Word: sahara
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...glass and metal facade of the Sahara Mall in Gurgaon, a thriving township southwest of New Delhi, looks like a perfect emblem of the new India. Emblazoned with logos of clothing stores, gift shops and fast-food restaurants, the mall's glistening exterior seems to capture the exuberance of India's economic boom. Inside, however, except for a busy restaurant and supermarket, business is sluggish, and many shops are slathered with signs proclaiming SALE. "The customer response has been far below our expectations," says Atul Kaushal, owner of Threads & Toes Mart, a shop that sells jeans and shoes. "Many people...
...store owners in the malls are unhappy. "It's been a mixed reaction for shopkeepers here," says Daman Sarna, mall manager for Sahara Mall. He points out that the supermarket in his mall is doing good business, although he admits that some of the store owners might not be. Pia Singh, director of DLF Universal, a real estate firm that plans to build 18-20 malls in northern India over the next few years, says stores in the City Centre Mall, which her company opened in Gurgaon in late 2002, are making profits, adding, "That's what gives...
...final insult came while Thatcher was waiting for his hearing at which he promised to post bail of $300,000: other prisoners reportedly stole his shoes and cell phone. A onetime race-car driver who famously lost his way in a 1982 rally across the Sahara, causing his Iron Lady mother to weep, Thatcher has had what Margaret Thatcher's authorized biographer describes as a "chiaroscuro business career." He was accused of having links to the international arms trade, allegedly profiting from a multi-billion dollar deal with Saudi Arabia. In 1987, he married Diane Burgdorf, the daughter...
...think the restrictions of Cairo have done nothing but exacerbate my restlessness and stoke my exhibitionist urges. I have belted Bob Marley while careening through the Sahara in an ancient Humvee, friends at my side, to a campsite in the white desert. I have reclaimed my independence atop a desert ridge, ripping off my shirt and claiming the land for myself—“Operation O’Brien Freedom,” I called it. Then I scampered back down to find our Bedouin guides laughing at my idiocy. I’d left my only water...
...this one. Instead, the Mise-en-Scene (Best Director) award went to Tony Gatlif, the Algerian-born French auteur of ?Exiles,? about the southbound trip two young people take from France through Spain to return to their parents? birthplace in Algeria. You could canvass critics from Sweden to the Sahara and not find one who liked the movie - but that?s juries...