light
three equal horizontal bands of light green (top), white, and light blue
www.exxun.com/SierraLeone/d_gv.html
light
... population engages in subsistence agriculture. Manufacturing consists mainly of the processing of raw materials and of light manufacturing for the domestic market. Alluvial diamond mining remains the major source of hard currency ...
www.exxun.com/SierraLeone/e_ec.html
light
light blue with a large white five-pointed star in the center; blue field influenced by the flag of the UN
www.exxun.com/Somalia/d_gv.html
light
a few light industries, including sugar refining, textiles, wireless communication
www.exxun.com/Somalia/e_ec.html
light
oil, cotton ginning, textiles, cement, edible oils, sugar, soap distilling, shoes, petroleum refining, pharmaceuticals, armaments, automobile/light truck assembly
www.exxun.com/Sudan/e_ec.html
light
... Industry consists only of a large aluminum plant, hydropower facilities, and small obsolete factories mostly in light industry and food processing. The civil war (1992-97) severely damaged the already weak economic infrastructure ...
www.exxun.com/Tajikistan/e_ec.html
light
... to only 4% of the land area. Industry traditionally featured the processing of agricultural products and light consumer goods. The World Bank, the IMF, and bilateral donors have provided funds to rehabilitate ...
www.exxun.com/Tanzania/e_ec.html
light
tourism, textiles and garments, agricultural processing, beverages, tobacco, cement, light manufacturing such as jewelry and electric appliances, computers and parts, integrated circuits, furniture, plastics, automobiles and automotive parts; world's second-largest ...
www.exxun.com/Thailand/e_ec.html
light
light blue with the flag of the UK in the upper hoist-side quadrant; the outer half of the flag represents a map of the country with nine yellow five-pointed stars ...
www.exxun.com/Tuvalu/d_gv.html
Light
... seeking out Howland Island as a refueling stop during her 1937 round-the-world flight; Earhart Light, a day beacon near the middle of the west coast, was named in her memory ...
www.exxun.com/UnitedStatesPacificIsland/a_fg.html
light
... of the economy. Mineral deposits are negligible; the country has no known petroleum deposits. A small light industry sector caters to the local market. Tax revenues come mainly from import duties. Economic ...
www.exxun.com/Vanuatu/e_ec.html
lightening
... and long-term growth. Italy has moved slowly, however, on implementing needed structural reforms, such as lightening the high tax burden and overhauling Italy's rigid labor market and over-generous pension ...
www.exxun.com/Italy/e_ec.html
lighter
... country's prolonged economic hardship; the country has recently experienced a strong recovery, and the military is implementing a modernization plan aimed at making the ground forces lighter and more responsive (2008
www.exxun.com/Argentina/h_ml.html
lighter
... bands of red (top), white, and blue; similar to the flag of Luxembourg, which uses a lighter blue and is longer; one of the oldest flags in constant use, originating with William ...
www.exxun.com/Netherlands/d_gv.html
lighter
... more than one-quarter of Pitcairn's small labor force was arrested, putting the economy in a bind, since their services were required as lighter crew to load or unload passing ships
www.exxun.com/PitcairnIslands/e_ec.html
lighterage
note: the Cocos Islands Cooperative Society Ltd. employs construction workers, stevedores, and lighterage workers; tourism employs others
www.exxun.com/Cocos_Keeling_Islands/e_ec.html
lighters
1,293 km note: 168 km for launches and lighters on Volta, Ankobra, and Tano rivers; 1,125 km of arterial and feeder waterways on Lake Volta (2007)
www.exxun.com/Ghana/g_tr.html
lighthouse
... a territory of Australia in 1969. They are uninhabited except for a small meteorological staff on the Willis Islets. Automated weather stations, beacons, and a lighthouse occupy many other islands and reefs
www.exxun.com/CoralSeaIslands/a_fg.html
lighthouse
... by the US in 1857 for its guano. Mining took place between 1865 and 1898. The lighthouse, built in 1917, was shut down in 1996 and administration of Navassa Island transferred from ...
www.exxun.com/NavassaIsland/a_fg.html
lighthouse
... 1996, the Coast Guard ceased operations and maintenance of Navassa Island Light, a 46-meter-tall lighthouse on the southern side of the island; there has also been a private claim advanced ...
www.exxun.com/NavassaIsland/d_gv.html
lighthouses
aids to navigation - lighthouses: Europa Island 18m; Juan de Nova Island (W side) 37m; Tromelin Island (NW point) 11m (all in the Iles Eparses district)
www.exxun.com/FrenchSouthernandAntarcticLands/g_tr.html
lightly
... illicit drugs to and via Russia, and to the Baltics and Western Europe; a small and lightly regulated financial center; new anti-money-laundering legislation does not meet international standards; few investigations ...
www.exxun.com/Belarus/i_ti.html
Ligitan
... some parts of their maritime boundary but outstanding issues remain; ICJ's award of Sipadan and Ligitan islands to Malaysia in 2002 left the sovereignty of Unarang rock and the maritime boundary ...
www.exxun.com/Indonesia/i_ti.html
