Word: rying
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...decision to produce a neutron weapon, and has confirmed that France will continue to study the development of its own. On Poland, on Afghanistan, on the nature of the Soviet threat, Mitterrand has staked out positions more reassuring to Washington than those of former President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. He will be "vigilant," Mitterrand promised at his first press conference, to ensure that "by 1985 the Soviet Union and its allies do not have the means to allow them, in the space of a few instants, to dominate the world...
...interests of state must supersede any personal feelings. Whether as friends or adversaries they approach each other with heavy manipulative intentions. They want from each other. They are wary. Jerry Ford may have transcended this kind of calculation, and was a true friend of France's Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and Canada's Pierre Trudeau. Honest and decent, Ford was special in his time, spared through Watergate the terrible ordeal of climbing to power and so spared the rituals of political calculation that can twist a man's nature...
...sooner had he moved into the Elysée Palace than he set about reflating the economy to fight France's record 7.7% unemployment. True to his campaign promises, he reversed predecessor Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's cautious policy by introducing a budget calling for 27% higher public spending and a $17 billion deficit. He made good on a longstanding pledge to take over private banks and key industries. He increased welfare benefits to families, the aged and the handicapped. But last week President François Mitterrand was forced to administer a dose...
...lowered from 65 to 60, the work week will gradually be shortened to 35 hours, and companies taking on more labor will be subsidized. The cost: $6.5 billion in new taxes and a $17 billion deficit that France, ironically, can afford next year because former President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing left a full kitty...
Torn between former President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and his rival, Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac, the opposition is too fragmented to put up much of a fight when the issue comes up in Parliament this month. So far, the vacuum has been filled only by former Premier Raymond Barre, whose ponderous oratory and demeanor symbolized economic discipline during the Giscard years. "The nationalizations are a source of uncertainty for our enterprises and a brake on investment and exports," he scolded. "This experience is going to show that nationalized businesses are costlier than private ones...