Among the trend consulting firms is a Paris-based group called Promostyl.

A Paris-based group, the Federation for a Democratic China, shares an office with the Alliance.

The O.E.C.D is a Paris-based group that promotes economic cooperation.

Hotels in the Paris-based group must meet several criteria: being privately owned, for example, with fewer than 100 rooms and a good restaurant on the premises.

In fact, French politicians and their aides seemed more numerous than members of organizations like Attac, the Paris-based group seeking a global tax on financial transactions.

"A major risk is that much of this large hike in unemployment becomes structural in nature," the Paris-based group warned.

In its semiannual forecast, the Paris-based group noted that the industrial world had grown at a strong 4 percent pace for more than two years.

This Paris-based group of Western nations regulates exports to Communist nations.

The Paris-based group, which has a market capitalization of about L12 billion ($19 billion), said it had no plans to buy another water company in the next 10 years.