As of mid 2008, the AIM-120 AMRAAM has shot down nine aircraft ( six MiG-29s, one MiG-25, one MiG-23, and one Soko J-21 Jastreb ).

The Santiago light rail system is a planned light rail system in the Dominican Republic's second largest city, still in developing stages it was said to start on mid 2008 but right now is currently on hold due to lack of approval and of central government funds.

In 2008, 2009, and 2010, Site Selection magazine ranked Dayton the # 1 mid sized metropolitan area in the nation for economic development.

A clause to the archival procedures was revised in mid 2008, where if a veteran themselves or ( if deceased ) an immediate member of the family requested the Purple Heart on an Army or Air Force record, the medal would still be granted by the National Archives.

The Northeast experiences a long dry season although the dry 2007 / 2008 season lasted only from late November through mid March.

In mid 2008, The Stranglers played various major festivals around Europe.

The presidency of Levy Mwanawasa until his death in office in mid 2008, was different than the flamboyant expenditure and increasingly apparent corruption of the later years of Frederick Chiluba's terms in office.

In 2007, Pfizer announced plans to close or sell on the Loughbeg API facility, located at Loughbeg, Ringaskiddy Co. Cork Ireland by mid to end of 2008.

In mid 2008, RuPaul began producing RuPaul's Drag Race, a reality television game show which aired on Logo in February 2009.

By mid 2008 the town's population has grown to over 17, 000.

On January 7, 2008, on an unusually warm day which saw temperatures reach the mid, a tornado struck northern Illinois, including Poplar Grove.

Converse re-released " The Weapon " classic ( which Kobe Bryant wore at least three times in 2002 and Andre Miller wore numerous times in 2002 from mid August to early September ) several times from 2001-2003 and after, " The Loaded Weapon " in 2003, " The Weapon 86 " in 2008, and " The Weapon EVO " in 2009.

In mid 2008, the Consortium began talks with the National University of Singapore to build a sixth undergraduate Claremont College, off-site, in Singapore.

The reactivation of the railway Maastricht-Lanaken will be completed mid 2008.

The company ceased operations in mid 2008, and the device is no longer on the market.

After a disagreement with the rest of the cast, Lee and Herring did not remain with the group when On The Hour moved to television as The Day Today and their material was excised from an official release of the radio show in the mid -' 90s ( though a 2008 CD release would see it reinstated ).

In mid February, 2008, Champ Car filed for bankruptcy.

This product has been available since at least mid 2008.

Construction began in August 2007 and was completed in June 2008 but it took until mid October 2009 to get all the new systems tested and working.

An anthology of unreleased Ultravox material was planned in mid 2008, but has not been scheduled for release.

Begun in 2005, the relocation was 94 % complete as of October 2008, and was expected to be fully complete in mid 2009.

On 8 May 2008, he was announced as the new Chairman of the Environment Agency and took up the new role in mid July.

Toad's Place accommodated mid sized bands in 2007 and 2008 but closed shortly after that time.

The number of unique autonomous networks in the routing system of the Internet exceeded 5000 in 1999, in late 2008, and in mid 2010.

While horses in the wild mate and foal in mid to late spring, in the case of horses domestically bred for competitive purposes, especially horse racing and various futurities, it is desirable that they be born as close to January 1 in the northern hemisphere or August 1 in the southern hemisphere as possible, so as to be at an advantage in size and maturity when competing against other horses in the same age group.

A Hong Kong building boom in the mid 1970s saw Jardine's buy Gammon Construction, the largest construction and civil engineering group on the island.

* ETA – Basque Fatherland and Liberty, a left-wing Basque separatist group fighting for the independence of the Basques from Spain with ties to the Provisional Irish Republican Army also received training support from Libya in the 1960s and mid -' 70s.

Exhausted by touring, Poly Styrene left the band in mid 1979, though she is seen performing with the band in the 1980 film, D. O. A .. She released a solo album, Translucence, before joining the Hare Krishna movement ( as did Logic, who left the band aged 16 in 1977 to form a new group called Essential Logic ).

" The people ( a surprisingly multi-racial group, given the era of the film ) march from Golden Gate Park, arm-in-arm, singing The Battle Hymn of the Republic, and the smoldering ruins dissolve into the " modern " San Francisco of the mid 1930's.

Set in the mid 1980s, it uses a series of loosely connected short stories to tell the story of a group of characters tied together by decaying friendships, heroin addiction and stabs at escape from the oppressive boredom and brutality of their lives in the housing schemes.

Turkish hip-hop had risen to prominence in Germany with the success and popularity of the Turkish rap group Cartel in the mid 1990s throughout Turkey.

Seton was associated with the Santa Fe arts and literary community during the mid 1930s and early 1940s, which comprised a group of artists and authors including author and artist Alfred Morang, sculptor and potter Clem Hull, painter Georgia O ' Keeffe, painter Randall Davey, painter Raymond Jonson, leader of the Transcendental Painters Group, and artist Eliseo Rodriguez.

As the university population rose during the 1980s the sums paid to universities became linked to their performance and efficiency, and by the mid 1990s funding per student had dropped by 40 % since the mid-1970s, while numbers of full-time students had reached around 2, 000, 000 ( around a third of the age group ), up from around 1, 300, 000.

The Australia group laid out the principles of aperture synthesis in their ground-breaking paper submitted in mid 1946 and published in 1947.

The Cambridge group of Ryle and Vonberg observed the sun at 175 MHz for the first time in mid July 1946 with a Michelson interferometer consisting of two radio antennas with spacings of some tens of meters up to 240 meters.

This group was introduced by Dublin Zoo after a sudden population explosion in the mid 1980s.

In the mid 1980s there was a group of young actors called The Brat Pack, the whole group collectively and separately became teen idols.

In the mid 1960s, Crumb left home and moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where he designed greeting cards for the American Greetings corporation, and met a group of young bohemians including Buzzy Linhart, Liz Johnston, and others.

In the mid 19th century there was a group of men known as " The Gap Gang ".

Also in mid 2005, the group bought the London buses arm of Tellings Golden Miller and branded it Travel London.

By the mid 1890s, after the crash following the land boom of the 1880s — this group was relatively cash-poor and land rich.

The " mid haul " group of six lifts take passengers to floors between level 18 / 19 and level 37 / 38.

The group recorded their debut album at Sunset Sound Recorders studio in mid September to early October 1977, recording guitar parts for one week and then recording vocals for two additional weeks.

The psychiatric diagnosis post-traumatic stress disorder ( PTSD ) was coined in the mid 1970s, in part through the efforts of anti-Vietnam War activists and the anti war group Vietnam Veterans Against the War and Chaim F. Shatan.

Dexys Midnight Runners ( currently called Dexys ) are a British pop group with soul influences, who achieved their major success in the early to mid 1980s.

While the PAC proved to have little lasting organizational impact ( the group was suppressed a mere 11 months after its founding ), its policy of Africanism and acceptance of Maoism informed the black student uprisings of the mid and late 1970s which were led by the Black Consciousness Movement of Azania ( South Africa ) and Steve Biko.

The Belmonts are an American doo-wop group from the Bronx, New York, that originated in the mid 1950s.

DiMucci also recorded with a group of Belmonts in the mid 1980s-consisting of Mastrangelo, Louis Colletti, and Tommy Moran ( Colletti and Moran were backing vocalists on DiMucci's 1992 album entitled Dream On Fire ).