Word: third world
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...minority groups urged the University thento create a Third world Center, a resourceavailable only to minorities which would addressspecific minority concerns...
...that decade, it seemed not only that Australians had wasted time and money but also that events in their region were leaving them behind. Says historian Henry Reynolds: "When I first went to Singapore 25 years ago, it was a Third World country. Now its per capita income is nearing ours." In 1989 Will Bailey, chief executive of the ANZ bank, warned that Australians would soon become "white servants to Asian tourists...
...thus tended to extinguish that kind of proud, dizzy, uncomplicated hubris. Its last full flowering was a generation ago, when the four full-fledged world's fairs of the postwar era took place back to back, almost continuously: 1958 in Brussels, 1964-65 in New York City, 1967 in Montreal and 1970 in Osaka. And then, in the neo-Luddite, small-is-beautiful era since, we have had nothing -- or nothing but piddling, second-and third-rank expositions that reflected (and self-fulfillingly confirmed) the tapped-out, lowered-expectations zeitgeist...
...prospect of direct investment from Europe, the United States and the Far East has become uncertain because of a shift away from the Third World," he said...
Since the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund expanded their membership to include the former communist regimes, the ability of these institutions to offer assistance to Third World countries has decreased, according to Ahsan...