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...family's reward for this progressive capitalism was to have its airline and insurance arm nationalized by the post-independence government in 1947. For decades the Tatas lay low while the "license Raj" slowly made India globally uncompetitive...
...Steel's plans to build a mill in the eastern state of Orissa went tragically awry when police fired on protesters who accused the state government--acting as a broker in the development--of making a profit on the sale of their land. Twelve people were killed. But to lay off 40,000 employees in Jamshedpur, Tata Steel offered to pay their salaries until retirement along with free health care for life, and allowed workers to keep their company houses for three years. Initiatives like these have kept the group free of strikes...
...toaster doesn't offer the tantalizing music of Pynchon's voice, with its shifts from comic shtick to heartbroken threnody, its mordant Faulkneresque interludes, its gusts of lyric melancholy blown in by way of F. Scott Fitzgerald, its ecstatic perorations from Jack Kerouac. And my toaster will never lay before me a vision of a world in which technology is stripping away all the ancient, vital magic while shepherding mankind to the brink of destruction. On the other hand, my toaster makes toast, and nothing quite so graspable ever pops out of this predictably bewitching, predictably bewildering book...
...Cusworth immediately responded. The 7’0 center took over down low, battling for advantageous position and demanding the ball from the guards. He began with a pair of free-throws and added three consecutive lay-ups, the last coming on a three-point play. Overall Cusworth scored nine straight points for Harvard, bringing the Crimson back within one at 47-46 and killing the quicker Maine squad’s chance to run away with things...
...tank gunner's mathematical goof sent five shells crashing into a row of houses in Beit Hanoun, where dozens of Palestinian families lay sleeping. The shelling killed 19 people, including two women and six children, and wounded another...