Word: though
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...plenty of American critics. Governor George W. Bush for one, who, like his oil industry backers, remains unconvinced of the scientific basis for all this global warming stuff despite the consensus among mainstream scientists. And they complain that developing nations aren't required by Kyoto to do enough, even though everyone agrees that the industrialized countries have created the lion's share of the problem...
RUNNER-UP: Through the Shopping Glass: A Century of New York Christmas Windows by Sheryll Bellman (Rizzoli; $35) Browse through some 70 holiday tableaux in this pretty (though too small) book. The displays are artful, kitschy...
...Lisa and Julie, was pretty sure the Palm Beach Buchanan votes needed to be reconsidered. "How could you believe that what's his name got so many votes?" she asked. She would not admit that the old people were to blame for their inability to read a basic form, though she did concede to trouble with other basic skills. "Driving. Oh, boy! You could write a book about that," she said. "They go where they want to go, that's all there is to it. They see someone on the street, they stop and talk. The horns are beeping; what...
...young Bangalore couple, married just eight months and facing the usual struggles of trying to furnish an apartment and make the monthly car payments. They are software engineers at a subsidiary of ANZ Grindlays Bank. They work long hours for a combined income of nearly $17,000 a year, though annual raises can reach 50%. "This industry is so cushy, so comfortable," Mani says. "My peers in manufacturing have to claw their way up the ladder." The couple bank 25% of their earnings...
...software billionaires have become national heroes. For a brief period this year, Wipro's Premji was the second richest man in the world, after Bill Gates. (Wipro's stock price subsided in April, though Premji's net worth is still estimated at more than $11 billion.) The techno-tycoons are admired because they have earned fortunes in one of the world's most competitive industries without any under-the-counter help from Indian bureaucrats. In the early 1990s, in fact, the software lobby got the government to remove import duties intended to protect local firms from software products sold...