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These two men were instrumental in orchestrating an amazing economic expansion that almost single-handedly converted the island from an underdeveloped backwater into a pace-setting industrial society.
Top priority was now assigned to the modernization of China’s underdeveloped economy.
In an earlier posting you speculated that our enthusiasm for Harry Potter may arise from our anxiety about technology, and it's striking (this is something my wife called to my attention after she read the first two books) how technologically underdeveloped the muggle world is in these books, in particular with respect to information technology.
The cover story attributes teen-agers' mercurial behavior to underdeveloped brains.
The same goes for (speaking of Catholics) all the medieval doctrinists in the Vatican who seem bent on imposing a third-world fertility program on every underdeveloped and uneducated native populace under heaven.