Word: rying
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While France's President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing was touring the U.S. last week, many Americans were reading his views on their country at 200 in a new TIME feature, inaugurated in last week's issue, called "Message to America." Giscard's message-which, among other things, is that the U.S. is seen as a land of "enterprise, initiative, movement" and "prodigious resiliency"-was the first in a series of letters written for TIME by foreign leaders that we plan to publish periodically as part of our Bicentennial observance. The series is intended...
Clearly, attempts to "purify" the language on either side of the Atlantic are doomed to failure-as even Valéry Giscard d'Estaing must know in his heart of hearts. A few days after signing the linguistic law, France's President was chatting to a group of journalists at the Elysée Palace. "Ce que je vais dire," he warned, "est off the record...
Outside the U.S., European women fare best. In France, for example, some 22% of lawyers are women; so are 18% of doctors, 40% of medical students and 90% of pharmacists. President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing has two women in his Cabinet: Simone Veil (Health) and Françoise Giroud (Women's Affairs). Divorce and abortion laws recently have been liberalized, as have been property rights, which until recently sharply discriminated against women. Many of the changes are more apparent than real. Career women are largely a Paris phenomenon; in the provinces, the laws have changed much faster than the customs...
...civic officials almost automatically join the jovial, do-gooding Rota ry Club, but in Davis, Calif...
French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, who is the chief promoter of the Paris conference, was almost equally antagonized by Wilson's attitude...