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Nor does the mainstream in a rich country have great wealth . The large middle class of the industrial world consists of hardworking people buying their homes on mortgages , saving for the annual holiday , contributing to the support of ...
Nor does the mainstream in a rich country have great wealth . The large middle class of the industrial world consists of hardworking people buying their homes on mortgages , saving for the annual holiday , contributing to the support of ...
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FOUR * The Profligate Rich The world knows that the few are more than the many . - Rabindranath Tagore RABINDRANATH Tagore's collected aphorisms were first published under the title Fireflies in 1928. The line quoted above could have ...
FOUR * The Profligate Rich The world knows that the few are more than the many . - Rabindranath Tagore RABINDRANATH Tagore's collected aphorisms were first published under the title Fireflies in 1928. The line quoted above could have ...
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chapters , reports that a single Japanese company is transforming a rich rain forest in Papua New Guinea into packaging for cameras , calculators , and other electrical goods . For reasons already given , a ban on the hardwood trade is ...
chapters , reports that a single Japanese company is transforming a rich rain forest in Papua New Guinea into packaging for cameras , calculators , and other electrical goods . For reasons already given , a ban on the hardwood trade is ...
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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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