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- 3211: Spain
- ... with monthly allowances proportionate to the number of children in the family; the necessary funding is collected from employers and employees. A program of old- age pensions and health and maternity benefits has been in effect since 1949. A fund derived from public collections provides for the support of the poor, nursery schools, and health clinics. In the early 1990s Spain had about 153,300 physicians and 175,400 hospital beds ...
- 3212: Nova Scotia
- ... early 1990s, with livestock and livestock products accounting for about three-fourths of the income. The leading farm commodities are dairy products, poultry, hogs, beef cattle, eggs, fruit (especially apples grown in the Annapolis Lowland), greenhouse products, potatoes and other vegetables, and wheat. Forestry Nova Scotia has a substantial forestry industry, with about 4.2 million cu m (about 148 million cu ft) of wood harvested per year. Most of the ...
- 3213: Mexico
- ... Given the steady and rapid population growth rate, the nation's economic growth has been impressive. Between 1960 and 1980 the GDP grew at an average annual rate of 6.8 percent. To illustrate the effect of petroleum prices on Mexican economic growth, in 1981 the GDP increased by 7.9 percent. In 1982, the year of the price collapse, GDP growth fell to -0.5 percent. Largely because of the ...
- 3214: Guyana
- ... a self sufficiency in agriculture. In 1974, the government gained control of all foreign trade. In anticipation of a new constitution, the National Assembly extended the five year limit . A new socialist constitution was in effect by 1980 and the PNC regained control of the assembly under the leadership of Desmond Hoyte. He controlled until 1992 until an international election. Jagan regained control and put his party, the People's Progressive ...
- 3215: The Population Growth Rate in India
- ... commonplace in India, perhaps because the growth in materialism has led the lower classes to become more and more aware of the "undesirability" of girls. While the Hindu emphases upon dowery, which can have the effect of impoverishing a family with many daughters, is no doubt a significant contributing factor, it should be pointed out that population figures for Pakistan and Bangla Desh would suggest a prevalence of infanticide of girl ...
- 3216: Germany
- ... May 1994. Although usually a former politician, the president is expected to stand above party politics. In the summer of 1989 the German Bundestag passed the so-called Stage one Postal Reform which came into effect on January 1, 1990. The reforms included a division between jurisdictional and regulatory functions and entrepreneurial functions. The reform also resulted in associated business sectors making up telecommunications, postal services and postal banking. The aim ...
- 3217: Australia
- ... and Senate -- both houses may be dissolved simultaneously, so that ensuing national elections would involve all seats in Parliament. This "double dissolution" is unusual, and has occurred only six times since the Constitution entered into effect (1901). All major parties support the U.S.-Australia alliance and stress the importance of close relations between Australia and the United States. Thus, this longstanding and stable pattern is essentially unaffected by the outcome ...
- 3218: Liberia
- ... the first non-Americo-Liberian to head the government. After his victory in an election in 1985, Doe was elected the president of the republic on January 6, 1986, and a new constitution came into effect. A bloody civil war began in December 1989 when a group of rebels led by a former member of Doe's administration invaded the county. The rebels, associated with the Mano and Gio tribes, sought ...
- 3219: Israel - The Presidential Brief
- ... the plan to cut off Jewish immigration to Palestine completely in five years and create an Arab state in the area. The Yishuv fought the White Paper with a passion. If the White Paper took effect, there would be no chance of a Jewish state being created in Palestine. After WWII, the Jewish survivors of Hitler's program against the Jews had nowhere to go. There were 300,000 homeless Jews ...
- 3220: History of the Marshall Islands
- ... homelands. Thousands of people had been evacuated due to the radioactive materials spread to their islands. Although almost all of the islands were declared safe but maybe slight lingering radiation people were scared and in effect were very mad at the U.S. Another one of the reasons was all of the health problems people were having. Like it says before people were having very bad skin and eye irritations and ...
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