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Commerce is the driving force. The ads in Italy's Corriere della Sera for just one day included the words personnel, administrator, quality audit, contract manager and know-how. Germans routinely refer to their employer as der Boss, who is expected to be a good Manager. "American English is definitely the model, not English--this is what we see looking through French advertising," says Micheline Faure, organizing secretary of a Paris group called AGULF, which was formed to resist the linguistic invasion. Japanese ads, posters and shopping bags are full of a special kind of American English, often starting with...
More than ever, the market economy has been in vogue since President Francois Mitterrand's Socialists narrowly lost the national elections last March. Under a complex power-sharing arrangement that the French refer to as cohabitation, Mitterrand has taken the lead in foreign policy while the newly appointed conservative Premier Jacques Chirac has had the greatest influence on domestic matters. The dynamic Chirac wasted no time in launching a sweeping reform of the French economy, which has been slow to join the current recovery in Western Europe...
...marine litter with six-pack yokes, picnic utensils, sandwich bags and Styrofoam cups. Cities and industries discharging waste directly into the water or dumping it at sea are also to blame. On some East Coast beaches near sewage outlets, so many plastic tampon inserters have washed ashore that residents refer to them as "beach whistles...
Understanding means helping persons clarify their view of themselves and what is truly important in life. To achieve such understanding I don't find it accurate or worthwhile to speak or refer to someone as "a homosexual" as if this were the core of their identity. I'm not talking about denying their orientation but of enabling them to accept and deal positively with their sexuality (which is more than feelings and attractions) in the context of their whole identity as persons. This is not easy in a society and a university subculture which often equates emotions and attractions with...
Demographers somewhat inelegantly refer to the Baby Boom generation as "the pig in the python," a moving bulge that distorts and distends everything around it as it rumbles through the stages of life. Locked together in a crowded race, many Boomers have learned to use their elbows. The most outspoken members retain a kind of generational arrogance epitomized by Stockman's egregious assertion in his newly published memoirs (The Triumph of Politics; Harper & Row) that the so-called Reagan Revolution was in fact not Reagan's: "It was mine...