Word: touton
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...American consumer. Ernest-Antoine Seillière, president of the French employers' association medef, suggested last week that businesses shouldn't pay the price for politics. "Send telegrams to our consulates," he counseled angry American consumers. "But don't attack our perfumes, our yogurts and our airplanes." Guillaume Touton, a French-born wine importer in New York, has gone a step further: direct payments to the Pentagon. Or close to it. A $1 contribution will go toward care packages for American troops in Iraq for every case of French wine he sells, each emblazoned with a sign: "By purchasing this...
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