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...increased government spending and successive devaluations of the franc. Fellow Socialists have groaned about his stringent austerity program, designed to bring the soaring foreign trade deficit under control and to curb France's 8.5% inflation. Students, shopkeepers and even policemen took to the streets last spring to vent their displeasure with the policies of his two-year-old government. His approval rating has plunged from 50% to 35% in the past year. Last week the President endured another barrage of criticism, this time self-inflicted...
...watching porn tapes, the next she is trying to catch falling snowflakes on her tongue. Michael Leeson, who wrote scripts for the TV series Taxi, uses that show's mixture of urban gallantry and paranoia in his first feature. He has given Williams his best chance to vent his singular, hysterical style in a movie and provided Matthau, stooped and shuffling under the burden of his sanity, with his richest part in years. The film's moral is spoken by Donald's fiancée. Eyeing the arsenal that Donald thinks he needs to walk tall...
...other officers managed to drag the gravely wounded Matthews out, then opened fire on the house. The house went up in flames after a smoke bomb was thrown down an air vent. Thousands of rounds of ammunition, apparently stored inside, exploded. Said State Trooper Charles Harper: "We just pulled back and waited three and a half hours until it cooled down. It was raining hard, and lightning was striking all around. We didn't know which would get us first, the lightning or the bullets...
...graduating seniors at Northwestern University, the small room tucked away in one of the administration buildings has been a popular spot on campus. There, twice a week, a group of students known as the job club gathers to swap leads, vent frustrations and talk of how to get someone to hire them in this year's tight job market. They even practice the art of shaking the hand of a recruiter in a convincing way. "I'm confused," says Margaret Berger, an English major who cannot find a job in her chosen field of communications. "I always thought...
...when Byrnes and LaCombe took their two-minute leaves from the ice, it was the break Harvard had been waiting for. Olson and company finally got to vent their frustration, and, four minutes later, the Crimson had a two-goal lead, and home ice for the NCAAs...