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Korea fears a similar fate could befall it as the economy reaches First-World levels and growth rates slow.

Asia's Mixed Signals to Business Joseph Sternberg 2012

This fashionable brand of Third-World "self-determination" left First-World leaders with only one politically correct choice: Sit down, keep quiet and let the dictators—er, "nationalist liberators"—continue to smother free expression and hunt, imprison, torture and murder their opposition.

The Demise of Third Worldism Fabio Rafael Fiallo 2011

Even if NASA has come up with a great new method for reducing errors, denialists will poo-poo it as “yet another unexplained adjustment to the data” as part of the ongoing plot to perpetuate the Big Government/UN/Al Gore Carbon Tax and First-World Crippling Agenda or something.

Are Conservation Groups Subverting Action on Global Warming? - The Panda's Thumb 2010

But I put to you that perhaps the choice itself is just another First-World luxury.

Gabrielle Carey - You Do Not Have the Right to Die William Harryman 2009

But I put to you that perhaps the choice itself is just another First-World luxury.

Archive 2009-05-17 William Harryman 2009

The United States needs a coordinated industrial policy like every other major First-World country to direct development.

Leo W. Gerard: Fomenting a Green Industrial Revolution in the U.S. 2009

Despite the crash in Amsterdam, this fact doesn't change because Barnett says Turkish Airlines isn't a First-World carrier.

Ben Sherwood: Flight Check: What Are the Chances I'll Die on My Next Plane Trip? 2009

Those who would have the United States re-evaluate its military and political positions vis-a-vis the moral imperatives incumbent upon a leader among First-World nations must unite to deny this government further aid and comfort in its ill-conceived, costly, unlawful and immoral intrusions in the affairs of Second and Third world countries and economies.

Military families cry out: Stop asking us to pay the price of hubris 2009

If you travel outside the industrialized world but still fly on a First-World carrier, your risk of dying increases.

Ben Sherwood: Flight Check: What Are the Chances I'll Die on My Next Plane Trip? 2009

For instance, he argues, your risk of dying on your next First-World domestic jet tip is around one in 50 million.

Ben Sherwood: Flight Check: What Are the Chances I'll Die on My Next Plane Trip? 2009