Word: val
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...pleasure. The penalty for being caught with more: confiscation of the money plus a maximum fine of five times that amount. Complicating matters, personal credit cards issued in France may no longer be used abroad. Said Jean-François Deniau, who was Foreign Trade Minister under former President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing: "We are condemned to spend our vacations in the countryside with Grandmother." Particularly ironic was the fact that shortly after his election, Mitterrand fulfilled a campaign promise by adding a fifth week of vacation...
...spending, they included a $285 limit on the amount of currency Frenchmen will be allowed to take abroad and a 1% income tax surcharge to help cover the $1.9 billion social security deficit. To many experts, the emphasis on "rigor" was strangely reminiscent of the policies of former President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and his Premier, Raymond Barre, an approach that Mitterrand had harshly criticized during the 1981 presidential campaign...
Slab Boys is drawing an uncustomary Broadway audience, many in leather jackets and punk haircuts, perhaps because the cast features leading exponents of baby-faced macho: Kevin Bacon (Fenwick in the movie Diner), Sean Penn (Fast Times at Ridgemont High), Jackie Earle Haley (Breaking Away) and Val Kilmer...
...oiled political machine running so smoothly, Chirac, 50, also boosted his chances of becoming the opposition's leading candidate in the 1988 presidential elections. Appearing before his supporters on election night, Chirac triumphantly declared, "The majority of Frenchmen have served an unequivocal warning to the government." Former President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, who campaigned for the center-right, though he was not a candidate himself, said the next day, "France is breathing easier this morning...
...What better place to reach maturity than on a spaceship traveling for lightyears? With the help of a couple of Mafia gunsels and a casino owner named Dashiel Gropius, the "futfic" author assumes command of the spaceship as it blasts into the galactic void. In the infinity that awaits, Val will be a "being warm, wayward, imperfect, adaptable...