Word: specializing
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...performance." says Hong In Sung, a twentysomething member of the audience. "It was perfect." Jarreau and Benson wrapped up the night with their version of the Daryl Hall - penned Paul Young hit Every Time You Go Away. "It was a great night," says Jarreau. "It was warm and very special...
Like so many protests in India, this is about land: Local farmers are upset that, under a 2005 policy to create a series of special economic zones, the state government acquired about 1,000 acres of land in Singur and sold it to Tata Motors for the plant. The farmers say they were not adequately compensated for their land and allege that in some cases, the sales were forced. They and their political supporters are demanding 400 acres back. The issue has been smoldering for almost two years, but the protests reached an intense pitch last month, until finally...
...India's most famous industrialist families. But the real - and much less colorful - bad guy in the Singur debacle is India's misguided industrial development policy. India wants booming manufacturing hubs like the ones that have transformed Chinese cities like Shenzhen. But instead of creating a handful of large special economic zones, or SEZs, and locating them strategically near ports and cities with large pools of labor, India has approved more than 500 SEZs as small as 5 hectares (12.3 acres), and scattered them all over the country. "I don't think that really makes sense," says Chetan Ahya...
Actually, for Christmas last year I gave my parents a special copy of the book that had all the sex scenes cut out. Then when some of the sex scenes were put up by websites in July - which was very misrepresentative of the book - my dad stumbled upon them and I basically said, You know, I tried to protect you from that, and if you sought it out on your own, that has to be your concern, not mine...
John McCain was clear about why he picked half-term Alaska governor Sarah Palin to be his running mate. "I found someone with an outstanding reputation for standing up to special interests and entrenched bureaucracies," he said in introducing her in Dayton, Ohio, on Friday. Palin was someone, he noted, "who reached across the aisle and asked Republicans, Democrats and independents to serve in government...