Word: third-world
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Industries left and blue-collar jobs vanished forever. Those who remained, the unemployed white ethnics in the suburbs and the unemployed people of color in the cities, were stuck. The burnt-out shells left behind are as bad as it gets, the American versions of third-world slums. They are hermetically sealed: No one ever goes in, and no one ever gets out. They make a land of equal opportunity a land of savage inequality...
Currently airing on student-run WHRB-FM, the 30-second commercial argues that Harvard has been irresponsible by contributing to "an industry that markets death and disease to Blacks, women, the poor and third-world countries...
...wanting to appear too materialistic, I haven't even mentioned the expense involved. By the time I pay for tickets, clothes, flowers, dinner, a haircut and Dr. Scholl's foot deoderant, I've spent enough to cover foreign debt burdens of several small Third-World nations...
...most underlooked issue [in the environmental reform movement] is the fact that human rights violations go hand in hand with environmental degradation," Clay said. "Third-world elites squander resources and, in the process, rob and exploit their people. The United States and Europe are traditional partners with these elites...
...When Third-World nations default on their massive foreign debt, we could do what your hometown banker does when you miss too many car payments--repossess the country and sell it in the classifieds...