determined his own fate. Despite the leftist credentials of his progressive parents - the socialist Mitterrand had married Danielle Gouze, who founded the human-rights group France Libertés - it?s difficult to imagine a familial environment more rigidly bourgeois than the one Jean-Christophe describes. The two Mitterrand boys weren?t encouraged to take part in any significant conversations and rarely dined with their parents, who were "not the sort to embrace or touch," as Jean-Christophe puts it. Communication was so formal that...
...priority: jettisoning the airline's partnerships. First to go was Air Littoral, a regional French airline that was sold to its management, eliminating $90 million a year in losses. Corti followed up by bailing out of another regional French carrier, AOM/Air Liberté, which was also generating millions of losses. "The exit from France should further reassure our stakeholders that we are committed to resolving loss-making minority airline participation issues and to fully focus on our core airline business, Swissair and Crossair," Corti said...
...assured that SAirGroup, the parent company of Swissair, would manage everything. More than Seillière's money, the Swiss needed him to serve as majority shareholder because European Union regulations bar non-E.U. investors from controlling E.U. companies. In May 2000, AOM absorbed another independent carrier, Air Liberté, and later Air Littoral in hopes of building up a private airline group capable of competing with Air France...
...Rochet to head the ailing company. He came up with a plan, announced May 21, to stem the losses within three years by cutting unprofitable routes and eliminating 1,328 out of 7,400 jobs. Rochet's announcement triggered a chain reaction of strikes and demonstrations by AOM-Air Liberté employees...
...partement, like the country's 99 other local administrative units. Yet you don't have to spend long in the shadow of Réunion's active volcano to realize that the island is a long way from Lyons. Despite the French Republic's much-vaunted ideals of liberté, egalité, fraternité, Réunion is a place where First World and Third World meet...