Word: mende
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...post to head a new "superministry" for employment, labor and social cohesion in a revamped government. Chirac is hoping the wild-haired, straight-talking populist will serve as a bulwark against voter anger over Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin's belt tightening, and his failure to generate jobs or mend the social fracture between the country's affluent classes and its disgruntled masses. Voters put the opposition Socialists in charge of 20 of France's 21 mainland regions, up from 8 in 1998. "France has clearly expressed a demand for a more social approach," says Pascal Perrineau, director...
...Stalin-era confessions - might be part of a deal to free Khodorkovsky. Fat chance. Although authorities indicated they would allow Yukos to keep disputed Siberian licenses, the Prosecutor General posted charges against Khodorkovsky's associate Platon Lebedev on its website. "Khodorkovsky is deluding himself if he thinks he can mend fences with Putin," says political analyst Dmitri Furman. It can't hurt to try - By Peter Gumbel. With reporting by Yuri Zarakhovich Someone's Paying The Price Global music-industry trade body IFPI filed the first suits against online piracy outside the U.S. , targeting 250 alleged file sharers in four...
...itself than it needed going in - indeed, Washington's ability to prevent its standoff with the Shiite majority over elections from erupting into confrontation now depends on a UN team agreeing that elections by June are not practical. Mr. Cheney's mission in Europe appears to have been to mend fences in order to win European backing in Iraq and elsewhere. The problem, however, is that not only was U.S. diplomatic influence was severely damaged on the march to war, but that the failure of the invasion to produce the evidence to back Washington's claims has further dented...
...jumping back into the market in the wrong sectors as they begin to feel the recovery on a personal level through, say, a bonus, a raise or a new job or simply a heightened sense of job security. Such developments tend to come after companies are already on the mend--and after an awful lot of good news has been factored into stock prices. Consider that while you were logging 14-hour days at the office and repeatedly refinancing your house to make ends meet, the stock market was on a tear. The Dow is up 41% from...
...Berkeley is justifiably pleased that, after years of hard work with outreach and recruitment, the presence of under-represented minority students had recovered to earlier levels,” wrote Edley, who as special counsel to President Clinton helped fashion that administration’s “mend it, don’t end it” approach to affirmative action...