1. But, clearly, the government still has the final say.
2. In the past few years, the Reserve Bank of India might have wrested considerable powers from the government when it comes to monetary policy.
3. The RBI’s announcements on certain issues become effective only after the government notifies them.
4. Isn’t it time the government vested the RBI with powers to sanction such changes, leaving their ratification for later?

1. We may well ask why the state does not fulfill its constitutional obligation.
2. In certain parts of society one sees such a desire, but it is too weak and casual to lead to sustained pressure on the state.
3. To ask such a question is to get caught in a language game.
4. There is plenty of evidence to say that India’s present-day society lacks the desire to see every child at school.

1. The net will come to Europeans through the telephones in their pockets.
2. So long as prices of computers and local phone calls remain high, Europe will lag in connected PCs.
3. It’s not because Europeans will suddenly flock to the net.
4. Mobile phones are becoming net appliances with screens and pen-pads.
5. Sometimes, in the next 5 years, Europe will become one of the most wired regions of the planet.

1. The net will come to Europeans through the telephones in their pockets.
2. So long as prices of computers and local phone calls remain high, Europe will lag in connected PCs.
3. It’s not because Europeans will suddenly flock to the net.
4. Mobile phones are becoming net appliances with screens and pen-pads.
5. Sometimes, in the next 5 years, Europe will become one of the most wired regions of the planet.

1. Secret formulae are slowly but surely being replaced by scientific principles.

1. Thus more and more people are able to buy it.
2. But the processes have been speeded up by mass production.
3. This makes ceramic ware inexpensive.
4. The potters today are still wonderful craftsmen.

6. As regards design and decoration the transition period to mass production was not an easy one.