Word: brun
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...consultation with a doctor. Doubts have been voiced - even within the government - over whether these measures will be enough to put France's health-care accounts back in order. If the surgeons get their higher fees, the equation looks even more questionable. But veteran physicians such as Jean-Gabriel Brun, 57, a thoracic surgeon in Paris, say exploding malpractice-insurance costs, paltry fees and 60-hour workweeks are putting his profession on the endangered species list. He says he earns about €140,000 a year, but drives a Volkswagen Golf and has trouble making ends meet...
...after fissures appeared - and even that failed to prevent the audible cracking and widespread leaks that preceded the cave-in. Cracking elsewhere in the departure structure was heard after the collapse, forcing administrators to close the entire building. Even in the best of cases, says CDG director René Brun, 2E will remained closed for "months, even a year." The crash has even further-reaching business ripples. For years, ADP has sold consulting, engineering, and management services to airports abroad that want to improve or extend their infrastructure. Its acclaimed work in new airport construction in Asia, the Middle East...
...paying for the others who got off," says Nathalie Artaud, 29, an Internet project manager for a Paris ad agency. "Still, courts have to begin enforcing the law with politicians one day, and if it has to start with Juppé, so be it." Paris graduate student Thomas Brun agrees: "The sentence is tough, but not necessarily unfair. The court apparently wanted to set a precedent. Perhaps this is how it will be from now on." Like the man himself, the Juppé case is exceptional - and central to the future of French conservatives. Juppé's loyalty to Chirac...