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...companies as Citibank, McDonald's and Motorola are hustling to tap India's burgeoning number of young big spenders. Brands like Reebok and Nokia are making deeper inroads than ever before. Modern malls and fast-food restaurants are proliferating among the crumbling British colonial buildings and ancient monuments that dot India's cities. "These guys are a huge consumer audience," says Raman Roy, managing director of Wipro Spectramind, one of India's largest call-center operators. "There is a fundamental economic change happening...
...more than his own immediate fate on his mind on Tuesday night. He stressed that no matter the outcome of the trial, he would still not be satisfied until the money he brought overseas this spring finally reached its intended recipients—the destitute evangelical Protestant congregations which dot the Russian landscape...
...concerned about the rise in violence, keep pushing cases through. "We just want her here," says Ellen Carlson, a trainer for Wells Fargo in Long Lake, Minnesota, who has adopted Patience Williams, a big-eyed, 2-year-old Monrovian girl in short braids and a blue and white polka-dot dress. "We have her bed ready in her bedroom. We have her enrolled in her preschool. Her big sister is waiting for her little sister." The Carlsons have used a photograph of Patience - who's suffering from anemia and severe diarrhea, and no longer has the energy she once...
Well, there's California's $38 billion deficit, the largest state shortfall in history, a number larger than the entire budget of all but one other state (New York). Much of the deficit is due to the collapse of the dot-com universe, which powered the state's economy in the '90s, and Davis can hardly be blamed for that. On the other hand, he was not exactly forthright about how large the deficit was going to be. In any case, Californians want a target for their fiscal pain and frustration, and Davis has become the state insignia for economic...
...Number of years it took for the word dot-commer to gain admission after it was first used...