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23 -Sciences and Scientific Progress Flashcards

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Invoquer le 5e amendement de la justice qui donne le droit de ne pas répondre à la justice

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To take the fifth

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Une espèce

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A species

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Un physicien

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A physicist

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Une strate

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A stratum

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Une rampe de lancement

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A launch pad

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Un domaine de recherche

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A field of research

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Un astronome

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An astronomer

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un Amerrissage

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A splashdown

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9
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Un diagramme

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A chart

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Un chiffre

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A digit

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Se faire psychanalyser

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Undergo psychoanalysis

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12
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Le courant

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The current

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13
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Tâtonner

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Proceed by trial and error

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14
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Le ça

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The id

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15
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Électrique

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Electric (pas de al)

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Un robot autonome

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A roving robot

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17
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Habité

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Manned

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18
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Apesanteur

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Weightlessness

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19
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La science funeste (économie politique)

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The dismal science

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Faire équipe avec

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Team up with

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21
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Faire une expérience

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Carry out an experiment

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22
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Un alunissage

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A moon landing

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23
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Surveiller une planète

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Monitor a planet

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24
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Un fusible

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A fuse

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25
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Aventure spatiale

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Space venture

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Un embryon

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An embryo

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27
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Couler goutte à goutte

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Drip

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Une droite

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A straight line

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Une subvention

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A subsidy

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30
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Interrogatoire de police (fatigue+ torture), passer quelqu’un a tabac

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A third degree (to give somebody the third degree)

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Un lexique

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A lexicon

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32
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Réagir à

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React to

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33
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Vie quotidienne

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Everyday life

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34
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Le moi

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The ego

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35
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Une trouvaille

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A stroke of inspiration

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36
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Faire de la recherche

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Carry out research

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37
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Mettre à l’essai

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Put to the test

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38
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Verser

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Pour

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39
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Un sas

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An airlock

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40
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Réfuter

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Disprove

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Panneau solaire

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A solar panel

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Une découverte capitale

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A breakthrough

43
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Interner qqun

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Have somebody committed

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Une démonstration

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A proof

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Un rituel

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A rite

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Un brevet

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A patent

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Révolutionnaire

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Ground-Breaking

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S’arrimer à

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Dock (with)

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Un coup de génie

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A stroke of genius

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Reporter

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Postpone

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Un plan

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A plane

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Un protocole

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A procedure

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Exploration spatiale

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Space probing

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Thé de 11h en UK

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Elevenses

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Une camisole de force

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A straightjacket

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Le locuteur/destinataire

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The hearer

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Faire partie d’une mission

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Fly a mission

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Un dysfonctionnement

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A malfunction

59
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Fixer une limite

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To draw the line

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Un séjour dans l’espace

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A stay in space

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Un coup de chance

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A stroke of luck

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Le refoulement

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The repression

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Une soucoupe volante

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A flying saucer

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Élaborer une théorie

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Contrive/Build a theory

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L’homme moyen

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The average man

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Mélanger

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Mix

67
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Un cochon d’inde/cobaye

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A guinea pig

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Une panne

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A breakdown

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Récupérer

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Retrieve

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Cela tient debout/ ne tient pas debout

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It all adds up/doesn’t add up

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Des vestiges

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Remains

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Un raisonnement

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A reasoning

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Le foyer

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The focus

74
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Regarder à travers un télescope

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Peer through a telescope

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Progresser

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Make headway

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Un calcul

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A computation/calculation

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Infirmer

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Invalidate

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Mise à feu

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Blast-off

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Un chercheur d’or (1849)

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A forty-niner

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Un graphique

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A graph

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Une tentative de sauvetage

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A rescue attempt

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Inexploré

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Uncharted

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Un gaz

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A gas

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La botanique

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Botany

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Impair

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Odd

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La mécanique

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Mechanical engineering

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Un échantillonnage

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A sampling

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Une carte du ciel

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A star chart

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Un produit chimique

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A chemical

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Pair

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Even

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Financement

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Funding

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Le sur-moi

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The Superego

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Un divan

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A couch

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Un extraterrestre

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An extraterrestrial

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Un précipité

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A precipitate

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Un mode de vie

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A way of life

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Une créature venue de l’espace

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A creature from outer space

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Prévision à court/long terme

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Short-term/Long-term forecasting

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Le quatrième pouvoir

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The fourth estate

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