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...that promised to denationalize companies and promote business won control of the National Assembly. Now Mitterrand and Prime Minister Jacques Chirac are locked in a struggle over terms for selling off state-owned corporations. A particularly heated battle has raged over Chirac's efforts to sell TF1, France's oldest and largest national TV channel. Strikes and marches have protested the transaction, and a poll found that 56% of those questioned were against the deal...
...plot resembles the house, an outrageous, turreted wonder. Lenny MaGrath (Keaton) is the oldest sister, unmarried, moody, leery of men because of a "shrunken ovary." Meg (Lange), the flamboyant middle sister, is a minor- league cabaret singer whose recent employment has been in a dog-food company. Babe, the youngest, has that little problem with the husband she shot wisely but not well. Meg tells cheerful lies to Old Grandaddy and worries later that when he finds out the truth, he will lapse into a coma. Babe and Lenny laugh so hard at this that they can hardly spit...
...ponder the subject. In the end, they settled for weaker recommendations than many observers had expected. They called on South Africa to release Black Leader Nelson Mandela, who has been in prison for 24 years, and to lift its ban on the African National Congress, the country's oldest black political organization, which today conducts a limited and largely ineffectual guerrilla campaign against the Pretoria regime from nearby Zambia...
...Harvard Cooperative Society, which has stores in Cambridge and Boston, was established in 1882 and is the oldest and largest cooperative in the United States...
...that reality is rather new to the ivy-covered buildings of the nation's oldest institution of higher learning. Only in 1971 did Harvard and Radcliffe finalize the agreement that forever altered the nature of the 350-year-old men's school and the 92-year-old women's college. For it was in that year that women, previously housed mostly at the Quad, could live in the Harvard houses, which are at the center of the undergraduate sense of community...