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We're not merging these companies against France Telecom.

Why shouldn't America, and American children, have the same level of protection that kids do in France and Germany and Poland and Russia and Armenia and Ireland and Norway and a host of other countries?

The Paris store Colette is successful because it's a filter for things that are made elsewhere. It's the kind of store France needs.

We've improved relations with Germany, France and the United States, and we have a better deal from the EU.

While I'm absolutely enjoying my time as a retired athlete with Sheryl and the kids, the recent smear campaign out of France has awoken my competitive side. I'm not willing to put a percentage on the chances, but I will no longer rule it out.

We will have to smother them for the entire match. They put a lot of width into their game. We will have to manage two halves of what we did last year at the Stade de France for one half.

We will have the privilege of receiving the president of France in the early part of next year. India and France enjoy a strategic partnership. We have been cooperating with each other in the international fora on a range of issues.

We had specific information that needed to be acted upon relative to the Air France flights.

We are expecting PSA to beat their forecasts and to reaffirm fairly upbeat guidance for 2003. Their key markets of Britain and France are holding up well and their market share is reasonably healthy.

We are expecting a lot and so is the team. First tests in December in Sweden and France showed us that these expectations are well reasoned. All new Focus is not only fast but incredibly reliable after such a short development.

But Russia are strong with or without Safin, they beat France without him in the quarterfinals and Davydenko has been playing unbelievably this year.

But one thing he didn't address, having raised in his speech the suggestion that politics in France had to change, he didn't have anything to suggest how the political system should change,

We've had a tendency to hit a couple of flat spots in the games against England and Italy, ... We've got away with it so far, but against a side like France we could be in trouble.

Tonight, France has reaffirmed its attachment to values of the Republic.

The recent smear campaign out of France has awoken my competitive side.

Two European nations emerged with credit from the Iraq disaster: France and Germany. Both had the courage to withstand the Bush administration and oppose the U.S.-led invasion.

Two-billion guests means two-billion lifetime memories that have been made and shared with friends and families at Disney Parks around the world. A visit to a Disney theme park, whether in California, Florida, Japan, France or China, remains a vibrant and universally embraced experience passed from generation to generation.

When a garment is in sync with your body and its proportions, it looks and feels amazing, and in France that is something that all women know from a young age.

We missed out on the joy we are feeling now in France 98, but we are living it now and it is such a pleasure for every Brazilian.

We will shortly be selecting the 26 players for the U21 World Cup being staged in France in June and these changes are made with the aim of seeing what sort of strength in depth we have.

This simply confirms what we knew from the numbers from France and Germany already, that inflation is certainly on the rise.

War may never be considered unavoidable. ... Everything must be done to achieve the implementation of the (U.N.) resolution by peaceful means. That is the common position of France and Germany and we will not be diverted from it,

We wanted him to know of the problem being faced by our Sikh brethren in France over the turban issue. We want him to take up the issue with the French.

Both defenses and goalkeepers had outstanding matches. It's very difficult to play against such tight numbers and tight space, but I am very happy with our team. It's part of our development to learn how to play in this environment and learn how to break down teams even when it's very difficult like it was with France today.

Brazil wouldn't appoint a foreign coach, Germany wouldn't, Italy wouldn't, Spain wouldn't and neither would France or Holland, so why should we?

Between us, France and Britain will commit a majority of the troops that are currently committed to that (NATO) force, ... We are both clear we are only going to supply our troops ... if there is a cease-fire and a demilitarization on both sides.

Every time France doesn't win a football game it is a surprise. I think they (Croatia) played very, very well and it will be a tough game on Monday for us.

Everything favors the situating of high-technology operations in France and Europe, ... I'm counting on you.

Everything bad about France was transferred to Quebec.

As things stand, France therefore cannot support the commission in the agriculture proposals it has made,

At the beginning of the tournament we didn't think we would win the trophy. But we worked a lot but we are bringing the trophy to France and I am very proud of my players.

Commitments have been made and France will live up to them.

Countries like France and Germany just aren't ready for any further expansion of the EU from an economic point of view. The negotiations with Turkey basically have to be forgotten about for the next five or six years.

Cooking in France and Italy has a particular high resonance, and it's hard to say how or why it developed other than that they've been smarter and there longer.

convinced that Germany was committed to seeing through its modernizing policies, and that the friendship between Germany and France remained the indispensable motor of European construction.

And yet, despite its military defeat, the loss of its North American possessions, and the destruction of most of its navy, France survived defeat and rapidly recovered.

England gave us a very difficult match and at halftime I told the players we had a big job to do. France started the second half well but I have to say that penalty save from Fabien boosted us. That was a big psychological blow in our favor.

England and France are blocking it but they follow the flawed soccer model.

Eric Manly, a senior captain, was in France for a school trip.

Even if some have written occasionally about the motor stuttering, the last really historical steps that Europe has taken show that this relationship between Germany and France is in an extremely good state,

During the last three years, Schroeder has revived Germany's close relations with France in ways that damaged ties with the United States, the UK and the countries of central and Eastern Europe.

There's relief around the industry that the final 3G auction is over, ... The next sale of licenses is in France next year and that has been factored into company spending because it's a fixed-fee beauty contest.

There's something about the air and the sky and the atmosphere in the South of France that must be very conducive to work, to being creative, because I have written several of my books there. I find it so much easier because you're cut off. If you don't want to speak to anybody, basically they don't know where you are. And it's so beautiful.

The Tour de France would make a great movie. Drugs, corruption, political chicanery, guys risking their lives - everything you need for a great sports drama.

The Tour de France is not the only bike race in the world, but it is the biggest, so the possibility could still exist to do a Tour of Italy, a Tour of Spain.

Is France a completely open market to G.E.? No, of course not. I think we're more discerning about China because it's China, and they're big, and they're more concerning. But the best global companies are ones that are nuanced.

I've been targeting this game for Matt. It's a horses-for-courses selection. He's got great experience and an ability to control the forwards. Against France we've got to be right in their faces. They have a powerful pack that can be dominant if you let them play. If you let your concentration drop, or miss one-on-one tackles, they can carve you up. So we've got to be astute and squeeze the life from them. We've got to stop the band playing and get the crowd whistling.

I've been managed well by Wasps and by England, so I'm in good shape, fresh in body and mind. There can be no excuses for me. I've just kept on trying to use every little opportunity to put my case forward. I've worked hard, kept my head down and this has come as a pleasant surprise. It's going to take a monumental effort to win in Paris. You never know what you're going to get. It's the uncertainty. We've got to go there with the mentality that France are going to play the best game of their lives. That's the only way to ensure that your head is right.

The worst is behind us, ... France is absolutely not in recession.

The riots in France will have impacted confidence over Europe and we're also seeing key technical levels being broken, pushing the euro lower.

The scenes have been pinpointed to within a 24-km radius of where Hitler was stationed in France during the war. He wasn't a great artist but the interest is the man rather than the paintings.

I've told my wife that if the Hispanic population in NASCAR keeps growing, I'm going to ask Bill France Jr. for a job.

I've never really been comfortable (enough) with hamstrings to even comment. Every one of them is them, especially when you are talking about your kicker. So, we'll keep Todd France on the roster, and we feel very, very comfortable with him going into Carolina.

I've never played 100 percent fit with the France team. My game depends a lot on my fitness. My self-confidence is now getting better.

Ive not spoken to the manager for a while now, but I watched Wednesdays game against France in a pub, and I was willing them on. It would be nice if I got a call, although I wont be expecting it.

These examples should encourage other countries, such as Greece, France and Portugal, to pursue the efforts to bring their public finances in order.

The secretary-general warmly welcomes the adoption by the parliament of France of a levy on airline tickets issued locally that will benefit the health sector of developing countries.

The second quarter was stronger in France and Germany, ... The UK is not as stabilized or as strong.

The Smart plant in France is more a liability than an asset. It's clearly the wrong place to be making that car.

I wanted to have an international career, which I have, and be free to work with whoever I wanted to work with. My instinct was to go back to France afterwards. I went to do a small film, then I went back and forth.

I wanted to confront someone with something he had done as a child. That was the general idea, guilt and consequences. Then I wanted to make a film with Daniel Auteuil. And the third thing, I saw a documentary about the 1961 massacre. I was stunned that in a country like France it could be buried for so long.

Telecoms and tech stocks (also) still get hit by France Telecom's sales warning.

Temperatures throughout Northwest Europe have dipped below normal. Temperatures in England, northern France and Germany will be 4 to 10 degrees below normal on Friday and through the weekend. The cold looks set to continue further out as well.

Sometimes, sport is just plain pleasing to the eye, like watching La Belle France flit by on television during the Tour de France. I can do that for hours.

Right now, the farthest a manager in France can go, for example, is to head the local factory.

Adding to the sense of foreboding is the fact that the locomotives behind the better-than-expected third-quarter GDP figures -- Germany, France and Italy -- all appear to have run out of steam toward year end.

So we had a couple of long conversations in France and once I thought this script was in pretty good shape, I sent it to her. I knew I wanted Glenn from the beginning. In fact, I had tried to gear the character towards her. Glenn is a single mom who lives in New York and does theater and film. She's a very strong, intelligent person in the way that Diana (her character) is, so I think she made herself very vulnerable to play this part.

Compared to France and Britain, there is still a certain gap ... but I believe that this gap is getting smaller.

Companies that may have planned to create jobs here are not going to do it. If companies don't feel France is going to be reformed, companies are going to go where the labor market is more flexible.

Any German chancellor has to have close relations with France, ... Merkel will have a close relationship with France as well.

As far as Germany and France are concerned, really, this was a regrettable position they had, ... I don't think the Iraqis are going to forget easily that in the hour of need, those countries wanted to neglect Iraq.

The bottom line is that France seems to have run through a metamorphosis from a euro-zone driver to a growth laggard. Those who revised up their euro zone GDP growth outlook for this year on the back of strong German survey data might now be forced to take the much less upbeat French growth picture also into account.

The British CAA was in complete agreement with our decision to resume Concorde's services shortly after the Air France crash,

The British CAA (Civil Aviation Authority) was in complete agreement with our decision to resume Concorde's services shortly after the Air France crash.

The British are definitely comparing notes on Moroccan cells across Europe, in Italy, France and the UK. The current thinking is that the people who did this may have trained in the same camps as the people who committed the Madrid bombings. The techniques are very similar.

You only have to look back at 1935. There were people then who were against France arming itself, and look what happened.

This is disastrous news for British manufacturing. It is inconceivable that workers in France would be laid off on this scale.

This is a new area of growth in terms of the market. It's not only in Thailand but in the region as a whole. France wants to see Thailand as a stepping ground to expand economic interests in the region.

This is not about ritual, it about a deep conviction that a strong relationship between Germany and France is both necessary and beneficial to Europe,

The Unites States wants regime change. France doesn't want to see the regime fall for fear of chaos or civil war, and the Brits are not sure because they don't know what will follow.

This dreadful disaster plunges all of France into mourning,

This dreadful catastrophe plunges all of France into mourning, ... all the consequences can be drawn.

This dreadful catastrophe plunges all France into mourning,

This album was really my way to say thank you to France for having opened its arms and adopted me, calling me one of their own.

Thirty-one of 31. The last time I checked, that's pretty good. I think, too, having been in Europe, getting accustomed to a new holder is a process in itself. . . . And France is on a roll right now. These aren't just extra points. Some of these are bombs from 44-, 48-, 50-yard area. He's been good from all the hashes.

This is a France that wins and is, for once, united in victory, ... symbol of the diversity and of the unity of the country.

They're the greatest thing about it really. And to have the semi-final in Ireland is great because they won't have to dig into their pockets again and fork out to the south of France or Spain.

They are full of world-class players and also impressed in the Confederations Cup. But in 2002 I said France and Argentina were my favorites, and both went home after the group stages.

This may sound melodramatic but I have never, ever worked so hard. The film will be released in a different country every week for the next six weeks. I've just come back from Germany, France and Sweden to be in LA for the nominations and to speak to the American press.

There is no way I could go to France and get a fair shake on the roads, in doping control or in the labs, ... There's no way I could go back there. I would be crazy.

There probably will be only tentative reforms in France now, if any at all, until the 2007 election. And whatever government emerges in Italy, it looks as if it will lack the broad mandate needed to implement necessary changes. Germany is definitely ahead of them at least with part of the reforms.

This is the trial of a man, but it is also that of a system and a regime. France must look its past in the face,

This is a very serious competition. If present trends continue, India and Pakistan could very well have greater nuclear capabilities than France and Great Britain, looking down the road.

They play the ball up quickly to the strikers, and are very solid, ... It's important to get a good result in France as it's very hard to win over there (in Ireland).

They're now stuck in France somewhere. They were last tracked to Lyon.

There's certainly blasphemy in the play. Genet plays with the notion of blasphemy a lot; that's one of the reasons France banned it.

At last came Malherbe, and made verse run smoothly - the first in France to do so.

All my life I have thought of France in a certain way.

I try to come to Asia twice a year. I also go to Europe - to London as well as to France to see my family - four or five times a year.

It wasn't very long ago that France and Germany had ROEs of 2 percent, and now they're both in the double digits.