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...probably not all that fair to employers, but it's become the rule," Guichard acknowledges. Meanwhile, with the Paris stock market booming and France's leading companies posting enviable profits, Guichard feels little sympathy for bosses complaining that pont weekends are picking their pockets. "How can companies complain too much about a few days lost to ponts when most in France are more profitable than ever...
...begin with the Victory Day celebration on May 8 will now extend itself all the way to the following Tuesday morning. French lovers of such five-day "viaduct" weekends had better savor this one, however: in 2009 all May holidays fall on either a Friday or Monday - making even "pont" construction impossible. And in 2010 and 2011, they'll on turn up on weekends, redefining May as the cruelest month, not for bosses, but for their staff...
...speed and manner of driving of the following vehicles [and] the impairment of the judgment of the driver of the Mercedes through alcohol." And all eleven believed that the fact that Diana and Dodi weren't wearing seat belts and that the Mercedes hit a pillar in the Pont d'Alma tunnel, instead of a larger surface that might have lessened the impact, were major factors in the deaths. Just as Baker directed, the jury delivered exactly the same verdict for both Diana and Dodi...
...particularly egregious act of art criticism (or, more likely, drunken vandalism), someone broke into Paris' Musée d'Orsay Oct. 7 and punched a hole in Claude Monet's Le pont d'Argenteuil. Here's how one expert recommends fixing the 4-in. (10 cm) tear...
...That journey began at the swank Ritz Hotel on the Place Vendome, and continued to the Place de la Concorde and the unscheduled rendezvous with the press pack waiting to pounce. The jurors were then driven by bus down the long, straight expressway that eventually dips underground at the Pont d'Alma - the tunnel where Diana's car struck a pillar that killed both her and al-Fayed. After reexamining the tunnel in darkness Monday night, the group was set on Tuesday to then visit the hospital where Diana was pronounced dead...