Finally, in the 2004 edition of the Factbook, the name of the entry was changed back to Macedonia, following a November 2004 US decision to refer to the country using this name, even though the official appelation of the republic within the UN remains FYROM.

: On July 19, 2007, the entry for East Timor was renamed Timor-Leste following a decision of the US Board on Geographic Names ( BGN ).

The following lists major casino markets in the world with casino revenue of over US $ 1, 000 million as published in PricewaterhouseCoopers's report on

In July 2012, Cuba received its first American goods shipment in over 50 years, following the partial relaxation of the US embargo to permit humanitarian shipments.

Some of the framers of the US Constitution may have conceived of the president as being an elected constitutional monarch, as the term was understood in their time, following Montesquieu's account of the separation of powers.

It was the Short Range Committee, chaired by Joseph Wegstein of the US National Bureau of Standards, that during the following months created a description of the first version of COBOL.

The first single " Better Be Home Soon " peaked at number two on both Australian and New Zealand singles charts and reached top 50 In the US, though the following four singles were less successful.

The following table lists the top vendors in 2006-2008 ( figures in millions of US dollars ) published in Gartner studies.

* Trudeau was awarded the US Army ’ s Commander ’ s Award for Public Service in 2006 for his series of strips about BD ’ s recovery following the loss of his leg in Iraq.

Beginning on 7 October 2001, the US again commenced military operations from Diego Garcia using B-1, B-2, and B-52 bombers to attack enemy targets in Afghanistan following the attacks on New York City and the Pentagon.

In 2000 Ecuador changed its currency from the sucre to the US dollar following a banking crisis.

Relations between the two nations have been highlighted following Julian Assange's bid to seek political asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London following repeated claims that the US government was pursuing his extradition due to his work with Wikileaks.

This will be the third ELO compilation that presents a chronological run-through of ELO's singles / songs following US compilations Olé ELO in 1976 and Strange Magic: The Best of Electric Light Orchestra in 1995.

The US philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce praised Cantor's set theory, and, following public lectures delivered by Cantor at the first International Congress of Mathematicians, held in Zurich in 1897, Hurwitz and Hadamard also both expressed their admiration.

It was successful in the US, and very successful in Europe where Louise Brooks was developing a cult following.

In January 2010, the Kabul office of New Ansari Exchange, Afghanistan's largest hawala money transfer business, was shuttered following a raid by the Sensitive Investigative Unit, the country's national anti-political corruption vetted and trained by the US Drug Enforcement Administration ( DEA ), allegedly because this company could be involved in laundering profits from the illicit opium trade and moving the cash earned by Taliban through extortion and drug trafficking.

A key factor of their growth over this and the next decade was increased allocations by US institutional investors, notably pension and endowment funds, following the success of David Swensen's investments in alternative investments and other non-marketable assets, such as hedge funds, timber, real estate and private equity, at Yale University's endowment fund.

In July 1970, the US withdrew 50 % of its financial support to the ILO following the appointment of an Assistant-Director General from the Soviet Union.

The following table shows the 3275 / 3277 / 3284 / 3286 character set for US English EBCDIC.

Soon after the book was published in the US, Kosiński was accused by the then-Communist Polish government of being anti-Polish, especially following the regime's 1968 anti-Semitic campaign.

In December 2000, following his Senatorial defeat, Ashcroft was chosen for the position of US attorney general by president-elect George W. Bush who was impressed by Ashcroft.

Due to an embargo during the 1980s, the system could not be upgraded following the US attack.

Red wine consumption, in general, increased in the US following the airing of the 60 Minutes report on the French Paradox and the potential health benefits of wine and, possibly, the chemical resveratrol.

After US occupation in 1945, Munich was completely rebuilt following a meticulous and – by comparison to other war-ravaged West German cities – rather conservative plan which preserved its pre-war street grid.

Along with the passage of the Endangered Species Act, the US ban on DDT is cited by scientists as a major factor in the comeback of the bald eagle, the national bird of the United States, from near-extinction in the contiguous US.

Exterior and passage ( room to room ) doors: Standard door sizes in the US are from 2 '- 6 " to 3 '- 0 " wide, increasing in 2 " increments.

The Congress of 1866 legalized the use of the metric system through the passage of US code 1952 Ed., Title 15, Ch 6, section 204 and 205.

Towards the end the siege, the US and European governments brokered an agreement guaranteeing safe passage for Arafat and the PLO — guarded by a multinational force of eight hundred US Marines supported by the US Navy — to exile in Tunis.

The US national security interest in significantly growing transmission capacity drove passage of the 2005 energy act giving the Department of Energy the authority to approve transmission if states refuse to act.

In the US, the scandal led to passage of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and nearly led to the ailing corporation's downfall ( it was already struggling due to the poor sales of the L-1011 airliner ).

Blacks and Native Americans would not have their constitutional rights as US citizens enforced until after the Civil Rights Movement secured passage of civil rights legislation in the mid-1960s, and the federal government began to monitor voter registration and elections, as well as other programs.

However, since the passage of this Act in 1978, the US has, never achieved this level of employment, nor has such a reservoir of public employment been created.

The passage of the 23rd Amendment, restoring US Presidential Elections to DC, has re-affirmed the District of Columbia is no longer a portion of Maryland, but rather a federal district.

Macon County was established by European Americans on December 18, 1832, from land ceded by the Creek, following the US Congress ' passage of the Indian Removal Act of 1830.

* Ralph Gurley ( 1797 – 1872 ), clergyman, chaplain of the US House of Representatives, and an influential figure in the American Colonization Society, which offered passage to their colony in west Africa ( now Liberia ) to free black Americans.

Before being disfranchised by the Democrats ' passage in 1899 of a new state constitution that included discriminatory provisions, black citizens elected four African Americans to the US Congress from North Carolina's 2nd congressional district in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.

All articles were taken down, and the site's title page was replaced with a statement lamenting the passage of the laws, headed by the banner " CENSORED BY US GOVERNMENT.

* 1793-Chisholm v. Georgia ( 2 US 419 1793 ) paves way for passage of 11th Amendment

The highest toll for high priority passage paid through the Transit Slot Auction was US $ 220, 300 charged on a tanker, bypassing a 90-ship queue awaiting for the end of maintenance works on the Gatun locks, thus avoiding a 7-day delay.

The preserve was established October 31, 1994 with the passage of the California Desert Protection Act by the US Congress.

In 2009, a pair of economists at Emory University tied the passage of state bans on same-sex marriage in the US to an increase in the rates of HIV infection.

" Slavery was a contentious issue in the politics of the United States from the 1770s through the 1860s, becoming a topic of debate in the drafting of the Constitution ( with the slave trade protected for 20 years and slaves being counted toward Congressional apportionment ); a subject of Federal legislation, such as the ban on the trans-Atlantic slave trade in 1808 and the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 ; and a subject of landmark US Supreme Court cases, such as the Dred Scott decision of 1857.

It was designated by the US Congress on October 13, 1972 with passage of Public Law 92-493.

The US Navy recognizes 13 October 1775 as the date of its official establishment — the date of the passage of the resolution of the Continental Congress at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that created the Continental Navy.

* Larger-scale images of the passage from the US Navy ( Rain, ice edge and wind images )