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PPP

(= palatopharyngoplasty) surgical resection of unnecessary palatal and oropharyngeal tissue to open the airway; intended to cure extreme cases of snoring (with or without sleep apnea)

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PPP powder.
PPP is Proper Police Procedure.
Princess Rosalinda Marie Montoya Fiore, you are now in the safe custody of the International Princess Protection Program, the PPP.
PPP link established.
As reported eyewitnesses of the incident stolen car PPP appear to be on the roof using Black Lightning.
Stop-ppp!
PPP has Rick Perry at 22 and Romney at 19.
Let's prep for a full laparotomy for PPP.
I drove in front of youso you would rear-end me. Oh.Ppp!
There is a fault with the dial-up connection -- the PPP -- the point-to-point negotiation point.

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The scale of the global change can be seen when purchasing power parity (PPP) - a measure of the total amount of goods and services that a dollar can buy in each country - is taken into account.
According to the figures for 2011, released last year, India is now the world's third largest economy in terms of PPP-adjusted GDP, ahead of Germany and Japan.
The data also revealed that China would overtake the US as the world's largest economy in PPP terms sometime in 2014 - a shift that, according to our estimates, occurred on October 10th.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto anointed his wife and daughter to be the PPP's co-chairpersons in case he was executed by the military regime that had overthrown him.
Critics argue that, for methodological reasons, the PPP-based poverty line misrepresents the prevalence of poverty worldwide.
Improving global poverty estimates - the World Bank's extend over three decades, beginning in 1981 - requires overcoming three major problems: insufficient survey data, flawed survey execution, and faulty PPP conversions.
The third major challenge is using PPP estimates, measured in national currencies, to convert survey data into global poverty estimates that account for cost-of-living differences between countries.
Furthermore, PPP conversions have little significance for some countries, most notably China.
While the Bank's latest PPP-conversion rate puts the number of poor Chinese at 173 million, the previous rate would suggest that only 69 million Chinese were living below the poverty line.
The new data are based on improved estimates of purchasing power parity (PPP).
The new PPP data also have implications for evaluating the extent of poverty and the level of a currency's exchange rate.
And the fact that China's market exchange rate was far lower (i.e., more yuan per dollar) than the earlier PPP exchange rate had been interpreted as evidence of huge undervaluation.
As for the exchange rate, PPP is only one of many ways to calculate its equilibrium level.
An alliance between the two largest parties, the late Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and Nawaz Sharif's Muslim League faction (PML-N) is what the country needs and what most Pakistanis want.
The PPP and PML-N have the numbers to form a unity government.
It wants to pair the PPP with the discredited PML-Q and isolate the PML-N.
The PPP was created because TRT had been outlawed at the time of Thaksin's removal.
Indeed, Samak's People Power Party (PPP) is widely considered a proxy for Thaksin.
The PPP's victory in the December polls has also been seen as vindication of sorts for Thaksin.
The situation is all the more uncertain in view of a problem facing the PPP.
And more ominously, the case could easily snowball, leading to the dissolution of the PPP and an end to Thaksin's nascent political recovery.