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Third World
Third World By analogy with the ‘third estate’ in the French Revolution, a group of states independent of the two main camps in the Cold War. The term was originally used in the late 1940s to denote a potentially neutral bloc in Europe, but from the early 1960s referred to countries of the developing world, as distinct from the ‘first’ (developed) capitalist and ‘second’ (communist) worlds.
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'AS THE WORLD TURNS': THROUGH THE YEARS.(Special Report: 'World Turns 50')
Magazine article from: TelevisionWeek; 3/27/2006; 700+ words
; ...Stephen Schnetzer). 2000 "World'' moves its production facilities...N.Y., where "Another World'' had been shot for years...Among the honors is the show's third award for outstanding drama...continuing her long run on "World.'' 2003 "As The World Turns...
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World video spending stablises: retail DVD spending champions rise in world video spending.(Profile)
Newspaper article from: Screen Digest; 11/1/2008; 700+ words
; KEY FACTS ABOUT WORLD VIDEO IN 2007 * World consumer spending on video software...DVD accounted for 98 per cent of world spending on video software in 2007...rental still accounted for over two thirds of consumer spending on VHS worldwide...
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Bowl Games Skew 'World News' Start; ABC News Omits Two Nights' Ratings.(World News Tonight, television news program)
Magazine article from: TelevisionWeek; 1/9/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...other things, an extra live broadcast of "World News Tonight'' every night in the Pacific...from its usual second-place ranking to third place for that week. The strategy was...Pre-empted: "WNT" is sure to finish third for the first week of its expanded broadcast...
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DiabeticConnect.com, Now the World's Largest Online Diabetes Community, Leads the Fight Against Diabetes on World Diabetes Day.
Business Wire; 11/13/2009; 700+ words
; ...CITY -- In connection with World Diabetes Day (Nov. 14, 2009...DiabeticConnect.com[TM] is now the world's largest online community...living with diabetes. "With World Diabetes Day happening tomorrow...just after the birth of our third daughter," Tenderich said...
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World Star Lee Byung-hun Appears at 'Iris' Showcase.
Newspaper article from: Entertainment Newsweekly; 9/25/2009; 700+ words
; ...Byung-hun who has glamorously become a world star beyond a Korean Wave star through...event prepared as a special event of the Third Chungmuro International Film Festival...CHIFFS. Lee Byung-hun, rising as a world star, is planned to show his charisma...
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World video turns corner: global consumer spending on video software falls.(Profile)
Newspaper article from: Screen Digest; 11/1/2006; 700+ words
; ...GRAPHIC OMITTED] RISE AND FALL OF WORLD VIDEO SOFTWARE World consumer spending on buying and...over six DVDs in 2005, against a world average of 7.5 a year earlier...sales represented just over two-thirds of total consumer spending on video...
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World markets subdued as S&P heads for 1,100
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 11/16/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...have rallied strongly since March's lows with many of the world's major indexes trading at, or near, their highest levels...showed that Spain contracted a further 0.3 percent in the third quarter from the previous three month period. Weekly initial...
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World's first megapixel phone on sale.(New Products & Services)
Newspaper article from: Screen Digest; 6/1/2003; 388 words
; ...making standardsized prints and are seen as competing with basic digital cameras. Vodaphone's J-Phone, which is Japan's third-largest mobile operator, had been locked into race with larger domestic rivals KDDI and DoCoMo over being first to market...
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Virtual worlds no longer just for gamers.(PERSPECTIVE)
Newspaper article from: Screen Digest; 4/1/2007; 700+ words
; ...interested in virtual worlds? As we trudge through...experimentation within virtual world building MMOG title Second...with competing virtual worlds from other industries...of a different form of third-party commercialisation...efficiency. As such virtual worlds and complex 3D ...
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WORLD FILM PRODUCTION INCREASES : Domestic film industries post positive gains.(Statistical Data Included)
Newspaper article from: Screen Digest; 12/1/2001; 700+ words
; ...producing nations * India's lead as the world's most prolific film-producing nation...EU as a whole remains easily one of the world's top three film producting regions...Feature production in Spain has risen for the third year in a row, although the increased...
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AIDS
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...were infected with HIV worldwide, the great majority in Third World countries; some 25 million had died from AIDS. The disease...women are drug users or partners of drug users. Nearly a third of the infants born to HIV-infected women are infected...
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tertiary
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Roman Catholic Church, member of a third order. The third orders are chiefly supplements...order but adapted to life in the world; hence, the offices to be read...the members. Secular members of third orders (i.e., those who live...
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Wally Schirra
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...grad. U.S. Naval Academy (1945). His father was a World War I ace, his mother a barnstorming wing-walker, and he...selected to be one of the Mercury astronauts. Schirra piloted the third U.S. orbital flight on Oct. 3, 1962, circling the earth...
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papal election
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...secret ballot; Pius XII fixed the electoral majority at two thirds plus one vote. The election itself confers on the new pope...assured by shutting off the cardinals completely from the outside world, and at one time expedition was encouraged by severe restriction...
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John Joseph McGraw
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...professional baseball in 1890 and was (1891-1900) the star third baseman of the renowned Baltimore Orioles of the National League...pennants (1904-5, 1911-13, 1917, 1921-24) and three World Series victories (1905, 1921-22). He was inducted into...
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