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Third World nation

NOUN
developing nation
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"America is a superpower, but it's got the grid of a Third World nation," Energy Secretary Bill Richardson has warned.

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African history�and the novel�reaches a supremely ironic climax as Kassoumi, with his white wife, returns to become puppet leader of his emerging Third World nation.

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His professional commitment to the excruciating process of Third World nation building is complicated because the country's opposing political factions �one moderate, the other revolutionary �are led by two of his former proteges.

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But instead of achieving steady growth, Za�re became a textbook example of how a Third World nation can dig itself into an economic hole.

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"Just half a dozen could make a crucial difference" to the weapons program of a Third World nation, says Michael Dewar, deputy director of the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies.

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