Word: owners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...November, Debre-the dedicated Gaullist. major architect of the Fifth Republic's constitution, and the man who served a longer uninterrupted period as Premier (1,193 days) than any other in French parliamentary history-was ignominiously defeated in his own carefully cultivated rural constituency by a local garage owner...
Social Filter. L'Academie Maxim's was founded two and a half years ago by Maggie Vaudable, wife of the restaurant's present owner, to instruct a carefully selected group of girls in "the special sense of savoir-vivre that the French have prided themselves on since Louis XIV." Though the school claims to be open to all girls sufficiently familiar with the French language and culture to benefit from-not simply get along in-the all-French classes, in practice the students are recruited through a social filtering system that stretches through Europe...
Irritating Switch. Toyo Kogyo was only a small machine shop when Owner Jujiro Matsuda, inspired by the sight of delivery boys' three-wheeled bikes, decided in the early 1930s to make a three-wheeled truck. His inexpensive Mazda truck was a boon to small businessmen who had neither the money nor the volume to afford bigger, four-wheeled trucks. Toyo Kogyo switched to making rifles and airplane parts in World War II, escaped serious damage from Hiroshima's Abomb, which fell only three miles from its plant, because of freakish blast waves. The firm was too small...
Legal responsibility for maintaining these bridges lies with their owner, the Metropolitan District Commission. However, as 550 undergraduates park their cars in the B-School lot (bringing the University a monthly income of some $2,750), perhaps Buildings and Grounds could send someone over from time to time to sand down the path. And someone else might put a new bulb in the floodlight standing near Soldiers' Field Road...
...fines are not paid within 21 days of ticketing, and if the owner is apprehended and found guilty, a criminal conviction goes on his record," Brennan added. So far two Harvard students have been taken to city court and fined...