Forklift truck jockeys no longer command much more than 10 bucks an hour.

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His lawyers say the fighters were no longer under his command after they crossed the border.

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If France no longer seems to command the world's attention as it did a few years ago, could this be because it lost its singularity when Mr Sarkozy returned the country fully to NATO in 2009, reversing Charles de Gaulle's 1966 withdrawal from its military structure?

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