Word: indianness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Assistant Professor of Indo-Muslim Culture Ali S. Asani said this week that he believed that Bhutto and Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi showed the initial signs of changing the course of relations between the two countries...
...world is exactly Salman Rushdie's Indian characters passively seat- belted in their flight from Bombay to London, then blown apart by a random, idiot bomb and soon seen pinwheeling down to a soft landing off the English coast -- the England where Kipling comes home to roost and the empire will implode and intermingle...
...several hard-pressed Indian tribes, the millions of gallons of oil and gas flowing from reservation wells have meant the difference between crushing poverty and financial stability. Now the Senate Special Committee on Investigations reports that one oil company may have stolen as much as 1.9 million bbl., worth $31 million, from the tribes since 1986. In hearings before the committee last week, investigators told of concealing themselves near remote oil-storage depots in Oklahoma earlier this spring to watch employees of Wichita-based Koch Industries transferring oil from Osage tribal storage tanks to trucks. According to witnesses, Koch employees...
...because his technique was sketchy: he and Fleischmann had failed to do elementary control tests before going public. But it was fusion, Pons insisted, not just an unusual chemical reaction, as others had suggested. A Soviet group chimed in that day to say it had found its own neutrons. Indian scientists said the same. And on April 13, two graduate students at the University of Washington announced that they had recorded no neutrons or heat, but did detect other fusion by-products. Pons met the public again on April 17, at a press conference, to say there were some...
...demystify his own legend, making double agentry seem as banal as bartending. The impression of ordinariness is reinforced by his chatty letters to Knightley, which are cited in extenso. Philby comes across as a slightly dotty old Brit, complaining about how hard it is to find "bilambees" (an Indian vegetable) in Moscow and fuming about the "preposterous" radio commentaries of "the BBC's own Smarty Cooke, Alistair of that...