The state economy in the 21st century is dependent on management, finance, manufacturing, aerospace, mineral extraction, healthcare, education, retail, and technology.

After the fall of the Akkadian empire in the mid 21st century BC, the Assyrians who were the northern branch of the Akkadian people, colonised parts of the region between the 21st and mid 18th centuries BC and claimed the resources, notably silver.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a prominent Nigerian author of the 21st century.

Until this point Austria and Switzerland had been the traditional and more popular destinations for winter sports, but by the end of the 20th century and into the early 21st century, France, Italy and the Tyrol began so see increases in winter visitors.

Architect and buildings in 21st century ( 1910 card )

In the early 21st century, Johnson is among those commonly mentioned as the worst presidents in U. S. history.

This document was based on several years of consultation aimed to lay out the government's priorities for museums in the 21st century.

This trend might have stopped since the turn of the 21st century.

The first commercial equipment for HR-CS AAS was introduced by Analytik Jena ( Jena, Germany ) at the beginning of the 21st century, based on the design proposed by Becker-Ross and Florek.

Berlin Mitte skyline in the 21st century.

Their high cost meant that few were built and the 1950s-designed B-52s continued in use into the 21st century.

The Mach 2 Tu-160 ' Blackjack ' was built only in tiny numbers, leaving the 1950s Tupolev Tu-16 and Tu-95 ' Bear ' heavy bombers to continue being used into the 21st century.

In the 21st century, the more senior bishops of the Church of England continue to sit in the House of Lords of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, as representatives of the established church, and are known as Lords Spiritual.

By the turn of the 21st century, Battery Park City was mostly completed, with the exception of some ongoing construction on West Street.

Having declined from more than one million speakers around 1950 to about 200, 000 in the first decade of the 21st century, of whom 61 % are more than 60 years old, Breton is classified as " severely endangered " by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.

* Shock and Awe, the 21st century American military doctrine

That edition has remained the official prayer book of the Church of England, although in the 21st century, an alternative book called Common Worship has largely displaced the Book of Common Prayer at the main Sunday worship service of most English parish churches.

Animal communication, and indeed the understanding of the animal world in general, is a rapidly growing field, and even in the 21st century so far, a great share of prior understanding related to diverse fields such as personal symbolic name use, animal emotions, animal culture and learning, and even sexual conduct, long thought to be well understood, has been revolutionized.

As of the early 21st century, Christianity has approximately 2. 2 billion adherents.

First attested in depictions on a cylinder-seal from around the 21st century BC, it was explicitly recorded in the Babylonian star catalogues as " The Goat-Fish " before 1000 BC.

Canals have found another use in the 21st century, as easements for the installation of fibre optic telecommunications network cabling, avoiding having them buried in roadways while facilitating access and reducing the hazard of being damaged from digging equipment.

Traditionally, throughout the 20th century and into the 21st, these were published in newspapers, with horizontal strips printed in black-and-white in daily newspapers, while Sunday newspapers offered longer sequences in special color comics sections.

It is a system of moral, social, political, and religious thought that has had tremendous influence on Chinese history, thought, and culture down to the 21st century.

The first decade of the 21st century saw the commencement of the $ 1. 3 billion Campaign for the Dartmouth Experience, the largest capital fundraising campaign in the College's history, which surpassed $ 1 billion in 2008.

Located in the western suburbs of the French capital, from the centre of Paris, Versailles is in the 21st century a wealthy suburb of Paris with a service based economy and a major touristic destination as well.

Tanis was the capital of the 21st and 22nd dynasties of ancient Egypt, and is now an archaeological temple site.

Others however see late capitalism in the 21st century as very much in active development ; and characterised by a new mix of high-tech advances, the concentration of ( speculative ) financial capital, and Post-Fordism-all producing a backdrop of increasing differentiation in wealth / security between the better off and the worse off.

In the 21st century, the aircraft carrier is the last remaining capital ship, with capability defined in decks available and aircraft per deck, rather than in guns and calibers.

Sweezy had dealt with the rise and fall of finance capital in the early 21st century identifying monopoly as the more essential trend.

On September 12, 1814, Neuchâtel became the capital of the 21st canton, but also remained a Prussian principality.

From the 21st of September 1999, after a report by Alan Reynolds the 50 % capital gains tax discount has been in place for individuals and some trusts that acquired the asset after that time and have held the asset for more than 12 months, however the tax is levied without any adjustment to the cost base for inflation.

The company has managed up to $ 40 billion in aggregate capital and in 2011 had $ 15. 6 billion in hedge fund assets under management and was ranked as the 21st largest hedge fund by Institutional Investor.

At the beginning of the 21st century Bundoran has continued to enhance its reputation by becoming Ireland's surfing capital and providing amenities like Waterworld which include seaweed baths.

In the early 21st century, the zoo has undergone significant capital upgrades, constructing the Regenstein Wolf Woods, the Hamill Family Play Zoo, butterfly tent, sheltered group catering pavilions, and the largest non-restored, hand-carved, wooden carousel in the United States.

At the beginning of the 21st century the situation improved, and capital investments were made to improve and modernize the railway system in the area.

Taking the example of China in the early 21st century, and excluding the activity of its central bank, China's capital account had a large surplus as it had been the recipient of much foreign investment.

From old Victorian warehouses and shops dating from the Industrial Revolution and Manchester's role as the cotton marketing capital to the new office block development which is part of the 21st century regeneration of the square.

States with socialist economies have largely moved away from centralised economic planning in the 21st century, placing a greater emphasis on markets.

* Early in the 21st century the number of wire lines in use stopped growing and in some markets began to decline.

In the 21st century, several governments have tried to lock in as much as possible of their lending into long dated bonds, so they are less vulnerable to pressure from the markets.

Beginning in the early 21st century, there has been a movement in Bolivia, Peru, and Venezuela to promote and expand legal markets for the crop.

Although 85-95 ¢ for each total dollar of tax credits was common in the first several years of the 21st century, recent turmoil in the financial markets has reduced some of the demand for tax breaks, meaning that investors are paying somewhat less, as of early 2008.

In the United States, affiliates in the top 25 markets and the top five-rated cable network are required to provide 50 hours of video-described programming per quarter under the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010.

Following the turn of the 20th to 21st century, specifically during the late-2000s financial crisis, many politicians and pundits, such as Gordon Brown, and Henry Kissinger, used the term " new world order " in their advocacy for a comprehensive reform of the global financial system and their calls for a " New Bretton Woods ", which takes into account emerging markets such as China and India.

): Regulating financial services and markets in the 21st century.

That KCMP had previously been known as WCAL and was one of two major classical music stations in the area — a unique condition for the early 21st century, where most markets find it difficult to support even one classical outlet.

The Fortune 500 company, headquartered in Norfolk, transports bituminous coal, intermodal shipping containers, automobile parts and completed vehicles, and other commodities in the 21st century global transportation markets.

The modern railroad transports bituminous coal, intermodal shipping containers, automobile parts and completed vehicles, and other commodities in the 21st century global transportation markets.

The Fortune 500 company, headquartered in Norfolk, transports bituminous coal, intermodal freight transport / shipping containers, automobile parts and completed vehicles, and other commodities in the 21st century global transportation markets.

The early 21st century Western environmentalism-or sustainability-inspired food trends, such as natural food, organic food, non-genetically modified food, local food, and farmer's markets, have been ignored by a majority of Hong Kong's populations.

As of the 21st century, it is cooked and sold at fairs and flea markets throughout the United States, especially art and craft shows.

As it moved toward the beginning of the 21st century, GBC planned to focus on improving its international markets, which were hurt by recessions in the overseas operations.