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In 1973, Nixon appointed Robert D. Timm as CAB chair, [221] who pushed for a 12% industry return on investment [222] and the CAB refused any fare reduction that threatened this goal. [223] The CAB was determined to limit low fares: from 1971 to 1974, 2/3 of the CAB's field investigative efforts were directed towards ensuring low-fares weren't ...
While Colombia is the most impacted since it shares a border, women are also traveling to Brazil to give birth. [200] The number of births of Venezuelan babies attended to in Boa Vista, Brazil, has increased from 700 in 2014 to 50,000 in 2017. [200] Venezuelan mothers have also been fleeing to neighboring Peru and Ecuador.
During the 20th century, "Venezuela was a haven for immigrants fleeing Old World repression and intolerance" according to Newsweek. [2] Emigration began at low rates in 1983 after oil prices collapsed, though the increased rates of emigration, especially the flight of professionals, grew largely following the Bolivarian Revolution which was led by Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez. [33]
In 2015, 267.18 deaths per 100,000 people were caused by cardiovascular diseases, 204.63 by neoplasms and 100.66 by neurological disorders. [74] Diarrhea, lower respiratory, and other common infections were ranked sixth overall, but had the highest rate of infectious disease mortality in the US at 31.65 deaths per 100,000 people. [74]
The Roadster was the first highway-legal all-electric car to use lithium-ion battery cells, and the first production all-electric car to travel more than 320 km (200 miles) per charge. [ 46 ]
The creation of the short-lived Corsican Republic in 1755 was an early attempt to adopt a democratic constitution (all men and women above age of 25 could vote). [100] This Corsican Constitution was the first based on Enlightenment principles and included female suffrage, something that was not included in most other democracies until the 20th ...
The Rashi script, originally used to print Judaeo-Spanish An original letter in Haketia, written in 1832. Judaeo-Spanish, also known as Ladino, [249] is a variety of Spanish which preserves many features of medieval Spanish and some old Portuguese and is spoken by descendants of the Sephardi Jews who were expelled from Spain in the 15th century ...