slated
... held 17 June 2005 with a two-candidate runoff on 24 June 2005 (next presidential election slated for 2009) election results: Mahmud AHMADI-NEJAD elected president; percent of vote - Mahmud AHMADI-NEJAD ...
www.exxun.com/Iran/d_gv.html
slated
... system domestic: no recent growth in fixed-line infrastructure and the sole provider, Telkom Kenya, is slated for privatization; multiple providers in the mobile-cellular segment of the market fostering a boom ...
www.exxun.com/Kenya/f_cm.html
slated
... trade policy reforms will improve the business environment. On the fiscal side, a value-added tax (VAT) regime, slated to begin in 2008, should help streamline the government's inefficient tax system
www.exxun.com/Laos/e_ec.html
slated
... constitution by the end of 2007 and first-ever presidential elections under a multi-candidate, multi-party system are slated for November 2008. Tourism and fishing are being developed on the archipelago
www.exxun.com/Maldives/a_fg.html
slates
... the Meshrano Jirga by September 2008) election results: the single non-transferable vote (SNTV) system used in the election did not make use of political party slates; most candidates ran as independents
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slates
... of seats in the National Assembly is based on population; 614 seats; members elected directly from slates approved by special candidacy commissions to serve five-year terms) elections: last held 20 January ...
www.exxun.com/Cuba/d_gv.html
slates
... note: the Kurdistan Alliance, Iraqi National List, Tawafuq Front, Iraqi Front for National Dialogue, and Unified Iraqi Alliance were only electoral slates consisting of the representatives from the various Iraqi political parties
www.exxun.com/Iraq/d_gv.html
Slatina
... Radece, Radenci, Radlje ob Dravi, Radovljica, Ravne na Koroskem, Razkrizje, Ribnica, Ribnica na Pohorju, Rogasovci, Rogaska Slatina, Rogatec, Ruse, Salovci, Selnica ob Dravi, Semic, Sempeter-Vrtojba, Sencur, Sentilj, Sentjernej, Sentjur pri Celju ...
www.exxun.com/Slovenia/d_gv.html
slaughterhouses
uranium mining, cement, brick, soap, textiles, food processing, chemicals, slaughterhouses
www.exxun.com/Niger/e_ec.html
slave
Once the center of the Caribbean slave trade, the island of Curacao was hard hit by the abolition of slavery in 1863. Its prosperity (and that of neighboring Aruba) was restored in ...
www.exxun.com/NetherlandsAntilles/a_fg.html
slave
... 1898, after 400 years of colonial rule that saw the indigenous population nearly exterminated and African slave labor introduced, Puerto Rico was ceded to the US as a result of the Spanish ...
www.exxun.com/PuertoRico/a_fg.html
slave
... based economy gave way to coffee and cocoa in the 19th century - all grown with plantation slave labor, a form of which lingered into the 20th century. While independence was achieved in ...
www.exxun.com/SaoTomeandPrincipe/a_fg.html
slave
... War (1861-65), in which a northern Union of states defeated a secessionist Confederacy of 11 southern slave states, and the Great Depression of the 1930s, an economic downturn during which about a ...
www.exxun.com/UnitedStates/a_fg.html
slave
... archipelago was divided into two territorial units, one English and the other Danish. Sugarcane, produced by slave labor, drove the islands' economy during the 18th and early 19th centuries. In 1917, the ...
www.exxun.com/VirginIslands/a_fg.html
Slavery
... by the Spanish and French were succeeded by the English who formed a colony in 1667. Slavery, established to run the sugar plantations on Antigua, was abolished in 1834. The islands became ...
www.exxun.com/AntiguaandBarbuda/a_fg.html
slavery
... the British in 1627. Slaves worked the sugar plantations established on the island until 1834 when slavery was abolished. The economy remained heavily dependent on sugar, rum, and molasses production through most ...
www.exxun.com/Barbados/a_fg.html
slavery
... into China from Mongolia, Burma, North Korea, Russia, and Vietnam for forced labor, marriage, and sexual slavery; most North Koreans enter northeastern China voluntarily, but others reportedly are trafficked into China from ...
www.exxun.com/China/i_ti.html
slavery
... colony in the 17th century, by 1815 Guyana had become a British possession. The abolition of slavery led to black settlement of urban areas and the importation of indentured servants from India ...
www.exxun.com/Guyana/a_fg.html
slavery
... in 1655 and established a plantation economy based on sugar, cocoa, and coffee. The abolition of slavery in 1834 freed a quarter million slaves, many of whom became small farmers. Jamaica gradually ...
www.exxun.com/Jamaica/a_fg.html
slavery
... of the Caribbean slave trade, the island of Curacao was hard hit by the abolition of slavery in 1863. Its prosperity (and that of neighboring Aruba) was restored in the early 20th ...
www.exxun.com/NetherlandsAntilles/a_fg.html
slavery
... it served as a provisioning station for the Royal Navy's West Africa Squadron on anti-slavery patrol. The island remained under Admiralty control until 1922, when it became a dependency of ...
www.exxun.com/SaintHelena/a_fg.html
slavery
... 14 times); it was finally ceded to the UK in 1814. Even after the abolition of slavery on its plantations in 1834, Saint Lucia remained an agricultural island, dedicated to producing tropical ...
www.exxun.com/SaintLucia/a_fg.html
