overpopulation
... have led to decreased tensions since 2002. Despite impressive gains in economic investment and output, India faces pressing problems such as significant overpopulation, environmental degradation, extensive poverty, and ethnic and religious strife
www.exxun.com/India/a_fg.html
overpopulation
large areas subject to overpopulation, industrial disasters, pollution (air, water, acid rain, toxic substances), loss of vegetation (overgrazing, deforestation, desertification), loss of wildlife, soil degradation, soil depletion, erosion; global warming becoming a ...
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overran
... forces were withdrawn following a cease-fire agreement in 1973. Two years later, North Vietnamese forces overran the South reuniting the country under Communist rule. Despite the return of peace, for over ...
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override
... and accelerate privatization. However, the government does not have the necessary two-thirds majority needed to override a presidential veto, and thus may have to water down initiatives in order to garner ...
www.exxun.com/Poland/e_ec.html
overriding
... develop some of North Korea's infrastructure and natural resources and light industry. Firm political control remains the Communist government's overriding concern, which will likely inhibit the loosening of economic regulations
www.exxun.com/Korea_North/e_ec.html
overrun
... its place in the Balkans, but by the end of the 14th century the country was overrun by the Ottoman Turks. Northern Bulgaria attained autonomy in 1878 and all of Bulgaria became ...
www.exxun.com/Bulgaria/a_fg.html
overrun
... the ruling Kuwaiti AL-SABAH dynasty from 1899 until independence in 1961. Kuwait was attacked and overrun by Iraq on 2 August 1990. Following several weeks of aerial bombardment, a US-led ...
www.exxun.com/Kuwait/a_fg.html
Overrun
... Belgium in 1839, but gained a larger measure of autonomy. Full independence was attained in 1867. Overrun by Germany in both World Wars, it ended its neutrality in 1948 when it entered ...
www.exxun.com/Luxembourg/a_fg.html
overrun
... Prussia, and Austria partitioned Poland amongst themselves. Poland regained its independence in 1918 only to be overrun by Germany and the Soviet Union in World War II. It became a Soviet satellite ...
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overrun
... the Axis powers and participated in the 1941 German invasion of the USSR. Three years later, overrun by the Soviets, Romania signed an armistice. The post-war Soviet occupation led to the ...
www.exxun.com/Romania/a_fg.html
overruns
... Fund curtailed their program for the DRC at the end of March 2006 because of fiscal overruns. Much economic activity still occurs in the informal sector, and is not reflected in GDP ...
www.exxun.com/Congo_DemocraticRepublic/e_ec.html
oversaw
Britain oversaw foreign relations and defense for the ruling Kuwaiti AL-SABAH dynasty from 1899 until independence in 1961. Kuwait was attacked and overrun by Iraq on 2 August 1990. Following several ...
www.exxun.com/Kuwait/a_fg.html
oversaw
... A bloodless coup in August 2005 deposed President TAYA and ushered in a military council that oversaw a transition to democratic rule. Independent candidate Sidi Ould Cheikh ABDALLAHI was inaugurated in April ...
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oversaw
... generated mounting dissatisfaction with his regime, which led to his ouster in 2000. A caretaker government oversaw new elections in the spring of 2001, which ushered in Alejandro TOLEDO as the new ...
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oversaw
... the status of a separate crown colony upon Jamaica's independence. The governor of The Bahamas oversaw affairs from 1965 to 1973. With Bahamian independence, the islands received a separate governor in ...
www.exxun.com/TurksandCaicosIslands/a_fg.html
overseas
a special form of UK overseas territory; administered by an administrator who is also the Commander, British Forces Cyprus
www.exxun.com/Akrotiri/d_gv.html
overseas
none (overseas territory of the UK)
www.exxun.com/Anguilla/d_gv.html
overseas
... employed in the agriculture sector, with rice as the single-most-important product. Garment exports and remittances from Bangladeshis working overseas, mainly in the Middle East and East Asia, fuel economic growth
www.exxun.com/Bangladesh/e_ec.html
overseas
none (overseas territory of the UK)
www.exxun.com/Bermuda/d_gv.html
overseas
overseas territory of the UK; administered by a commissioner, resident in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London
www.exxun.com/BritishIndianOceanTerritory/d_gv.html
overseas
overseas territory of the UK; internal self-governing
www.exxun.com/BritishVirginIslands/d_gv.html
overseas
... 90% of exports. Per capita GDP is among the highest in Asia, and substantial income from overseas investment supplements income from domestic production. The government provides for all medical services and free ...
www.exxun.com/Brunei/e_ec.html
overseas
... unreliable statistics, and an inability to reconcile national accounts to determine a realistic GDP figure. Most overseas development assistance ceased after the junta began to suppress the democracy movement in 1988 and ...
www.exxun.com/Burma/e_ec.html
overseas
none (overseas territory of the UK)
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