There is limited natural fresh water resources ( except for a few seasonal streams and springs on Tortola, most of the islands ' water supply comes from wells and rainwater catchments ). It has strong ties to nearby US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.

However, due to concerns over the previous Cuban leader Fulgencio Batista the company had started foreign branches a few years prior to the revolution ; the Company moved the ownership of the Company's trademarks, assets and proprietary formulas out of the country to the Bahamas prior to the revolution as well as constructing plants in Puerto Rico and Mexico after the prohibition era to save in import taxes for rum being imported to the US.

* Bridgelayer: The US field-converted a few M4 in Italy with A-frame-supported bridge and heavy rear counter-weight to make the Mobile Assault Bridge.

In the past few years, a practice called yarn bombing, or the use of knitted or crocheted cloth to modify and beautify one's ( usually outdoor ) surroundings, emerged in the US and spread worldwide.

The silicon cost of an 8051 is now as low as US $ 0. 001, because some implementations use as few as 2, 200 logic gates and take 0. 0127 square millimeters of silicon.

Young Americans was a commercial success in both the US and the UK, and a re-issue of the 1969 single " Space Oddity " became Bowie's first number one hit in the UK a few months after " Fame " achieved the same in the US.

In English speaking countries, " Xavier " is one of the few names starting with X, and until recently was likely to follow " Francis "; in the last decade, however, " Xavier " by itself has become more popular than " Francis ", and is now one of the hundred most common male baby names in the US.

After a few minor experiments using sailing vessels the US Navy implemented a small number of combat hydrofoils, such as the Pegasus class, from 1977 through 1993.

Harvey Mudd College is said to be one of the few colleges in the US with very low grade inflation.

The US Atomic Energy Commission and NASA tested a few designs from 1959 to 1968.

The agreement did not officially provide for the stationing of United States service personnel in Kuwait as the 1, 500 US personnel remaining after the Gulf War were scheduled to leave within a few months.

A few days later, Colonel John M. Chivington led US troops in a massacre at Sand Creek.

The US is one of the few countries in the world to require reporting of all cash transactions over a certain limit, although certain businesses can be exempt from the requirement.

The reason to build a new M4 is to produce a new more reliable carbine for US troops in a few years.

A few years into the price-fixing investigation, Whitacre confessed to his FBI handlers that he had been involved with corporate kickbacks and money laundering at ADM. Whitacre was later convicted of embezzling US $ 9 million ; some of this criminal activity occurred during the time he was cooperating with the FBI.

* 1884 – A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, US, attacks members of a jury who had returned a verdict of manslaughter in a clear case of murder, and then over the next few days would riot and destroy the courthouse.

In late June he summoned his lawyer to draw up an extensive will bequeathing his property plus 3, 444 crowns ( around $ 300, 000 US today ), minus a few debts, to his wife pending her remarriage, in trust for her sons pending their twenty-fifth birthdays and her daughters pending their marriages.

Hazmi obtained a B-1 / B-2 tourist visa on April 3, 1999 from the US consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, using a new passport he acquired a few weeks earlier.

Many view the pursuit of nuclear weapons by these states as a threat to nonproliferation and world peace, and therefore seek policies to discourage the spread of nuclear weapons to these states, a few of which are often described by the US as " rogue states ".

Many standard IC op-amps cost only a few cents in moderate production volume ; however some integrated or hybrid operational amplifiers with special performance specifications may cost over $ 100 US in small quantities.

Within a few years, this previously obscure term featured regularly in the lexicon of the conservative social and political challenges against curriculum expansion and progressive teaching methods in US high schools and universities.

In the US policing there is typically a state police force, but crimes are usually handled by local police forces which usually only cover a few municipalities.

" In the United States, political scientists known as " Americanists " look at a variety of data including constitutional development, elections, public opinion and public policy such as Social Security reform ,..... foreign policy, US Congressional committees, and the US Supreme Court — to name only a few issues.

However, as a practicing historian, he, himself, has left few clues to the amount of professional scholarship that he used when writing history.

Except for a rich friendship with the painter, Chauncey Ryder who gave him the only professional instruction he ever had -- and this was limited to a few lessons, though the two artists often went on painting trips together -- Roy developed his art by himself.

But with the exception of professional athletes, few contact sports and physical education activities in our schools have any carryover in the adult life of the average American man or woman.

A few professional baseball players cultivated eccentricities, with the encouragement of the press, so that they might see their names in big black print, along with Daddy Browning's, Al Capone's, Earl Sande's, and the Prince of Wales'.

Active alumnae have built a fine building on the campus where members can come and stay for a few days or longer and where they can have their social gatherings and professional meetings.

Although the National Association held on for a few more seasons, it was no longer recognized as the premier organization for professional baseball.

There are only a few professional cheerleading leagues around the world ; some professional leagues include the NBA Cheerleading League, the NFL Cheerleading League, the CFL Cheerleading League, the MLS Cheerleading League, the MLB Cheerleading League, and the NHL Ice Dancers.

The first few years of Clarke's professional career were largely theatrical, apart from her role in Dragonslayer.

According to some fans, a tour guide explained that Jerry Jones invited a few professional soccer players to drop kick soccer balls to try to hit the screen.

Association football is the most prominent team sport for women in several countries, and one of the few women's team sports with professional leagues.

A few fanzines have evolved into professional publications ( sometimes known as " prozines "), and many professional writers were first published in fanzines ; some continue to contribute to them after establishing a professional reputation.

Only a few fans could afford more professional printers, or the time it took them to print, until photocopying became cheap and ubiquitous in the 1970s.

Each of FAO ’ s Goodwill Ambassadors – celebrities from the arts, entertainment, sport and academia such as Nobel Prize winner Rita Levi Montalcini, actress Gong Li, the late singer Miriam Makeba, and soccer players Roberto Baggio and Raúl, to name a few – has made a personal and professional commitment to FAO ’ s vision: a food-secure world for present and future generations.

These competitions have contributed to local interest in the sport and the first professional local team, the Fuerteventura-Canarias, was formed, initially run by Óscar Guerrero, director of Kaiku, although they have not competed for the past few seasons.

The Great Man approach to history was most fashionable with professional historians in the 19th century ; a popular work of this school is the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition ( 1911 ) which contains lengthy and detailed biographies about the great men of history, but very few general or social histories.

Whilst a few social scientists who draw inspiration from ' organic ' views of society have embraced Gaia philosophy as a way to explain the human-nature interconnections, most professional social scientists are more involved in reflecting upon the way Gaia philosophy is used and engaged with within sub-sections of society.

In Germany, only very few professional associations obtained the right to negotiate salaries and working conditions for their members, notably the medical doctors association Marburger Bund and the pilots association Vereinigung Cockpit.

Lyon & Healy harps are widely-played by professional musicians since they make one of the few harps for orchestral use — which are known as " concert harps " or " pedal harps ".

The four year, full-time undergraduate program maintains a balance between professional majors and those in the arts and sciences, and is selective, admitting few transfer students and 9. 7 % of its applicants in the 2010 – 2011 application season.

Membership is limited to established professional cartoonists, with a few exceptions of outstanding persons in affiliated fields.

Indeed, in most western nations relatively few physicians smoke, and their professional knowledge does appear to have a beneficial effect on their health and lifestyle.