But the French can't sell much, you say, they signed the Washington Accord, that smart little stitch-up late last year when the World Gold Council persuaded the US Administration that American gold miners would sink if the European central banks flogged off gold left right and centre.
Top seed and world number one Lindsay Davenport is on Court Four wacking balls left, right and centre as she bids to get back in the zone before resuming her rain-affected semi-final tussle with the number three seed Amelie Mauresmo.
Cisco, which has bought or invested in 25 companies over the past three years, is expected to do another dozen deals this year. 3Com and Bay Networks, Cisco's main competitors, have also been buying companies left, right and centre.
But this was precisely the time she was being rubbished left, right and centre.
Besides this, the anti camp left, right and centre have two main objections to joining the single currency.
"For the past few weeks we've had applications flying through the door left, right and centre, " he added.
Now, a whole host of other competitors who failed to grab the crown are releasing records left, right and centre.
MEPs from centre-left, centre-right and the centre reliably favour action at the European level, a bigger EU budget, more public spending, more EU regulation and generally grabbing power from national governments and the commission.
Either in fear or in hope, many Greeks detect a breakdown of a political system, over a century old, in which two political groups (notionally of the centre-left and the centre-right, but both given to patronage and graft) progressively exhaust the national exchequer by outbidding each other.
The official German defence has three parts, broadly, and it unites the centre left and centre right wings of the coalition government.
The Think Long Committee for California, assembled by Nicolas Berggruen, a rich investor, and consisting of stalwarts from right, left and centre in Californian politics, differs from its ill-fated congressional equivalent.
The resonance of such tactics may embarrass French and German politicians, both on the centre-left and the centre-right, who have predicted that Muslims will soon be integrated as their fellow citizens get used to them, and as their ties with homelands like Turkey and Morocco weaken.
Mr Mitchell is due to meet Mr Netanyahu, who leads a right-leaning coalition combining the centre-right, centre-left and far-right parties.
The generals want a new national coalition to gather parties of the centre-right and the centre-left together, so enabling the postponement until 2000 of a general election.
Both the centre-left Labour party and the centre-right VVD party won a sufficient number of votes between themselves to rule with a majority in the lower houses of parliament.
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Silvio Berlusconi's PDL and Enrico Letta's PD may be the heirs to Christian Democracy and Marxist ideology, but as in many other European democracies, centre-right and centre-left social democrat party policies now tend to converge.
After all, the coalition, between her centre-right Christian Democrats and the centre-left Social Democrats, came about only because she and her party did unexpectedly badly in last September's election.
But, alone among Beneluxers, the balance between centre-right and centre-left still seems pretty even: consensus rules as ever.
The country's slow growth has persisted under governments of centre-right and centre-left.
They, and others, are motivated less by racism than by a belief that the established parties of Austria's centre-right and centre-left have been involved for too long in a corrupt carve-up of power and patronage.
He was quoted as saying that his movement would back the centre-right and centre-left blocs if they supported an immediate change in Italy's electoral law, the cancellation of repaying election expenses and a maximum of two terms for MPs.
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In return, he bowed to a plan stitched up between pan-European socialists and the European People's Party, the main conservative block in the EU, to give the council presidency to someone from the centre right and the foreign-policy job to the centre left.
They now find themselves, largely by accident since both had been written off as party leaders, at the head of their respective right-wing and left-of-centre groupings.
In other words, the Swedish left and right basically agree: and both are a lot more liberal than the (nominally centre-right) president of France.
Coalition talks have begun in Israel after near-complete general election results gave right-wing and centre-left blocs 60 seats each in parliament.
Right-wing and centre-left blocs won a roughly equal share of seats in Israel's Knesset (parliament) in the vote a week ago.
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In his seven-year term, Mr Scalfaro tapped six prime ministers, of whom only two, Silvio Berlusconi on the right and Mr Prodi on the centre-left, had actually won an election.
For now, the Pinochet affair has united Chile's right-wing parties and divided the centre-left.
Two opinion polls published on Saturday showed the anti-bailout left-wing Syriza bloc neck and neck with centre-right New Democracy, both on about 25%.
Worse was to follow when the free-kick was played to Cicinho down the right and his centre found Panucci, who was left free to glance the ball home.
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