Every year there has been a major reduction in economic growth, it is followed by a reduction in the US trade deficit.

Colombia planned to finance US $ 4 billion of the estimated US $ 7. 5 billion overall cost, most of which would go towards the social portion of the project, but was ultimately unable to do so due to the state's 1997 – 1998 economic crisis.

In 2001 the Temporary Committee on the ECHELON Interception System recommended to the European Parliament that citizens of member states routinely use cryptography in their communications to protect their privacy, because economic espionage with ECHELON has been conducted by the US intelligence agences.

With annual spending totalling billions of US dollars, Formula One's economic effect and creation of jobs is significant, and its financial and political battles are widely reported.

His inclusion of the latter two freedoms went beyond the traditional US Constitutional values protected by its First Amendment, and endorsed a right to economic security and an internationalist view of foreign policy.

As Trustee the US was to " promote the economic advancement and self-sufficiency of the inhabitants.

), a trade association for the US firearms industry, all economic activity from firearm manufacturing, distribution, and other ancillary activities totaled US $ 27. 8 billion in 2010 in the United States.

US economic engagement under the Haitian Hemispheric Opportunity through Partnership Encouragement ( HOPE ) Act, passed in December 2006, has boosted apparel exports and investment by providing duty-free access to the US.

Tiny Honduras soon became the tenth largest recipient of United States assistance aid ; total economic and military aid rose to more than US $ 200 million in 1985 and remained at more than US $ 100 million for the rest of the 1980s.

By 1989 and the election of President Callejas, however, a heavy toll had been taken by regionwide economic recession, civil war in neighboring countries, the drying up of most external credit, and capital flight equaling more than US $ 1. 5 billion.

In Costa Rica in May 1997, former President Carlos Roberto Reina met with former US President Bill Clinton, his Central American counterparts, and the President of the Dominican Republic to reaffirm support for strengthening democracy, good governance, and promoting prosperity through economic integration, free trade, and investment.

On 15 May 1991 Italy became for a while the fourth worldwide economic power, overcoming France, with a GDP of US $ 1. 268 trillion, compared to France's GDP of US $ 1. 209 trillion and Britain's of US $ 1. 087 trillion.

The Islamic Republic has also maintained its hold on power in Iran in spite of the US economic sanctions, and has created or assisted like-minded Shia Islamist groups in Iraq ( SCIRI ) and Lebanon ( Hezbollah ), ( two Muslim countries that also have large Shiite populations ).

Nominal economic growth has continued to the upside approximately in line with US growth since.

Conversely, Henig acknowledges that if the US had been a member, its reluctance to engage in war with European states and to enact economic sanctions may have hampered the ability of the League to deal with international incidents.

Chart using US data showing the relationship between economic growth and unemployment expressed by Okun's law.

During the four years that the plan was operational, US $ 13 billion in economic and technical assistance was given to help the recovery of the European countries that had joined in the Organization for European Economic Co-operation.

During the first three years of occupation of Germany the UK and US vigorously pursued an industrial disarmament program in Germany, partly by removal of equipment but mainly through an import embargo on raw materials and deliberate economic neglect.

At the same time, the US staged an economic blockade from 1985 onward.

Monetarism re-asserted itself in central bank policy in western governments at the end of the 1980s and beginning of the 1990s, with a contraction both in spending and in the money supply, ending the booms experienced in the US and UK.

"... he proximate cause of the world depression was a structurally flawed and poorly managed international gold standard ... For a variety of reasons, including among others a desire of the Federal Reserve to curb the US stock market boom, monetary policy in several major countries turned contractionary in the late 1920s — a contraction that was transmitted worldwide by the gold standard.

In the US, the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development sponsored a workshop to develop a standardized nomenclature for use in interpreting intrapartum fetal heart rate and uterine contraction patterns.

The Potsdam Agreement was the Allied ( UK, US, USSR ) plan of tripartite military occupation and reconstruction of Germany — referring to the German Reich with its pre-war 1937 borders including the former eastern territories — and the entire European Theatre of War territory.

On first publication in October 1937, The Hobbit was met with almost unanimously favourable reviews from publications both in the UK and the US, including The Times, Catholic World and The New York Post.

In 1937, American hunters successfully lobbied the US Congress to pass the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act, which placed an eleven percent tax on all hunting equipment.

Sherman appeared again in the US Army issue of 1937, a commemorative postage stamp jointly honoring Generals Sherman, Grant and Sheridan.

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Targets within and outside of the city walls — such as military barracks, private homes, the Chinese Ministry of Communication, forests and even entire villages — were burnt to cinders, at an estimated value of 20 to 30 million ( 1937 ) US dollars.

The US patent ( application by Bell Telephone Laboratories, dated 1937 ) states:

* 1937: US Navy publishes its revised diving tables based on the work of O. D.

Targets within and outside of the city walls — such as military barracks, private homes, the Chinese Ministry of Communication, forests and even entire villages — were burnt to cinders, at an estimated value of 20 to 30 million ( 1937 ) US dollars.

* 1937, Passenger-cargo ship Scharnhorst, 1942 sold to Japan and rebuilt to auxiliary aircraft carrier Shinyo, sunk 1944 by US u-boat

Starting in June 1937, a joint service from the US mainland to Bermuda was inaugurated, with Pan Am using Sikorsky flying boats and Imperial Airways using the C class flying boat RMA Cavalier.

The Steel Workers Organizing Committee began an attempt to organize workers at Republic Steel in the spring of 1937, following the unionizing of workers at the country's two largest steel companies US Steel and Jones & Laughlin Steel.

The construction of a two-lane steel truss bridge over the Yakima River west of Thorp in 1936, prepared the way for the designation of the Thorp Highway, from State Route 10 ( SR 10 ) to US 97, as SSH 3M ( Secondary State Highway 3M ) in 1937.

She refused their offers and applied for US citizenship in 1937.

See National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation, 301 US 1 ( 1937 ).

He held many patents the most famous of which was US Patent 2, 102, 671 " Wave Translation System ", which was issued to Bell Laboratories in 1937, covering the negative feedback amplifier.

Roosevelt administration crafted the 1937 Marihuana Tax Act, the first US national law making cannabis possession illegal via an unpayable tax on the drug.

* May 11 – Captains Courageous ( 1937 film ) premieres in the US.

* December 21 – Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ( 1937 film ) premieres in the US.

In the Motion Picture Herald Top Ten Money-Making Western Stars poll Autry was listed every year from 1936 to 1942 and 1946 to 1954 ( he was serving in the US Army Air Corps 1943 – 45 ), holding first place 1937 to 1942, and second place ( after Roy Rogers ) 1947 to 1954.

The negative feedback amplifier was invented by Harold Stephen Black ( US patent 2, 102, 671, issued in 1937 ) while a passenger on the Lackawanna Ferry ( from Hoboken Terminal to Manhattan ) on his way to work at Bell Laboratories ( historically located in Manhattan instead of New Jersey in 1927 ) on August 2, 1927.

In 1937 the US Consul General at Jerusalem reported to the State Department that the Mufti refused the principle of partition and declined to consider it.

In 1937 the US Post Office issued a series of commemorative stamp issues honoring various Army and Navy heroes.