Word: jute
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...changes have been minimal. A $30 million restoration plan included replacing the metal roof tacked on in 1901 with a glass one like the original, and casting plaster-and-jute capitals to restore damaged columns. In the clock tower, ten enormous new bells, replicas of Westminster Abbey's, will ring out across Washington...
...India, the dream had grown under the systematic exploitation of the eastern region by the West. Bengali chauvinism and pride in a distinct cultural heritage sharpened the hostility, especially when the West Pakistani declared Urdu--a Western dialect--the country's official language. East Bengal saw its natural resources, jute and burlap, siphoned off to the factories of West Pakistan, and its educated population largely blocked from the nation's industrial and military establishment. Meanwhile, investments and other aid from the United States abetted the uneven development, supporting a military government that had abandoned even the formal habits of democracy...
Events abroad, also well beyond Carter's control, had conspired to aggravate inflation. OPEC'S quintupling of oil prices inspired the money-poor but materials-rich nations of the Southern Hemisphere to pump up prices for commodities as disparate as copper, tin, rubber, jute, cotton, bauxite, coffee, cocoa, tea, sugar. Instant communications-TV and transistor radios-spread the message of the good life. People in Timbuktu no less than in Toledo demanded more-more than society could reasonably produce. Communication, education and sophistication enabled the world in the 1970s to virtually defeat smallpox-and helped make just about...
...week began with a giant political rally in Delhi, called by the four opposition groups that had quickly united as the Janata (People's) Party. On hand were 70,000 people who sat crosslegged, on the ground or on jute mats, to hear a succession of speakers denounce the government for its harsh curtailment of the nation's freedom. "You have found out what kind of people rule this country," declared Opposition Leader Morarji Desai, 80, who had been released from prison a fortnight earlier. "It is as important to keep our freedom secure from this type...
...longtime political foe of Gandhi's, Goenka is a wily industrialist who owns 17 other Indian dailies besides the Express; they have a combined circulation of about 1 million. Since he opposed Gandhi's adoption of sweeping emergency powers in 1975, her government has seized his jute mill in Calcutta, deprived the Express group of government advertising and ordered India's nationalized banks to deny him credit...