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Historical World (Historical Reality): The reality that is processed, selected, ordered, and interpreted by nonfiction television programs.

World Fund: US-based mutual funds that invest in securities from a number of countries, including the US, are known as world funds or global funds. Unlike international funds that buy only in overseas m . . . View Full Definition

World Investible Wealth: The World Equity Benchmark Series are similar to SPDRs. W.E.B.S. trade on the AMEX, and track the Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) country indexes. WEBS are available for: Austral . . . View Full Definition

World Food Program (WFP): A UN agency that contributes commodities, services, and cash to developing countries to meet emergency food needs or to carry out economic and social development projects using food or local . . . View Full Definition

World Equity Benchmark Series (WEBS): A multilateral development finance agency created by the 1944 Bretton Woods, (New Hampshire) negotiations. It makes loans to developing countries for social overhead capital projects that ar . . . View Full Definition

World Beat: Collective term for popular third-world musics, ethnic and traditional musics, and eclectic combinations of Western and non-Western musics. Also ethno-pop.

World English: English as used worldwide or internationally and the common features of this international English.

World Meteorological Organization (WMO): From weather prediction to air pollution research, climate change related activities, ozone layer depletion studies and tropical storm forecasting, the World Meteorological Organization coor . . . View Full Definition

World Price: The price at which commodities will move in international trade under existing marketing conditions. The concept 'world price' lacks precision unless quality, location, and other factors are . . . View Full Definition

World Wide Web: The web allows computer users to access information across systems around the world using urls to identify files and systems and hypertext links to move between files on the same or differen . . . View Full Definition