Word: ry
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Socialist heaven, meanwhile, the cherubs are busily filling out their income tax returns when two horned devils from Hades, former President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac, try to seize power. But in the finale the good Lord Mitterrand in gilded pajamas-aided by winged archangels in silver-lamé union suits-repulses the celestial coup attempt by beating back the interlopers with long-stemmed Socialist roses...
FRANCE. For its size, France has the most ambitious nuclear industry of any nation. It has 32 functioning reactors and is building 27 more. During the heyday of the French nuclear drive under President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in the late 1970s, construction started on four or five reactors a year...
...Socialists at least could take some consolation from the continuing division among the three leading opposition figures. Former President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, a conservative centrist, was sagging in the popular-opinion sweepstakes (with 8%). Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac, a neo-Gaullist, was still in the lead but slipping (with 37%). Only former Finance Minister Raymond Barre, a champion of austerity himself, seemed to be gaining in popularity (up 5% in the past month, to 20%). For Mitterrand, who is waiting for the fruits of austerity to help the Socialists in parliamentary elections two years from...
Boston mayoral candidate Mel King made a surprise visit to the dedication ceremonies and received a standing ovation. King joined school children and the assembly in singing such songs as "We Shall Overcome" and "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing...
...vict'ry today...