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Pollitt, Katha | August 14, 1995 issue

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The article presents information on various social problems in the world. In addition to the AIDS hotline posters that line the Metro stations with grim black-and-white photos of anguished gay men and lonely drug users, Paris has its own municipal anti-AIDS advertisements. Jacques Chirac, France's new conservative President, has proposed raising the minimum wage and increasing the national arts budget. Still, it's the little things that suggest how far the United States has diverged from the rest of the West.

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SOCIAL problems; AIDS (Disease) -- Prevention; ADVERTISING, Outdoor; CHIRAC, Jacques, 1932-; MINIMUM wage; FRANCE; UNITED States
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