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...disappointment of survivalists, millenialists, and journalists everywhere, the much-hyped Y2K bug failed to bring about the end of civilization. At the very least, weren't all those third-world markets still running on old TRS-80s supposed to drag our shiny new mainframes down with them? Apparently not. Having barricaded ourselves in our bunkers with nothing but a pile of gold krugerrands and a mating pair of hamsters, we now find ourselves asking, didn't any computers, anywhere, crash on the morning of January...
...course, Y2K still might cause a lot of problems in the world's computers. Especially in third-world nations and in former communist countries, Y2K preparedness is not good. While the United States government started debugging its computer systems years ago, other nations have barely started. A serious disaster on New Year's Day is still a real possibility...
Alonso, an eminent regional planning scientist, will be remembered for his work on third-world urbanization and health, European urban-regional migration patterns and statistical investigations of race and ethnicity in American society...
...explain your phenomenal success overseas, especially in "third-world countries...
...work attracted the attention of the university, which later hired him as a professor in the Department of Economics. While at Harvard, Leontief developed his theories on production, especially in third-world nations...