Word: india
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...lived the part. Whether commanding a destroyer in the thick of battle in World War II or, later, presiding over India's independence in the first shedding of empire, Mountbatten accumulated public triumphs with a seemingly magical ease. His relaxed charm masked a relentless drive, an occasional impatience with subordinates that verged on imperiousness, and a streak of self-acknowledged vanity. He once described himself as "the most conceited man I know," for instance. But coming from him the admission was received as more of his disarming informality...
Ever since its first meeting, attended by Tito, Indonesia's Sukarno, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser and India's Jawaharlal Nehru, at Belgrade in 1961, the so-called nonaligned movement has usually espoused a form of neutrality with a distinctly leftist flavor. The rhetoric has sputtered with buzz words like "anticolonialist" and "progressive." But official pronouncements increasingly have also been careful to try to keep both superpowers at haughty arm's length with even-handed warnings against Soviet "manipulation" as well as U.S. "imperialism...
Lining up against the Cuban takeover bid is a broad group of mostly older nonaligned members led by Yugoslavia and including India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and others that are all determined to maintain the authentic independence of the movement. With equal fervor, they have been waging their own behind-the-scenes battle in diplomatic chanceries and ministries around the world in the name of moderation and the status...
...Anti-Slavery Society provided some horrendous examples. A number of match factories in India are employing over 20,000 tots, some as young as five, for 16 hours a day, beginning at 3 a.m. In Colombia the work force includes 3 million children, many of whom labor in ill-ventilated, dangerous coal-mine shafts...
...1980s. To feed the plants with young trees, a vast reforestation is under way that will clear the land of old growth and establish huge new timber farms. The principal planting is the Gmelina arborea (pronounced malina ar-bor-ea), a hardwood native to Burma and India that grows to 15 in. in diameter in five years and 30 in twelve, or roughly twice as fast as the southern pine, a major source of American pulp...