Word: jagdish
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...political pressures in both countries threatened to bar any immediate settlement. For a struggling President Clinton, the get-tough sanctions promised to shore up his support in crucial industrial states such as Michigan and Ohio. "No U.S. politician ever lost at the polls by bashing Japan," says trade expert Jagdish Bhagwati, a Columbia University economist. And the political price? "So we lose the Lexus and Infiniti vote," shrugs a senior Administration official. "It's a risk we're prepared to take...
...sister had been in Hayward, California, since 1981, married to an engineer. After the troubles began, they sponsored her mother's trip, then that of her father Jagdish, whose strategy was to emigrate and bring in five of his children behind him. He hired a caretaker for the family's 35-acre farm in their village of Panam. Then he bought an apartment in Chandigarh for the sole purpose of housing his son and four daughters as they wait for their visas...
...Jagdish Bhagwati, professor of economics at Columbia University, warned in Friday's Wall Street Journal that "if a nation's trading rights can be suspended simply because it refuses to accept another nation's idiosyncratic values, everyone could insist on morality-driven trade restrictions and the whole international trade system would head down a slippery slope." He also sagely urged us to examine whether "environmental regulations are really protectionism in disguise...
Pabla said he, his uncle Balbir Singh and friend Jagdish Singh jumped at the chance to buy the restaurant from Jarinal Gill and Gursem Singh, the former owners of India Gate...
...writers could eat in or take out from the restaurant for a discount, says Cafe of India manager Jagdish Singh. And in return, says Ahmad, "we provided steady business throughout the summer...