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In contrast, developing nations have been modernizing their institutions and markets, delivering growth rates in the past decade triple those of the West.

From Reuters • Jan. 1, 2012

Holland, Belgium, West Germany have been modernizing Turkish forces at a spectacular rate, so that the equilibrium in short order will be undermined.

From Time Magazine Archive