The Bahamas promulgated the International Business Companies ( IBC ) Act in January 1990 to enhance the country's status as a leading financial center.

At the same time, Charlton's emergence as the country's leading young football talent was completed when he was called up to join the England squad for a British Home Championship game against Scotland at Hampden Park.

* Socatel is the country's leading telecommunications and internet service provider.

Ferronickel was the country's leading export commodity and third-leading industry.

During the South African occupation of Namibia, Ethiopia was one of the country's leading proponents abroad ; Ethiopia and Liberia were the first two states to bring the question of independence for then South West Africa to the United Nations.

He became one of 12 board members of the American Astronautical Society, an organization formed in 1954 to represent the country's 300 leading scientists and engineers in the area of guided missiles — he was one of seven members of the board to resign in December 1956 after a series of disputes about the direction and control of the group.

Fear of what the changes might mean for them ( as much of the country's businesses were Chinese owned ), a Malay backlash resulted, leading rapidly to riots and inter-communal violence in which about 6, 000 Chinese homes and businesses were burned and at least 184 people were killed.

Haryana is now a leading contributor to the country's production of foodgrain and milk.

He recently had his own cinematic talk show on Indian TV, Director's Cut, a 13-part special series interviewing the country's leading directors.

Natural resources can add substantial's to a country's wealth, however a sudden inflow of money caused by a resource boom can create social problems including inflation harming other industries (" Dutch disease ") and corruption, leading to inequality and underdevelopment, this is known as the " resource curse ".

The ulema have historically been led by the Al ash-Sheikh, the country's leading religious family.

In the 2006 Nicaraguan general election, former FSLN President Daniel Ortega was re-elected President of Nicaragua with 38. 7 % of the vote compared to 29 % for his leading rival, bringing in the country's second Sandinista government after 16 years of the opposition winning elections.

At this time, Saddam moved up the ranks in the new government by aiding attempts to strengthen and unify the Ba ' ath party and taking a leading role in addressing the country's major domestic problems and expanding the party's following.

Members own the country's largest hotel, one of its leading banks, the second-largest newspaper and two of the largest printing plants.

According to the official version, the Communist Party of Vietnam () is leading the Vietnamese people " in carrying out the country's renovation, modernisation and industrialisation.

Meanwhile, as Milanese banks dominated Italy's financial sphere, the city became the country's leading financial centre.

Chicago soon developed one of the country's leading fire fighting forces.

During the first year of Soviet occupation ( 1940 – 1941 ) over 8, 000 people, including most of the country's leading politicians and military officers, were arrested.

In 2005, Rugby School was one of fifty of the country's leading independent schools which were found guilty of running an illegal price-fixing cartel which had allowed them to drive up fees for thousands of parents.

In 2005, the school was one of fifty of the country's leading independent schools found to have breached the Competition Act ( see below under " Controversy ").

The country's mantra was " Brazil, the Country of the Future ," which the military government used as justification for a giant push into the Amazon to exploit its resources, thereby beginning to transform Brazil into one of the leading economies of the world.

Agricultural products supply nearly all of Uganda's foreign exchange earnings, with coffee alone ( of which Uganda is Africa's leading producer ) accounting for about 27 % of the country's exports in 2002.

Patterson initially approached the University of Chile, the country's leading university, to set up an exchange program, but was turned down after the dean demanded input into who in the US would be training his students.

By 1812 he had established himself as the country's leading ' reporter of sporting events ', which at the time meant mainly prize-fights and horse-races.

A leading critic called him " the great shining star of his Canadian literary generation " and a pivotal figure in the country's history.

The Virginia Institute of Marine Science ( VIMS ) is the professional graduate school in marine science for the College of William and Mary, the country's second-oldest university which is headquartered in nearby Williamsburg.

In Germany, the country's first lecturer's position in AI science (" Archäoinformatik ") was established in 2005 at the University of Kiel ( Benjamin Ducke, now at Oxford Archaeology ).

And in dismissing the country's interest in science as limited to pedestrian applications for streamlining the production of material goods he failed to imagine America's burgeoning appetite for pure scientific research and discovery.

He previously served as the country's Foreign Minister, Finance Minister, minister of science and deputy defense minister.

General Secretary and President Hu Jintao, in an official celebration at the Great Hall of the People, hailed China's success in launching its first manned spacecraft into orbit, describing it as " an honor for our great motherland, an indicator for the initial victory of the country's first manned space flight and for an historic step taken by the Chinese people in their endeavor to surmount the peak of the world's science and technology.

He previously served as the country's Foreign Minister, Finance Minister, minister of science and deputy defense minister

With its strong science and technology education, the institute has been selected, along with Mahidol University and Chulalongkorn University, by Thailand National Science and Technology Development Agency ( NSTDA ), as a destination of selected group of top students from Mahidol Wittayanusorn School and 12 Princess Chulaporn Schools for Science, the country's science schools for gifted students, in a program to mentor junior researchers for national science and technology development.

Managed by the National Science and Technology Development Agency, under the Ministry of Science and Technology, it is the country's largest science and technology research park on the land granted by Thammasat University.

During Nasser-e-Din Shah's reign, Western science, technology, and educational methods were introduced into Persia and the country's modernization was begun.

Though most world governments refused to recognize East Timor's independence or Amaral's authority during his ten day rule in 1975, the East Timorese people regarded Amaral as the country's first president, according to Damien Kingsbury, a political science professor at Deakin University and a leading expert on East Timor.

Dr. Crecine's academic career began at the University of Michigan, where he established the country's first graduate program in public policy in 1968 as the first Director of the Institute of Public Policy Studies, IPPS, ( now the Gerald Ford School of Public Policy ), while also holding academic appointments in political science and sociology.

According to the Establishing act of the Department of Applied Informatics, its mission is to promote and further develop the science of informatics, with special emphasis on the development of systems for managerial and economic applications and the training of high level executives for the country's needs.

As Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation he created a single budget line for science and technology funding as well as participating in the country's Innovation Task Force.

Its mission is to provide high quality education, training and research in the areas of science and technology to produce qualified professionals that can apply their knowledge and skills in the country's development.

In Thailand, she is often referred to as the " Princess of Technology " or the " Princess of Information Technology ", due to her interest and expertise in applying science for the country's development.

NMS is one of the country's National Collections, and holds internationally important collections of natural sciences, decorative arts, world cultures, science and technology, and Scottish history and archaeology.

Most of the resources of the CNPq were channeled to fellowship programs that had no clear procedures for quality control and no mechanisms to make the fellows active in the country's science and technology institutions.

New groups competed for resources and control of the country's agencies of science, technology, and higher education.

After independence from Portugal, declared by the King's son in 1822, D. Pedro I ( who became the new country's first Emperor ), the policies concerning higher learning, science and technology in Brazil came to a relative standstill.

The school's directors and body of professors have been among the country's most illustrious men of letters and science.

In the October 2001 issue of Good Housekeeping magazine names SciTreck one of the country's 10 best science museums.

Civilian control of the military is a doctrine in military and political science that places ultimate responsibility for a country's strategic decision-making in the hands of the civilian political leadership, rather than professional military officers.