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In 1987, the International Agency for Research on Cancer ( IARC ) classified lindane as a group 2B " possible " human carcinogen, and in 2001 the EPA concluded there was “ suggestive evidence of carcinogenicity, but not sufficient to assess human carcinogenic potential .” The U. S. Department of Health and Human Services determined that all isomers of hexachlorocyclohexane, including lindane, " may reasonably be anticipated to cause cancer in humans ," and in 1999, the EPA characterized the evidence carcinogenicity for lindane as " suggestive ... of carcinogenicity, but not sufficient to assess human carcinogenic potential.
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1987 and International
The outcome was a decision by the 14th International Botanical Congress in 1987 that Amaryllis should be a conserved name ( i. e. correct regardless of priority ) and ultimately based on a specimen of the South African Amaryllis belladonna from the Clifford Herbarium at the British Museum.
Morita received the International Distinguished Entrepreneur Award from the University of Manitoba in 1987.
Also in 1987, Bronski Beat and Somerville did a reunion concert for " International AIDS Day ", supported by New Order, at the Brixton Academy, London.
A cease-fire between Chad and Libya held from 1987 to 1988, and negotiations over the next several years led to the 1994 International Court of Justice decision granting Chad sovereignty over the Aouzou strip, effectively ending Libyan occupation.
* Kyle Lafferty ( 1987 – ), Northern Ireland International association footballer
Similarly, the Catholic Institute for International Relations ( CIIR, now known as " Progressio "), a human rights organization which identifies itself with liberation theology, had summarized Contra operating procedures in their 1987 human rights report: " The record of the contras in the field, as opposed to their official professions of democratic faith, is one of consistent and bloody abuse of human rights, of murder, torture, mutilation, rape, arson, destruction and kidnapping.
SQL became a standard of the American National Standards Institute ( ANSI ) in 1986, and of the International Organization for Standards ( ISO ) in 1987.
Financial services have also become important to the city since the establishment of Dublin's International Financial Services Centre in 1987, which is globally recognised as a leading location for a range of internationally traded financial services.
The series was staged as the Formula 3000 European Championship in 1985, as the Formula 3000 Intercontinental Championship in 1986 and 1987 and then as the Formula 3000 International Championship from 1988 to 2004.
In March 1987 a dispute concerning oil drilling rights, almost led to war between the countries with Greece advocating the dispute to be decided by the International Court of Justice.
Former Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister, and Attorney General Mohamed Shahabuddeen served a 9-year term on the International Court of Justice ( 1987 – 96 ).
* Healer Of The Nations: Biblical Principles for International Relations, 1987 ISBN 0-930462-21-1
In 1987, he was the Head of the Jury at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival.
A cease-fire between Chad and Libya held from 1987 to 1988, followed by unsuccessful negotiations over the next several years, leading finally to the 1994 International Court of Justice decision granting Chad sovereignty over the Aouzou Strip, which ended Libyan occupation.
* 1987 – A crash by Bobby Allison at the Talladega Superspeedway, Alabama fencing at the start-finish line would lead NASCAR to develop restrictor plate racing the following season both at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega.
Through collaboration with the International Rice Research Institute ( IRRI ), 52 modern rice varieties were released in the country between 1966 and 1997, helping increase national rice production to 14 million tons in 1987 and to 19 million tons in 1996.
* 1987 – Continental Airlines Flight 1713, a Douglas DC-9-14 jetliner, crashes in a snowstorm at Denver, Colorado Stapleton International Airport, killing 28 occupants, while 54 survive the crash.
The Rugby World Cup is an international rugby union competition organised by the International Rugby Board and held every four years since 1987.
In 1987, a report was published by the UK based NGO Catholic Institute for International Relations ( CIIR, now known as " Progressio "), a human rights organization which identifies itself with Liberation theology.
" Sports Illustrated considered the activity a sport in 1987, describing the Drum Corps International World Championships “ one of the biggest sporting events of the summer .” In the same article, Sports Illustrated quoted basketball coach Bobby Knight, " If a basketball team trained as hard as these kids do, it would be unbelievable.
Toshiba announced NAND flash at the 1987 International Electron Devices Meeting.
Michael Belluomo, editor of Sportswear International Magazine, Oct / Nov 1987, P. 45, wrote that in 1965, Limbo, a boutique in the New York East Village, was " the first retailer to wash a new pair of jeans to get a used, worn effect, and the idea became a hit.
In 1987, the government implemented an International Monetary Fund structural adjustment program, and invited greater private participation in management of the parastatals, as well as in the agricultural, commercial, banking, and tourism sectors.
The Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs ( PASSIA ) was founded in Jerusalem in March 1987 by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi and a group of Palestinian academics and intellectuals.
This sanctuary has also been designated as a Wetland of International Importance under the Ramsar Convention since May 1987.
1987 and Agency
** William Casey, American Central Intelligence Agency director ( d. 1987 )
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a humorous detective novel by Douglas Adams, first published in 1987.
Adams would later reuse elements of City of Death, along with the unfinished Doctor Who serial Shada ( 1979 ; 2003 ), in his novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency ( 1987 ).
The United States Environmental Protection Agency reports that only 91 of the 600 maquiladoras located along the Texas-Mexico border have returned waste to the United States since 1987.
* Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency ( 1987 )
The European Space Agency approved the project, dubbed Hermes, in November 1987.
As far back as 1987 the U. S. EPA classified it as a " probable human carcinogen " and after more studies the WHO International Agency for Research on Cancer ( IARC ), in 1995, also classified it as a " probable human carcinogen ".
Nielsen resigned his seat in Parliament in January 1987 when he was given the position of chairman of the National Transportation Agency.
The Defense Intelligence Agency built its Defense Intelligence Analysis Center at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling and moved many of its operations and headquarters there in 1987.
Adams then re-used the character and many of the themes from Shada in his novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, first published in 1987.
Edward Geary Lansdale ( February 6, 1908 – February 23, 1987 ) was a United States Air Force officer who served in the Office of Strategic Services and the Central Intelligence Agency.
In 1986, Prime Minister Mulroney appointed Murray to the Cabinet as Leader of the Government in the Senate, and variously as Minister of State for Federal-Provincial Relations ( until 21 April 1991 ), Minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency ( June 1987 to September 1988 ), and Acting Minister of Communications ( December 1988 to 30 January 1989 ).
* Chief of Naval Forces Division at National Security Agency, 1987 – 1988
* Swiss delegate for the European Space Agency ( ESA )' s Astronomical Working Group, 1985 – 1987
Insiders at the plant started to covertly inform the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) about the unsafe conditions in 1987.
Then in 1987, President Ronald Reagan chose him to be Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Interest in the Au Pair Program in the United States began in 1987 when two educational and cultural exchange agencies were designated by the United States Information Agency ( USIA ) to conduct a program under the Fulbright – Hays Act of 1961 that would allow foreign nationals the opportunity to live with an American host family and participate directly in the home life of the host family.
From 1981 to 1987, Podhoretz was an adviser to the U. S. Information Agency.
* Korea Consumer Agency ( founded in 1987 )
While in Congress, Horton proposed making the United States Environmental Protection Agency a cabinet level agency and helped introduce the Whistleblower Protection Act in 1987.
* Department of Labor / Interstate Commerce Commission building, which now houses the Environmental Protection Agency ; ( originally the connecting Departmental Auditorium was renamed the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in 1987 )
In 1987, Austria became a member state of the European Space Agency.
In 1987 the Defense Agency replaced its communications system ( which formerly had relied on telephone lines of the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation ) with a microwave network incorporating a three-dimensional transmission system using a communications satellite.
Holt joined the military in 1987 and served in the U. S. Army Joint Intelligence Operations at the National Security Agency.
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