Major international credit rating organizations have dropped Colombian sovereign debt below investment grade, primarily as a result of large fiscal deficits, which current policies are seeking to close.

Major influences on food production include international organizations ( e. g. the World Trade Organization and Common Agricultural Policy ), national government policy ( or law ), and war.

Major international competitions are sanctioned by the ISU.

Major national and international music events are usually held at the Derwent Entertainment Centre, or the Casino.

The Russian economist Nikolai Kondratiev ( also written Kondratieff ) was the first to bring these observations to international attention in his book The Major Economic Cycles ( 1925 ) alongside other works written in the same decade.

Major domestic privatization programs have been undertaken, as well as fostering of foreign direct investment through international tender of the oil distribution company, a leading cashmere wool company, and banks.

Major international oil companies use sophisticated technology to produce GTL.

Major improvements were made to key highway links, notably between the coast and the highlands, to provide international standard port facilities at Port Moresby and Lae, and in lesser ports, for international and domestic airport upgradings, and for the regulation and management of transport services.

Major international highways going through Serbia are E75 and E70.

Major international airports

Major international organisations based in The Hague include:

As a rule, international association football has only had championship playoffs when a league is divided into several equal divisions / conferences / groups ( Major League Soccer, Primera División de México ) and / or when the season is split into two periods ( as in many leagues in Latin America ).

Major protests concerning other political issues made international news, such as the March 1968 protests in Poland against their communist government, and the campus uprisings of May 1968 in France.

## The same is true for German singer Peter Schilling whose international hit " Major Tom ( Coming Home )" vastly overshadowed his late-1980s hit, " Different Story ( World of Lust and Crime )" ( the title track of a compilation album also featuring " Major Tom ").

Major engineering of the river basin began around the turn of the century, with many guidelines for development established in a series of treaties both domestic and international known as the " Law of the River ".

* Rogier van der Weyden 1400 – 1464 – Master of Passions, Major international loan exhibition on Rogier van der Weyden at the Museum of Leuven, Belgium, 2009

What was never in dispute, however, was that the OT used millions of forced laborers ( Zwangsarbeiter ) from the occupied countries of the Reich during World War II, and that the judging panel at the Nuremberg Trials ( formally, the " Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Court ") in 1946 sentenced Speer to 20 years ' imprisonment for having headed this organisation and thus sanctioned the international illegal use of forced labor.

Major international offices are in Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina, Panama, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Algeria, Angola, Egypt, Gabon, Nigeria, Cameroon, Republic of Congo, Libya, Austria, New Zealand, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, United Kingdom, France, Spain, Australia, Russia, China, India, Iran, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Japan, Singapore, Pakistan, U. A. E., Oman, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and Iraq.

Major changes since then include: the founding of Round Square in 1966, an international community of schools sharing Hahn's educational ideals ; the school officially becoming co-educational in 1972 ; and the moving of Aberlour House, Gordonstoun's preparatory school, from Speyside to a purpose built Junior School on campus in 2004.

Major donors and international financial institutions, like the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) or World Bank, are basing their aid and loans on the condition that the recipient undertake reforms ensuring good governance.

Prior to the launch of Major League Soccer in 1996, teams from Los Angeles played in the Western American Soccer League, the North American Soccer League and the American Soccer League / A-League, winning ten league championships ( 1955, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1974, 1976 ), seven Lamar Hunt US Open Cups ( 1958, 1964, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1981 ), four regional championships ( 1955, 1956, 1958, 1961 ) and one international championship ( 1975 ).

The Philadelphia Union of Major League Soccer also play exhibition games here against high-profile international clubs when their stadium PPL Park does not provide adequate seating.

WPHL was also a station heavy on local sports, as it aired contests featuring Major League Baseball's Philadelphia Phillies until 1982, the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers from 1982 to the 1990s and the NHL's Philadelphia Flyers in the 1990s.

Night baseball quickly found acceptance in other Major League cities and eventually became the norm ; the term " day game " was subsequently coined to designate the increasingly rarer afternoon contests.

Meanwhile, the Fox Broadcasting Company's other sister network FX, aired numerous Major League Baseball contests on Saturday nights in 2001, including Cal Ripken, Jr .' s final game at Camden Yards.

It was Baker, working through Provost Marshal Enoch Crowder and Major Hugh S. ( `` Old Ironpants '' ) Johnson, who arranged for a secret printing by the million of selective service blanks -- again before the Act was passed -- until corridors in the Government Printing Office were full and the basement of the Washington Post Office was stacked to the ceiling.

There was a little blood on the hem of her dress, for the assassin had slashed Miss Harris's companion, Major Rathbone, with a knife.

Major activity at Providence in 1961 will involve the scheduled completion of tooling for production of the Uniconer automatic coning machine.

The commander of Fort Sumter, South Carolina, Major Robert Anderson sent a request for provisions to Washington, and the execution of Lincoln's order to meet that request was seen by the secessionists as an act of war.

Major Japanese companies usually have Nyushashiki ( entry ceremony for companies ) for new employees those who newly hired after their graduation from schools, on this day.

` Alexander Mackenzie `, the Royal Military College of Canada March for bagpipes, was composed in his honour by Pipe Major Don M. Carrigan, who was the College Pipe Major 1973 to 1985.

The Pipe Major of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards was summoned to Edinburgh Castle and chastised for demeaning the bagpipes.

Vipsania Agrippina or most commonly known as Agrippina Major or Agrippina the Elder ( Major Latin for the elder, Classical Latin:, 14 BC – 17 October 33 ) was a distinguished and prominent Roman woman of the first century AD.

* Alfonso Soriano, a current Major League Baseball outfielder playing for the Chicago Cubs

Major new features in AIX 6. 1 included full role-based access control, workload partitions ( which enable application mobility ), enhanced security ( Addition of AES encryption type for NFS v3 and v4 ) and Live Partition Mobility on the POWER6 hardware.

In the fall of 1993, Jerry Colangelo, majority owner of the Phoenix Suns, the area's NBA franchise, announced he was assembling an ownership group, " Arizona Baseball, Inc .," to apply for a Major League Baseball expansion team.

This was after a great deal of lobbying by the Maricopa County Sports Authority, a local group formed to preserve Cactus League spring training in Arizona and eventually secure a Major League franchise for the state.

Major Steven E. Walburn argues in a 1998 article in The Air Force Law Review that this form of guilty plea should be adopted for usage by the United States military.

They include two concertos for pianoforte, one in C major and one in B flat major, ( both 1773 ); a concerto for organ in C Major in two movements, ( the middle movement is missing from the autograph score, or perhaps, it was an improvised organ solo ) ( also 1773 ); two concertante works: a concerto for oboe, violin and cello in D major ( 1770 ), and a flute and oboe concerto in C major ( 1774 ).

Major raw material for PSA's are acrylate based polymers.

Major composers have usually composed anthems in response to commissions and for special occasions.

The World Series, baseball's championship series which determines the champion of Major League Baseball for that season, is held in mid-to-late October ( sometimes spilling over into November to accommodate longer series ) and is nicknamed the " Fall Classic ".

Big Dipper is the American term for the seven brightest stars of Ursa Major, called the Plough in Britain.

Statistics have been kept for professional baseball since the creation of the American League and National League, now part of Major League Baseball.

Using full-season statistics available at the Official Site of Major League Baseball for the 2004 through 2011 seasons, the following tables show top ranges in various statistics, in alphabetical order.