comparisons
8.4% note: this is the International Labor Organization's estimated rate for international comparisons; Germany's Federal Employment Office estimated a seasonally adjusted rate of 10.8% (2007 est.)
www.exxun.com/Germany/e_ec.html
compatible
... presidential term to a five-year term; amended in 2005 to make the EU constitutional treaty compatible with the Constitution of France and to ensure that the decision to ratify EU accession ...
www.exxun.com/France/d_gv.html
compelled
... investment. A slowdown in the property market, more intense global competition, and increased costs, however, have compelled government economists to lower Ireland's growth forecast slightly for 2008. Ireland joined in circulating ...
www.exxun.com/Ireland/e_ec.html
compelled
... Court of Arbitration issued a decision that delimited a maritime boundary with Trinidad and Tobago and compelled Barbados to enter a fishing agreement that limited Barbadian fishermen's catches of flying fish ...
www.exxun.com/TrinidadandTobago/i_ti.html
compensate
... the government closed the sugar industry after decades of losses of 3-4% of GDP annually. To compensate for employment losses, the government has embarked on a program to diversify the agricultural sector ...
www.exxun.com/SaintKittsandNevis/e_ec.html
compensated
... Growth in the financial sector, which now accounts for about 28% of GDP, has more than compensated for the decline in steel. Most banks are foreign owned and have extensive foreign dealings ...
www.exxun.com/Luxembourg/e_ec.html
compensated
lack of natural freshwater resources compensated by desalination plants; desertification; beach pollution from oil spills
www.exxun.com/UnitedArabEmirates/b_mp.html
compensation
Families Acting for Innocent Relatives or FAIR [Brian McCONNELL] (seek compensation for victims of violence); Families Against Intimidation and Terror or FAIT (oppose terrorism); Gaeltacht Civil Rights Campaign (Coiste Cearta Sibhialta na ...
www.exxun.com/Ireland/d_gv.html
compensation
... against it in US courts for terrorist acts that predate its renunciation of violence. Claims for compensation in the Lockerbie bombing, LaBelle disco bombing, and UTA 772 bombing cases are ongoing. The ...
www.exxun.com/Libya/a_fg.html
Compensation
... the Pacific Islands, the Marshall Islands attained independence in 1986 under a Compact of Free Association. Compensation claims continue as a result of US nuclear testing on some of the atolls between ...
www.exxun.com/MarshallIslands/a_fg.html
Compensation
chief of mission: none; US Ambassador to New Zealand is accredited to Samoa embassy: Accident Compensation Board (ACB) Building, 5th Floor, Beach Road, Apia mailing address: P. O. Box 3430, Apia, 0815 ...
www.exxun.com/Samoa/d_gv.html
compete
... expiration of a WTO Agreement on Textiles and Clothing, Cambodia-based textile producers were forced to compete directly with lower-priced producing countries such as China and India. Better-than-expected garment ...
www.exxun.com/Cambodia/e_ec.html
compete
... the House of Parliament chooses the presidential candidates from among its members and then those candidates compete in a general election; president is elected by popular vote for a four-year term ...
www.exxun.com/Kiribati/d_gv.html
compete
... economy dependent on concessionary British market access to a more industrialized, free market economy that can compete globally. This dynamic growth has boosted real incomes - but left behind many at the bottom ...
www.exxun.com/NewZealand/e_ec.html
competed
... that was cut short by the Mongol invasion of 1236. Subsequently, the Ottoman and Persian empires competed for influence in the region. Georgia was absorbed into the Russian Empire in the 19th ...
www.exxun.com/Georgia/a_fg.html
competed
... they do not have party headquarters, formal platforms, or party structures; the following two "groupings" have competed in legislative balloting in recent years - Aelon Kein Ad Party [Michael KABUA] and United Democratic ...
www.exxun.com/MarshallIslands/d_gv.html
competently
Sinhala (official and national language) 74%, Tamil (national language) 18%, other 8% note: English is commonly used in government and is spoken competently by about 10% of the population
www.exxun.com/SriLanka/c_pp.html
competing
... s economy are the financial and construction sectors. Bahrain is focused on Islamic banking and is competing on an international scale with Malaysia as a worldwide banking center. Bahrain is actively pursuing ...
www.exxun.com/Bahrain/e_ec.html
competing
... and Chad - to lobby in the World Trade Organization for fewer subsidies to producers in other competing countries. Since 1998, Burkina Faso has embarked upon a gradual but successful privatization of state ...
www.exxun.com/BurkinaFaso/e_ec.html
competing
... The country's long-time ruler was King HUSSEIN (1953-99). A pragmatic leader, he successfully navigated competing pressures from the major powers (US, USSR, and UK), various Arab states, Israel, and a ...
www.exxun.com/Jordan/a_fg.html
competition
general assessment: by opening the telecommunications market to competition and foreign investment with the "Telecommunications Liberalization Plan of 1998," Argentina encouraged the growth of modern telecommunications technology; fiber-optic cable trunk lines ...
www.exxun.com/Argentina/f_cm.html
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