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...idea of a strong, self-reliant India. He gave the country its first steel mill, first hydroelectric plant, first textile mill, first shipping line, first cement factory and even its first world-class hotel. His successors--among them J.R.D. Tata, India's first pilot--created the first airline, first motor company, first bank and first chemical plant. And much like H.J. Heinz in the U.S., J.N. Tata attached social welfare to his business. Tata Steel introduced a series of worker benefits that would become common only much later in the West: the eight-hour day in 1912, maternity benefits...
...spokesman Frank T. Pasquarello confirmed that there was a motor vehicle accident yesterday at Mount Auburn and DeWolfe streets...
...most recent rankings, Morgan Quitno Press analyzed 2005 crime rate statistics in six basic categories—murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary and motor vehicle theft—according to the president of the firm, Scott Morgan. Each type of crime was weighed equally in the final analysis. The statistics are from the F.B.I.’s annual Uniform Crime Report...
...trained motor mechanic with calloused hands and a penchant for automotive analogies, Waddah can be forgiven for thinking that trouble has been following him around for more than three years. In the spring of 2003, when it became clear that the U.S.-led coalition would invade Iraq, he and his family--his mother Haseeba, three brothers, their wives and six children--sold his late father's house near Basra and moved to his mother's ancestral home in a quiet, dusty town west of Baghdad: Fallujah. "We were sure that there would be no fighting there. The Americans would...
...world economy are worth listening to. The group comprises 96 companies, including the world's second largest tea business (Tata Tea); Asia's largest software firm (Tata Consultancy Services); a steel giant (Tata Steel); a worldwide hotel chain (Indian Hotels); and a sprawling vehicle-manufacturing arm (Tata Motors) that includes a bicycle factory in Zambia and a project to make a car selling for $2,200. Since Ratan Tata became chairman in 1991, he has multiplied Tata group revenues seven times to an annual $22 billion. Since 2000, the group's market value has multiplied almost 18 times...