Word: third world
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...committee opposed measures calling onmilitary firms to diversify and convert theiroperations to civilian production; onmanufacturers to develop cleanup plans forhazardous waste; on Chase Manhattan Bank toexplain its Third World loans in light of theworld debt crisis; and on energy firms to cancelplans for nuclear plants...
...cacophony of jangling bracelets and coquettish demands -- just the sort of acting that wins Oscars. Schlesinger's direction suits his star, with visual metaphors as subtle as a wrecking ball against a London house. Down goes the old world of nattering gentility; up comes the high-rise of Third World aspirations...
...ended Hershiser's World Series scoreless string at 11 innings when they pushed a run across in the bottom of the third...
During the question and answer period, students questioned MIT's ethics, citing examples such as the large volume of defense contracts work done at the Institute. Chomsky said the military's purpose was "to maintain U.S. global dominance...at the expense of the Third World," but added that any change in this priority had to come from society, not the university...
...educated American, in the last third of this century, cannot be provincial in the sense of being ignorant of other cultures and other times. It is no longer possible to conduct our lives without reference to the wider world in which we live...