Word: michel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...France, many analysts feel that the country's economic planners misjudged the economic trend and kept wage-and-price-stabilization rules in force too long. Twice this year, Finance Minister Michel Debre has been forced to lower his goal for economic growth, first from 6% to 5% and most recently to 4.2%. Wage rates are now rising faster than production and prices are climbing, despite a 41% rise in unemployment (to 212,800) over the past twelve months. Among the Six, only Italy enjoys a vigorously expanding economy, with prospects for a 6% growth this year amid stable wages...
...Michel Scheinmann '69, John Whitbeck '68, Fritz Hobbs '69, and Bruce Weigand '69, will compete in the fifth through eighth positions. The ninth member of the team has not yet been chosen...
Picaresque Assets. True to Gaullist form, the French insisted that the U.S. must end that deficit before any S.D.R. are created, but their stand won scant support from other countries. More worrisome was French Finance Minister Michel Debré's demand (supported by West Germany) that IMF's charter be revised to give the Common Market veto power over all future expansion of IMF reserves and the use of IMF loans by debt-laden countries. "If we don't get our way," threatened one European finance chief, "the Americans aren't going to get any monetary...
...Michel is a seven-year-old French Jewish orphan whose father died in a concentration camp; his mother swallowed cyanide to avoid being sent to one. During the war, a daring band of nuns spirits him to safety in a nursery run by Mile. Odette Rose, who has Michel baptized, and after the war refuses to give him up to his aunt and uncle in Palestine. Her battle is joined by the French Catholic Church up to the level of cardinal. In fighting assorted Zionists, the Catholics revert to their underground railway, but what was heroism in wartime...
Author Lewis unvaryingly places law and truth on the side of the Jews, though he dedicates the book "to my Catholic wife." He never animates Michel's character, never lets the child himself choose between Mile. Rose and his Israeli relatives. Instead, Jewish characters talk endlessly about history and suffering, Catholics indulge in petty lies and machinations. One Jewish character says wisely: "Better he be a good French Catholic than a neurotic Israeli Jew," but only one priest knows right from wrong. Though modeled on St. Peter, he proves to be papier-mache instead of rock...