Jacques says that currently there is only manpower to do 20 to 25 annually.

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The extent of conversation, Jacques says, made it seem to make sense to create a national standard for how a treatment like Provenge would be covered.

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Economic historian Jacques Marseille says the uproar really had nothing to do with the new law.

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"I think they should be more worried, " says Jacques Cailloux, euro area economist with the Royal Bank of Scotland.

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"Quite obviously, the confusion which has set in will only increase 'Sarkozy nostalgia', " says Jacques Camus in La Republique du Centre.

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All this is a Western conceit, says Mr Jacques.

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"He loves the artists as much as he loves their works of art, " says Jean-Jacques Aillagon, the first director of Palazzo Grassi and former head of the Centre Pompidou in Paris and Versailles.

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Susan Jacques, the chief executive of Borsheims, says she gets a single sheet of paper in January from Mr Buffett, telling her her goals for the year, and then she's allowed to get on with it.

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It says that many in France believe Jospin is trying to strengthen his power base at the expense of President Jacques Chirac.

BBC: Mixed media reaction for Jospin