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...despite such optimism, India's economy remains fragile in many respects, beset by stubborn inefficiencies that have hindered progress and prosperity for decades. A decrepit transportation system, inadequate communication and electrical infrastructure, and an obstructionist bureaucracy might make it hard for India's economy to match China's spectacular growth. Despite the high-profile growth of the tech sector, for example, agriculture still accounts for nearly a quarter of GDP, and the country's predominantly agrarian population remains at the mercy of the monsoon. In 2002, the rains were poor, and India's agriculture suffered; the economy grew only...
...Republicans have vowed to filibuster, a last line of a defense for a policy that has the majority’s support. Democratic filibusters in the Congress haven’t been entirely petty this past year. But this time around, opponents of the D.C. merely look obstructionist. In response to the Republican bill, supported by many D.C. Democrats and a majority of D.C. residents, Congressional Democrats have failed to propose an alternative to vouchers...
Though the requisite signatures were delivered to the Department of Motor Vehicles by March 1997, the “Choose Life” plate was not available until August 2000, when the Florida Supreme Court threw out an obstructionist lawsuit by the National Organization of Women. Today there are 37,000 Florida “Choose Life” plates and $1,480,000 has been raised to promote adoption and other pro-birth solutions. Alabama, Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi and Oklahoma have also recently put such plates on the road as well...
...confirmed or not, the fact that he's back in the running is bound to provide rich fodder for both Democrats and Republicans gearing up for the 2004 campaign trail. Democrats can point to the GOP's outdated philosophies on civil rights, while the Republicans can point to Dems' obstructionist politics that have kept so many benches empty two years into Bush's term...
...Whether he can continue to mop up cell-phone subscribers, however, remains to be seen. India's notoriously obstructionist regulatory policies are being reformed, allowing prices to slide and competition to increase. The market has drawn potent players in the form of cell-phone subsidiaries backed by foreign heavyweights such as Hong Kong's Hutchison Whampoa and AT&T Wireless. Other rivals are piling in: a government phone company, Bharat Sanchar Nigam, is expanding its mobile network. And in December, India's powerful Ambani family, which controls Reliance Industries, India's largest private sector company, is launching a discount national...