introduction
... international facilities slightly better; mobile-cellular telephone services are expanding rapidly due, in part, to the introduction of low-cost GSM phones in 2006 domestic: coaxial cable and microwave radio relay trunk ...
www.exxun.com/Haiti/f_cm.html
introduction
... home of the dodo, a large flightless bird related to pigeons, driven to extinction by the end of the 17th century through a combination of hunting and the introduction of predatory species
www.exxun.com/Mauritius/b_mp.html
introduction
... in 2007 inflation had slowed to 8%, while GDP growth reached 7.5%. Fiscal reforms, including the introduction of a value-added tax and reform of the customs service, have improved the government ...
www.exxun.com/Mozambique/e_ec.html
introduction
... is also a large exporter of agricultural products. The country was a founding member of NATO and the EEC (now the EU), and participated in the introduction of the euro in 1999
www.exxun.com/Netherlands/a_fg.html
introduction
... medium term will depend on continued commitment to responsible monetary and fiscal policies and to the introduction of structural reforms to liberalize markets and promote competition. In 2000, the government of Ronald ...
www.exxun.com/Suriname/e_ec.html
introduction
... over the past several years has allowed the country to weather economic vagaries. Sweden joined the EU in 1995, but the public rejected the introduction of the euro in a 2003 referendum
www.exxun.com/Sweden/a_fg.html
introduction
... the world, which, at least from an economic point of view, are becoming further marginalized. The introduction of the euro as the common currency of much of Western Europe in January 1999 ...
www.exxun.com/World/e_ec.html
intrusion
water resource problems (no natural reservoir catchments, seasonal disparity in rainfall, sea water intrusion to island's largest aquifer, increased salination in the north); water pollution from sewage and industrial wastes; coastal ...
www.exxun.com/Cyprus/b_mp.html
Inuit
Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic (an Inuit dialect), German (small minority) note: English is the predominant second language
www.exxun.com/Denmark/c_pp.html
Inuit
protection of the arctic environment; preservation of the Inuit traditional way of life, including whaling and seal hunting
www.exxun.com/Greenland/b_mp.html
Inuit
Greenlander 88% (Inuit and Greenland-born whites), Danish and others 12% (2000)
www.exxun.com/Greenland/c_pp.html
Inuit
... Party (Solidarity) [Finn KARLSEN] (a conservative party favoring continuing close relations with Denmark); Demokratiit [Per BERTHELSEN]; Inuit Ataqatigiit or IA (Eskimo Brotherhood) [Josef MOTZFELDT] (a leftist party favoring complete independence from Denmark ...
www.exxun.com/Greenland/d_gv.html
INUM
... Council for Dialogue or INCD [Khalaf Ulayan al-Khalifawi al-DULAYMI]; Iraqi National Unity Movement or INUM [Ahmad al-KUBAYSI]; Islamic Action Organization or IAO [Ayatollah Muhammad al-MUDARRISI]; Islamic Supreme Council ...
www.exxun.com/Iraq/d_gv.html
inundated
droughts; cyclones; much of the country routinely inundated during the summer monsoon season
www.exxun.com/Bangladesh/b_mp.html
invaded
... in democracy ended in a 1973 coup and a 1978 Communist counter-coup. The Soviet Union invaded in 1979 to support the tottering Afghan Communist regime, touching off a long and destructive ...
www.exxun.com/Afghanistan/a_fg.html
