Word: moulineaux
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...what's the solution? Transparency and a willingness to listen and adapt can help. While November's unrest and arson attacks affected many suburbs around Paris, the town of Issy-les-Moulineaux to the south of the French capital was largely spared. There, Mayor Andr? Santini has bet heavily on technology infrastructure in a successful bid to attract international firms such as Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems. He's also used technology to interact more openly with Issy's 63,000 residents. Issy was the first French town to start an Internet-based local TV service, and last December...
Imitation of Christ. Pere Foucauld had dreamed of founding a religious order, but he died alone, without baptizing more than three or four converts in his entire life. In 1933 five students in the seminary of Issy-les-Moulineaux decided to found an order based on his austere rule of "extreme poverty in everything." In Algeria, on the edge of the Sahara at El-Abiodh-Sidi-Cheikh, the first novitiate of the Petits Freres de Jesus was opened. Six years later an order of women, the Petites Soeurs de Jesus, was founded...
...After a celebration, people dislike to be told that they were celebrating an error. Newspapers that use the Associated Press service were temporarily jubilant last week because they published the following "scoop": "Paris, July 1.-(By A.P.)-Commander Richard Byrd's transatlantic monoplane America landed at Issy Les Moulineaux, near Paris, early this morning...
...fact, Commander Byrd and his crew were at that time lost in the fog and did not alight on the sea near Ver-sur-Mer until two hours later. In a tardy checking of the false report, an A. P. correspondent found a lone watchman at Issy Les Moulineaux, who had neither seen nor heard an airplane...
...France? Many who sat in the Chamber last week must have known him in his prime. They must recall how it became necessary for him to resign the Premiership after a tragic accident. . . . Premier Monis had gone out with his War Minister, Henry Maurice Berteaux, to Issy-les-Moulineaux, there to watch the start of a Paris-Madrid air race. That was in 1911, only eight years after the first motor-propelled airplane flew. As the Premier and the War Minister stood watching, a monoplane swooped down on them and crashed, killing M. Berteaux, wounding M. Monis, who later resigned...