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...industry research and consulting firm. "'Healthy' is very subjective," says Michelle Barry, senior vice president for consumer trends at the Hartman Group, a health-market consulting and research firm. "Consumers talk about it differently depending on who they are and what they believe." Danone is sensitive to this. The French believe prunes help digestion, so Activia comes in prune flavor in France; the Chinese associate cucumbers with regularity, so in China it's cucumber-flavored. But Danone also insists its health claims are based on hard science. The company has founded 16 "Danone Institutes" to study nutrition. It filed...
...Kennedy’s speech so dramatic because it helped them convince their girlfriends that it was the last night on earth.” Sorensen’s dry humor was also directed at the present. He said Kennedy was willing to show American missile surveillance images to French President Charles de Gaulle, and contrasted this with the current president’s treatment of similar evidence of a threat in the run-up to the Iraq war. In an interview after the event, Sorensen urged Harvard students to rise up to the challenge of public service...
...government and its backers say they'll do whatever necessary to make France's overburdened, underfinanced pension system viable. Some observers worry that the polarizing split within French society that a drawn-out conflict would result in makes reaching compromise over pension reform critical...
...Many French people have adopted the traditional Gallic shrug toward striking public service workers who have left them stranded. "You can't blame them for protecting their perks. No want wants entitlements taken away," said university student Anne Gautier, 22, as she walked away from a crowded Metro station to walk to classes. But not all Parisians were pounding the pavement with the same sympathetic mood. "As usual, the ordinary worker being taken hostage by a minority of people who've decided they come first," complains an accountant who would only give her first name, Chantal. "I didn't strike...
...most significant of the two developments came as unions representing French public service workers fulfilled threats to bring transportation across the nation to a crawl on Thursday, with strikes protesting proposed tightening of pension schemes. The action forced millions of French commuters to drive, cycle, walk, or roller-blade to work as public transport systems in nearly 30 French cities were hit by strikes of varying severity. Such self-reliance wasn't an option for users of inter-city and cross-country train service: state rail company SNCF canceled a whopping 95% of scheduled traffic, and remains the most vulnerable...