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...legal controversy is the latest offshoot of the military’s controversial “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, which emerged in the mid-1990s...
...Project, a promising pilot venture near Parachute. Exxon paid $300 million up front and said it would invest at least $2 billion. The plant was supposed to produce 47,000 bbl. a day by 1985. And that was only the beginning. An internal corporate report predicted that by the mid-1990s Exxon would be producing 2 million bbl. a day from shale--enough to slice U.S. imports 20%. To accommodate the workers and families who would stream into Colorado for the new industry, Exxon began building a company town for 25,000 people. Called Battlement Mesa, it would...
Michelson cautioned however, that no number of applications can compensate for an unprepared student. She recalled how in the mid-1990s, one Harvard student applied to every medical school in the country and received rejections from...
...mid-1990s, Clark was serving as the director of policy and planning for the Joint Chiefs, a position in which his deft political touch and a capacity for poor judgment were on display. He played a key role in stopping an early round of bloodshed in the Balkans, helping to draft the Dayton accords that halted the killing in Bosnia. But he stumbled when he met and swapped military hats with Ratko Mladic, a Bosnian Serb general the U.S. had branded a war criminal for the indiscriminate killing of Bosnian Muslims. The meeting infuriated the State Department. Clark later apologized...
...country's less-than-stellar space record so far. In the past the government announced test launches of Shenzhou spacecraft only after they returned, saving itself the embarrassment of having to explain failures. China's satellite-launch program suffered a string of disastrous explosions and aborted launches in the mid-1990s. Although all four unmanned Shenzhou craft have returned from orbit since the first test in 1999, not all were mission-accomplished. The Shenzhou II is widely believed to have suffered damage from a hard landing during a blizzard...