breadfruit
... production, primarily subsistence, is concentrated on small farms; the most important commercial crops are coconuts and breadfruit. Small-scale industry is limited to handicrafts, tuna processing, and copra. The tourist industry, now ...
www.exxun.com/MarshallIslands/e_ec.html
breadfruit
... temporary slowdown. The agricultural sector is made up of cattle ranches and small farms producing coconuts, breadfruit, tomatoes, and melons. Garment production is by far the most important industry with the employment ...
www.exxun.com/NorthernMarianaIslands/e_ec.html
breadfruit
coconuts, copra, breadfruit, papayas, bananas; pigs, poultry, goats; fish
www.exxun.com/Tokelau/e_ec.html
breadfruit
breadfruit, yams, taro, bananas; pigs, goats; fish
www.exxun.com/WallisandFutuna/e_ec.html
breadth
general assessment: good domestic telephone service in terms of breadth of coverage; restricted cellular telephone service; state-run monopoly provider is struggling with the demand for new lines, resulting in long waiting ...
www.exxun.com/CostaRica/f_cm.html
breadth
... 1898 treaty; since late 1970s has also claimed polygonal-shaped area in South China Sea up to 285 nm in breadth exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: to depth of exploitation
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break
ice islands occasionally break away from northern Ellesmere Island; icebergs calved from glaciers in western Greenland and extreme northeastern Canada; permafrost in islands; virtually ice locked from October to June; ships subject ...
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break
... with the head of a black trident centered on the gold band; the trident head represents independence and a break with the past (the colonial coat of arms contained a complete trident
www.exxun.com/Barbados/d_gv.html
break
Moldova and Ukraine operate joint customs posts to monitor the transit of people and commodities through Moldova's break-away Transnistria region, which remains under OSCE supervision
www.exxun.com/Moldova/i_ti.html
break
... 2008 (next to be held in 2011) election results: percent of vote - NA; seats - independents 18; note - President Marcus STEPHEN called a snap election to break a parliamentary stalemate blocking legislative action
www.exxun.com/Nauru/d_gv.html
break
... to be expanded. The Turkmenistan Government is actively seeking to develop alternative petroleum transportation routes to break Russia's pipeline monopoly. President for Life Saparmurat NYYAZOW died in December 2006, and Turkmenistan ...
www.exxun.com/Turkmenistan/a_fg.html
break
... and Ukraine operate joint customs posts to monitor transit of people and commodities through Moldova's break-away Transnistria Region, which remains under OSCE supervision; the ICJ gave Ukraine until December 2006 ...
www.exxun.com/Ukraine/i_ti.html
breakaway
... years since independence, but this progress has been complicated by Russian assistance and support to the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Georgian military action in South Ossetia in early August ...
www.exxun.com/Georgia/a_fg.html
breakaway
other: Georgian independent deputies from Abkhaz government in exile; separatists in the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia
www.exxun.com/Georgia/d_gv.html
breakaway
... fighting for a separate state); Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal (TMVP) or Karuna Faction [Vinayagamurthi MURALITHARAN] (paramilitary breakaway from LTTE and fighting LTTE) other: Buddhist clergy; labor unions; radical chauvinist Sinhalese groups such ...
www.exxun.com/SriLanka/d_gv.html
breakdown
following the breakdown of the central government, most regions have reverted to local forms of conflict resolution, either secular, traditional Somali customary law, or Shari'a (Islamic) law with a provision for ...
www.exxun.com/Somalia/d_gv.html
breakdown
... threatened the new nation's security when a military strike led to violence and a near breakdown of law and order in Dili. At the request of the Government of Timor-Leste ...
www.exxun.com/EastTimor/a_fg.html
breaking
23 January 1579 (the northern provinces of the Low Countries conclude the Union of Utrecht breaking with Spain; on 26 July 1581 they formally declared their independence with an Act of Abjuration ...
www.exxun.com/Netherlands/d_gv.html
breakup
Since the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, Armenia has made progress in implementing many economic reforms including privatization, price reforms, and prudent fiscal policies. The conflict with Azerbaijan over the ...
www.exxun.com/Armenia/e_ec.html
breakup
... grain. Kazakhstan's industrial sector rests on the extraction and processing of these natural resources. The breakup of the USSR in December 1991 and the collapse in demand for Kazakhstan's traditional ...
www.exxun.com/Kazakhstan/e_ec.html
breakup
... government's stock in enterprises has been sold. Drops in production had been severe after the breakup of the Soviet Union in December 1991, but by mid-1995, production began to recover ...
www.exxun.com/Kyrgyzstan/e_ec.html
breakup
... recognized by the US and many other countries. Latvia reestablished its independence in 1991 following the breakup of the Soviet Union. Although the last Russian troops left in 1994, the status of ...
www.exxun.com/Latvia/a_fg.html
