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...result: a two-tiered system that runs counter to the utopian ideals of most health-care reformers. That's inevitable, says Dr. Roger Rua, secretary general of Syndicat des Médecins Libéraux, a union representing private practitioners. "Anywhere you've got a degree of socialization in a nation's health-care system, you'll eventually find people who feel they aren't finding what they want within it and decide to opt out," he says. "This is particularly true when systems begin having trouble financing themselves, and start cutting back on services...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health Lessons from Europe | 6/1/2009 | See Source »

...400 million bottles. With a steadily increasing demand, winemakers have asked French regulators to commit what would once have been considered heresy: to redefine or even expand the boundaries of Champagne. The beverage, after all, gets some of its character from its chalky terroir and rough climate. Yet the Syndicat Général des Vignerons de la Champagne, the grape-growers union, argues that an expansion would simply be a return to Champagne's origins. When the region was first defined in 1927, it included 128,500 acres (52,000 hectares), but that area was shrunk after World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time to Hoard the Bubbly? | 11/8/2007 | See Source »

...membres du Syndicat Libre des travailleurs de Roumanie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Repression in Romania | 11/29/1979 | See Source »

Many younger Europeans who never heard Walter Hallstein's heady talk of "building a United States of Europe" are savage about the Market. They regard it as little more than a club for big privileged corporations, a "syndicat des riches," as one of them put it. To Parisienne Janine Thiers, 38, who is an administrator in the ORTF, the French radio-TV colossus, the EEC "is an act of égoïsme for the economic elites of Europe, born at a time when they were scared to death of Communism. This is why it will never amount...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Two Votes That Could Change the World | 11/1/1971 | See Source »

...more crucial was the problem that no one could agree what to do next. The minos at l'UNEF, who had become the majos during the war, adopted a "ligne universitaire," their long-awaited dream of making l'UNEF into a student syndicat which would defend student interests through strikes, demonstrations, and occupations of classrooms. Despite consistent attempts at sabotage by the former majos the ligne universitaire initially caught the imagination of the students. But after its aborted attempt to prevent the Sorbonne visit of Prime Minister Segni of Italy, l'UNEF steadily dechned in influence. With 100,000 memoers...

Author: By Franklin D. Chu, | Title: French Student Protest: Losing the Romanticism Amidst the Chaos | 9/29/1969 | See Source »

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