stop
... the border with Argentina, while the court examines further whether Argentina has the legal right to stop such construction with potential environmental implications to both countries; uncontested dispute with Brazil over certain ...
www.exxun.com/Uruguay/i_ti.html
stopover
... traders landed at the southern tip of modern day South Africa in 1652 and established a stopover point on the spice route between the Netherlands and the East, founding the city of ...
www.exxun.com/SouthAfrica/a_fg.html
stopover
... held until the end of World War II. In subsequent years, Wake was developed as a stopover and refueling site for military and commercial aircraft transiting the Pacific. Since 1974, the island ...
www.exxun.com/WakeIsland/a_fg.html
stopped
... on South Georgia, was a 19th and early 20th century whaling station. Famed explorer Ernest SHACKLETON stopped there in 1914 en route to his ill-fated attempt to cross Antarctica on foot ...
www.exxun.com/SouthGeorgiaSouthSandwichIs/a_fg.html
stopping
... bound cocaine from South America, with an estimated 90% of annual cocaine movements towards the US stopping in Mexico; major drug syndicates control majority of drug trafficking throughout the country; producer and ...
www.exxun.com/Mexico/i_ti.html
stopping
... dissolved the parliament and were subsequently unable to hold elections because of the ongoing insurgency. While stopping short of reestablishing parliament, the king in June 2004 reinstated the most recently elected prime ...
www.exxun.com/Nepal/a_fg.html
stopping
... of disputes with Canada over fishing quotas and a steady decline in the number of ships stopping at Saint Pierre. In 1992, an arbitration panel awarded the islands an exclusive economic zone ...
www.exxun.com/SaintPierreandMiquelon/e_ec.html
storage
... is the mainstay of the small, open Aruban economy, with offshore banking and oil refining and storage also important. The rapid growth of the tourism sector over the last decade has resulted ...
www.exxun.com/Aruba/e_ec.html
storage
limited natural fresh water resources, roof storage tanks collect rainwater, but mostly dependent on a single, aging desalination plant; intensive phosphate mining during the past 90 years - mainly by a UK, Australia ...
www.exxun.com/Nauru/b_mp.html
storage
... rivers and groundwater is not potable, most water needs must be met by catchment systems with storage facilities (the Japanese Government has built one desalination plant and plans to build one other ...
www.exxun.com/Tuvalu/b_mp.html
storage
... in the 1950s and 1960s, and until late in 2000 the atoll was maintained as a storage and disposal site for chemical weapons. Munitions destruction, cleanup, and closure of the facility was ...
www.exxun.com/UnitedStatesPacificIsland/a_fg.html
Store
... Bistrica, Slovenske Konjice, Smarje pri Jelsah, Smartno ob Paki, Smartno pri Litiji, Sodrazica, Solcava, Sostanj, Starse, Store, Sveta Ana, Sveti Andraz v Slovenskih Goricah, Sveti Jurij, Tabor, Tisina, Tolmin, Trbovlje, Trebnje, Trnovska ...
www.exxun.com/Slovenia/d_gv.html
store
... Mugabe in June 2007 instituted price controls on all basic commodities causing panic buying and leaving store shelves empty for months. In October 2007, Constitutional Amendment 18 came into effect allowing for ...
www.exxun.com/Zimbabwe/a_fg.html
store
... as it struggles with an unsustainable fiscal deficit, an overvalued official exchange rate, hyperinflation, and bare store shelves. Its 1998-2002 involvement in the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo drained ...
www.exxun.com/Zimbabwe/e_ec.html
stores
population pressure forcing settlement in marginal areas results in overgrazing, severe soil erosion, and soil exhaustion; desertification; Highlands Water Project controls, stores, and redirects water to South Africa
www.exxun.com/Lesotho/b_mp.html
Storm
... A fiscal expansion is expected for 2008 prior to the elections in May and for Tropical Storm Noel reconstruction. Although the economy is growing at a respectable rate, high unemployment and underemployment ...
www.exxun.com/DominicanRepublic/e_ec.html
storm
... category 5), which struck the island with sustained winds of 250 kph and a 6 m storm surge inflicting major damage. A US Air Force assessment and repair team returned to the ...
www.exxun.com/WakeIsland/a_fg.html
storming
... as Bastille Day, the celebration actually commemorates the holiday held on the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille (on 14 July 1789) and the establishment of a constitutional monarchy; other ...
www.exxun.com/France/d_gv.html
storms
frequent hurricanes and other tropical storms (July to October)
www.exxun.com/Anguilla/b_mp.html
storms
... blow coastward from the high interior; frequent blizzards form near the foot of the plateau; cyclonic storms form over the ocean and move clockwise along the coast; volcanism on Deception Island and ...
www.exxun.com/Antarctica/b_mp.html
storms
hurricanes and tropical storms (July to October); periodic droughts
www.exxun.com/AntiguaandBarbuda/b_mp.html
storms
hurricanes and other tropical storms cause extensive flood and wind damage
www.exxun.com/Bahamas/b_mp.html
