The French department of Haute-Savoie and its towering Mont Blanc Range have attracted generations of American skiers.
In 1993, the French department of public works staged an open competition to build a high bypass bridge between plateaus at the top of the gorge, based on an initial concept by its engineer, Michel Virlogeux, who proposed a multispan, cable-stayed bridge with a phalanx of seven masts supporting cable fans.
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These two islands are a Gallic aberration in North America, an honest-to-goodness French department in the Atlantic off the coast of Newfoundland, where you pay with euros and connect your calls through French telecom services, but with a bit of Canadian bonhomie thrown in.
The shots, fired from multiple guns, started just before 2 p.m. in the Seventh Ward, north of the French Quarter, said Garry Flot, a public-information officer with the New Orleans Police Department.
Wolfowitz taught himself Arabic in the nineteen-eighties, when he was working at the State Department. (He also speaks French, German, Hebrew, and Indonesian.) Last year, during a visit to a mosque in eastern China, he recited a prayer from the Koran in Arabic.
It became a French "department" in 1946, and from the 1980s, a region of France.
The French perceive .arpa as controlled by America's Commerce Department, and are pushing for .int instead.
Mr Lunardi's department says that, since the contract was a French one and was awarded before he became a minister, there was no conflict of interest.
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What French said so crudely probably expressed the feelings of many men in the Creative Department.
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the United States is reviewing requests from the French, but that no decisions have been made.
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the United States is reviewing requests from the French, but that no decisions have been made on specifics.
Shifting to the euro would start to undermine those achievements and ultimately make Britain similar to a French provincial department.
U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland, meanwhile, said the United States is reviewing requests from the French, but no decisions have been made.
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