Last week the European Commission gave the provisional go-ahead for Mittal Steel to buy French rival Arcelor in a hostile acquisition.
When you buy a French wine labeled Chablis, you are always getting a pure chardonnay wine made in Chablis, period.
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Elsewhere in economic news, consumer spending in France rose by a higher-than-expected 2.1% last December, but the numbers appeared to be boosted by the rush among the French to buy cars ahead of the government's planned phaseout of its car-scrapping scheme this month.
This is not radically different from France, where the government offers everyone basic public coverage, of course--but a whopping 90% of the French also buy supplemental private insurance to help pay for the 20% to 40% of their tab that the public plan doesn't cover.
The French bank agreed to buy the prime-brokerage unit of Bank of America, which is pruning its investment-banking activities.
"If they didn't buy increased levels of German or French debt, the yuan is likely to appreciate faster than otherwise, " said Randolph.
Ip became eligible to buy a tabac when he became a French citizen at the age of 18.
But the government has yet to decide on which aircraft to buy after receiving bids from British, French and Czech companies.
"It's hard to sit there and watch people eat McDonald's french fries and not go buy your own, " says Ted Lezotte, a McDonald's franchisee in northern Michigan who owns four restaurants.
Fishman had his eye on the French market, and offered to buy tiny Sodexho.
But debt still figures on balance sheets, and who (certainly not the French government) would lend to buy equity with such limited voting rights?
This also translates into rising sales for things like organic milk, to the extent that French organic dairies are having to buy the stuff in from Britain, according to Le Figaro (no link).
That is because public money is used to buy peace in Belgium, whose Dutch- and French-speaking halves increasingly loathe each other.
Minitel is an electronic phone book most French have that can be used to buy anything that can be found online and has been used for around 20 years.
That same month Alliance Capital Management, which is indirectly controlled by the French insurance company AXA Group, agreed to buy Sanford C.
In November, Astro's retail distribution will expand to include select Canadian and French Retailers including EB Games Canada, Best Buy Canada, Fnac and Micromania.
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France agreed to a partial opening of its energy market that will by 2004 let French businesses, but not domestic consumers, buy their power from private competitors to state-owned Electricite de France.
"In the school cafeteria you could buy soda, potato chips, snack cakes, corndogs, French fries, apple turnovers, ice cream --you know, carnival food, " she said.
The French president wants the eurozone's bailout funds to buy sovereign bonds of troubled states on the open market.
The royal family first commissioned a leading French perfumer to create one of the greatest fragrances money could buy.
Affordable urban art can be found at 83 Club Street, a bar where visitors can buy what they see on the walls as they sip cocktails and eat French-influenced bites such as marinated salmon blinis and roasted beer and Harissa sausage.
If it hadn't been for the French government, Sanofi might instead be wondering if Pfizer was about to buy it.
This year, she decided, she would buy mince pies from the new delicatessen, the one that sold Polish sausage and French cheese, just to see if anybody noticed the difference.
You can buy baguettes and croissants on a Hanoi street-corner, and it was through the French that Vietnam discovered the carrot.
Taylor, who is nicknamed "The Grizz", wrote the no-holds-barred letter to French Industrial Renewal Minister Arnaud Montebourg to explain why his company wouldn't buy part of an ailing Goodyear factory in Amiens.
The French responded with the usual mixture of bribes and terror: when an attempt to buy off the aristocratic class failed, they were sure that just getting tough enough one last time would do the trick.
For 30 days, each morning I would walk through the city, stopping to buy my baguette and coffee, pretending to be offended when the waiter laughed as my grim attempt at French was replaced by sign language.
Carrefour did so after French billionaire Bernard Arnault teamed up with Colony Capital, an American real estate fund, to buy 10% of the hypermarket concern earlier in the year. (See: "Carrefour Drops As Arnault Takes Stake") After the purchase, the new shareholders reportedly put pressure on management to carve off the property assets.
Mr Fama and Mr French find no evidence that companies stop paying dividends (or do not start) because they can buy back shares instead.
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