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(Awful title, isn’t it? But it was the first the that popped into my head sort-of rhyming with Lady.)

NY Sun - Collapse of Rail, Subway Strike Is a First Success for Sarkozy

Yesterday, the strike of rail and subway workers that has crippled France for nine days was clearly crumbling, as workers began returning to work in large numbers and union branches conceded that support for the dispute is collapsing.

“We think a dynamic of return to work has begun,” Julie Vion, a spokeswoman for France’s state-owned railroad network, SNCF, said.

Union leaders began to concede defeat yesterday. “We have to face reality. Since yesterday’s negotiations, things have changed. The strike is no longer the solution. The strike strategy is no longer winning,” a leader of the Sud union representing Paris underground railway workers, Philippe Touzet, said in an interview with Bloomberg News.

When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When the train finally comes!