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Something like this is the logic we apply, when we tighten our immigration laws, and in the general pattern of our relations with the so-called under-developed countries….
ON THE EVE OF THE MILLENNIUM CONOR CRUISE O’BRIEN 1994
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Something like this is the logic we apply, when we tighten our immigration laws, and in the general pattern of our relations with the so-called under-developed countries….
ON THE EVE OF THE MILLENNIUM CONOR CRUISE O’BRIEN 1994
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Something like this is the logic we apply, when we tighten our immigration laws, and in the general pattern of our relations with the so-called under-developed countries….
ON THE EVE OF THE MILLENNIUM CONOR CRUISE O’BRIEN 1994
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In Avatar, people with stronger weapons and bigger egos, discover what they perceive to be an under-developed sentient species and take what they want from them with no regard for their lives, treating them like dumb animals.
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Apparently I have an under-developed sense of entitlement.
mrissa: "Rissy, 90% of the things you worry about never come to pass."--Grandpa mrissa 2010
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Many students' biggest hindrance to academic success is their under-developed work ethic.
Alex Mallory: I got an 'A' and I Didn't Even Study Alex Mallory 2011
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Many students' biggest hindrance to academic success is their under-developed work ethic.
Alex Mallory: I got an 'A' and I Didn't Even Study Alex Mallory 2011
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In Avatar, people with stronger weapons and bigger egos, discover what they perceive to be an under-developed sentient species and take what they want from them with no regard for their lives, treating them like dumb animals.
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Leah and her grandmother sat in Dr. Porter's office as he told them that Ali had been diagnosed with one under-developed optic nerve, but that the rest of her brain was healthy.
'Teen Mom 2': Leah Gets Good And Bad News After Ali's MRI (VIDEO) 2011
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No, the difference was that they were small groups of people scattered over large territories, so the Americans could claim that the lands overrun, mainly by civilian colonists, were “uninhabited” or “under-developed.”
Matthew Yglesias » Cold War Hawks and the Soviet Economy 2010
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