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  The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Economy - overview
Military rebellions and social unrest in 1996 were accompanied by widespread destruction of property and a drop in GDP of 2%.
Since 1962, when France stationed military personnel in the region, French Polynesia has changed from a subsistence economy to one in which a high proportion of the work force is either employed by the military or supports the tourist industry.
However, intermittent fighting between Senegalese-backed government troops and a military junta destroyed much of the country's infrastructure and caused widespread damage to the economy in 1998; the civil war led to a 28% drop in GDP that year, with partial recovery in 1999-2001.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Crusades
From a military point of view all vassals owed the king unlimited service as to time, though he was obliged to compensate them, but to fill the ranks of the army it was necessary to enroll natives who received a life annuity (fief de soudée).
On two occasions, in 1164 and 1167, he forced Shírkúh to evacuate Egypt; a body of Frankish knights was stationed at one of the gates of Cairo, and Egypt paid a tribute of 100,000 dinárs to the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
Instead of concentrating the forces of Christendom against the Mohammedans, the pope himself disbanded them by proclaiming (1209) a crusade against the Albigenses in the south of France, and against the Almohades of Spain (1213), the pagans of Prussia, and John Lackland of England.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/04543c.htm   (14112 words)

  
 Brazil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Since 1985, Brazil has been internationally considered a democracy, specifically a presidential democracy; that status was affirmed in a 1993 plebiscite, in which voters were asked to choose between a presidential or parliamentary system; voters also decided not to restore the country's constitutional monarchy.
After decades of high inflation and several attempts to control it, Brazil embarked on an economic stabilisation program, the Real Plan (named after the new currency it's introduced, the Real) in July 1994, during the Itamar Franco administration.
Since the end of the country's military regime and the re-establishment of freedom of the press in the country, constant scandals involving members of the Executive, Legislative and Judiciary governments accused of participating in schemes of bribery, embezzlement, money laundering and anonymous banking have come to surface.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brazil   (4930 words)

  
 IHS - reading and reviews
The TTOS course is primarily aimed at training military and law enforcement personnel, several of whom were involved in this particular course.
Pressfield has done some fine research not only into the military and social history of the period and the peoples, but he provides an unusually perceptive insight into a uniquely martial people, the Spartans.
is approach is pertinent from both ends of the spectrum, from nation-states (and trans-national powers) to individual members of the modern military.
www.hoplology.com /books.asp   (1339 words)

  
 Essay on Iraq
Meanwhile Saddam would have had months to prepare further, our political and military position and that of the British would continue to deteriorate, the Arab street (a medieval street born or the madrasahs, religious fundamentalism, and ignorance) would have made things even more untenable.
All one can do is to use one’s best judgment, realizing, at a minimum, that their are limits on our ability to predict the future, but at the same time, having the courage to take a risk in support of a worthy cause.
When 15% of the population of a country, any country, are either killed or forced to leave as the result of the actions of a brutal dictator, you have to wonder whether something ought to be done to stop it if stopping it is possible, as it seems that it is in this case.
www.philosophyforum.net /Essays/Essay%20on%20Iraq-PF.htm   (7630 words)

  
 Best resources for slovakia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Oxfam, an NGO, embarked on a campaign targeted at Cafedirect's competitors, accusing them of exploiting growers by paying them a tiny fraction of the retail price of the coffee they sell.
If they are working out of necessity, as most are, stopping them could force them into prostitution or other employment with greater personal dangers.
The most important thing is that they be in school and receive the education to help them leave poverty."NGO-fostered hype notwithstanding, 70% of all children work within their family unit, in agriculture.
www.slovakembassy.com /slovakia.htm   (1855 words)

  
 History News Network
Now, new scholarship and transatlantic detective work have solved the puzzle of who they were and where their forced journey across the Atlantic Ocean began.
Nazi agents relayed sensitive military information using the dots and dashes of Morse code incorporated in the drawings.
The National Archives and Records Administration is working to streamline the process of declassifying documents and has allowed few new withdrawals of documents from open shelves since a scandal over reclassified records hit the agency last spring, the United States archivist said on Wednesday.
www.historynewsnetwork.com /roundup/41.html   (10201 words)

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