Word: michels
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...testing to flush out faux-truffle dealers. Anyone caught intending to deceive the consumer with a Chinese truffle may be fined $1,300. Still, there are few inspectors and many truffles. "If the consumer is properly informed that they are eating a Chinese truffle, there is no problem," says Michel Courvoisier, director of the French Federation of Truffle Growers. "But when a shop or restaurateur uses one in place of the other, the consumer is ripped off. I suspect this happens...
...limits to their ability to deal with change. Authority and self-confidence have come under some strain. Once mighty traditional labor unions are on the defensive, losing membership and influence. Newly militant interest groups are striking or demonstrating with increasing frequency to dramatize their grievances. As French Columnist Michel Noblecourt, writing in the left-leaning daily Le Monde, has put it, "Everyone is preoccupied with his own situation, that of his profession, of his company...
...deadlock lingered into last week, when lawmakers returned to hot, muggy Washington after a ten-day Fourth of July break. "We're pretty much split down the middle," House Minority Leader Robert Michel said of the impasse. By then Reagan was ready to get back into the fray. Last Tuesday evening he held a reception for congressional leaders of both parties under the oak tree in the Rose Garden. It was at this "Oak Tree meeting" that the President surprised his guests by simply backing down on Social Security, agreeing to dispense with the COLA freeze...
...FLORENCE MICHEL, Paris...
...persecuted during the Holocaust. A German court rejected the suit, arguing that the changes would injure "the nature of the artistic conception." Europe's disabled people complain that their concerns about access have been dismissed for too long. "We simply cannot be refused access to places because of disabilities," Michel says. Many like her are no longer willing to accept what they see as second-class treatment...