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Blue-Chip Companies Are Increasingly Exporting Jobs to India.

By Jeff Ostrowski, The Palm Beach Post, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Aug. 3--A decade ago, a wag famously warned of the giant sucking sound from Mexico, which threatened to steal America's working-class jobs.

Today, the giant sucking sound comes from a different spot on the globe, and it menaces a different type of worker. India increasingly is landing high-skilled, highly paid positions for engineers, accountants and financial analysts formerly employed in the United States.

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