embracing
... recession because of political inaction and natural disasters, as well as economic growth because of reform-embracing, free-market economics and extensive privatization of the formerly state-run economy. Severe winters and ...
www.exxun.com/Mongolia/e_ec.html
embroidery
... numbering in the millions - in debt bondage face involuntary servitude in brick kilns, rice mills, and embroidery factories, while some children endure involuntary servitude as domestic servants; internal trafficking of women and ...
www.exxun.com/India/i_ti.html
embroiled
... Islamic-oriented governments have dominated national politics since independence from the UK in 1956. Sudan was embroiled in two prolonged civil wars during most of the remainder of the 20th century. These ...
www.exxun.com/Sudan/a_fg.html
Emel
... Prime Minister Sergei STANISHEV (since 16 August 2005); Deputy Prime Ministers Ivaylo KALFIN, Daniel VULCHEV, and Emel ETEM (since 16 August 2005) and Meglena PLUGCHIEVA (since 25 April 2008) cabinet: Council of ...
www.exxun.com/Bulgaria/d_gv.html
emeralds
petroleum, natural gas, coal, iron ore, nickel, gold, copper, emeralds, hydropower
www.exxun.com/Colombia/b_mp.html
emeralds
textiles, food processing, oil, clothing and footwear, beverages, chemicals, cement; gold, coal, emeralds
www.exxun.com/Colombia/e_ec.html
emeralds
textiles and apparel, tea and spices; diamonds, emeralds, rubies; coconut products, rubber manufactures, fish
www.exxun.com/SriLanka/e_ec.html
emeralds
copper, cobalt, zinc, lead, coal, emeralds, gold, silver, uranium, hydropower
www.exxun.com/Zambia/b_mp.html
emerge
Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy, was able to emerge from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and to gradually conquer and absorb surrounding principalities. In ...
www.exxun.com/Russia/a_fg.html
emerged
... wars saw Kabul finally fall in 1996 to the Taliban, a hardline Pakistani-sponsored movement that emerged in 1994 to end the country's civil war and anarchy. Following the 11 September ...
www.exxun.com/Afghanistan/a_fg.html
emerged
... up despite several peace agreements between the government and the rebels. In 2005, new rebel groups emerged in western Sudan and made probing attacks into eastern Chad, despite signing peace agreements in ...
www.exxun.com/Chad/a_fg.html
emerged
Colombia was one of the three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (the others are Ecuador and Venezuela). A 40-year conflict between government forces and anti ...
www.exxun.com/Colombia/a_fg.html
emerged
... region subsequently came under the control of Germans, Poles, Swedes, and finally, Russians. A Latvian republic emerged following World War I, but it was annexed by the USSR in 1940 - an action ...
www.exxun.com/Latvia/a_fg.html
emerged
... disrupted by extended droughts common to the Sahel region of Africa. A predominately Tuareg ethnic group emerged in February 2007, the Nigerien Movement for Justice (MNJ), and attacked several military targets in ...
www.exxun.com/Niger/a_fg.html
emerged
... obsolete industrial base and a pattern of output unsuited to the country's needs. The country emerged in 2000 from a punishing three-year recession thanks to strong demand in EU export ...
www.exxun.com/Romania/e_ec.html
emerged
... NYYAZOW died in December 2006, and Turkmenistan held its first multi-candidate presidential electoral process in February 2007. Gurbanguly BERDIMUHAMEDOW, a vice premier under NYYAZOW, emerged as the country's new president
www.exxun.com/Turkmenistan/a_fg.html
emerged
Venezuela was one of three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (the others being Ecuador and New Granada, which became Colombia). For most of the first half ...
www.exxun.com/Venezuela/a_fg.html
emergence
... in 1991 by a military coup - led by the current president Amadou TOURE - enabling Mali's emergence as one of the strongest democracies on the continent. President Alpha KONARE won Mali's ...
www.exxun.com/Mali/a_fg.html
emergence
... biological diversity, and air pollution; (h) the onset of the AIDS epidemic; and (i) the ultimate emergence of the US as the only world superpower. The planet's population continues to explode ...
www.exxun.com/World/a_fg.html
emergencies
... 4) prevention of marine pollution, 5) area protection and management and 6) liability arising from environmental emergencies; it prohibits all activities relating to mineral resources except scientific research; a permanent Antarctic Treaty ...
www.exxun.com/Antarctica/d_gv.html
emergencies
... state machinery, and as such is expected to suppress political and civil unrest and similar national emergencies, but the LPA also has upgraded skills to respond to avian influenza outbreaks; there is ...
www.exxun.com/Laos/h_ml.html
emergencies
... Airways for flying boats in 1937 and 1938 Midway Islands: 3 - one operational (2,409 m paved); no fuel for sale except emergencies Palmyra Atoll: 1 - 1,846 m unpaved runway; privately owned (2008
www.exxun.com/UnitedStatesPacificIsland/g_tr.html
emergencies
18 years of age for voluntary and compulsory military service; enlistment is voluntary in peacetime, but the government has the authority to conscript in emergencies (2007)
www.exxun.com/Uruguay/h_ml.html