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...them in return. Increased productivity anticipated by limbering up the work week should bring salary increases in order to boost French purchasing power. "Ever since the introduction of the 35-hour week, we've heard discussion about purchasing power, not about salaries," Sarkozy said - rebuffing the business leaders' frequent retort that purchasing power is mostly an old union chestnut to justify demands for pay hikes. "Explaining there's no problem of purchasing power in France is trying to pull the public's leg... I expect you to negotiate on salaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sarkozy Dazzles, But Can He Deliver? | 8/31/2007 | See Source »

...made something of a joke out of the many humorous (a man apparently caught mid-sneeze), bizarre (the ghost of E.T.?) and lewd (a woman's underwear poking out of her low-riding jeans) images captured by the web giant, privacy concerns have led many watchdog groups to quickly retort that Street View is no laughing matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Google Maps: An Invasion of Privacy? | 6/12/2007 | See Source »

...gonna do that. It's not helpful to me to get my message and my vision out. Now, you can't let an attack go unanswered, but at the same time you don't have to get into some kind of catfight." Asked specifically about his staffer's retort to Obama, he said, "I thought that that was inappropriate and whoever said that should not have said that." He added: "If it happens again, I'll fire the person who said it." When reminded that he laughed at the line when it was read back to him during a conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McCain Hangs Tough on Immigration | 6/4/2007 | See Source »

More than anyone else in comedy since vaudeville died, Rogen is a protégé. Sure, he had been writing scripts with Goldberg after school, and his mom drove him to stand-up gigs at Yuk Yuk's (his retort to hecklers: "I'm 13. In 30 years, I'll be 43. You'll be dead"). He had even been paid by a mohel to write jokes. But ever since he dropped out of high school, Rogen has studied exclusively under Apatow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Education of A Comic Prodigy | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

...surprised to find the dis, “You’re a slave, I’m a white girl, don’t look at me,” as freestyled by Darryl W. Finkton ’10 in any book checked out from Widener. Its retort, “On your face I might be forced to pee… like R. Kelly” by Malcolm R. Rivers ’09 would also probably not please an Expos preceptor. Tensions ran high when Ben “Bennie Els” Lobardo, a Northeastern...

Author: By Charles J. Wells, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Scene and Heard: Ticknor Throw-Down | 4/27/2007 | See Source »

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