In Knoxville he roomed with another outgoing engineering major who, like Mr. Saied, came from a highly educated Indian family.

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For example, Anand and Shikha Chhatpar, two Indian engineers educated in America, founded a company called Fame Express.

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Indian casinos have educated a generation of Californians in the art of losing money.

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People of Indian descent are the most educated ethnic group in America, says Richard T.

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The Tata group, an Indian conglomerate with a new British-educated boss, is the largest employer of manufacturing workers in Britain.

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India's large supply of educated workers, as well as tax deals offered by the Indian government, are important incentives.

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Despite all the talk about increased sophistication in the Chinese and Indian economies, the U.S. remains home to a highly educated workforce and an enforceable rule of law designed to protect intellectual property.

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Helping a large Indian outsourcer go public, Janah hit on the notion that poor, educated people even in rural areas of developing countries could do data-entry work, just as people living in large Indian cities do.

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Born to Indian- Anglo parents in Japan where his father settled after World War II, he was educated in London and has been managing his family's various businesses for much of his career.

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Other Internet sites already compete with the advertisements that Indian families place in the newspapers, requesting fair-skinned, slender, domesticated, convent-educated Brahmin girls in their early 20s for their 30-something, tall engineer sons with a five-figure salary.

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