Exports in 1999 grew 1. 9 % while imports grew 3 %, narrowing El Salvador's trade deficit.

Quinn grew up first in El Paso, Texas, and later the Boyle Heights and the Echo Park areas of Los Angeles, California.

The origins of El Norte are the director's experiences in San Diego, California, as he grew up.

The largest growth in the county has come in El Dorado Hills where the population grew by 24, 092 residents to a total of 42, 108 since 2000.

Brackett became a stop on a stage line from San Antonio to El Paso, but the settlement grew very slowly because of continuous Indian attacks.

U. S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O ' Connor was born in El Paso, Texas, but grew up near Duncan on the Lazy B ranch, which straddles the border between Arizona and New Mexico.

The public school district grew in 2004 when schools from nearby McRae were consolidated into the district, which today serves most of southwestern and south-central White County — proceeding westward to El Paso, eastward to Garner, and to other communities in between.

* John Fogerty, and Tom Fogerty, musicians from the band Creedence Clearwater Revival, grew up in El Cerrito.

* Catherine Asaro, science-fiction author, grew up in El Cerrito.

* Famous musicians such as Kirk Hammett of Metallica and Exodus, Marc Biederman of Blind Illusion, Les Claypool ( former member of Blind Ilusion currently of Primus ), Larry " Ler " LaLonde of Primus and Possessed, Jason Beebout of Samiam and Isocracy and John Kiffmeyer of Green Day and Isocracy all grew up in El Sobrante, and most of them attended De Anza High School.

* Tim Agnello, founding member of the band Exodus, grew up in El Sobrante.

* Comic book writer Landry Walker grew up in El Sobrante and attended De Anza High School.

The farmers were very pleased at the increasing success of El Monte ’ s agricultural community, and it steadily grew over the years.

Modern authors Salvador Plascencia, 33, and Michael Jaime-Becerra, 36, both grew up in El Monte and each references El Monte in his novels.

Historical examples include the oldest known Sumerian cities of Mesopotamia and Ur, the Phoenician cities of Canaan ( such as Tyre and Sidon ), the Berber city-states of the Garamantes, the city-states of ancient Greece ( the poleis such as Athens, Sparta, Thebes, and Corinth ), the Roman Republic which grew from a city-state into a great power, the Maya of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica ( including sites such as Chichen Itza, Tikal, Palenque and El Mirador ), the central Asian cities along the Silk Road, Venice, Croatian city-state of Ragusa ( Dubrovnik ) and many others.

The city of Aguascalientes is made up of four traditional neighborhoods, all of which grew up around the central Plaza de la Patria: Guadalupe, San Marcos, El Encino and La Estacion.

As his popularity grew, he made a number of films for Paramount in France and the U. S. While sentimental films such as Cuesta abajo ( 1934 ) and El día que me quieras ( 1935 ) lack lasting dramatic value, they were outstanding showcases of his tremendous singing talents and movie star looks.

He grew up in El Paso, Texas, where he attended a segregated school.

He and his four older siblings grew up in El Reno and Enid, Oklahoma, where he graduated from high school in 1926.

He grew the Circle K chain into neighboring New Mexico and Arizona, which has been the company's home base since 1957 ( Hervey would go on to serve two terms as mayor of El Paso ).

Down These Mean Streets is a memoir by Piri Thomas, a Latino of Puerto Rican and Cuban descent who grew up in El Barrio ( aka Spanish Harlem ), a section of Harlem that has a large Puerto Rican population.

He was born in El Paso but grew up from the age of five in Riverbank, a town of less than 4, 000 people in California ’ s Central Valley.

Fosdick had found the installations surrounded by a battery of saloons and houses of prostitution, with filles de joie from all over the country flocking to San Antonio, Laredo, and El Paso to `` woman the cribs ''.

He had not yet undertaken the great exploit of his later years, the rediscovery of the ancient Inca highway, the route of Pizarro in Peru, but he had climbed to the original El Dorado, the Andean lake of Guatemala, and he had scaled the southern Sierra Nevada with its Tibetan-like people and looked into the emerald mines of Muzo.

Bonner explained that, with the nightclub's cooperation, the police had occupied El Dorado like a battlefield.

The announcement that the city would sue for recovery on the performance bond was made by City Solicitor David Berger at a press conference following a meeting in the morning with Wagner and other officials of the city and the PTC as well as representatives of an engineering firm that was pulled off the El project before its completion in 1959.

At 3:57 a.m., with the plane about twenty minutes out of El Paso, passenger Robert Berry, a San Antonio advertising man, glanced up and saw the man and boy, accompanied by a stewardess, walking up the aisle toward the cockpit.

The pilot radioed El Paso International Airport with just that message.

They found a large welcoming group -- El Paso policemen, Border Patrol, sheriff's deputies, and FBI men, who surged around the plane with rifles and submachine guns.

Countries where ASL or a derivative of ASL is the national or a widespread language include Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana ( with BSL ), Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, the Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d ' Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Kenya ( minority use ), Liberia, Madagascar ( minority use ), Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Philippines ( L2 use ), Puerto Rico, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Trinidad and Tobago, Togo, and Zimbabwe ( with ZSL ).

Among many roles in his career, Arau has played " Captain Herrera ", a lieutenant of Federal general " Mapache ", in Sam Peckinpah's 1969 western, The Wild Bunch, chief bandit " El Guapo " in Three Amigos ( USA, 1986 ), a comedy with Martin Short, Steve Martin, and Chevy Chase, and the smuggler " Juan " in Romancing the Stone which starred Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner.

Park Güell ( ) is a garden complex with architectural elements situated on the hill of El Carmel in the Gràcia district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

Grant made her debut as a teenager, and gained fame in Christian music during the 1980s with such hits as " Father's Eyes ", " El Shaddai ", and " Angels ".

" El Caracol " a possible observatory temple at Chichen Itza. The Temple of the Warriors bears iconography depicting feathered serpents associated with Quetzalcoatl or Kukulcan.

He had stabilised the Allied position at the First Battle of El Alamein, but after a visit in August 1942, the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, replaced him as C-in-C with Alexander and William Gott as commander of the Eighth Army in the Western Desert.

Later, however, the British would have spectacular success defeating the Italians and Germans at the Battle of El Alamein in North Africa, and in the D-Day invasion of Normandy with the help of American, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand forces.

Approximately 10, 000 years BC hunter-gatherer societies existed near present-day Bogotá ( at El Abra and Tequendama ), and they traded with one another and with cultures living in the Magdalena River valley.

The Cantigas de Santa Maria (" Canticles of Holy Mary ";, ) are 420 poems with musical notation, written in Galician-Portuguese during the reign of Alfonso X El Sabio ( 1221 – 1284 ) and often attributed to him.

In the United States, Canada, Costa Rica, El salvador, and Mexico regional passenger rail services are provided by governmental or quasi-governmental agencies, with a limited number of metropolitan areas served.

Cairo's hospitals include the JCI-accredited As-Salam International Hospital-Corniche El Nile, Maadi ( Egypt's largest private hospital with 350 beds ), Ain Shams University Hospital, Dar El Fouad Hospital, as well as Kasr El Aini Hospital.

alt = An adult cane toad with dark colouration, as found in El Salvador: The parotoid gland is prominently displayed on the side of the head.

For example, at least one El Borak in which the protagonist infiltrates the City of the assassins was rewritten with Conan replacing Francis Xavier Gordon and a supernatural element added.