* 1999 – The State of Arizona executes Karl LaGrand, a German national convicted of murder during a botched bank robbery, in spite of Germany's legal action to attempt to save him.

* 1999 – In Uzbekistan, a bomb explodes and gunfire is heard at the government headquarters in an apparent assassination attempt against President Islam Karimov.

In August 1999, a separatist Lozi faction in the Caprivi Strip launched a coup attempt ( see Caprivi conflict ) which was summarily put down by the Namibian Defence Force.

This was followed by Cryptonomicon in 1999, a novel concerned with concepts ranging from computing and Alan Turing's research into codebreaking and cryptography during the Second World War at Bletchley Park, to a modern attempt to set up a data haven.

In 1999, in an attempt to clarify their current market position as more than a graphics company, Silicon Graphics Inc. changed its corporate identity to “ SGI ”, although its legal name was unchanged.

In the first four years of the Chávez presidency, the economy grew at first ( 1999 – 2001 ), then contracted from 2001-2003 to GDP levels similar to 1997, at first because of low oil prices, then because of the turmoil caused by the 2002 coup attempt and the 2002-2003 business strike.

* 16 February 1999 – In Uzbekistan, an apparent assassination attempt against President Islam Karimov takes place at government headquarters.

In the 1999 Will Smith film, Wild Wild West, the joining ceremony is the setting of an assassination attempt on then U. S. President Ulysses S. Grant by the film's antagonist Dr. Miguelito Quixote Loveless.

The mission ended July 31, 1999 when the orbiter was guided to an impact into a crater near the lunar south pole in an ( unsuccessful ) attempt to analyze lunar polar water by vaporizing it to allow spectroscopic characterization from Earth telescopes.

Barak rebuffed Peres's attempt to secure the position of party president and upon forming a government in 1999 appointed Peres to the minor post of Minister of Regional Co-operation.

In an attempt to modernize marketing efforts as Oldsmobile's fortunes declined, the " Delta " name was dropped in 1989, but the car lived on as the Eighty-Eight until Oldsmobile ended its production in 1999.

* In 1999, the town of Merredin, Western Australia officially made it into the Guinness Book of Records, when Marleys Transport made a successful attempt on the record for the world's longest road train.

In August 1999, a secessionist attempt in the northeastern Caprivi region was successfully quashed.

An attempt to merge Telenor with its counterpart in Sweden, Telia, failed in 1999, while both still were owned by their respective governments.

After having been vetoed in a previous attempt by owner Jerry Reinsdorf, Krause traded Scottie Pippen for Roy Rogers ( who was released in February 1999 ) and a conditional second-round draft pick from the Houston Rockets.

Shooter returned to Valiant ( now called Acclaim Comics ) for a brief stint in 1999 to write Unity 2000 ( an attempt to combine and revitalize the older and newer Valiant universes ) but Acclaim folded after the completion of only three of the planned six issues.

After receiving commercial success throughout Asia, Europe, and Latin America, Martin prepared his first English album in 1999 in an attempt to cross over to the United States market.

* The Emperor and the Assassin ( 1999 )-The film centers on the identity of Qin Shi Huang's father, his supposed heartless treatment of his officials, and a betrayal by his childhood lover, paving the way for Jing Ke's assassination attempt.

In the Prelude to Dune prequel trilogy by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson ( 1999 – 2001 ), Project Amal is an early attempt by the Bene Tleilax to create synthetic melange in order to eliminate dependence upon Arrakis.

The U. S. want Masri to stand trial for 11 counts relating to the taking of 16 hostages in Yemen in 1998, advocating violent jihad in Afghanistan in 2001, supporting James Ujaama in an attempt to establish a terrorist training camp in late 1999 and early 2000 near Bly, Oregon and of providing aid to al-Qaeda.

Ressam was indicted by a superseding indictment on January 20, 2000, for nine counts of criminal activity in connection with his attempt to bomb the Los Angeles International Airport on December 31, 1999: 1 ) an act of terrorism transcending a national boundary ; 2 ) placing an explosive in proximity to a terminal ; 3 ) false identification documents ; 4 ) use of a fictitious name for admission to the U. S .; 5 ) the felony of making a false statement to a U. S. Customs official ; 6 ) smuggling ; 7 ) transportation of explosives ; 8 ) possession of an unregistered firearm ; and 9 ) carrying an explosive during the commission of a felony.

He ran for president in 1999, after a failed attempt by Carlos Menem to run for a third term, but he was defeated by Fernando de la Rúa.

In 1999, the official GM standard was updated to include more controllers, patches, RPNs and SysEx messages, in an attempt to reconcile the conflicting and proprietary Roland GS and Yamaha XG additions.

In November 1999, as Africa minister he entertained Robert Mugabe in London who told him “ I know you are not one of them, Peter ; you are one of us ,” But the following day, following an attempt by Gay Rights campaigner Peter Tatchell to carry out a ' citizen's arrest ' on Mugabe, Mugabe accused Hain of being Tatchell's " wife ".

Steps towards reconciliation on a global level were taken in 1965 by the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches mutually revoking the excommunications that marked their Great Schism in 1054 ; the Anglican Roman Catholic International Commission ( ARCIC ) working towards full communion between those churches since 1970 ; and the Lutheran and Roman Catholic churches signing The Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification in 1999 to address conflicts at the root of the Protestant Reformation.

* Transcript of the Magliozzis ' commencement address at MIT, 1999

This applies only if ( since 1999 and onwards ) a valid primary email address was entered into the user profile.

In 1999, Paul Ehrlich and others advocated public policies to improve the dissemination of valid environmental scientific knowledge and discourage junk science: ' The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports offer an antidote to junk science by articulating the current consensus on the prospects for climate change, by outlining the extent of the uncertainties, and by describing the potential benefits and costs of policies to address climate change.

In 1999, she aided her husband in campaigning for the presidency in a number of ways, most notably delivering a keynote address at the 2000 Republican National Convention, which gained her national attention.

Olusegun Obasanjo, who by 1999 had become President, bemoaned the fact in his inaugural address that year: ‘... Professionalism has been lost ... my heart bleeds to see the degradation in the proficiency of the military .’

It has been located in Bonn, Germany since January 1999, and moved from its first Bonn address in Haus Carstanjen to the new UN campus in July 2006.

Chris Van Den Broeck, in 1999, has tried to address the potential issues.

The company changed its name to About, Inc. on May 17, 1999, and the website address from miningco. com to about. com.

The VoIP E911 emergency-calling system associates a physical address with the calling party's telephone number as required by the Wireless Communications and Public Safety Act of 1999.

This time the address proved to be more stable, and FurryMUCK remained at St. Norbert until 1999, when it was finally relocated to a dedicated server.

When area code 609 was split in 1999, the southern / eastern end in the township ( primarily with the Hammonton mailing address, Cedarbrook, and a small section of Sickerville ) were left in the 609 code, while the other sections closer to Berlin and Williamstown received 856 as their area code.

The postal address for Mo was " Mo 8600 " until it was changed to " Mo i Rana 8600 " in 1999.

Jim Fisher, a former FBI agent and professor at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, has written two books on the subject, The Lindbergh Case ( 1987 ) and The Ghosts of Hopewell ( 1999 ) to address, at least in part, what he calls a " revision movement ".

In December 1999, the official registered address of Konami's headquarters was changed from Kobe to Tokyo.

In 1999 the Foundation Board approved a $ 13. 5 million Capital Master Plan to address structural concerns, ADA and NYC Building Code compliance and create a new public education facility.

In 1999, Mumia Abu-Jamal was invited to deliver the keynote address by audiotape for the graduating class at the college.

Jim Fisher, a former FBI agent and professor at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, has written two books on the subject, The Lindbergh Case ( 1987 ) and The Ghosts of Hopewell ( 1999 ) to address, at least in part, what he calls a " revision movement " regarding the case.

Finally, in 1999 the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that a typical lap dance did not constitute an " obscene " act within the meaning of the Criminal Code of Canada ( the Crown did not argue that the lap dance constituted " prostitution " and therefore the court did not address the possible issue that the typical lap dance may contravene one or more anti-prostitution laws.

* is Chief Scientist and Chairman of the Board of IP address infrastructure software provider Nominum ( 1999 to present ).

The New America Foundation was founded in 1999 by Ted Halstead, Sherle Schwenninger, Michael Lind and Walter Russell Mead as a non-partisan, non-profit, public policy institute whose stated mission is to “ invest in new thinkers and new ideas to address the next generation of challenges facing the United States .” The organization has a staff of over a hundred employees and fellows with offices in Washington, D. C. and New York City.

Immediately in 1999 the new Nunavut government recommenced the construction of public housing, which the NWT had abandoned, taking the first steps to address the massive overcrowding and severe housing deficit facing all Nunavut communities, as well as developing innovations in assisting home ownership and first time purchasers.

1999 NOCTI-The Whitener Group is established as a wholly owned subsidiary of NOCTI to address the growing demand by business and industry NOCTI type assessments and services.

On 14 July 1999, two social workers, Lori Hobbs and Monica Bridgeman, visited the address but found no answer: Kouao and Climbié had already moved out on 6 July 1999.