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...with the pace of reform accelerating, India is beginning to change in ways similar to those that helped China attract foreign investment in manufacturing. India's rising middle class means companies now see the country as an important source of consumer demand. India has joined China as one of Nokia's five largest markets. According to tech-consulting firm Gartner, mobile-phone sales in India grew 42% in 2005 to nearly 30 million units, and sales are expected to quadruple by 2009. With so much potential, Nokia decided India was the best option for a new factory. "We became eager...
...close. Acting rich doesn't interest him. "I've never had the desire to own a yacht, to flaunt," he says. "It's not really [the point]." Nor does the Prada-wearing class excite him as a marketing opportunity. China and India, with their growing ranks of tycoons, should attract multinational businesses not because of the spare million in a few fat wallets, he argues, but because of the spare change in a billion slim ones. "Everyone is catering to the top of the pyramid," says the 68-year-old at his office in Bombay House, Tata group's elegant...
...Gitmo deaths may have had religious significance for the men who committed them. Colonel Mike Bumgarner, who oversees the detention camps, said in May that several inmates told him of a "vision, or a dream--implicitly a message from God--that if three detainees die, it will attract enough attention so that they will all get out of Guantanamo...
...want to exclude students who are on financial aid and would have to choose between this and some other activity,” Rinere says. The decision to offer a stipend to fellows was supported by the SAB but not without opposition from members concerned that it would attract applicants for the wrong reasons. Still, Rinere responds, “I think the application process weeded out anybody who was interested in it just for the money—frankly there are many other ways to make $1,000 in a year.”Whether or not they were...
...labeling them as “instructional” when in reality they had never assumed any teaching role.WEAL also asserted that the reported five job offers extended to women by the KSG were “not firm at all” and not tempting enough to truly attract the candidates.These missteps, the group argued, illustrated the school’s lack of good faith in recruiting minorities to its teaching staff. The complaint put into jeopardy the $99.5 million the KSG annually received from various government sources at the time, the receipt of which meant that...