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Boost Surveillance and Tracking System (BSTS) was part of SDIO in the late 1980s, and was designed to detect missile launches, especially during the boost phase; however, once the SDI program shifted toward theater missile defense in the early 1990s, the system left SDIO control and was transferred to the Air Force.
Slum/Shack Dwellers International (SDI), is a global social movement of the urban poor that started in 1996. It forms a network of community-based organisations in more than 30 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. [1] The SDI secretariat is located in Cape Town, South Africa. The current chairperson is Joseph Muturi.
Hubble Space Telescope 1990 — Hubble Space Telescope launches during STS-31, a Space Shuttle Discovery mission. 1991 — The Gulf War is waged in the Middle East, by a U.N.-authorized coalition force from thirty-four nations, led by the U.S. and United Kingdom, against Iraq. 1991 — The World Wide Web publicly debuts as an Internet service.
When the 1990 oil price shock hit in mid-1990, consumer spending contracted and the economy entered recession. Unlike the early 1980s recession, the recession beginning in 1990 was relatively mild. Some of the hardest hit cities were in California and the Northeast, while much of the South was less affected.
The white South has voted Republican at the presidential level since the 1950s and at the state and local level since the 1990s. In the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan rejuvenated the conservative Republican ideology, with tax cuts , greatly increased defense spending , deregulation , a policy of rolling back communism , a greatly strengthened ...
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START I (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) was a bilateral treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union on the reduction and the limitation of strategic offensive arms.
TV Guide describes it as: "A retrospective of the people and events that marked the 1990s." [ 2 ] The Daily News describes it as: "Flashback recalls years both grand and giddy, including cyberbiz, Bill Clinton , Anna Nicole Smith , Roseanne Barr and Vanilla Ice ."