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India's industrial heritage cannot be separated from the Tata name. The company's founder, J.N. Tata, was a nationalist driven by the 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...
That same strategy is behind Tata's affinity for Africa. In South Africa he has invested in mining, tourism and engine makers. There's an instant-coffee plant in Uganda, a bus factory in Senegal and a phosphate plant in Morocco. "We look at countries where we can play a role in development," says Tata. "Our hope in each is to create an enterprise that looks like a local company but happens to be owned by a company in India...
...behavior believe elicit the nurturing response in humans and other child-rearing species. In place of the familiar panoramas of flesh-ripping Godzillas, HORNER DESCRIBES THE MOST COMMON DINOSAURS AS 'THE COWS OF THE MESOZOIC.' He has found the remnants of one dinosaur herd?an estimated 10,000 waddling, plant-eating duckbills. Even Tyrannosaurus rex seems less terrible in his revisionist view. Horner believes it followed herds of triceratops, scavenging carcasses and occasionally preying on weak individuals, much as hyenas follow wildebeests in Africa." Read more at timearchive.com...
...million cubic feet of gas per day, the Repsol Rio Grande in Bolivia's eastern state of Santa Cruz sends gas to Bolivia and Brazil. Before the Spanish firm took over in 1997, the state-run facility barely functioned properly because of a lack of resources. Since then, says plant operations supervisor Joaquim Mendez, "things run efficiently - virtually accident free, productive and on schedule...
...Those living around the plant were promised that privatization would benefit them as well. But the barefoot children in torn clothing walking along the dirt road past wooden board and banana-leaf shacks are evidence that the poor's lives remained virtually unchanged...