Word: third world
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...Garment District’s extensive clothing-sorting and processing operations, which occupy nearly half of the building’s floor space, could be relocated off-site. Unusuable items are recycled, while unwanted but functional clothing is bundled and sent to the Third World...
Nothing says "eliminate Third World poverty" like Beyonc in a bootyliciously short skirt. On Saturday, Destiny's Child and more than 100 other acts sang in front of more than 1.6 million concertgoers--and a TV audience of over 2 billion (the shows are also available on AOL)--for Live 8, a 10-city music extravaganza that organizer Bob Geldof called "the greatest concert ever." The free concerts in all the G-8 countries, plus South Africa, were meant to raise not money but awareness of poverty in Africa ahead of this week's G-8 summit in Scotland...
...When recent college graduates were polled late in 2002 about whom they wished to emulate most in the world, their first two choices were their mothers and their fathers,” Abrams writes. “The third was Rudolph Giuliani.” But, the author continues, “I knew a different Giuliani…a Giuliani deeply contemptuous of the First Amendment...
...some instances, Giuliani behaved like a Third World despot, barring political opponents from staging public protests. In other cases, the mayor’s behavior was, according to Abrams, simply “bizarre.” In 1997, the weekly magazine New York placed ads on city buses proclaiming—in jest—that the glossy periodical was “probably the only good thing in New York that Rudy hasn’t taken credit for.” Giuliani tried—and failed—to get a court to stop the magazine?...
...aircraft carrier is Ronald Reagan's big stick. In an "era of violent peace," as Chief of Naval Operations Admiral James Watkins has dubbed this time of terrorism and global tension, American carriers can cruise the globe as island fortresses in troubled seas. Aimed at a Third World despot like Muammar Gaddafi, they can add an explosive exclamation point to presidential rhetoric. To John Lehman, Reagan's aggressive Navy Secretary, the carriers have an even more important strategic role. He believes they can safeguard vital sea-lanes during peacetime and could press close to Soviet shores in the early hours...