Wide differences in climate, mineral resources, and levels of technology among the republics accentuated this interdependence, as did the communist practice of concentrating much industrial output in a small number of giant plants.
Sluggish economic performance over the past decade, attributable largely to declining annual rainfall, has reduced levels of per capita income and consumption.
The government's long-run economic goal is the modernization of Portuguese markets, industry, infrastructure, and work force in order to catch up with productivity and income levels of the more advanced EU countries.
At present levelsof production, crude oil reserves should last for over 100 years.
However, peace and political stability must come first; only then will recent government moves toward a "market-friendly" economy restore old levels of output.
Per capita output and living standards are somewhat lower than the levels of the less affluent EU countries.
Romania's infrastructure had deteriorated over the last five years due to reduced levels of public investment.
Loose monetary and fiscal policies pushed inflation to hyperinflationary levels in late 1993.
Low levels of literacy, and education in general, can impede the economic development of a country in the current rapidly changing, technology-driven world.
He made the most he could of the varying views of Florence which the turns and mounting levels of the road gave him.
The river might gradually waste itself among the morasses; and then, with their boats become useless for want of depth of water, how were they to walk across those endless levels of soft mud?
The breadth of rich soil between its outer and inner banks was very inconsiderable, and the upper levels were poor and sandy.
At half-past six the sun settled down upon the levels with the aspect of a great forge in the heavens; and presently a monstrous pumpkin-like moon arose on the other hand.
Per capita GDP has been moving up to the levels of the big West European economies.
Three decades ago its GDP per capita was comparable with levels in the poorer countries of Africa and Asia.
Norway maintains an extensive welfare system that helps propel public sector expenditures to more than 50% of GDP and results in one of the highest average tax levels in the world.
Although Syria has sufficient water supplies in the aggregate at normal levels of precipitation, the great distance between major water supplies and population centers poses serious distribution problems.
At present levels of production, oil and gas reserves should last for over 100 years.
The levels of the Sea of Galilee and of the Dead Sea are known within a few inches.
The delay at this spot was, however, unavoidable, since the line of levels had to be carried across this plain from the Mediterranean to the Sea of Galilee, and accurate levelling is not rapidly completed in any country.
Dramatic changes can come about at all levels of hypnosis.
The subject is reluctant to do what he considers as "giving up his control" when, in reality, he is really more and more in control of himself as he penetrates the deeper levels of hypnosis.
He has written that the organism functions differently on various levels of behavior (regression), and that the behavior breaks down into component parts.
The first movement seems to be an immediate consequence of the earthquake affecting differently a fluid and a solid, so that their respective levelsare slightly deranged: but the second case is a far more important phenomenon.
I, "wait in a draughty level with an extinguishable candle close to the main shaft, with 30 or 40 miles of levels around, and no end of winzes?
One day--it might have been night as far as our gloomy surroundings indicated--Captain Jan and I were stumbling along one of the levels of Botallack, I know not how many fathoms down.
There are nigh 40 miles of levels and lots of winzes everywhere!
Our walk through the levels of pit 'B' was much longer than I had expected, and must have been quite half a mile.
The last one levels it off with a piece of bread slammed on like a cover.
The soil a light red sand, the lower levelsbeing stronger and more clayey.
The soil of the country we passed over was a poor and cold clay; but there are many rich levels which, could they be drained and defended from the inundations of the river, would amply repay the cultivation.
The country was in general poor, with partial tracts of better ground; the hills were slaty, and covered as well as the levels with small eucalypti, cypresses, and casuarinas.
The clear levels examined to-day were named the Solway Flats.
Descending the rough braeside, we now make for a conspicuous old ash-tree, and thenceforward thread our way amidst the dykes and marshy levels of Castle Martin Corse.
This does not mean that the sun's general temperature varies, but merely that at some times heated gases are ejected rapidly to highlevels so that a sudden wave of energy strikes the earth.
The significance of dust at high levels and its relation to solar radiation have already been discussed in connection with volcanoes.
If it had been warmer, the palms would have grown freely at higher levels and Jericho would not have held its distinction as the city of palm trees.
The sun actually sends to the earth more energy than usual, but the air moves with such unusual rapidity that it actually cools the earth's surface a trifle by carrying the extra heat to high levels where it is lost into space.
The most important of these was the rapid upward convection in the centers of cyclonic storms whereby abundant heat was carried to high levelswhere most of it was radiated away into space.
He assumes that the winds which blow toward the centers of the ice sheets at high levels carry the necessary moisture by which the glaciers grow.
In fact their warmth would increase evaporation while the violent cyclonic storms and high winds would cause heavy rain and keep the air cool by constantly raising it to high levels where it would rapidly radiate its heat into space.
Day by day they ascend to higher levels and find their horizon receding farther and farther.
On the sloping grass seven inert khaki forms could be counted, on the lower levels another five: stretched across the mound to the east of the canal a dozen or more were visible at intervals of eight or so yards.
The great struggling unknown masses of the men who are at the base of everything are the dynamic force that is lifting the levels of society.
The long train was speeding smoothly across the vast white levels of Assiniboia, when Agatha, who sat by a window, looked up as the conductor strode through the car.
She had also an ample share of the Western farmer's pride, which firmly declines to believe that there is any land to compare with the one the plough is slowly wresting from the wide white levels of the prairie.
Extremes meet and fuse on the wide white levelsof the West.
The whole working force from all the levels has been sent to the point of the accident.
We are away and the place is unprotected all day; besides, after a man has worked all day down in the hot levels of the Comstock, he does not feel like cooking his own dinner.
Nature never abhorred a vacuum more than she herself is abhorred by these Dutchmen; here rivers run above their levels and cattle feed where fishes were by nature intended to swim.
We returned to Buiksloot and then proceeded to Saardam, on the top of a Dyke, which keeps the sea from inundating the vast levels of North Holland.
The fan-palm (Licuala) which grows in such numbers in the lower levels did not come under my notice above this elevation.
All the morning and early afternoon they had run through lovely levels of harvest, where men were cradling the wheat and women were binding it into sheaves in the narrow fields between black spaces of forest.
He yielded, and began to praise the orcharded levels which now replaced the vine-purpled slopes of the upper river.
Preliminary work was immediately begun in the early spring of 1817 at the strategic summit level at Rome by conducting "a careful re-examination of the line of the canal, and of the levels of the preceding year.
A like subsidence had more than once produced the same results earlier; for the remains of four or five forest beds at different levels have been found in the peat.
A thousand of these should go to the ton; but though uniform in size they are not of uniform weight, for the peat, as might be expected, is more dense at its lower levelsthan near the surface.
But of the fragment of His life which energises His system we may know something in the lower levels of its manifestation.
Group-souls at any level or at all levels arrange themselves into seven great types, according to the Minister of the Deity through whom their life has poured forth.
