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  • If New York, Boston, San Fransisco, St. Louis, etc., would be willing to convert their ports back to wetlands, and get rid of those dams in the PNW, I would be willing to see "undevelopment" here.

    Bush Administration v. Environmental Groups 2009

  • If New York, Boston, San Fransisco, St. Louis, etc., would be willing to convert their ports back to wetlands, and get rid of those dams in the PNW, I would be willing to see "undevelopment" here.

    Bush Administration v. Environmental Groups 2009

  • Thanks to NBK for pointing out the Gapminder, a fascinating tool for exploring economic development or undevelopment.

    Mind the gap Tripp 2007

  • Thanks to NBK for pointing out the Gapminder, a fascinating tool for exploring economic development or undevelopment.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Tripp 2007

  • Psychologists are interested in the developmental processes of growing up, but Wordsworth tells us about undevelopment:

    The Muse in the Machine David Gelernter 1994

  • What is left out of the story is the "plundering, racism, undevelopment, and misery" that colonial policy often brings.

    The Royal Family Lurie, Alison 2004

  • Therefore, in view of the tremendous reality of undevelopment, the

    CASTRO DENOUNCES IMPERIALISM AND COLONIALIS AT 1960

  • But the proof that the first woman was a true and good guardian of God's gift to her was in the finely trained little girl, and the proof of the second woman's undevelopment from the animal stage was in her concentrated and, in the circumstances, unnecessary preoccupation with the infant, to the entire neglect of the character training of the elder children.

    Three Things Elinor Glyn 1903

  • It is only he whom intelligent travel has educated to analyze and distinguish who sees in the fineness and the extraordinary distinction of Glacier's mountain forms the completion of the more heroic undevelopment north of the border.

    The Book of the National Parks Robert Sterling Yard 1903

  • And Evil is a partial view, one phase of undevelopment, the muck through which, by God's own law, we must come; and indeed He could not have sent us any other way.

    Letters of Franklin K. Lane Franklin Knight Lane 1892

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