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1 SUD
Acronym for solidaire, unitaire et démocratique, used in the name of a number of militant left-wing unions, notably in the railways, in the state education system, and the post office. SUD unions were initially set up in the 1990s by militants who felt that the main unions, the CGT and the CFDT, were going soft. -
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4 CAC 40
The best known of the French stock market indices, the "CAC" (an acronym) is the index used to track the performance of the 40 largest capitalisations on the French stock exchange ( la Bourse). In this respect, it is the French equivalent of the FTSE 100 in the UK, or the Dow Jones index in the USA. See also SBF 250.Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique > CAC 40
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5 Orsec, le plan
name given to emergency contingency operations that may need to be launched by a local Prefecture, in the event of a natural or human disaster. The word is an acronym, notably for Organisation desSecours, (Organising aid).Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique > Orsec, le plan
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