Word: gate
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...Indian from Bombay, I loved reading your stories. From Tarrytown to Tallahassee, people are thinking about India. Colleagues in the Midwest are rushing to do stint work in India, which has come to be seen as a rung on the corporate ladder. Unlike China, which gate-crashed into Western households with everything from kitchen knives to toilet-tissue holders, India has made an unhurried entry through communication portals. But the Indian Elephant must not allow corruption and bureaucratic incompetence to slow it down in the race with the Chinese Dragon. Krish V. Krishnan Wilmette, Illinois...
...nerve-racking launch of his exchange-traded fund IWM six years ago. As a top exec of Barclays Global Investors, Kranefuss held out big hopes for IWM, which tracks the benchmark index of small U.S. companies known as the Russell 2000. "I thought it could come out of the gate with huge trading volume, and it didn't," he says. Indeed, the fund languished for nearly four tortuous years...
...Instead, the family locked itself indoors and set up a round-the-clock watch at the front gate. When the black Opel returned to the neighborhood one evening, Omar's older brother Mohammed chased after it, firing his Kalashnikov into the air. The car never returned, but the family decided it had had enough. Omar and his mother fled to Jordan. Speaking to TIME shortly before leaving, Omar worried that he might never return. "To be forced [out] because of my name ...," he says, before his voice trails off. The grim reality is that for Omar and countless others like...
...uncles put it, "She was an ordinary girl." So perhaps it was sheer proximity that made the 15-year-old so tantalizing. Her house was less than 1,000 ft. from a U.S. military checkpoint just outside the Iraqi town of Mahmudiyah, and soldiers manning the gate started stopping by just to look at her. Her mother, who grew concerned enough to make plans for Abeer to move in with a cousin, told relatives that whenever she caught the Americans ogling her daughter, they would give her the thumbs-up sign, point to the girl and say, "Very good, very...
...Tarrytown to Tallahassee, people are thinking about India. They want to know where Chennai and Hyderabad are on the map. Colleagues in the Midwest are rushing to do a stint working in India, which has come to be seen as a rung on the corporate ladder. Unlike China, which gate-crashed into Western households with everything from kitchen knives to toilet-tissue holders, India has made an unhurried entry through communication portals. But India must not allow corruption and bureaucratic incompetence to slow it down in the race with China. KRISH V. KRISHNAN Wilmette...