Although trade unions in Benin represent up to 75 % of the formal workforce, the large informal economy has been noted by the International Trade Union Confederation ( ITCU ) to contain ongoing problems, including a lack of women's wage equality, the use of child labour, and the continuing issue of forced labour.

As noted, the country also is a member of NATO's Partnership for Peace as well as an observer in the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council and the Western European Union.

In support of Hitler's strategy of rapproachment of the Soviet Union in 1939, Mussolini in September 1939 informed fellow Fascist official Giuseppe Bottai that the internal differences between fascism and Bolshevism had grown less acute over time and noted that both fascism and Bolshevism held common contempt of the " demo-plutocratic capitalism of the western powers ".

Polish historian Andrzej Walicki noted that Marx's and Engels's theory was the " theory of freedom ", but a theory that, at the height of its influence, was used to legitimise the totalitarian socialist state of the Soviet Union.

Chernenko's first marriage produced a son, Albert, who would become noted in the Soviet Union as a legal theorist.

Polanyi noted what happened to the study of genetics in the Soviet Union once the doctrines of Trofim Lysenko gained the backing of the State.

General Franz Halder noted in his diaries that, by destroying the Soviet Union, Germany would destroy Britain's hope of victory.

Patrick Abercromby ( 1656 – c. 1716 ), Scottish physician and antiquarian, noted for being physician to King James VII ( II of England ) and his fervent opposition to the Act of Union between Scotland and England.

Some of the most referenced organizations, who offer evidence on the existence of racial profiling, noted are The American Civil Liberties Union, which has conducted studies various major U. S. cities, and RAND.

When King Gustav Vasa finally besieged and conquered the city three years later, an event which ended the Kalmar Union and the Swedish Middle Ages, he noted every second building in the city was abandoned.

Philip Sheridan, a noted Union general in the American Civil War, was present during the fire and coordinated military relief efforts.

In his report, Wallace noted an officer in the fort who was watching the Union ships as inquisitively as they were watching him.

His ten-year tenure was noted for his foreign policy turn to the Soviet Union, the completion of the Helmand Valley project, which radically improved living conditions in southwestern Afghanistan, and tentative steps towards the emancipation of women.

In a document written by Molotov he noted how cannibalism and starvation were still serious problems even in 1937 in the Soviet Union.

It has been noted that no West-East migration occurred when this possibility arose after the unification of the German states, and that practically no Germans have returned to the East after the Baltic States, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Romania entered the European Union.

Becoming a co-founder and president of the Prehistoric Society, it was also at this time that he came to embrace Marxism and became a noted sympathiser with the Soviet Union, particularly during the Second World War.

Located just over the Juniata River from Mount Union, Kistler was designed in 1916-17 by John Nolen, a noted town planner from Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Union general John T. Wilder, who in the 1850s had managed a foundry in Indiana, noted the iron ore and coal deposits of the Cumberland Plateau region while operating in the area during the Civil War.

Clarence Seward Darrow ( April 18, 1857 – March 13, 1938 ) was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, best known for defending teenage thrill killers Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14-year-old Robert " Bobby " Franks ( 1924 ) and defending John T. Scopes in the Scopes " Monkey " Trial ( 1925 ), in which he opposed William Jennings Bryan ( statesman, noted orator, and 3-time presidential candidate ).

He was then President of the Oxford Union, a noted route to political office.

Indeed, as has been noted, the Postal Service had become increasingly lax about employing the purple recommended by the Universal Postal Union for 3 ¢ stamps, and after the war, departures from the color code in double-width commemoratives veritably became the rule rather than the exception ( although U. P. U. colors would continue to be used in the definitive issues of the next decades ).

Among its national spokesmen, although not the best known, was Thomas Ewing, Jr., a noted Free State advocate in Kansas before the civil war, a controversial major general of Union forces during the war, and a Republican turned Democrat after the Grant Administration.

After Tennessee withdrew from the Union in June 1861, the Confederate Army occupied East Tennessee and arrested several noted Union supporters.

In Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad, 118 U. S. 394 ( 1886 ), the reporter noted in the headnote to the opinion that the Chief Justice began oral argument by stating, " The court does not wish to hear argument on the question whether the provision in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids a State to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, applies to these corporations.

Antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea has been noted by epidemiologists ; beginning in the 1940s gonorrhea was treated with penicillin, but doses had to be continually increased in order to remain effective, and by the ’ 70s, penicillin-and tetracycline-resistant gonorrhea emerged in the Pacific Basin.

One of those affected by the flooding was noted local and international musician Jerry Miller, a founding member of Moby Grape, who had recently moved to Pacific from Tacoma.

He is also noted for his support of New Zealand's own " imperial " designs – Seddon believed that New Zealand should play a major role in the Pacific Islands as a " Britain of the South ".

However Roosevelt's speechwriter Robert Sherwood noted that " it was not long before the people of India, Burma, Malaya, and Indonesia were beginning to ask if the Atlantic Charter extended also to the Pacific and to Asia in general.

During the Hardtack Teak test in 1958 observers noted the damaging effects of the electromagnetic pulse ( EMP ) caused by the explosions on electronic equipment, and during the Starfish Prime test in 1962 the EMP from a 1. 4 Mt warhead detonated over the Pacific damaged three satellites and also disrupted power transmission and communications across the Pacific.

As Narita is located roughly equidistant from the Pacific Ocean and Tokyo Bay, around a number of small rivers, it was a natural political and commercial center for the region, and gained importance as a pilgrimage destination with the foundation of the noted Buddhist temple of Shinsho-ji in 940 AD.

It should be noted that when Groo was with Pacific, he was not portrayed as a bumbling idiot like was in future issues starting with Epic line.

Fiji's Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama received " cheers and thunderous applause " from the Tongan public when he attended a Pacific Islands Forum meeting in Tonga in October 2007 ; the crowd's " enthusiastic reception " of Fiji's leader was likened to " that accorded to a rock star " Radio Australia noted that he had been " the star of this year's meeting, for the people of Tonga ", while TVNZ reported that he had been given " given a hero's welcome ".

In addition to the territories noted above, the United States administered the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands from July 18, 1947 until October 1, 1994.

From July 18, 1947 until October 1, 1994, the U. S. administered the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, but later entered into a new political relationship with all four political units ( one of which is the Northern Mariana Islands listed above, the others being the three freely associated states noted below ).

The town was, and continues to be a home to noted summer citizens, including steel magnate Sir James Dunn, Fathers of Confederation Samuel Leonard Tilley and Charles Tupper, and William Cornelius Van Horne, General Manager and later, President of the Canadian Pacific Railway.

Workers building the Central Pacific Railroad first noted the grave along the Humboldt River, and in 1906 it was moved to the hillside cemetery when the Union Pacific realigned its tracks.

He also noted that the hacker tended to be active around the middle of the day, Pacific time.

Hawaii Pacific University is the largest private university in the central Pacific, most noted for its diverse student body of almost 9, 000 students, representing over 100 countries.

With respect to these unaddressed claims, medical practitioners also noted the potential widespread impacts of nuclear testing within the Pacific Proving Grounds, indicated by the prevalence of both radiogenic diseases, as well as heart disease, diabetes, and obesity associated with " forced changed in dietary patterns and lifestyle " resulting from U. S. administration after the testing.

He is particularly noted for his work with indigenous peoples of the Southeast and Pacific Northwest.

It has been noted that US Marines in the Pacific Theater of WWII coined the term from mixing various alcohols with juice in canteens or other vessels.

In Ancient Egypt, Pacific cultures, and European countries, as noted below, women monarchs have been given the title king or its equivalent, such as pharaoh, when gender is irrelevant to the office.

It has been speculated that the locale shift was done because the Pacific sets were taking up too much space on the Universal lot that could have been used for feature films instead ( a fate that also befell F Troop ), though as noted below, they remained standing for several years.

The cape is noted for its extensive subtropical vegetation and its granite cliffs which offer views of the Pacific Ocean.