Word: bombay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...least Jackson eventually got his story to our New York City headquarters. Some barriers to newsgathering, though, are insurmountable. Not long ago, photographer Robert Nickelsberg inadvertently photographed the wife of a powerful Bombay businessman at a swimming pool while he was taking pictures for a story on the Indian middle class. Incensed that his wife had been snapped in her swimsuit, the man attacked Nickelsberg, twisting the camera straps around the photographer's neck. For 45 minutes, Nickelsberg and the assailant wrangled over the film's fate. Finally, after the man threatened to commit acts more terrible than any Nickelsberg...
...guerrillas were also hitting hard. The Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front killed three hostages. Another militant group carried the conflict beyond Kashmir for the first time by bombing a train near Bombay, injuring 35 people, as well as two New Delhi police stations, where four policemen were wounded...
...Indian Airlines Airbus A320 had been in service for only seven weeks when it began the approach for its scheduled landing in Bangalore after a 90-minute flight from Bombay. Moments before it was to touch down, in perfect flying weather, something went wrong. Falling short of the runway by 4,000 ft., the plane crash-landed on a golf course. The toll: 90 dead and 55 injured. A sole passenger escaped unhurt...
Those at the top, euphemistically called the "upper middle class," have worries that the economically marginal would consider luxuries: How to get the kids into "hot" colleges, whether to drink Tanqueray or Bombay with your Schweppes, how to dispose of your salary on the things that best demonstrate your good taste. These people are better described as "Winners...