disrupted
... endemic corruption. A major banking crisis in 2003 shuttered the country's 20 private banks and disrupted the economy. As of 2007, the largest private banks operated under tight restrictions limiting the ...
www.exxun.com/Burma/e_ec.html
disrupted
... result of Israeli closure policies; these policies, which were imposed to address security concerns in Israel, disrupted labor and trade access to and from the Gaza Strip. In 2001, and even more ...
www.exxun.com/GazaStrip/e_ec.html
disrupted
general assessment: the 2003 liberation of Iraq severely disrupted telecommunications throughout Iraq including international connections; widespread government efforts to rebuild domestic and international communications through fiber optic links are in progress; the ...
www.exxun.com/Iraq/f_cm.html
disrupted
... insufficient funds to develop its resource base. The largely agrarian and subsistence-based economy is frequently disrupted by extended droughts common to the Sahel region of Africa. A predominately Tuareg ethnic group ...
www.exxun.com/Niger/a_fg.html
disrupted
... US$1.8 billion as of September 2007. The mid-2006 outbreak of violence and civil unrest disrupted both private and public sector economic activity and created 100,000 internally displaced persons - about 10 ...
www.exxun.com/EastTimor/e_ec.html
disrupted
... at colonization began on this island, similar to the effort on nearby Baker Island, but was disrupted by World War II and thereafter abandoned. The famed American aviatrix Amelia EARHART disappeared while ...
www.exxun.com/UnitedStatesPacificIsland/a_fg.html
disrupted
... policies - the imposition of closures and access restrictions in response to security concerns in Israel - which disrupted labor and trading relationships. In 2001, and even more severely in 2002, Israeli military measures ...
www.exxun.com/WestBank/e_ec.html
disruption
... severely in 2003, Israeli military measures in PA areas resulted in the destruction of capital, the disruption of administrative structures, and widespread business closures. The Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in ...
www.exxun.com/GazaStrip/e_ec.html
disruption
... severely in 2002, Israeli military measures in PA areas resulted in the destruction of capital, the disruption of administrative structures, and widespread business closures. International aid of at least $1.14 billion to ...
www.exxun.com/WestBank/e_ec.html
disruptions
endangered marine species include walruses and whales; fragile ecosystem slow to change and slow to recover from disruptions or damage; thinning polar icepack
www.exxun.com/ArcticOcean/b_mp.html
disruptive
... arbitrary changes in regulations, numerous rigorous inspections, retroactive application of new business regulations, and arrests of "disruptive" businessmen and factory owners. A wide range of redistributive policies has helped those at the ...
www.exxun.com/Belarus/e_ec.html
dissatisfaction
... Guinea's own vulnerability to political and economic crisis has increased. Declining economic conditions and popular dissatisfaction with corruption and bad governance prompted two massive strikes in 2006; a third nationwide strike ...
www.exxun.com/Guinea/a_fg.html
Dissatisfaction
... franc depreciated sharply as the prices for basic necessities like food and fuel rose beyond the reach of most Guineans. Dissatisfaction with economic conditions prompted nationwide strikes in February and June 2006
www.exxun.com/Guinea/e_ec.html
dissatisfaction
... a reformer Majles (parliament) in 2000, a campaign to foster political reform in response to popular dissatisfaction was initiated. The movement floundered as conservative politicians, through the control of unelected institutions, prevented ...
www.exxun.com/Iran/a_fg.html
dissatisfaction
... 2004 reinstated the most recently elected prime minister who formed a four-party coalition government. Citing dissatisfaction with the government's lack of progress in addressing the Maoist insurgency and corruption, the ...
www.exxun.com/Nepal/a_fg.html
dissatisfaction
... s increasing reliance on authoritarian measures and an economic slump in the late 1990s generated mounting dissatisfaction with his regime, which led to his ouster in 2000. A caretaker government oversaw new ...
www.exxun.com/Peru/a_fg.html
dissatisfied
... two-part country with its territorial units separated by 1,600 km left the Bengalis marginalized and dissatisfied. East Pakistan seceded from its union with West Pakistan in 1971 and was renamed Bangladesh ...
www.exxun.com/Bangladesh/a_fg.html
dissatisfied
... passive resistance to gain international assistance and recognition of its demands for independence. In 1995, Albanians dissatisfied with RUGOVA's nonviolent strategy created the Kosovo Liberation Army and launched an insurgency. In ...
www.exxun.com/Kosovo/a_fg.html
Dissatisfied
... became a republic of the renewed Yugoslavia, which though Communist, distanced itself from Moscow's rule. Dissatisfied with the exercise of power by the majority Serbs, the Slovenes succeeded in establishing their ...
www.exxun.com/Slovenia/a_fg.html
dissected
rugged mountains dissected by narrow valleys
www.exxun.com/Andorra/b_mp.html
dissected
mostly flat to dissected, undulating plains; hills in west and southeast
www.exxun.com/BurkinaFaso/b_mp.html
dissected
diverse, with coastal plain in southwest, dissected plateau in center, mountains in west, plains in north
www.exxun.com/Cameroon/b_mp.html
