Word: michell
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...French government apparently agrees. Encouraged by the success of the Melun project, Industry and Research Minister Michel d'Ornano is now asking Parliament to allocate $1.5 million for more geothermal well-drilling. Says he: "The increase in the cost of oil and the birth of new techniques oblige us to consider the energy potential of our underground wealth...
...Topanga Canyon house in California, the slender, wide-eyed author of Superstar, a total-immersion confessional novel, is now completing a new book, The Baby, about her three-year-old daughter Alexandra. "She may be the most documented child in history," observes Viva, whose husband, French Film Maker Michel Auder, is engaged in a ten-year project to video-tape their daughter's early years. "I never did know what I wanted to be when I grew up," the former actress then reflected. "I guess I'm becoming an authoress...
Under the scheme, Labor Minister Michel Durafour indicates, the government will grant $220 million to set up an emergency fund. The fund will be supported by contributions financed 80% by employers and 20% by workers through higher payroll deductions. Any worker discharged because of economic force majeure can collect from the fund 90% of gross wages for a full twelve months, roughly equivalent to the take-home pay he or she would have received on the job. Government inspectors supposedly will make sure that the layoffs truly result from recession, and not from bad management by the company or poor...
...believe I could not keep from committing it." Moreover, as a French Jesuit theologian observed last week, by building a religious scaffold for the pardon, Ford may well have hoped to disarm potential critics. "If Ford draws the cloak of New Testament moral theology around his pardon," said Father Michel de Certeau, "it makes it infinitely harder to argue with it. It puts opponents in the position of not having a Christian conscience...
Finally, France's new Interior Minister Michel Poniatowski admitted last week what everyone has known all along: the police have no time to read the millions of fiches filed each month. And so, amid cheers and kisses, the practice is about to be abolished...