As with profits, so with pay: For more than three decades, from 1948 to 1982, pay levels in finance rangedfrom 99 to 108 percent of the average of private-sector pay.
Responses to the outage rangedfrom panic to snark as engineers made cracks about the wisdom of updating your infrastructure first thing on Monday morning.
In the run-down suburbs around many French cities, reactions to the election result rangedfrom gloom to outright anger, as youths set cars on fire and skirmished with police.