flight
... recurring economic crises, persistent fiscal and current account deficits, high inflation, mounting external debt, and capital flight. A severe depression, growing public and external indebtedness, and a bank run culminated in 2001 ...
www.exxun.com/Argentina/e_ec.html
Flight
... retreat in 1987. UN sanctions in 1992 isolated QADHAFI politically following the downing of Pan AM Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. During the 1990s, QADHAFI began to rebuild his relationships with Europe ...
www.exxun.com/Libya/a_fg.html
flight
4,521 note: lowered by flight of people from volcanic activity (2000 est.)
www.exxun.com/Montserrat/e_ec.html
flight
... budget. In mid-November, mini-devaluations of the currency by the Central Bank caused increased capital flight and froze domestic credit markets, resulting in growing unemployment, wage arrears, and a severe drop ...
www.exxun.com/Russia/e_ec.html
flight
... disappeared while 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 ...
www.exxun.com/UnitedStatesPacificIsland/a_fg.html
flight
... unusable Howland Island: airstrip constructed in 1937 for scheduled refueling stop on the round-the-world flight of Amelia EARHART and Fred NOONAN; the aviators left Lae, New Guinea, for Howland Island ...
www.exxun.com/UnitedStatesPacificIsland/g_tr.html
flight
... end of vast colonial empires; (d) rapid advances in science and technology, from the first airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina (US) to the landing on the moon; (e) the Cold ...
www.exxun.com/World/a_fg.html
flightless
... volcanic origin and is almost entirely surrounded by coral reefs; home of the dodo, a large flightless bird related to pigeons, driven to extinction by the end of the 17th century through ...
www.exxun.com/Mauritius/b_mp.html
flightless
while not an official symbol, the Kiwi, a small native flightless bird, represents New Zealand
www.exxun.com/NewZealand/d_gv.html
flights
... embargo in place since 1961. Illicit migration to the US - using homemade rafts, alien smugglers, air flights, or via the southwest border - is a continuing problem. The US Coast Guard intercepted 2,656 ...
www.exxun.com/Cuba/a_fg.html
flights
... using homemade rafts, alien smugglers, direct flights, or falsified visas; Cubans also use non-maritime routes to enter the US including direct flights to Miami and over-land via the southwest border
www.exxun.com/Cuba/c_pp.html
flights
nearest airport for international flights is Princess Juliana International Airport (SXM) located in Sint Maarten (Netherlands Antilles)
www.exxun.com/SaintBarthelemy/g_tr.html
flights
... the UK permitted the US to construct an airfield on Ascension in support of trans-Atlantic flights to Africa and anti-submarine operations in the South Atlantic. In the 1960s the island ...
www.exxun.com/SaintHelena/a_fg.html
flights
nearest airport for international flights is Princess Juliana International Airport (SXM) located in Sint Maarten
www.exxun.com/SaintMartin/g_tr.html
