Word: journeys
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...Apocalyptic pessimism may be the theme of these movies, but the hero is driven by a desperate optimism: the world's ending, so I have to go on an impossible journey to save someone dear to me. The idea is that you'll forget about the tens of millions who died elsewhere and concentrate on the people you've come to know and have a rooting interest for. This elitism applies to virtually any movie set in cataclysmic times, whether it's the Civil War of Gone With the Wind or New-York-under-siege fantasies like Cloverfield. The leading...
...Harrods boss Mohamed Al-Fayed, that Burrell had to answer to. Richard Keen - the lawyer for the parents of Henri Paul, the driver who also died in the 1997 crash in Paris - and Ian Croxford, representing the Ritz Hotel, Paris, the starting point for Diana and Dodi's fateful journey, also got in on the act. Questioning him one after the other, they all seemed to be trying to prove the same thing: there are three sides to every story - Paul Burrell's, Paul Burrell's, and the truth. Using his books and articles and transcripts of his earlier testimonies...
...Tata just add to the country's road hassles? That's a problem the Indian government has to deal with, not manufacturers, Tata said. "We'd certainly be concerned if our vehicle created absolute chaos all across India," he told one questioner who complained that his morning journey of a few miles across Delhi took over an hour. "But if you had chaos today and it did not include our vehicles, then I would suggest the problem has to do with something else besides the presence or absence of our vehicles." India, he agreed, "does desperately need mass transit systems...
...since the then-top-ranked Harvard squad fell to No. 2 New Hampshire, 4-1, in Durham, NH on December 14. But after a short holiday break and a week of two-a-day practices, the Crimson is ready to bounce back from their first loss and start the journey back to the top of the polls...
Bijapurkar roughly divides Indian consumers into four categories by their income and consumption patterns - 60 million people with high purchasing power, 100 million well on the road to that level of consumption, 100 to 150 million who have just started that journey, and the rest who are at the "bottom of the pyramid" or BOP, in Bijapurkar's shorthand. However, though its members earn less than a dollar a day, the BOP also forms a significant consumer base, says Bijapurkar, and businesses like microfinance have successfully tapped this segment. Indeed, Bijapurkar says, the vast majority of Indian consumers may have...