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...tensions of modernization even divided the Gaullist government. Service-level specialists in such ministries as Public Works and Health pressed for change and refurbishing, but the "other" government, typified by the Finance Ministry, opposed radical reform, and it was De Gaulle's personally run Finance Ministry???where tax forms are still laboriously filled out and stamped by hand?that kept control of France. "It has become a system governed by rules rather than objectives," says University of Nanterre Sociologist Alain Touraine...
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