* Abrahamson, E. ( 1996 ).

In 1984, the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization ( SDIO ) was established to oversee the program, which was headed by Lt. General James Alan Abrahamson USAF, a past Director of the NASA Space Shuttle program.

The agency has its origins in the Strategic Defense Initiative, which was established in 1983 and was headed by Lt. General James Alan Abrahamson with physicist and engineer James Ionson, Ph. D., as head of the Innovative Science and Technology Office.

Billion easily defeated Wiese for the nomination, and selected Rapid City school board member Eric Abrahamson as his running mate.

Abrahamson and her husband, Seymour, have been married for 54 years.

The Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame was founded in 1993 by Lee Abrahamson and Gary Magwood assisted by Len Coates to celebrate the accomplishments and contributions of the Canadian motorsport community.

The occurrence of torsion dystonia in the Ashkenazi Jewish population as stated by the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health of Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, CT ; " Reports dating to the beginning of this century describe Ashkenazi Jewish ( AJ ) families with multiple cases of ITD either in siblings ( Schwalbe 1908 ; Bernstein 1912 ; Abrahamson 1920 ) or in parents and offspring ( Wechsler and Brock 1922 ; Mankowsky and Czerny 1929 ; Regensberg 1930 ).

Abrahamson is featured in Great ( Top 100 ) American Judges: An Encyclopedia ( 2003 ), The Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America ( 2005 ), and The Lawdragon 500 Leading Judges in America ( 2006 ).

In The Mismeasure of Man ( 1996 ), paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould criticized IQ tests and argued that that they were used for scientific racism.

In the field of ethics, Kelley has argued in works such as Unrugged Individualism ( 1996 ) and The Contested Legacy of Ayn Rand ( 2000 ) that Objectivists should pay more attention to the virtue of benevolence and place less emphasis on issues of moral sanction.

Although a terrorist organization might obtain radioactive material through the " black market ", and there has been a steady increase in illicit trafficking of radioactive sources from 1996 to 2004, these recorded trafficking incidents mainly refer to rediscovered orphan sources without any sign of criminal activity, and it has been argued that there is no conclusive evidence for such a market.

Dinh and Sales argued that the Legislative Line Item Veto Act of 2006 satisfies the Constitution ’ s Bicameralism and Presentment Clause, and therefore avoids the constitutional issues raised in the 1996 Act struck down by the Supreme Court.

In an essay written in 1996, Ralph Reed argued against the moral absolutist tone of Christian right leaders, arguing for the Republican Party Platform to stress the moral dimension of abortion rather than placing emphasis on overturning Roe v. Wade.

In the 1996 Keith Joseph memorial lecture Mrs. Thatcher argued that " The kind of Conservatism which he and I ... favoured would be best described as ‘ liberal ’, in the old-fashioned sense.

In 2003, Charles Geisst, a Glass-Steagall supporter, told Frontline the Federal Reserve Board ’ s Section 20 orders meant the Federal Reserve “ got rid of the Glass-Steagall Act .” Former Federal Reserve Board Vice-Chairman Alan Blinder agreed the 1996 action increasing “ bank-ineligible ” revenue limits was “ tacit repeal ” of Glass-Steagall, but argued “ that the market had practically repealed Glass-Steagall, anyway .”

Additionally supporting his hypothesis that the note was written before the murder, Douglas argued, was its being peppered with what appeared to be phrases borrowed from motion pictures like Ransom ( 1996 ) and Speed ( 1994 ) which, he speculated, inspired the perpetrator.

Gallagher became so influential that a June 1996 NME article argued that " If Noel Gallagher, the most successful songwriter of his generation, champions a group, then said group are guaranteed more mainstream kudos and, quite possibly, more sales.

Robert Crandall has argued that the forced-access provisions of the 1996 Act have had little economic value, and the primary, sustainable competitive forces in phone and related, non -' radio ', telecommunications are the wireline telephone companies, the cable companies, and the wireless companies.

One of the earliest academic studies of turntablism ( White 1996 ) argued for its designation as a legitimate electronic musical instrument — a manual analog sampler — and described turntable techniques such as backspinning, cutting, scratching and blending as basic tools for most hip hop DJs.

This case in part led to the 1996 amendment of the act, which clarified the language that was argued during the case.

In addition, some critics have argued that ecological modernization does not redress gross injustices that are produced within the capitalist system, such as environmental racism-where people of color and low income earners bear a disproportionate burden of environmental harm such as pollution, and lack access to environmental benefits such as parks, and social justice issues such as eliminating unemployment ( Bullard, 1993 ; Gleeson and Low, 1999 ; Harvey, 1996 )-environmental racism is also referred to as issues of the asymmetric distribution of environmental resources and services ( Everett & Neu, 2000 ).

Commentators such as Barlow ( 1994 ) have argued that digital copyright is fundamentally different and will remain persistently difficult to enforce ; others such as Stallman ( 1996 ) have argued that the Internet deeply undermines the economic rationale for copyright in the first place.

Prefacing a 1996 Living Marxism manifesto, Mick Hume argued that: Of course ... we could have produced a familiar list of left-wing slogans complaining about problems like unemployment, exploitation and poverty which continue to scar our society.

In 1996, Juan Parrondo and Pep Español used a variation of the above device in which no ratchet is present, only two paddles, to show that the axle connecting the paddles and ratchet conducts heat between reservoirs ; they argued that although Feynman's conclusion was correct, his analysis was flawed because of his erroneous use of the quasistatic approximation, resulting in incorrect equations for efficiency.

A study co-authored by Simon Chapman argued that reduction in firearm numbers had prevented mass shootings because in the 18 years prior to the Port Arthur massacre there were 13 mass shootings and in the decade since 1996 there have been none.

Proponents argued that the bill was based on the 1996 EU Database Directive, and was designed to encourage database creators by ensuring their revenue advantage.

In 1996, Health Canada argued that emotional abuse is motivated by urges for " power and discontrol ", and defines emotional abuse as including rejecting, degrading, terrorizing, isolating, corrupting / exploiting and " denying emotional responsiveness " as characteristic of emotional abuse.

Dinh and Sales argued that the Legislative Line Item Veto Act of 2006 satisfies the Constitution ’ s Bicameralism and Presentment Clause, and therefore avoids the constitutional issues raised in the 1996 Act struck down by the Supreme Court.

In 1996 the British Medical Journal published a letter by 20 men saying that " we have been harmed by circumcision in childhood "; they argued that " it cannot be ethical for a doctor to amputate normal tissue from a normal child ".

Toews canceled the provincial Payment of Wages Fund in July 1996, argued that it was not achieving its purpose.

" Historian Robert W. Thurston similarly argued in 1996 that Khrushchev " had much to gain in the attacks he made on his predecessor " and that neither his attacks on Beria or his claims in regards to Stalin's involvement in Kirov's death are particularly reliable.

He also argued that undefined language in the Geneva Convention, such as " outrages upon personal dignity " and " inhuman treatment ", could make officials and military leaders subject to the War Crimes Act of 1996 if mistreatment was discovered.

Shoreditch has, since around 1996, become a popular and fashionable part of London.

Similarly, the USAID phased out a long-standing bilateral partnership with Botswana in 1996, after successful programs emphasizing education, training, entrepreneurship, environmental management, and reproductive health.

In 1996, despite record sales and profits at Compaq, Pfeiffer initiated a major management shakeup in the senior ranks.

Under President René Préval ( President from 1996 to 2001 and from 2006 until 14 May 2011 ), the country's economic agenda included trade and tariff liberalization, measures to control government expenditure and increase tax revenues, civil-service downsizing, financial-sector reform, and the modernization of state-owned enterprises through their sale to private investors, the provision of private sector management contracts, or joint public-private investment.

In 1996 a group from Ipsilon Networks proposed a " flow management protocol ".

The PRINCE2 process modelPRINCE2 is a structured approach to project management, released in 1996 as a generic project management method.

1996 – Quest entered the database management market with an Oracle SQL database tuning product ;

When Thames Water was privatised in 1990, its river management functions were transferred to the National Rivers Authority, in 1996 subsumed into the Environment Agency.

With the addition of frameworks to do state management, load balancing and dynamic HTML generation, NeXT was able to launch the first object-oriented Web application server, WebObjects, in 1996, with EOF at its core.

According to the catalog DisserCat from 1996 to 2011 in Russia, Ukraine and other countries were defended more than 800 doctoral theses, using methods and analytic tools of Socionics in management, education, psychology, anthropology, medicine, philosophy, philology, sports, law, etc.

In 1996, Stang and Steve Bevilacqua, owner of the Flying Lemur Bookstore in Cleveland, Ohio, worked together to manage the corporate entity of the church, the SubGenius Foundation Inc. Their efforts helped to bolster the church's revival through the late 1990s and early 2000s, until Bevilacqua had to retire from church management in order to support his wife, Rachel Bevilacqua.

In late 1996, Frontier 4. 1 had become " an integrated development environment that lends itself to the creation and maintenance of Web sites and management of Web pages sans much busywork ," and by the time Frontier 4. 2 was released in January 1997, the software was firmly established in the realms of website management and CGI scripting, allowing users to " taste the power of large-scale database publishing with free software.

Since 1996, the Doge ’ s Palace has been part of the Venetian museums network, which has been under the management of the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia since 2008.

East Syracuse played another role in making the world a little bit smaller in 1996, when Village Trustee Jason M Rhoades, a twenty year old college student and management intern at NYNEX ( now Verizon ), made history by being the first legislator in the world to participate in a legislative meeting by telecom from a business trip in Massachusetts.

An EMS is defined by ISO as: “ part of the overall management system, that includes organizational structure, planning activities, responsibilities, practices, procedures, processes and resources for developing, implementing, achieving and maintaining the environmental policy ’ ( ISO 1996 cited in Federal Facilities Council Report 1999 ).

Discussion to transfer land and resource management responsibilities to the Yukon Government began in 1996, followed by a formal federal devolution proposal to the Yukon Government in January 1997.

In 1996, Hasselblad was sold, with the new owners being UBS, Cinven, and the Hasselblad management.

Adams then expanded his study of the Dilbert principle in a satirical 1996 book of the same name, which is required or recommended reading at some management and business programs.

Minox was acquired by Leica in 1996, but a management buyout in August 2001 left Minox an independent company again.

In conjunction with his brother in law, in 1996, he backed a management team that created Lockwood Financial Partners ( and its sister company E-mat ).

Fisk transferred the management of the Linux Gazette to SSC ( under Phil Hughes ) in 1996 in order to pursue medical studies, on the understanding that the publication would continue to be open, free, and non-commercial.

Brian Angliss left AC Cars in 1996 and the company was restructured under new management.

In 1972 Unilever purchased A & W Restaurants ' Canadian division but sold its shares through a management buyout to former A & W Food Services of Canada CEO Jefferson J. Mooney in July 1996.

With the Bruins struggling on the ice and out of playoff contention late in 1996 – 97 season, Oates publicly berated team management: " You go on a trip and everyone says it's a big trip.