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...this anti-trade policy seen as social justice while the tariffs of Sudan and Nigeria are seen as backward and protectionist...
...surfing Americans, i-mode may seem like a step backward. Their PCs can do and see a whole lot more than the i-mode-loving Japanese can find on their little phones. But i-mode isn't designed to compete with the desk-bound Web. "With a mobile phone, people don't have much time to read through a lot of data," says DoCoMo's Keiichi Enoki, one of i-mode's creators. "We thought people would want bursts of information while they are on the move...
...intuition needed to sleuth out a murder case involving a chic photographer (Colm Feore) of the Mapplethorpe stripe. The Caveman has lapses of logic, but fewer than you will find in George Dawes Green's improbable script. Despite Jackson's typically bravura turn, this Valentine massacre marks a step backward for the gifted director of Eve's Bayou...
Lack of electricity, along with crummy roads, ports and railroads, have gone a long way toward keeping India poor and backward. Compared with almost any other country in the world, India does a terrible job of delivering power to its people. On paper, national capacity is 84,000 megawatts but, because of lousy maintenance, the actual output is 45,000 mega-watts. A single black-out last December plunged some 200 million people into simultaneous darkness?and no one was surprised...
...Enron deal was meant to be the solution?at $2.83 billion it was the largest single foreign investment in India ever?and an important litmus test for the country. Did the backward giant want to plug its gaping infrastructure gaps? The Maharashtra State Electricity Board agreed to buy all the power produced by Dabhol, and the pricing formula was shrewd: in the event of oil price increases or devaluation of the Indian rupee, the Electricity Board pays more. Well, oil has gone up and the rupee has gone down since Dabhol's 740 megawatt plant went operational two years...