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Val-d'Oise , department (1990 est. pop. 1,064,900), N central France, N of Paris. Pontoise is the capital.
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Great Lakes Chemical France.(to shut down Val-d'Oise plant)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Cosmetics International November 25, 2001 700+ words ...local unions to close the Persan industrial plant in the Val-d'Oise. The site specialises in the production of anti-UV...another plant operated by the US company at Catenoy in the Oise region, the company said. |
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Heavy fine for Ikea highlights mounting battle over French laws against working...
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream DEVORAH LAUTER April 6, 2008 700+ words ...blaze a policing campaign in the Val d'Oise region north of Paris in recent...loopholes were ruled illegal in the Val d'Oise region. Several stores including...side. Instead, companies in the Val d'Oise region are getting slapped on the... |
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Ikea Fined for Sunday Opening in France
News Wire article from: AP Online DEVORAH LAUTER April 6, 2008 700+ words ...blaze a policing campaign in the Val d'Oise region north of Paris in recent...loopholes were ruled illegal in the Val d'Oise region. Several stores including...side. Instead, companies in the Val d'Oise region are getting hit with unprecedented... |
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French Candidates Court Suburban Youth Vote
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition STEVE INSKEEP March 26, 2007 700+ words ...immigrant- populated suburb of le Val d'Oise, where Diam's grew up. Here...those jobs are gone. Today, le Val d'Oise has nine percent unemployment and...SIX MONZAS(ph) (Resident, le Val d'Oise, France): (French spoken... |
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French blue law crackdown has stores seeing red
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French Put Iranian Exiles Under Probe
News Wire article from: AP Online VERENA VON DERSCHAU, Associated Press Writer June 22, 2003 700+ words ...walled compound in Auvers- Sur-Oise outside Paris into an operational...Cochennec, an official from the regional Val d'Oise prefecture. Supporters said that...Mujahedeen's headquarters in Auvers sur Oise, north of Paris, Saturday June 21... |
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French Police Detain Iranians in Paris
News Wire article from: AP Online ELAINE GANLEY, Associated Press Writer June 17, 2003 700+ words ...The sweep was concentrated in the Val d'Oise region north of Paris and in the Yvelines...on installations in Auvers-sur-Oise. The Mujahedeen have had its headquarters in Auvers-sur-Oise since shortly after the 1979 Islamic... |
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Iranian Exiles Put Under Investigation
News Wire article from: AP Online VERENA VON DERSCHAU, Associated Press Writer June 22, 2003 700+ words ...walled compound in Auvers- Sur-Oise outside Paris into an operational...Cochennec, an official from the regional Val d'Oise prefecture. Supporters said that...Mujahedeen's headquarters in Auvers sur Oise, north of Paris, Saturday June 21... |
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2d night of riots in Paris suburbs Rocks and tear gas after 2 youths die
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune Ariane Bernard The New York Times Media Group November 27, 2007 700+ words ...19 kilometers, or 12 miles, north of Paris, in the Val d'Oise department. President Nicolas Sarkozy, in China on Monday...library and a post office, a spokesman for the police in Val d'Oise said. Many of the youths had clearly planned their attack... |
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Rioters batter French police in a Paris suburb
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