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An advanced country may be able to decouple economic growth and increasing volumes of material goods consumed.
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Educational standards are still quite inadequate for an advanced country that has to compete in the modern world and the kindest thing that can be said about health is that there have been modest improvements in care since 1997 - but at immoderate cost.
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How is it that such an advanced technologic country harbors so many vaccine luddites?
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Why is the U.S. creating military units, stationing them overseas, and sending them back and forth for training to benefit the security of another nation, an advanced and wealthy country capable of defending itself?
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Failure to take such steps could mean that a single North Korean or Iranian missile, possibly launched from a ship off the coast of the United States, could instantly transform this country from an advanced 21st Century society to an 18th Century one.
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Silva, who plays in an advanced attacking role for both his club and country, has been closely linked with a number of top clubs this summer after helping Spain to win the European Championship in June with a series of inspired displays.
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This detail hardly matters now at a time of such national sorrow, but if it helps explain why a large, modern and technologically-advanced country like Poland was flying such an old plane, perhaps that is of some small assistance.
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When in fact the figures show that the country is nothing out of the ordinary for an advanced industrialised nation.
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This article is the third in an ongoing series of country focus pieces where the cashless society utopia has actually advanced the cause of financial repression.
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The advanced nations of the time - notably France and the US - promptly imposed an embargo on the country, which prevented most economic and social development.
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"In a country where the majority is Muslim, we let democracy rule in its most advanced form and became an example for all Muslim countries, " he said.
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