For example, Situationist International maintains that free time is illusory and rarely free ; economic and social forces appropriate free time from the individual and sell it back to them as the commodity known as " leisure ".

" Former President Clinton told a U. N. gathering Thursday 16, 2008 that the global food crisis shows " we all blew it, including me ," by treating food crops " like color TVs " instead of as a vital commodity for the world's poor .... Clinton criticized decades of policymaking by the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and others, encouraged by the U. S., that pressured Africans in particular into dropping government subsidies for fertilizer, improved seed and other farm inputs as a requirement to get aid.

The Versailles Treaty created the International Labour Organisation to draw up common standards between countries, for as it said, " peace can be established only if it is based on social justice ", and echoed the US Clayton Act 1914 in pronouncing that " labour should not be regarded merely as a commodity or an article of commerce ".

The International Oil Bourse is a commodity exchange which opened on February 17, 2008

* Olam International, a multinational business based in Singapore which supplies commodity products to food packaging industries

From 1961 through 1968, it also investigated gambling and organized crime in which Joe Valachi testified about the activities of the " Cosa Nostra ", the Billie Sol Estes case, irregularities in missile procurement, procurement of the TFX fighter plane, excessive risks in underwriting Federal Housing Administration mortgages, riots, and civil disorders, the Agency for International Development commodity import program, and procurement of railway bridges for South Vietnam under the counterinsurgency program.

In September 1987 under the Reagan administration the U. S. Secretary of the Treasury James Baker made a proposal through the International Monetary Fund to use a commodity basket ( which included gold ).

* AIQ: Dow Jones / American International Group commodity index ( AI ) futures for August ( Q ) delivery, traded on the Chicago Board of Trade

The term was derived from the Declaration for the Establishment of a New International Economic Order, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1974, and referred to a wide range of trade, financial, commodity, and debt-related issues ( 1 May 1974, A / RES / S-6 / 3201 ).

The United States has encouraged Belarus to conclude and adhere to agreements with the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) on the program of macroeconomic stabilization and related reform measures, as well as to undertake increased privatization and to create a favorable climate for business and investment.

International agreements:

International law in most nations considers all three of the above agreements as treaties.

International environmental agreements are generally multilateral ( or sometimes bilateral ) treaties ( a. k. a. convention, agreement, protocol, etc .).

Structural adjustment agreements with the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, and other international financial institutions aiming at creating necessary conditions for private sector growth, have proved only partly successful.

Japan strongly supports the U. S. in its efforts to encourage Pyongyang to abide by the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and its agreements with the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ).

International laws and treaties provide agreements which nations agree to be bound to.

After the declaration on the restoration of its full independence on August 21, 1991, Latvia became a member of the United Nations on September 17, 1991, and is a signatory to a number of UN organizations and other international agreements, including Council of Europe, CERCO, International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, International Civil Aviation Organization, International Atomic Energy Agency, UNESCO, UNICEF, International Criminal Court, the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

Jardine had retired from International cricket in early 1934 after captaining a fraught tour of India and under England's new Captain, Bob Wyatt, agreements were put in place so that bodyline would not be used.

The Netherlands is a signatory to international counter-narcotics agreements, a member of the UN International Drug Control Program, the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs, and is a contributor to international counter-narcotics.

China is a party to the Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, the Antarctic Treaty, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Climate Change treaty, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, the Endangered Species treaty, the Hazardous Wastes treaty, the Law of the Sea, the International Tropical Timber Agreements of 1983 and 1994, the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling, and agreements on Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, and Wetlands protection.

International portability of social security benefits is achieved through bilateral or multilateral social security agreements between States.

: See Economy of Singapore: International trade agreements

International agreements: Togo is party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution ( MARPOL 73 / 78 ), Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling

The joint Anglican-Roman Catholic International Consultation published The Gift of Authority ( see external links below ) in 1998 and highlights agreements and differences on these issues.

The United States and Mexico share the water of the river under a series of agreements administered by the International Boundary and Water Commission, US-Mexico.

Due in no small part to the influence of transnational economic bodies such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, the G7, G8, G20, and trade agreements between nations with differing degrees of industrialization such as the Central American Free Trade Agreement, the North American Free Trade Agreement, the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas, the European Union, AFTA, ACTA and TPP, regions of economic exchange have become more integrated across the world than ever before and supply chains for vital commodities and products previously maintained within national borders have became distributed across international lines.

International agreements:

The relationship between the two Latin American countries has evolved amid conflicts over the San Andrés y Providencia Islands located in the Caribbean sea close to the Nicaraguan shoreline and the maritime boundaries covering 150, 000 km² that included the islands of San Andres, Providencia and Santa Catalina and the banks of Roncador, Serrana, Serranilla and Quitasueño as well as the arbitrarily designed 82nd meridian west which Colombia claims as a border but which the International Court has sided with Nicaragua in disavowing.

Behind Parks is Nicholas C. Chriss, a United Press International | UPI reporter covering the event.

In 2010, the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, as well as Shriners North America, changed its name to Shriners International, now covering nearly 200 temples ( chapters ) across North America, South America, Europe and Southeast Asia.

1913 saw the beginning of the International Map of the World initiative endeavoring to map all of Earth's significant land areas at 1: 1 million scale on about one thousand sheets covering four degrees latitude by six or more degrees longitude.

In 1999, a group of investors bought from Champion International Paper for $ 7. 5 million, covering parts of fourteen towns in the county.

To the International Center for Journalists Xavier Serbia was the instructor in online courses in Spanish on covering personal finance for Hispanic journalists and U. S. journalists covering finance issues.

* International Freedom of Expression Exchange — “ The largest online archive of information on press freedom violations ”, dating back to 1995 and covering more than 120 countries.

Crackers International was bettered in 1992 by another EP, Abba-esque, covering four ABBA hits, which became Erasure's first ( and to date only ) number one in the UK Singles Chart.

* International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering ( IJSLE ) – peer-reviewed, semi-annual online journal, covering appropriate and sustainable technologies and related areas.

The Ramsar List of Wetlands of International Importance now includes 1, 950 sites ( known as Ramsar Sites ) covering around

According to the ISM's website, " International volunteers who join the ISM are responsible for paying their own way and covering all their expenses in Palestine.

The library comprises more than 100, 000 book titles, and more than 1, 000 printed academic journal titles covering areas of Economics, International and European Economic Studies, Business Administration, Management Science and Marketing, Informatics, Statistics, Accounting and Finance, and Management and Technology.

Jill Belland covering the 2007 Calgary International Film Festival for Citytv

Denver International Airport is the only airport in the United States to have implemented an ISO 14001-certified environmental management system covering the entire airport.

The Airline flew to certain destinations in the Caribbean, to the USA and to Puerto Rico, covering routes to John F. Kennedy International Airport and Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport with one Boeing 727-200 and one Boeing 757-200 leased from Transmeridian Airlines.

* Our Lady of the Angels, covering downtown and central Los Angeles west to Malibu, south to Los Angeles International Airport.

The International Committee of the Red Cross ’ s Commentary on the Additional Protocols of 8 June 1977 to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 similarly elaborates that “ other forms of non-participation in a conflict have been added to neutrality as defined by treaty and customary law ,” and that “ it would have sufficed to use the expression ‘ not engaged in the conflict ’ or ‘ not Party to the conflict ’” in lieu of using the term ‘ neutral .’ The Commentary explicitly states that the term ‘ neutral ’ “ should be interpreted as covering non-participation in conflicts in general, as well as neutrality in the proper sense of the word .” Therefore, all non-belligerence is a form of neutrality, which means that neutrality includes the entire range of states not formally participating in international armed conflict such as de facto belligerents, non-participants who do not claim neutrality, temporary declared neutrals, and even long-standing neutrals.

The CBC International Service played a major role in covering Canada's Centennial celebrations in 1967.

The Elementary School at International School Manila comprises seven year levels: Preschool ( covering two years ), Kindergarten and Grades 1 through 4.

ISO 9241 is a multi-part standard from the International Organization for Standardization ( ISO ) covering ergonomics of human-computer interaction.

* International collection covering aspects of the organisation of education outside the UK

He continued to appear on Broadway, as well as on radio and TV, where he was host and commentator for International Showtime, covering circus and ice-shows all over Europe.