Word: third world
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...Mexico has become the third world, the model that ate the middle class," said Hinojosa. If the situation in Mexico and the Latin American countries does not change soon, "I think it's going to get ugly," he said...
...General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, head of anti-Mafia operations in Sicily, in 1982, were being scrutinized anew. So was the embezzlement, allegedly by Christian Democrats, of $40 billion in aid intended to rebuild several southern cities after the 1980 earthquake, and the disappearance of huge sums of Third World development aid said to have been plundered by officials in Rome...
...multicultural center (or a minority students' center or a Third World center, depending on the politically correct phrase of the week) would address several of the current and future needs of many minority student groups, as well as of the undergraduate population in general. Such a center would ideally have room for office space, where Arab, Asian, Black, Latino, Native American and other student groups could share resources. Equipment that might be financially impossible for a single group (say, a copy or tax machine) would be feasible when split several ways. Furthermore, having these offices in a center used...
...multicultural center does strike many as a divisive, separatist move. The 1982 Gomes Report rejected the proposal for a Third World Center and suggested that it would polarize the campus. The solution proposed was the Harvard Foundation--and we all know how wonderfully non-polarizing and non-divisive it has been...
...will take some time to build a fledgling nation from its third world position, to develop more industry and encourage competition. If Jamaica is to shed its political instability, it can't rely so much on the lazy attention of tourists who flood the cities and coastal towns, seeking a warm climate and a level grassy Terram, perfect for croquet...