In the silent era, with English actor Charlie Chaplin its biggest star, audiences were receptive to films from all nations.

Health spending in the United States accounts for approximately half of all health spending among OECD nations, but the biggest growth will be outside of the U. S. According to PwC projections, the countries that are expected to have the highest health spending growth between 2010 and 2020 are China, where health spending is expected to increase by 166 percent, and India, which will see a 140 percent increase.

In 2002, Blair denounced Bush's imposition of tariffs on steel as ' unacceptable, unjustified and wrong ', but although Britain's biggest steelmaker, Corus, called for protection from dumping by developing nations, the Confederation of British Industry urged the government not to start a ' tit-for-tat '.

The Cromanti, being the biggest nation, begins the Big Drum ceremony with a song called " Cromanti Cudjo " ( or " Beg Pardon "); this is followed by the other nations ' songs, all of which are based on short, declamatory phrases with choruses, accompanied by two boula drums and a single, higher-pitched cut drum, both of which are made from rum barrels.

The biggest transfers between nations is typically foreign aid, however that is mostly recorded in the current account.

One of the biggest stages, in time it has become a gathering point for people of all ages, nations and music tastes.

Is the biggest section, with tanks from most nations involved in the conflict.

in effect, he was practicing what he preached in his Berlin message two weeks ago when he declared: `` We shall always be prepared to discuss international problems with any and all nations that are willing to talk, and listen, with reason ''.

The UK nations also produce a number of programmes that are shown across the UK, such as BBC Scotland's comedy series Chewin ' the Fat, and BBC Northern Ireland's talk show Patrick Kielty Almost Live.

:" In the press, in Parliament, in the United Nations, from the pulpit, there is a ceaseless talk about the rule of law, civilised relations between nations, the spread of democratic processes, self-determination and national sovereignty, respect for the rights of man and human dignity.

Myths that talk about problems of morality are the simplest, and are close to popular fables common to all European nations.

If you travel throughout the United States and through the nations of Europe in which Christianity prevails, and talk with the people about their institutions, they will boast of them as being the most permanent, indestructible and progressive of any institutions existing upon the earth ; yet it is a fact well known to historians, that the Christian nations of Europe are the youngest nations on the globe.

He took the subjects of his tragedies from the history of these nations and made his ancient characters talk like revolutionists of his time.

During the 1977 Hanafi Siege of a federal building in Washington, Zahedi and two other ambassadors from Muslim nations were able to talk the hostage takers into surrendering and releasing 149 hostages.

However, other nations still have thriving traditions of radio drama.

Some industrialized nations also eavesdrop continuously on the entire radio spectrum, interpreting it in real time.

By way of brief review of previous articles, and radio messages, notice, first, that this war will involve ALL nations.

The BBC also runs radio stations for three of the nations of the UK.

Compared to many advertising-funded Independent Local Radio ( ILR ) stations, which often broadcast contemporary popular music, BBC nations ' radio stations offer a more " serious " alternative.

Globalstar received its US spectrum allocation from the FCC in January 1995, and continued to negotiate with other nations for rights to use the same radio frequencies in their countries.

OMEGA was the first truly global radio navigation system for aircraft, operated by the United States in cooperation with six partner nations.

Etta Moten Barnett hosted a radio show in Chicago called I Remember When before the United States government appointed her to be a representative on cultural missions to ten African nations.

The majority of offshore broadcasters have however been pirate radio stations using seaborne broadcasting as a means to circumvent national broadcasting regulations, for example the practice has been used by broadcasting organizations like the Voice of America as a means of circumventing national broadcasting regulations of other nations.

Pirate radio broadcasting from artificial marine fixtures or anchored ships can be controlled by the affected coastal nation or other nations wherever that broadcast may originate, whether in the territorial sea, exclusive economic zone, the continental shelf or even on the high seas.

This new system, which the world's maritime nations are implementing, is based upon a combination of satellite and terrestrial radio services, and has changed international distress communications from being primarily ship-to-ship based to ship-to-shore ( Rescue Coordination Center ) based.

Fountain towers might also prove to be an economical alternative to communication satellites for point-to-point television and FM radio communication between the various islands of some of the smaller nations in the Pacific Ocean.

The following radio stations are broadcast by the BBC in the other nations of the UK:

* Tim Kelly-hosted mid-days with his wife Evelyn during the 1977-78 top forty format, he would move to KIIS-fm and be founder of Premiere Radio, the nations largest radio syndication company.

On 1 October 1939 the External Service began with a broadcast in Pushtu ; it was intended to counter radio propaganda from Germany directed to Afghanistan, Iran and the Arab nations.

The two nations built infrastructure, such as postal service, radio stations and transport, independent of each other.

Sunray is a term used in radio voice procedure, the conventions used in radio conversation, in the British military and the military of nations strongly influenced by the British.

Later during the war, he operated a radio station called " Radio Freedom " broadcasting to nations occupied by the Axis Powers.

The United States Coast Guard and comparable agencies of other nations used to maintain 24-hour watches on this frequency, staffed by highly skilled radio operators.

The government distributes all radio and television sets ; citizens are forbidden to alter them to make it possible to receive broadcasts from other nations, and doing so carries draconian penalties.

Since April 2005, he has hosted ' Celtic Crush ', a radio show on Sirius Satellite Radio that features artists from the 8 Celtic nations who play a wide variety of genres.

Basing lifeboat capacity on numbers of passengers and crew instead of ship tonnage, conducting lifeboat drills so passengers know where their lifeboats are and crew know how to operate them, instituting manned 24-hour wireless ( radio ) communications in all passenger ships, and requiring mandatory transmissions of ice warnings to ships were some of his recommendations made at the inquiries and acted on by the Board of Trade, its successor agencies and their equivalents in other maritime nations.

Classified programmes existed in several nations, but the first announcement of a commercial system was by Lockheed-Martin Mission Systems in 1998, with the commercial launch of the Silent Sentry system, that exploited FM radio and analogue television transmitters.

Its edge has a fine, continuous serration which is embossed with stars and letters differing between nations.

In 1822 during the Peruvian War of Independence, troops from both the Liberating Expedition of Peru ( Expedición Libertadora del Perú ) and the United Liberating Army of Peru ( Ejército Unido Libertador del Perú ) used a standard that was identical to the modern flag of Chile, except their flag had three stars in the canton, representing the three nations united by the cause of independence: the Argentine provinces, Chile and Peru.

In most English-speaking and Arabic-speaking countries, as well as a number of European and South American nations, full lieutenants ( and equivalents ) usually wear two stars ( pips ) and second lieutenants ( and equivalents ) one.

And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars ; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity ; the sea and the waves roaring ; Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

The Pierce-Arrow was a status symbol, owned by many Hollywood stars and corporate tycoons ; royalty of many foreign nations had at least one Pierce-Arrow in their collections.

The same pattern can be observed in folklore of many Slavic nations, where the Sun is most often identified with mother or a bride, and Moon with father or husband, their children being the stars.

For example, many place-names are derived from personal names ( Victoria ), many names of planets and stars are derived from the names of mythological characters ( Venus, Neptune ), and many personal names are derived from place-names, names of nations and the like ( Wood, Smith, Bridge ).

The five cerulean five-pointed stars arranged in an X pattern centered in the white band represent the five nations of the former Federal Republic of Central America ( El Salvador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Guatemala ) and the hope that the nations may form a union again.

The outer ring of 13 stars would represent the original Thirteen Colonies, the ring of six stars would represent the six nations that have had sovereignty over Mississippi territory ( various Indian nations as a collective nation, France, Spain, Great Britain, the United States, and the Confederate States ), and the inner and slightly larger star would represent Mississippi itself.

Here the stars, called Steaua, today resemble stained glass lanterns and feature an orthodox icon at their center, a tradition pointing to the rich blending of both East and West which characterize the two nations on the river Prut.

He received the Presidential Citizens Medal, Distinguished Service Medal, Legion of Merit with two gold award stars, Bronze Star with Combat V device, China Service Medal, World War II Victory Medal, Navy Occupation Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal with four campaign stars, and has been decorated and honored by several other nations including receiving the United Nations Service Medal, Vietnam Campaign Medal and decorations from Brazil, Korea, Italy, France, Spain, Japan, Pakistan and Sweden.

The competition pits swimming stars from two nations to see which is the best across a series of events.