introduction
... following activities, unless authorized by regulation of statute: the taking of native mammals or birds; the introduction of nonindigenous plants and animals; entry into specially protected areas; the discharge or disposal of ...
www.exxun.com/Antarctica/d_gv.html
introduction
... heavily dependent on sugar, rum, and molasses production through most of the 20th century. The gradual introduction of social and political reforms in the 1940s and 1950s led to complete independence from ...
www.exxun.com/Barbados/a_fg.html
introduction
general assessment: reasonably good system domestic: liberalization of telecom market in 2003; introduction of competition in the mobile-cellular market in 2004 international: country code - 1-345; landing point for the MAYA-1 ...
www.exxun.com/CaymanIslands/f_cm.html
introduction
... reconciliation and cooperation with Germany have proved central to the economic integration of Europe, including the introduction of a common exchange currency, the euro, in January 1999. At present, France is at ...
www.exxun.com/France/a_fg.html
introduction
general assessment: highly developed domestic: extensive cable and microwave radio relay; extensive introduction of fiber-optic cable; domestic satellite system international: country code - 33; numerous submarine cables provide links throughout Europe, Asia ...
www.exxun.com/France/f_cm.html
introduction
introduction of foreign species on Iles Crozet has caused severe damage to the original ecosystem; overfishing of Patagonian Toothfish around Iles Crozet and Iles Kerguelen
www.exxun.com/FrenchSouthernandAntarcticLands/b_mp.html
introduction
... The government has introduced significant reforms in the financial sector, including tax and customs reforms, the introduction of Treasury bills, and improved capital market supervision. Indonesia's new investment law, passed in ...
www.exxun.com/Indonesia/e_ec.html
introduction
... in 2007 inflation had slowed to 8%, while GDP growth reached 7.5%. Fiscal reforms, including the introduction of a value-added tax and reform of the customs service, have improved the government ...
www.exxun.com/Mozambique/e_ec.html
introduction
... is also a large exporter of agricultural products. The country was a founding member of NATO and the EEC (now the EU), and participated in the introduction of the euro in 1999
www.exxun.com/Netherlands/a_fg.html
introduction
... medium term will depend on continued commitment to responsible monetary and fiscal policies and to the introduction of structural reforms to liberalize markets and promote competition. In 2000, the government of Ronald ...
www.exxun.com/Suriname/e_ec.html
introduction
... over the past several years has allowed the country to weather economic vagaries. Sweden joined the EU in 1995, but the public rejected the introduction of the euro in a 2003 referendum
www.exxun.com/Sweden/a_fg.html
introduction
... the world, which, at least from an economic point of view, are becoming further marginalized. The introduction of the euro as the common currency of much of Western Europe in January 1999 ...
www.exxun.com/World/e_ec.html
intrusion
water resource problems (no natural reservoir catchments, seasonal disparity in rainfall, sea water intrusion to island's largest aquifer, increased salination in the north); water pollution from sewage and industrial wastes; coastal ...
www.exxun.com/Cyprus/b_mp.html
Inuit
Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic (an Inuit dialect), German (small minority) note: English is the predominant second language
www.exxun.com/Denmark/c_pp.html
Inuit
protection of the arctic environment; preservation of the Inuit traditional way of life, including whaling and seal hunting
www.exxun.com/Greenland/b_mp.html
Inuit
Greenlander 88% (Inuit and Greenland-born whites), Danish and others 12% (2000)
www.exxun.com/Greenland/c_pp.html
Inuit
... Party (Solidarity) [Finn KARLSEN] (a conservative party favoring continuing close relations with Denmark); Demokratiit [Per BERTHELSEN]; Inuit Ataqatigiit or IA (Eskimo Brotherhood) [Josef MOTZFELDT] (a leftist party favoring complete independence from Denmark ...
www.exxun.com/Greenland/d_gv.html
INUM
... Council for Dialogue or INCD [Khalaf Ulayan al-Khalifawi al-DULAYMI]; Iraqi National Unity Movement or INUM [Ahmad al-KUBAYSI]; Islamic Action Organization or IAO [Ayatollah Muhammad al-MUDARRISI]; Islamic Supreme Council ...
www.exxun.com/Iraq/d_gv.html
inundated
droughts, cyclones; much of the country routinely inundated during the summer monsoon season
www.exxun.com/Bangladesh/b_mp.html
invaded
... in democracy ended in a 1973 coup and a 1978 Communist counter-coup. The Soviet Union invaded in 1979 to support the tottering Afghan Communist regime, touching off a long and destructive ...
www.exxun.com/Afghanistan/a_fg.html
invaded
... separation to rival clans within Ethiopia's Ogaden and southern Somalia's Oromo region; Ethiopian forces invaded southern Somalia and routed Islamist Courts from Mogadishu in January 2007; "Somaliland" secessionists provide port ...
www.exxun.com/Ethiopia/i_ti.html
invaded
... UK asserted its claim to the islands by establishing a naval garrison there in 1833. Argentina invaded the islands on 2 April 1982. The British responded with an expeditionary force that landed ...
www.exxun.com/FalklandIslands_IslasMalvinas/a_fg.html
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