Once
Once part of Spain's vast empire in the New World, Honduras became an independent nation in 1821. After two and a half decades of mostly military rule, a freely elected civilian ...
www.exxun.com/Honduras/a_fg.html
once
... areas east of An Nasiriyah by drying up or diverting the feeder streams and rivers; a once sizable population of Marsh Arabs, who inhabited these areas for thousands of years, has been ...
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once
Ireland is a small, modern, trade-dependent economy with growth averaging 6% in 1995-2007. Agriculture, once the most important sector, is now dwarfed by industry and services. Although the exports sector, dominated ...
www.exxun.com/Ireland/e_ec.html
once
... paid off in expanding employment opportunities in high-income industries. As a result, agriculture and fishing, once the mainstays of the economy, have declined in their shares of GDP. The Isle of ...
www.exxun.com/IsleofMan/e_ec.html
once
... metals - including lignite, lead, zinc, nickel, chrome, aluminum, magnesium, and a wide variety of construction materials - once formed the backbone of industry, but output has declined because investment has been insufficient to ...
www.exxun.com/Kosovo/e_ec.html
once
... extraction and processing and garment manufacturing that could further close the import/export gap. Mozambique's once substantial foreign debt has been reduced through forgiveness and rescheduling under the IMF's Heavily ...
www.exxun.com/Mozambique/e_ec.html
Once
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
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... keep up with rapid population growth - Nigeria is Africa's most populous country - and the country, once a large net exporter of food, now must import food. Following the signing of an ...
www.exxun.com/Nigeria/e_ec.html
once
... Although Norwegian oil production peaked in 2000, natural gas production is still rising. Norwegians realize that once their gas production peaks they will eventually face declining oil and gas revenues; accordingly, Norway ...
www.exxun.com/Norway/e_ec.html
once
China and Russia have demarcated the once disputed islands at the Amur and Ussuri confluence and in the Argun River in accordance with the 2004 Agreement, ending their centuries-long border disputes ...
www.exxun.com/Russia/i_ti.html
once
First settled by the French in the early 17th century, the islands represent the sole remaining vestige of France's once vast North American possessions.
www.exxun.com/SaintPierreandMiquelon/a_fg.html
once
... illustrated the vulnerability of the tourist sector in 1991-92 due largely to the Gulf War and once again following the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on the US. Economic growth slowed in ...
www.exxun.com/Seychelles/e_ec.html
once
... became a Communist nation within Soviet-ruled Eastern Europe. Soviet influence collapsed in 1989 and Czechoslovakia once more became free. The Slovaks and the Czechs agreed to separate peacefully on 1 January ...
www.exxun.com/Slovakia/a_fg.html
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deforestation; soil erosion; land degradation; air and water pollution; the black rhinoceros herd - once the largest concentration of the species in the world - has been significantly reduced by poaching; poor mining practices ...
www.exxun.com/Zimbabwe/b_mp.html
once
general assessment: system was once one of the best in Africa, but now suffers from poor maintenance; more than 100,000 outstanding requests for connection despite an equally large number of installed but ...
www.exxun.com/Zimbabwe/f_cm.html
Ondimba
... Gabon since independence from France in 1960. The current president of Gabon, El Hadj Omar BONGO Ondimba - one of the longest-serving heads of state in the world - has dominated the country ...
www.exxun.com/Gabon/a_fg.html
Ondimba
... held in 2012); prime minister appointed by the president election results: President El Hadj Omar BONGO Ondimba reelected; percent of vote - El Hadj Omar BONGO Ondimba 79.2%, Pierre MAMBOUNDOU 13.6%, Zacharie MYBOTO ...
www.exxun.com/Gabon/d_gv.html
ONDO
chief of mission: Ambassador Purificacion ANGUE ONDO chancery: 2020 16th Street NW, Washington, DC 20009 telephone: [1] (202) 518-5700 FAX: [1] (202) 518-5252
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Ondo
... Cross River, Delta, Ebonyi, Edo, Ekiti, Enugu, Federal Capital Territory*, Gombe, Imo, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Kogi, Kwara, Lagos, Nassarawa, Niger, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Oyo, Plateau, Rivers, Sokoto, Taraba, Yobe, Zamfara
www.exxun.com/Nigeria/d_gv.html
onerous
... deficit, large-scale unemployment and underemployment, and a debt-to-GDP ratio of 135%. Jamaica's onerous debt burden - the fourth highest per capita - is the result of government bailouts to ailing ...
www.exxun.com/Jamaica/e_ec.html
ones
French (official), Fon and Yoruba (most common vernaculars in south), tribal languages (at least six major ones in north)
www.exxun.com/Benin/c_pp.html
ones
... centered white cross that extends to the edges divides the flag into four rectangles - the top ones are blue (hoist side) and red, and the bottom ones are red (hoist side) and ...
www.exxun.com/DominicanRepublic/d_gv.html
