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Severe Handicap. Partly as a result of this campaign, French is now the main language of a record 180 million people, far more than the 100 million that most U.N. agencies reckon as the minimum for a bona fide "working language." And while the British Commonwealth recedes, ties between France and other French-speaking areas-including the former colonies, particularly in Africa, and also Quebec-continue to grow stronger...
...policy of quitting the war, and he can increase troop withdrawals as political pressures rise within the U.S. He will announce more reductions of the Viet Nam garrison in April, which may draw some of the poison out of planned antiwar demonstrations this spring. He must, however, reckon with the fact that if he sets out to disarm his critics at home, the result may be to undermine the morale of the South Vietnamese and weaken Thieu before his test in South Viet Nam's presidential elections in October...
...started with several hats and "one dress, but a tasteful dress." added sweaters, and within five years had made Maison Chanel a fashion house to reckon with. Coco introduced the tricot sailor frock and the pullover sweater, unearthed wool jersey from its longtime service as underwear fabric and put it to use in soft, clinging dresses. She ushered in gypsy skirts, embroidered silk blouses and accompanying shawls. Even then, Chanel clothes were as high-priced as any Paris couturier's; but only Chanel delighted in having her styles copied -and made accessible at low cost to millions...
...more than one occasion. Once he escaped by hastily loading 25 geese onto an abandoned railway flatcar and pumping it down the tracks to safety. Other times he resorted to force, and as the middleweight boxing champion of Lincolnshire in his youth, he was a mean man to reckon with. Once when a warden caught him by surprise, Thorpe scored an easy K.O. with three straight lefts to the jaw−and landed in jail for three straight months for assault...
...reckon all time in the future from the day of the man-child's death...