Word: franco
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...also thought." West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, for example, may have to come out in the open in slowing down the movement toward a common E.C. currency, a goal heatedly opposed by Thatcher and Kohl's own Bundesbank. A new, more European-minded British Prime Minister might also complicate Franco-German relations by simply joining in the subtle games of balance of power within a European Community still adjusting to the enhanced status of a united Germany...
Miller, 67, focused on corporate finance. In a 1958 paper that Miller co- wrote with Franco Modigliani, the 1985 Economics laureate, the two men showed that the overall value of a company was based on the cash flow that the firm generated. As the overleveraged 1980s have painfully borne out, companies with poor cash flow tend to wind up in bankruptcy...
...They should stop giving us misleading figures," said Franco Modigliani, who won the Nobel in 1985 for his analysis of savings and financial markets. The government is on the whole no more inefficient than it was six years ago. These shotgun figures are just designed to mislead...
...worked initially in collaboration with 1985 economics prize-winner Franco Modigliani of the United States...
...visited Moscow in 1944, Stalin got very drunk and teased him by asking, "Are you going to arrest ((the French Communist leader Maurice)) Thorez?" Thorez was living in Moscow at the time, but he was planning to return to Paris after the defeat of the Germans. Stalin signed a Franco-Soviet treaty during De Gaulle's visit, but he didn't attach much importance to it. "When Thorez arrives on the scene," he told us, "then the real work starts." At that time the Communist Party in France was large and powerful enough to have real political influence. It also...