Word: 1990s
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...site chosen is Mauna Kea, a mountain on the island of Hawaii. There is strong support for the project both by the U.S. government and the state of Hawaii which has a large Japanese population. Completion is expected in the early 1990s...
...Strauch Committee is expected to analyze the GSAS's role in the 1980s and 1990s, says Peter S. McKinney, Spence's acting dean of the grad school for the academic year. The major issues appear to be should the GSAS expand to meet the larger academic job market of the 1990s, and if so how much; should the GSAS prepare students solely for academic life; what structure of admissions, advising, and placement should be implemented; what balance should the GSAS draw between departmental autonomy and Byerly Hall centralization...
...Carter's decision in 1981 and hustled the B-1 into production. But now B-1 opponents have a new complaint: they claim the plane will soon be outdated by the Stealth bomber, with its new radar-evading technology and design, due to become operational in the early 1990s...
...early 1990s, Israel's new fighter-bomber should be ready. Called the Lavi (young lion in Hebrew), the jet is touted by Israelis as the most potent in the Western world, complete with state-of-the-art weapons delivery systems and electronic warfare devices. Israel Aircraft Industries began designing the Lavi in 1980. After several U.S. firms turned down Israel's offer of a co-production deal, the Begin government approached the Reagan Administration. Eventually, Washington not only agreed to share U.S. technology with Israel but earmarked nearly $1 billion in development funds for the Lavi. When it finally comes...
...over the cost of replacing Max. It would be a technical and psychological boost for NASA'S program of future maintenance on other orbiting machinery and a giant step toward fulfilling one of President Reagan's commitments: to construct a permanent U.S. space station by the early 1990s...