Word: boom
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...about to hit Australians, who wear distinctive camouflage fatigues and drive different vehicles from the Americans. Several times, when this Australian reporter has been interviewing insurgents, they have pointed out passing Australian patrols. Once, an Iraqi fighter gestured toward a patrol and mimicked the sound of an explosion: "Australian - boom...
...sure, research and development is still just a sliver of India's tech boom. The bulk of the more than $16 billion earned by India's tech outsourcers in 2004 came from call-center work and low-end programming. Worldwide, only 0.3% of the $180 billion spent each year on developing software products goes to India. But, as with the earlier wave of tech outsourcing, R. and D. in India may prove to be too good a bargain to ignore: the cost of developing a basic software product in India is about $2 million, or just 40% of the cost...
...Under Barry?s successor, Anthony Williams, Washington has vastly improved: a balanced budget, lower crime rates, and a reversal of the flight to the suburbs of the 1980?s.The former murder capital of the nation is undergoing a revitalization, with retailers like Anne Taylor moving downtown and a housing boom that has sent rents skyrocketing to $1500 a month for one-bedroom apartments in previously undeveloped areas. Barry, while blaming others for the city?s budget problems under his leadership, takes credit for the business boom, handing anyone who questions his work a 17-page list of his achievements...
...that prosperity, no matter who created it, hasn?t been spread equally, helping to fuel Barry?s latest comeback. For many in Washington, the housing boom has meant they can?t afford to live in many of the new apartments built in the city. And the income gap between Washington?s richest and poorest has grown wider, with the average income of the top fifth of Washington?s population 31 times as high as the bottom fifth. The recent controversy over a public-financed baseball stadium, which Barry opposed, illustrated that concern, as both white and black residents complained that...
...sure, research and development is still just a sliver of India's tech boom. The bulk of the more than $16 billion earned by India's tech outsourcers in 2004 came from call-center work and low-end programming. Worldwide, only 0.3% of the $180 billion spent each year on developing software products goes to India. But, as with the earlier wave of tech outsourcing, R&D in India may prove to be too good a bargain to ignore: the cost of developing a basic software product in India is about $2 million, or just 40% of the cost...