The poem supplied a historical link to the gauchos ' contribution to the national development of Argentina, for the gaucho had played a major role in Argentina's independence from Spain.

He oversaw and helped plan the construction or development of modern barracks, Argentina's first expressways, numerous public vacation resorts, several thousand schools, water treatment plants, a modern merchant marine, 650, 000 housing units and the planting of two million trees, among other works.

President Mitre's 1862 establishment of Argentina's first institute of Agronomy helped lead to the development of a new economic activity in the region around Pergamino: intensive agriculture.

Environment-current issues: government water control projects have drained most of the inhabited marsh areas east of An Nasiriyah by drying up or diverting the feeder streams and rivers ; a once sizable population of Shi ' a Muslims, who have inhabited these areas for thousands of years, has been displaced ; furthermore, the destruction of the natural habitat poses serious threats to the area's wildlife populations ; inadequate supplies of potable water ; development of Tigris-Euphrates Rivers system contingent upon agreements with upstream riparian Turkey ; air and water pollution ; soil degradation ( salination ) and erosion ; and desertification.

Some large cities where TV development was slow, like Pittsburgh and St. Louis, had only one station on the air for a prolonged period, many more of the largest cities such as Boston only had two, and many sizable cities including Denver and Portland, Oregon had no television service at all until the second half of 1952 after the freeze ended.

Unlike most of the county's coastal cities, Santee still has sizable portions of vacant land suitable for development.

The program laid out sizable tasks in five key areas: electronics, automation systems, nuclear energy, development of new materials, and biotechnology.

This helped to promote the development of the region, but it also created a sizable sex industry in the vicinity of the bases.

The development of the nation's sizable natural gas resources also originated largely from YPF.

To the north is the village of Tyrrelstown, with a sizable modern housing development.

* Support to agricultural producers remains sizable, at about five times the level of international development assistance-$ 245 billion in 2000.

A sizable area west of the shopping centre, which had previously been farmland and orchards, was subdivided into a housing development called " The Old Roman Estate "; several streets in the area have Roman names, including Marcia St, Lavinia St, Portia St, Lucretia Rd and Portico Parade.

A comparison of the development of Alberta's less oil and gas-endowed neighbours, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, reveals the role petroleum has played.

Another important contribution to Nova Scotia's provincial economy is through spin-offs and royalties relating to off-shore petroleum exploration and development.

The developing petroleum industry in the early 20th century provided the impetus for the development of accurate design methods such as the McCabe-Thiele method and the Fenske equation.

Because of high costs, the development of petroleum, phosphate, and other mineral resources is not a near-term prospect.

As of early 1994, there were thirty-three ministerial portfolios: commerce ; communications ; culture ; defence ; defence production ; education ; environment ; finance and economic affairs ; food and agriculture ; foreign affairs ; health ; housing ; information and broadcasting ; interior ; Kashmiri affairs and Northern Areas ; law and justice ; local government ; minority affairs ; narcotics control ; parliamentary affairs ; petroleum and natural resources production ; planning and development ; railways ; religious affairs ; science and technology ; social welfare ; special education ; sports ; state and frontier regions ; tourism ; water and power ; women's development ; and youth affairs.

Long-term goals feature the development of off-shore petroleum and the diversification of the economy.

Many fast-growing economies throughout the world, especially in Asia, also were a major factor in the rapidly increasing demand for fossil fuels, which — along with fewer new petroleum finds, greater extraction costs, and political turmoil — forced two other trends: a soar in the price of petroleum products and a push by governments and businesses to promote the development of environmentally friendly technology ( known informally as " green " technology ).

* Mitigation of peak oil – discussion of attempts to delay and minimize the impact of " peak oil " ( the point in time of maximum global petroleum production ), including the development of unconventional oil resources

They also argue that the development of these organisms will simply shift the consumption of petroleum to the utilization of biomass in order to create energy.

About half of Guyana's debt is owed to the multilateral development banks and 20 % to its neighbour Trinidad and Tobago, which until 1986 was its principal supplier of petroleum products.

The 1950s saw the creation of the petroleum processing industry, as well as the development of various high-technology facilities that came to define the economy of the Oblast for the remainder of the century.

Oil City is a city in Venango County, Pennsylvania that is known in the initial exploration and development of the petroleum industry.

A half-cent sales tax earmarked for economic development was created after the decline in the petroleum business in the 1980s.

One promising long-term project is the joint development with Australia of petroleum and natural gas resources in the waters southeast of Timor.

The first significant new development in the JPDA since Timorese independence is the largest petroleum resource in the Timor Sea, the Greater Sunrise gas field.

He played a major role in making the petroleum reserves of the Middle East available to Western development.

For general background concerning the development of the petroleum industry in the Middle East see

In petroleum exploration and development, formation evaluation is used to determine the ability of a borehole to produce petroleum.

Gesner himself was humble about his contribution to the development of the petroleum industry.

:* Except as to State rights over permits and licences, the Federal Government has rights over development of mineral resources, mines, mining, minerals and mineral ores, oils and oilfields, petroleum products, safety in mines and oilfields

Industrial development continued throughout the 20th century with the construction by British Petroleum of a new petroleum refinery at Llandarcy.

His father was a chemical engineer involved in research and development related to petroleum refining, paper production, and air pollution control systems.

Reasons for this development include changes in the weather and dramatic changes in the global economy, including higher oil prices, lower food reserves, and growing consumer demand in China and India.

Broader economic improvement, long-term fiscal health, and sustained increases in the standard of living still depend on the government passing major policy reforms and on continued development of Iraq's massive oil reserves.

Recent developments have helped revitalize the energy sector, including new discoveries and the successful development of its hydrocarbon reserves.

He said Russia-Uzbek relations and possible EU development of Uzbek energy reserves were not " directly " discussed but that " one might assume in the longer run they look forward to EU investment in this area.

Regional authorities are primarily responsible for environmental management, including water, contaminant discharge and coastal management, river and lake management including flood and drainage control, regional land management ; regional transport ( including public transport ) and harbours, biosecurity or pest management ; while territorial authorities are responsible for: local-level land use management ( urban and rural planning ); network utility services such as water, sewerage, stormwater and solid waste management ; local roads ; libraries ; parks and reserves ; and community development.

Bangladesh is limited in its reserves of oil, but recently there has been huge development in gas and coal mining.

Incomplete drupelet development can also be a symptom of exhausted reserves in the plant's roots, or infection with a virus such as Raspberry bushy dwarf virus.

This World Network is more than a listing -- biosphere reserves exchange knowledge and experiences on sustainable development innovations across national and continental borders -- they exist in more than 100 countries all across the world.

The UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves covers internationally designated protected areas, known as biosphere reserves, that are meant to demonstrate a balanced relationship between man and nature ( e. g. encourage sustainable development ).

There are nature reserves and parkland, but also agricultural property that is deed restricted under the state Farmland Preservation Program, which buys the development rights while allowing the farmer to retain title and continue working the land. Chester has been described as a rural environment that caters to " agritourism.

As most of the residents there were Terek Cossacks, the town grew slowly until the development of oil reserves in the early 20th century.

A second boom period began after the Second World War, with the discovery and development of the Spraberry Trend, still ranked as the third-largest oil field in the United States by total reserves.

By 1997, 23 tiger reserves encompassed an area of, but the fate of tiger habitat outside the reserves was precarious, due to pressure on habitat, incessant poaching and large-scale development projects such as dams, industry and mines.

OPEC's ability to control the price of oil has diminished somewhat since then, due to the subsequent discovery and development of large oil reserves in Alaska, the North Sea, Canada, the Gulf of Mexico, the opening up of Russia, and market modernization.

With the development of São Tomé's oil reserves, American diplomatic and military relations are becoming closer.

Pinchot is known for reforming the management and development of forests in the United States and for advocating the conservation of the nation's reserves by planned use and renewal.

Despite rapid development of the new towns which has resulted in a population of over 3 million, the Hong Kong Government confines built-up areas to a few areas and reserves large parts of the region as parkland.

In 1948 the Summit Road Scenic Society was formed to continue development and maintenance of the reserves.

These reserves created many difficulties in later years, making economic development difficult and creating resentment against the Anglican church, the Family Compact, and the Château Clique.

Tourism was also a fast developing activity in Portuguese Africa both by the growing development of and demand for beach resorts and wildlife reserves.

López Portillo undertook an ambitious program to promote Mexico's economic development with revenues stemming from the discovery of new petroleum reserves in the states of Veracruz and Tabasco by Petróleos Mexicanos ( Pemex ), the country's publicly owned oil company.

Political instability at the national level has hindered development of the reserves, as the region has chosen to align with pro-autonomy forces which aim at the devolution of considerable powers away from the central government in favor of the departments.