French system
Americannoun
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Under the French system, today’s workers pay the pensions of a growing number of retirees, who now live longer.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2023
Renard released a statement criticising the French "system" and was joined by team-mates Marie-Antoinette Katoto and Kadidiatou Diani in a boycott.
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2023
Of course in the French system having a multiplicity of candidates on the left or right is not necessarily a handicap.
From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2022
The French system, meanwhile, is already covering 8 million people — a third of the country’s private sector workers.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 11, 2020
The French system was followed at Canterbury, and there is a marked difference in the effect of that glass from this at Lincoln.
From Stained Glass Tours in England by Sherrill, Charles Hitchcock
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