Ter-Petrosyan had been elected head of government in 1990, when the National Democratic Union party defeated the Armenian Communist Party.

American tabloids began consolidating in 1990, when American Media bought Star from Rupert Murdoch.

As he told the graduating class of 1990 at Kenyon College, " It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves.

According to the CIA World Factbook, during the early 1990s, Chile's " reputation as a role model for economic reform " was strengthened when the democratic government of Patricio Aylwin, who took over from the military in 1990, deepened the economic reform initiated by the military government.

On 23 January 1990 at its 14th Congress the Communist League of Yugoslavia voted to remove its monopoly on political power, but the same day effectively ceased to exist as a national party when the League of Communists of Slovenia walked out after Serbia's Slobodan Milošević blocked all their reformist proposals – the League of Communists of Croatia walked out soon after.

Under its 1990 constitution, Croatia operated a semi-presidential system until 2000 when it switched to a parliamentary system.

Queen Elizabeth II was present for the official Canada Day ceremonies in Ottawa in 1990, 1992, 1997, and 2010, when more than 100, 000 people attended the ceremonies on Parliament Hill.

In his book he asked why, if Saudi Arabia had such an effect on Soviet oil prices, did prices not fall in 1980 when the production of oil by Saudi Arabia reached its highest level — three times as much oil as in the mid-eighties — and why did the Saudis wait till 1990 to increase their production, five years after the CIA's supposed intervention?

In its original permanent dispositions, it gave the President of the Republic a large amount of power ; however, some of these dispositions, such as the power of dissolving the Lower Chamber of Congress and serving eight year terms with possibility of reelection, were modified or eliminated after 1990, when the country regained its democracy and the Congress was reestablished.

Low-intensity storms have hit the island, including in 1901, which blew over 1, 500 coconut trees, on September 16, 1944 which caused the wreck of a Royal Air Force PBY Catalina, September 1990 which demolished the tent city then being constructed for USAF bomber crews during Operation Desert Storm, and on July 22, 2007 when winds exceeded and over of rain fell in 24 hours.

But when agrarian reform ended in 1990, about 150, 000 landless families still had not benefited from the reform actions.

The peak year for the printed encyclopaedia was 1990 when 120, 000 sets were sold, but it dropped to 40, 000 in 1996.

* 1990 – Carmen Lawrence becomes the first female Premier in Australian history when she becomes Premier of Western Australia.

Wendayne suffered a serious head injury when she was violently mugged while on a trip to Europe in 1990, and the injury soon after led to her death.

It commemorates the anniversary of German reunification in 1990, when the goal of a unity of Germany that originated in the middle of the 19th century, was fulfilled.

The Day of German Unity on October 3 has been a German national holiday since the reunification in 1990, when the German reunification was brought out in full force.

The first FDA-approved gene therapy experiment in the United States occurred in 1990, when Ashanti DeSilva was treated for ADA-SCID.

East Germany ceased to exist when its federal states were re-established and acceded to the Federal Republic of Germany on 3 October 1990 ( see German reunification ).

The second was from 3 November 1990 to 25 October 1996, when she resigned and retired from Norwegian politics, and was succeeded by Thorbjørn Jagland.

But the expectation for low inflation made the reality of high inflation that much worse and created additional pressures on the government for action when inflation soared in 1990.

Some of those rates were legally recognized in 1990 when President Callejas introduced a major series of economic policy reforms, which included reducing the maximum import tariff rate from 90 percent to 40 percent and getting rid of most surcharges and exemptions.

With inflation hitting 33 percent in 1990, there was, in fact, a negative real interest rate, but this situation reversed in 1991 when rates were high relative to inflation.

* Ball State's highest finish in the NCAA Tournament came in 1990, when they defeated Gary Payton's Oregon State Beavers and Coach Denny Crum's Louisville Cardinals before falling to eventual champion UNLV by 2, 69-67.

Goals for individual contributors have been shown to be motivating when they contain three elements: ( 1 ) difficulty, ( 2 ) acceptance, and ( 3 ) specificity ( Lock & Latham, 1990 ).

These cats were removed through efforts which began in the mid-1960s and lasted until 1990 when they were completely eradicated.

Oxygen concentrations in hypolimnetic waters ( i. e. the layer of water that lies below the thermocline, is noncirculating, and remains perpetually cold ) were lower in 1990 – 1991 for a longer period than in 1960 – 1961, with values of less than 1 mg per litre (< 0. 4 gr / cu ft ) occurring in water as shallow as compared with a shallowest occurrence of greater than in 1961.

She died of pneumonia on 18 January 1990, after contracting a cold ; her immune system weakened by chemotherapy.

In 1990 he played the ultra-hawkish Colonel Fargo in the cold war drama By Dawn's Early Light.

In 1990 as the cold war wound down the remaining missiles were concentrated at West Raynham and Wattisham with plans to operate them until 1995, but these were later removed in 1991.

Between 1983 and 1990, PAEC carried out 24 more cold tests of various nuclear weapon designs.

However, after the Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was dismissed in August, 1990, the French nuclear power plant deal went into cold storage and the agreement could not be implemented due to financial constraints and the Pakistani government's apathy.

It then came as a real shock for many in Bulgaria when in 1990 at the end of the cold war, the popular TV anchor Kevork Kevorkyan contacted Mihailov, thought by many to be long since deceased, and recorded a long interview with him.

Salt Lake City's record low maximum temperature is, set on December 22, 1990, during an extended period of frigid Arctic air, and its overall record low temperature is, set on February 9, 1933 during a historic cold air surge from the north.

In between the albums, they released an EP containing three new tracks that were formerly the theme songs of very successful soap operas from Argentina, " Quiereme ... tengo frío " (" Love me, I'm cold ") from Piel Naranja, starring Arnaldo André and Marilina Ross in 1975 ; " Una lágrima sobre el teléfono " from Una voz en el teléfono, starring Carolina Papaleo and Raúl Taibo in 1990 ; and " Esa extraña dama " from the soap opera with the same name, starring Luisa Kuliok and Jorge Martínez.

A political history of the civil war in Angola, 1964 – 1990.

In 1990 France, led by François Mitterrand, joined the short lived Gulf War against Iraq, the French participation to this war would be called the Opération Daguet.

In 1990, he returned to the Cold War political thriller genre with The Fourth War with Roy Scheider ( with whom Frankenheimer had worked previously on 52 Pick-Up ) as a loose cannon Army colonel drawn into a dangerous personal war with a Russian officer.

October 13, 1990 is regarded as the date the civil war ended, and Syria is widely recognized as playing a critical role in its end.

During Lebanon's civil war, Syria's troop deployment in Lebanon was legitimized by the Lebanese Parliament in the Taif Agreement, supported by the Arab League, and is given a major share of the credit for finally bringing the civil war to an end in October 1990.

The Lebanese civil war between 1975 and 1990 and the 2006 Lebanon War with Israel severely damaged the country's infrastructure.

In the late 1980s, Charles Taylor assembled rebels from Gio and Mano tribes in Ivory Coast into a militia, invaded Nimba County in 1989, and by 1990 a full-blown tribal war was taking place.

Mid 1990, a war was raging between Krahn on one side, and Gio and Mano on the other.

The territory finally attained independence in 1990 as Namibia, after a long guerrilla war of independence against the apartheid regime.

This resulted in a surge of Slovene and Croat nationalism in response and the collapse of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia in 1990, the victory of nationalists in multiparty elections in most of Yugoslavia's constituent republics, and eventually civil war between the various nationalities beginning in 1991.

Following the war, and with the defeat of the Sandinistas in the 1990 general election, Nicaragua began free market reforms, privatizing more than 350 state companies and commencing a general trend of economic growth.

Anglophone ECOWAS members established ECOMOG, dominated by the Nigerian Army, in 1990 to intervene in the civil war in Liberia.

Nigeria has played a central role in the ECOWAS efforts to end the civil war in Liberia and contributed the bulk of the ECOWAS peacekeeping forces sent there in 1990.

In 1990, in a paper entitled " Climate and Smoke: An Appraisal of Nuclear Winter ," TTAPS give a more detailed description of the short-and long-term atmospheric effects of a nuclear war using a three-dimensional model:

While historically presidents initiated the process for going to war, critics have charged that there have been several conflicts in which presidents did not get official declarations, including Theodore Roosevelt's military move into Panama in 1903, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the invasions of Grenada in 1983 and Panama in 1990.

Syrian forces, still technically known as the Arab Deterrent Force, lingered in Lebanon throughout the Lebanese civil war ( 1975 – 1990 ).

Following the end of the Lebanese civil war in 1990, the Syrian occupation of Lebanon continued until 2005, when they were forced out by widespread public protest and international pressure, following the murder of Rafiq al-Hariri.

* Gulf War ( 1990 – 1991 ), a war between Iraq and a coalition of nations led by the United States

* Iran – Iraq War ( 1980 – 1988 ), the numbering of conflicts in Persian Gulf depends on whether this is called the First Gulf War, which would make the 1990 war the Second and the 2003 war the Third.

* Lebanese Civil War ( 1975 – 1990 )-A civil war in the Middle East which at times also involved the PLO and Israel during the early 1980s.

After Iraq invaded Kuwait on 2 August 1990, Powell claimed that since Britain was not an ally of Kuwait in the " formal sense " and because the balance of power in the Middle East had ceased to be a British concern after the end of the British Empire, Britain should not go to war.

Recent operations have included patrolling the Gulf of Aden, off Somalia ( since 2009 ), the war in Afghanistan ( since 2005 ), intervention in East-Timor ( 1999 – 2004 ), in Guinea-Bissau ( 1990, 1998 and 1999 ), Angola ( 1992 ) and ongoing peacekeeping responsibilities in the Balkans and Lebanon.

A Tutsi rebel group, the Rwandan Patriotic Front, invaded Rwanda from Uganda, which started a civil war against Rwanda's Hutu government in 1990.