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The movies have long been convinced themselves that any story can be improved by adding a romance. Not true. Any story can be improved by leaving out as much as you reasonably can. Consider North Face, the bone-chilling, superbly mounted record of an assault on the north face of the Eiger, which is known by the grim understatement as the last remaining problem in the Alps.
Mountain climbing terrifies me, because it has such a ruthless digital simplicity. It is either one or zero: (1) You are holding on. (Zero) You are falling. Time s arrow flies in one direction. Once you aren t holding on, there is nothing you can do. No skill, no courage, no training, nor any rope or piton.
abirached: hello and welcome. i m raya abirached and this is world business, your weekly insight into the global business trends shaping our lives. the slowdown seems to be over for india s outsourcing industry.while the value of new outsourcing contracts fell 22% globally in the first half of last year, the market has rebounded. some indian companies used the hard times to prepare for the next big upswing in the global it business. as a result, india s domestic market could see 12 percent growth this year. reporter: the smiles are back in the indian outsourcing industry. a year ago, at the height of the global economic slowdown, growth was knocked back from 30 percent annually to a mere 5 percent. but industry heavyweights now believe the worst is behind them. bhasin: we re looking at a growth rate of nearly 13 to 15 percent. that s nearly treble, if that doesn t bring a smile back i m not sure what will. don t get me wrong, we cannot be complacent, the economic environme
abirached: hello and welcome. i m raya abirached and this is world business, your weekly insight into the global business trends shaping our lives. the slowdown seems to be over for india s outsourcing industry.while the value of new outsourcing contracts fell 22% globally in the first half of last year, the market has rebounded. some indian companies used the hard times to prepare for the next big upswing in the global it business. as a result, india s domestic market could see 12 percent growth this year. reporter: the smiles are back in the indian outsourcing industry. a year ago, at the height of the global economic slowdown, growth was knocked back from 30 percent annually to a mere 5 percent. but industry heavyweights now believe the worst is behind them. bhasin: we re looking at a growth rate of nearly 13 to 15 percent. that s nearly treble, if that doesn t bring a smile back i m not sure what will. don t get me wrong, we cannot be complacent, the economic environme