Word: pascale
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...self-doubting teen, a comic-book character who seems a lot like a comic-book reader. Forty years after Spider-Man's birth, Marvel is still selling four different monthly Spider-Man titles that together add up to about 500,000 copies. "Everybody identifies with him," says Amy Pascal, chairwoman of Sony's Columbia Pictures. "Lucky...
...could play 17 years old," says the director, "and if you think about the available actors, that knocks out about 90% of them." But the studio wasn't sold. "We made Tobey do a test because he's not the first person you think of," concedes Columbia chairman Amy Pascal. "He did a test, he took off his shirt, and then we all said...
...personally important to key French politicians and their constituents, most notably Roquefort cheese, produced in the Dordogne region. The tactic, Kantor says, "was productive." Fast-forward to the latest trade dispute between the U.S. and the European Union. In response to U.S. tariffs on steel imports, E.U. Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy said last month that he would target products manufactured in swing states that President Bush may need in order to win re-election. Orange juice from Florida and Harley-Davidson motorcycles from Wisconsin are reportedly on the list. But Kantor, now a Washington lawyer, isn't flattered...
...will apply only to imports beyond a certain quota and will be in effect for six months. Imports from developing countries will be exempt. "Unfounded, unnecessary and unfair U.S. action has forced us to take temporary steps to look after E.U. industry and E.U. workers," said trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy. E.U. officials said they feared a 15 million-ton surge in steel imports blocked by planned U.S. tariffs...
...steel imported by the U.S. in 2001 came from the E.U.; Japan, Korea and Russia were also hit by the tariffs.) Even British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who never met an American President he didn't like, howled at the "unacceptable and wrong" measures. European Union trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy resorted, as Europeans so often do when the Americans baffle them, to cowboy clichés. "The world steel market is not the Wild West where everyone can do as he pleases," he said. "There are rules...