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...start. But Sarkozy, as always, was in a hurry: instead of spending months trying to push through a complex legislative fix, he leaned on France's leading supermarket chains to lower their prices by as much as 2-3% on hundreds of brand-name goods. The result: a mini-spending spree that contributed to estimated growth of more than 2% this year, compared with 0.5% in 2003. Publicizing the agreement, Sarkozy told the press it was merely "what the French people want." Asked how he got the supermarkets to agree to pinch their prices, Sarkozy smiled and told TIME...
...tiny, high-capacity digital cassettes has made camcorders smaller than ever. Now JVC eliminates the need for a cassette altogether. Its new Everio, due out in October, is a tapeless camcorder with a tiny 4-GB removable hard drive (the same hardware that's tucked in Apple's iPod Mini) capable of storing up to six hours of DVD-quality video. The camcorder--no larger than the average digital still camera--can also shoot 2-megapixel photographs and has a built-in 10x optical zoom lens for both video and stills. One thing that's not mini, however...
FLYING TO MINNESOTA ON AIR FORCE ONE LAST WEEK, WHITE House press secretary Scott McClellan held a "gaggle"--that is, a mini--press conference--with reporters in the back of the plane. The first questions were about Hurricane Ivan and the Dan Rather flap, the compelling news periphera of the moment. Then I asked McClellan about the intelligence community's dire assessment, sent to the President in a July National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), that we seem to be losing the war in Iraq...
...other countries; 10 years later, these figures were reversed, to 167,000 in Germany and 247,000 elsewhere. Some of Chancellor Gerhard Schroder's economic reforms are kicking in--an astounding 6.3 million people (out of a population of 83 million) have signed up to work part time in "mini-jobs," earning up to $486 a month tax free--but he hasn't solved the big problems...
...credentials in foreign policy, especially the Iraq war and the strains within the European Union. Last week he capped his country's about-face on Iraq by hosting the leaders of the E.U.'s antiwar faction, French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, at a mini-summit in Madrid. Zapatero called those countries "the heart of Europe" and inverted U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's famous jibe by saying "old Europe is like new." A week earlier, during a visit to Tunisia, he called on all other coalition countries to pull their forces out of Iraq...