Word: bombay
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...means through which we instill in students a strong sense of social responsibility. In the last three years, VISIONS delegates have reached almost 20,000 students through education efforts in India and Nepal; but it is the establishment of two student-run chapters in Bangalore and Mumbai (Bombay), India, that will have the greatest impact on the community. Next summer, we will send four more delegations of students to India, Nepal and Africa...
...especially keen on India, where the market has been drubbed, along with others in the region. Yet India's currency has actually appreciated against the dollar, mainly because of its continued prospects for strong economic growth. His favorite stock is chemical company Bombay Dyeing, which trades for little more than the cash on its books and stands to collect a windfall if the government ever lets it develop parts of its massive land bank...
Keyes encountered Kirkpatrick at a foreign-affairs seminar in Bombay and found himself siding with her on issues time and again. Kirkpatrick later appointed him ambassador to the United Nations Economic and Social Council, where he served from 1983 to 1985. Keyes then served for two years as assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs...
Franzen and the others may benefit from Wallace's success. The Twenty-Seventh City, Franzen's deft social-science fiction about a former Bombay police chief who plots to take over St. Louis, Missouri, first published in 1988, was recently released in paperback (Noonday Press; 517 pages...
...appears. China, its treasury bursting with foreign reserves and its stock markets surging, is poised for stable growth, Courtis said. "And if China moves ahead an inch, the rest of Asia moves ahead a foot. We're going to have a very strong year from Beijing to Bombay." But China's July 1 takeover of Hong Kong could still pose a problem. Courtis optimistically declared that even though Hong Kong's physical and business environment will become more polluted and "the people will be less free," nonetheless, "the goose will get used to a different diet and still lay golden...