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much less felt , and also where refrigeration is less necessary to food hygiene than in many developing countries . Special arrangements for developing countries whose annual consumption per head of CFCs is less than 300 grams ( U.S. ...
much less felt , and also where refrigeration is less necessary to food hygiene than in many developing countries . Special arrangements for developing countries whose annual consumption per head of CFCs is less than 300 grams ( U.S. ...
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They had been influenced less by considerations of ... the rich adopted a somewhat less inhospitable approach , but only after the original design had been so transformed and its scope so whittled down as to render it largely ...
They had been influenced less by considerations of ... the rich adopted a somewhat less inhospitable approach , but only after the original design had been so transformed and its scope so whittled down as to render it largely ...
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This is the belief that everyone is entitled to certain minimum standards achieved less through decisions made on high than through opportunities for self - improvement : the right to land ownership , to work , to education ( especially ...
This is the belief that everyone is entitled to certain minimum standards achieved less through decisions made on high than through opportunities for self - improvement : the right to land ownership , to work , to education ( especially ...
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| Title | Our Country, the Planet: Forging a Partnership for Survival |
| Author | S. S. Ramphal |
| Publisher | Lime Tree, 1992 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 6 Aug 2009 |
| ISBN | 0413455815, 9780413455819 |
| Length | 291 pages |
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