Word: nascent
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Over the past decade, economists have been divided about the great Indian boom. For one party, the Indian economy's amazing growth rates indicate that the country is a nascent superpower - an America in the making. As evidence, they can point to the growing clout of Indian firms like Bennett, Coleman & Co., a privately-owned Mumbai media conglomerate that recently bought Britain's Virgin Radio. For the other group of economists, the boom has been an illusion: the majority of Indians have been excluded from the growth, poverty rates have stayed stagnant, and India is still just a Sudan with...
...Over the past decade, economists have been divided about the great Indian boom. For one party, the Indian economy's amazing growth rates indicate that the country is a nascent superpower - an America in the making. As evidence, they can point to the growing clout of Indian firms like Bennett, Coleman & Co., a privately owned Mumbai media conglomerate that recently bought Britain's Virgin Radio. For the other group of economists, the boom has been an illusion: the majority of Indians have been excluded from the growth, poverty has stayed stagnant, and India is still just a Sudan with...
...mail has yet to be established, the recent bombings have forced the Indian authorities to face some very uncomfortable facts. First, terrorist groups now have the wherewithal to strike at will and inflict significant damage. The targeting of Bangalore, one of the pivots of India's nascent economy, shows an ability to strategize. Second, recent efforts to spruce up intelligence-gathering and policing have been entirely inadequate. Despite the security threats festering across the country - there have been 11 major Islamist bombings in the past three years and over a dozen in the insurgency-ridden northeast this year alone - India...
...send health-reform legislation to Capitol Hill by early October, is nearly three weeks late. The latest goal for unveiling a bill was this week, but the White House will miss that one too. The result of this tardiness is that Clinton's opponents are scoring points in the nascent debate, while a growing number of Americans are left with the impression that the Administration cannot translate its grand vision into workable policy. It does not help that the Administration keeps making embarrassing revisions to its original health-care budget. Just last week, the White House was forced to acknowledge...
...product wasn’t flattering. My nascent beard and reedy mustache refused to link, as if both feared whatever small parasites the other scraggly patch might have harbored. But when I woke up on my birthday and looked in the mirror, my bleary, hungover visage had hair on it. I was damn proud...