drawn
... facing difficulties. Tehran has formulated a 2009 budget that anticipates lower oil prices. The government has drawn down the country's Oil Stabilization Fund, and may be dipping into foreign exchange reserves ...
www.exxun.com/Iran/e_ec.html
drawn
... seven years; indirect election limited to organizations registered as "corporate voters" (257 are currently registered) and a 300-member Election Committee drawn from broad regional groupings, municipal organizations, and central government bodies
www.exxun.com/Macau/d_gv.html
drawn
... the Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands (RAMSI), consisting of police, military, and civilian advisors drawn from 15 countries, has assisted in reestablishing and maintaining civil and political order while reinforcing ...
www.exxun.com/SolomonIslands/i_ti.html
drawn
18 years of age (est.); recruitment is voluntary, with personnel drawn almost exclusively from the Creole community (2007)
www.exxun.com/Suriname/h_ml.html
drawn
... in 1949, 2 million Nationalists fled to Taiwan and established a government using the 1946 constitution drawn up for all of China. Over the next five decades, the ruling authorities gradually democratized ...
www.exxun.com/Taiwan/a_fg.html
draws
... as a result of years of underinvestment and shortages of spare parts. Large-scale military spending draws off resources needed for investment and civilian consumption. Industrial and power output have declined in ...
www.exxun.com/Korea_North/e_ec.html
draws
... in Zanzibar and nearby coastal Tanzania; although Kiswahili is Bantu in structure and origin, its vocabulary draws on a variety of sources including Arabic and English; it has become the lingua franca ...
www.exxun.com/Tanzania/c_pp.html
DRC
... still does not fully control the countryside, where pockets of lawlessness persist. Unrest in neighboring nations, Chad, Sudan, and the DRC, continues to affect stability in the Central African Republic as well
www.exxun.com/CentralAfricanRepublic/a_fg.html
DRC
... intervened to support KABILA's regime. A cease-fire was signed in July 1999 by the DRC, Congolese armed rebel groups, Angola, Namibia, Rwanda, Uganda, and Zimbabwe but sporadic fighting continued. Laurent ...
www.exxun.com/Congo_DemocraticRepublic/a_fg.html
DRC
... Republic of the Congo conventional short form: DRC local long form: Republique Democratique du Congo local short form: RDC former: Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Congo/Leopoldville, Congo/Kinshasa, Zaire abbreviation: DRC
www.exxun.com/Congo_DemocraticRepublic/d_gv.html
DRC
... reforms, although progress has been slow and the International Monetary Fund curtailed their program for the DRC at the end of March 2006 because of fiscal overruns. Much economic activity still occurs ...
www.exxun.com/Congo_DemocraticRepublic/e_ec.html
DRC
... have returned to Rwanda, but several thousand remained in the neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC; the former Zaire) and formed an extremist insurgency bent on retaking Rwanda, much as the ...
www.exxun.com/Rwanda/a_fg.html
dredging
... the Eastern and Western Hemispheres. Other economic activity includes the exploitation of natural resources, e.g., fishing, dredging of aragonite sands (The Bahamas), and production of crude oil and natural gas (Caribbean Sea ...
www.exxun.com/AtlanticOcean/e_ec.html
