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...clear that even if all goes according to plan, the sort of carefree dishing out of credit that marked the financial sector - and which both underlay the banking crisis and helped to propel Europe's economies - is history. "There won't be a return," says Jean-Marc Franceschi, a banking specialist at law firm Hogan & Hartson in Paris. "It will never be like it was before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy's Perilous Waters | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

Despite what Isbister seems to think, Mother Teresa was working toward population control. Her only condition was that it had to be done within the tenets of the Roman Catholic Church. VIRGINIA A. FRANCESCHI Berwyn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 27, 1997 | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

When Congress enacted the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act in 1970, federal prosecutors used it to attack organized crime. But Seal Beach, Calif., attorney Ernest J. Franceschi Jr. is suing the city of Huntington Beach, Calif., under the RICO statute for operating what he claims is an illegal speed trap. Franceschi charges that the city can't produce proof of a traffic-engineering survey justifying the use of radar on a busy stretch of road. He also says police have handed out about 100 tickets a day amounting to $20 million in fines over 10 years, and his class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Traffic: Now, a Real Fuzzbuster! | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

...trap charge. If the class-action lawsuit is successful, the city will have to cough up the cash and the state will have to subtract at least one moving violation from the records of every driver nabbed along that stretch of the highway. "What can I tell you?" says Franceschi. "They got me three times in two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Traffic: Now, a Real Fuzzbuster! | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

...have been troubled by the disturbing blank area at the right of the painting. Placing it under X ray, the London institute discovered a long-suspected third figure, a man younger than the others. Experts have guessed that Titian's first friend was Venetian Grand Chancellor Andrea dei Franceschi, but Friend No. 2, and the reasons why he was brushed out, are unknown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: SECRETS BELOW THE SURFACE | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

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