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...identical fashion twice before in the past decade. Huge protests confronted the government's attempt to overhaul pensions in the mid-1990s, and they broke out again when it tried to shake up the Finance Ministry in 2000. In both cases, the government also backed off, with serious consequences. The 1996 climbdown by then Prime Minister Alain Juppé helped bring a socialist government to power the following year; in the 2000 debacle it was Finance Minister Christian Sautter who lost his job. But here's the twist: years later, both sets of reforms have happened anyway. The national pension...
...construction rates in all sectors across France from around 50,000 units completed annually over the past decade to over 80,000 now. "When people see monstrosities like these coming down in a really big urban reform, requiring lots of funding and commitment, they say, 'Wow, this is serious,'" Genestier says, pointing to one of central Epinay's monolithic towers. "In Epinay, things are serious." That's true in plenty of other places in France where reform has taken hold. A good job, too; France needs to be serious about changing its old habits of social policy. But will change...
...colleagues. "It nearly drove me mad." One medication was discontinued by a physician's order on the first day of admission and yet was brought by a nurse every single evening for 14 days straight. "No day passed--not one--without a medication error," Berwick remembers. "Most weren't serious, but they scared us." Drugs that failed to help during one hospital admission were presented as a fresh, hopeful idea the next time. If that could happen to a doctor's wife in a top hospital, he says, "I wonder more than ever what the average must be like...
...Baghdad, estimates from anecdotal evidence that more than 2,000 Iraqi women have gone missing in that period. A Western official in Baghdad who monitors the status of women in Iraq thinks that figure may be inflated but admits that sex trafficking, virtually nonexistent under Saddam, has become a serious issue. The collapse of law and order and the absence of a stable government have allowed criminal gangs, alongside terrorists, to run amuck. Meanwhile, some aid workers say, bureaucrats in the ministries have either paralyzed with red tape or frozen the assets of charities that might have provided refuge...
...This is a product for people who really consume luxury very exclusively," says Pinault, referring to what luxury gurus now call the "über-premium" market. "There are very few brands in this segment of the market, and those that exist are traditional and serious. What Tomas has done is bring a very innovative and avant-garde vision to this brand's history of craftsmanship...