Word: bombay
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...truly detestable and destructive to workers. But misery and drudgery are always comparative. Despite the sometimes nostalgic haze around their images, the pre-industrial peasant and the 19th century American farmer did brutish work far harder than the assembly line. The untouchable who sweeps excrement in the streets of Bombay would react with blank incomprehension to the malaise of some $17-an-hour workers on a Chrysler assembly line. The Indian, after all, has passed from "alienation" into a degradation that is almost mystical. In Nicaragua, the average 19-year-old peasant has worked longer and harder than most Americans...
...statistics that cover periods ranging from four to 100 years to reach his conclusions. More important, Simon almost always cites figures only for the U.S., rather than for the entire world. Says one federal official: "Cleaner air and water in this country don't do much for Bombay or Calcutta...
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...complicated and highly sensitive dealings with India on the use of American uranium began in 1963, when the U.S. agreed to supply fuel for 30 years to an electricity-generating plant at Tarapur, near Bombay, provided that it was used only for peaceful purposes. In 1974 India exploded a nuclear device underground; the New Delhi government insisted that it was not trying to develop a weapon but only experimenting to see how explosions could be used "in the field of mining and earth-moving operations." Skeptical international experts noted that the technology involved in such explosions was the same...
...York's Senator Daniel P. Moynihan, a former Ambassador to India, warned that India would take a U.S. refusal to sell uranium as an infringement on its "sovereignty." Asked Illinois' Republican Charles Percy: "Do we want to dim the lights of Bombay and let the Soviets turn them back on?" Senator Frank Church, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, admitted that the question was a close one to call, but asked: "Isn't the President entitled to the benefit of the doubt...