contra
... 1979. Nicaraguan aid to leftist rebels in El Salvador caused the US to sponsor anti-Sandinista contra guerrillas through much of the 1980s. Free elections in 1990, 1996, and 2001, saw the ...
www.exxun.com/Nicaragua/a_fg.html
contraband
... Western Europe; limited opium and growing cannabis production; ethnic Albanian narcotrafficking organizations active and expanding in Europe; vulnerable to money laundering associated with regional trafficking in narcotics, arms, contraband, and illegal aliens
www.exxun.com/Albania/i_ti.html
contract
approximately 15,700 live on the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia including 7,700 Cypriots, 3,600 Service and UK-based contract personnel, and 4,400 dependents
www.exxun.com/Akrotiri/c_pp.html
contract
... Construction projects and various services needed to support the military installation are performed by military and contract employees from the UK, Mauritius, the Philippines, and the US. There are no industrial or ...
www.exxun.com/BritishIndianOceanTerritory/e_ec.html
contract
... improve health services, diversify exports, promote tourism, and reduce the high population growth rate. The political problems caused the economy to contract in 2007. Remittances from 150,000 Comorans abroad help supplement GDP
www.exxun.com/Comoros/e_ec.html
Contract
approximately 15,700 live on the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia including 7,700 Cypriots, 3,600 Service and UK Based Contract personnel, and 4,400 dependents
www.exxun.com/Dhekelia/c_pp.html
contract
... In 2006 the government of Alfredo PALACIO (2005-07) seized the assets of Occidental Petroleum for alleged contract violations and imposed a windfall revenue tax on foreign oil companies, leading to the suspension ...
www.exxun.com/Ecuador/e_ec.html
contract
... difficulties for international companies in working with the Eritrean government, a Canadian mining company signed a contract with the GSE in 2007 and plans to begin mineral extraction in 2010. Eritrea also ...
www.exxun.com/Eritrea/e_ec.html
contract
... men up to 2010 and, unlike Latvia and Lithuania, has no plan to transition to a contract armed forces; 17 years of age for volunteers; reserve commitment up to the age of ...
www.exxun.com/Estonia/h_ml.html
contract
... 1987, caused by concern over a government perceived as dominated by the Indian community (descendants of contract laborers brought to the islands by the British in the 19th century). The coups and ...
www.exxun.com/Fiji/a_fg.html
contract
... service sector. In July 2007 the Reserve Bank of Fiji announced the economy was expected to contract by 3.1% in 2007. Fiji's current account deficit reached 23% of GDP in 2006 ...
www.exxun.com/Fiji/e_ec.html
contract
... months in land or air defense forces or police; a small portion of Mongolian land forces (2.5 percent) is comprised of contract soldiers; women cannot be deployed overseas for military operations (2006
www.exxun.com/Mongolia/h_ml.html
contract
... a lesser extent, commercial sexual exploitation; the most common offense was forcing workers to accept worse contract terms than those under which they were recruited; other conditions include bonded labor, withholding of ...
www.exxun.com/Qatar/i_ti.html
contract
... of age for voluntary military service; conscription officially ended October 2006; all military inductees (including women) contract for an initial 5-year term of service; subsequent voluntary service contracts are for successive ...
www.exxun.com/Romania/h_ml.html
contract
... 1 year; reserve obligation to age 50; foreign citizens and dual-nationality Russians are precluded from contract military service; as of July 2008, a draft military strategy called for the draft to ...
www.exxun.com/Russia/h_ml.html
contract
mestico, angolares (descendants of Angolan slaves), forros (descendants of freed slaves), servicais (contract laborers from Angola, Mozambique, and Cape Verde), tongas (children of servicais born on the islands), Europeans (primarily Portuguese)
www.exxun.com/SaoTomeandPrincipe/c_pp.html
contract
... the French franc. Government price controls and subsidies have been steadily dismantled. After seeing its economy contract by 2.1% in 1993, Senegal made an important turnaround, thanks to the reform program, with ...
www.exxun.com/Senegal/e_ec.html
contract
... hurt by the emancipation of the slaves in 1834. Manpower was replaced with the importation of contract laborers from India between 1845 and 1917, which boosted sugar production as well as the ...
www.exxun.com/TrinidadandTobago/a_fg.html
contract
... the separate British colony of Tuvalu. Independence was granted in 1978. In 2000, Tuvalu negotiated a contract leasing its Internet domain name ".tv" for $50 million in royalties over a 12-year ...
www.exxun.com/Tuvalu/a_fg.html
contracted
22 years of age; inductees are contracted into service for a 4-year term (2005)
www.exxun.com/Afghanistan/h_ml.html
contracted
... public sector revenues in recent years. In 1999/2000, Ecuador suffered a severe economic crisis, with GDP contracted by more than 6%, with a significant increase in poverty. The banking system also collapsed ...
www.exxun.com/Ecuador/e_ec.html
contracted
... Kenya's problems, causing water and energy rationing and reducing agricultural output. As a result, GDP contracted by 0.2% in 2000. The IMF, which had resumed loans in 2000 to help Kenya ...
www.exxun.com/Kenya/e_ec.html
