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81Economy of Benin — Infobox Economy country = Benin width = caption = currency = CFA franc (XOF) year = Calendar year organs = AU, ECOWAS, WTO rank = 139 gdp = $12.18 billion {2007 est.) growth = 4.5% (2007 est.) per capita = $1,500 (2007 est.) sectors = Agriculture …
82Second Industrial Revolution — The Second Industrial Revolution, typically dated between 1870 and 1914, was a second phase of the Industrial Revolution, involving several developments within the chemical, electrical, petroleum, and steel industries. [ Western Civilization ,… …
83market research — the gathering and studying of data relating to consumer preferences, purchasing power, etc., esp. prior to introducing a product on the market. [1925 30] * * * Study of the requirements of specific markets, the acceptability of products, and… …
84New Course — The New Course (Neue Kurs) was a Soviet economic policy that aimed to improve the standard of living and to increase the availability of consumer goods in East Germany. There were three major thrusts of the new course. Improvement of consumer… …
85History of North Korea — History of Korea This article is part of a series Prehistory …
86Henan — /hue nahn /, n. Pinyin. 1. a province in E China. 50,320,000; 64,479 sq. mi. (167,000 sq. km). Cap.: Zhengzhou. 2. former name of Luoyang. Also, Honan. * * * or Ho nan conventional Honan Province (pop., 2000 est.: 92,560,000), east central China …
87Honan — /hoh nan /; Chin. /hue nahn /, n. 1. Wade Giles. Henan. 2. (usually l.c.) Textiles. a. a pongee fabric made from the filaments of the wild silkworm. b. a lustrous fabric simulating pongee and woven from fibers other than silk. * * * ▪ province,… …
88Alexey Kosygin — Infobox Officeholder name = Aleksei Kosygin Алексей Косыгин caption = Kosygin at the Glassboro Summit Conference, June 23, 1967 nationality = Russian order = Premier of the Soviet Union term start = October 15, 1964 term end = October 23, 1980… …
89Industry — Russia’s industrial infrastructure is dominated by the country’s Stalinist experiment in rapid industrialization. During the 1930s, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) transformed the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) from… …
90light — light1 lightful, adj. lightfully, adv. /luyt/, n., adj., lighter, lightest, v., lighted or lit, lighting. n. 1. something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light. 2. Physics …
