Word: rajiv
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...secretary of state agreed to offer the keynote address five weeks ago, after President Reagan, Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, and Philippine President Corazon C. Aquino had declined Harvard's invitation...
...Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at the close of a special two-day meeting of seven leaders of the 49-nation Commonwealth last week. Actually, relations between Thatcher and her Commonwealth colleagues were strained at the beginning of the session and got steadily worse. In the end Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi accused Britain of "compromising its basic values for economic gain." An even angrier Kenneth Kaunda, the President of Zambia, described Thatcher as a "pathetic figure" who was "worshiping platinum and gold...
...made the most dramatic shift of any non-Communist nation. Since the country's independence in 1947, socialism has been an accepted part of India's political and economic system. Now the subcontinent has begun to embrace free enterprise too. The change is largely the work of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, who took office in 1984 after the assassination of his mother Indira Gandhi. Rajiv has presided over a liberalization program that has slashed taxes and produced more than 80 decrees loosening or abolishing business restrictions. Despite foot-dragging by India's entrenched army of bureaucrats, overjoyed managers have responded...
...ball-point pens. As they jostle through the crowd in search of buyers or sellers, the action often becomes so intense that fights break out. For all that, the exchange has been one of the top performers in the world during the past two years. Prices have doubled since Rajiv Gandhi took office, and new stocks are regularly listed for trading...
Throughout the increasingly bloody conflict there have been charges that the separatists have been aided by India, which has a substantial Tamil population in the southeastern state of Tamil Nadu, 22 miles from Sri Lanka across the Palk Strait. But in the past ten months, Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi has tried to broker a peace agreement between the Sri Lanka government and the insurgents. Last year he helped arrange two ceasefires, only to see the fragile agreement crumble. Sri Lanka's President J.R. Jayewardene, for his part, has offered greater political autonomy to the Tamils but rejects the idea...