Word: developable
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...look ahead, speaking glowingly of the country's economic potential. Revenues from offshore oil and gas reserves increased nearly ninefold to $351 million from the 2003-04 fiscal year to the 2005-06 fiscal year. The reserves, which are located between East Timor and Australia, are to be developed by international and Australian companies, who will hand over half the royalties to Dili. "We could have 10% growth rates and a shortage of labor in a few years," predicts Ramos-Horta. Entrepreneurs are also trying to develop East Timor's once prized coffee plantations. But all the talk of future...
...securing fresh reason to hope. Today Ghana is a bright beacon for a continent the world too often sees only for its suffering. The country's rise and fall and rise again have given many Ghanaians--and many Africans--a more realistic understanding of what it will take to develop their continent's fragile fortunes than they had in the first flush of freedom. And it has left them with a deep appreciation of basic principles that others take for granted: stability, democracy, jobs...
...increasing capacity 5.4%, even adding a Seattle-Paris nonstop flight. Analyst Derocles says C.D.G., the main airport serving Paris, has increased traffic 18%--or by 9 million passengers--since 2004. "London and Frankfurt don't have that advantage," he says, "and it has let Air France--KLM develop sales by 7% to 8% per year...
...towns of South and West Texas. A hotbed of diversity—immigration from soccer-mad Latin America, East Asia, and Africa helped the city grow to become the nation’s 50th largest (and counting) by 2000—it never lacked the competition that would help develop Andre’ into a star on the club circuit...
...waiting to get direction from the EPC about whether we should develop a mechanism to allow students to petition us to not count groups of courses that are distinct from their focus area in Social Studies,” Bernstein wrote in an e-mailed statement. She declined to be interviewed over the phone...