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Strategic Air Command in the United Kingdom was among the command's largest overseas concentrations of forces, with additional forces at bases in North Africa during the 1950s and 1960s in addition to SAC bomber, tanker, and / or reconnaissance aircraft assets at the former Ramey AFB, Puerto Rico in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, and at Andersen AFB, Guam, RAF Mildenhall, United Kingdom and the former NAS Keflavik, Iceland through the 1990s.
During the 1990s, the airline expanded to cover the whole of Europe, including the Canary Islands in the South and Scandinavia and Iceland in the North, with charter flights, ad-hoc charters, third party short-medium-long term operations ( wet-lease ) and ACMI.
Finding the retail market more hostile in the late 1990s, Iceland pursued avenues for differentiation.
Iceland is also the home of the reasonably successful 1980s and 1990s band The Sugarcubes from which very successful singer Björk hailed from.
In the mid 1990s Kaupthing widened its focus to include opportunities abroad, and becoming the first Icelandic financial institution to operate outside Iceland.
" According to University of Iceland anthropologist Sigurjón Baldur Hafsteinsson, Icelanders ' tolerance of the museum is an indicator of how Icelandic society has changed since the 1990s, when a newly elected neoliberal government fostered a more open outlook on entertainment, creativity and tourism that has " enabled new ideas to emerge publicly ".
In the late 1990s deCODE proposed to create the world's first population-wide genomic biobank by collecting data from the entire population of Iceland, which numbered 270, 000 at the time.
It suffered severe depopulation in the 1990s, but this has been reversed as a result of the building of an aluminum smelter and a new hydroelectric power-plant in East Iceland.
Hartwell, a classically trained violin player, got offered a job touring with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra on the East Coast of the US sometime in the late 1990s.
The corporate incomes tax in Iceland has already been lowered in the 1990s from 50 % to 18 %, and the net wealth tax had been abolished.

1990s and undertook
In the 1980s and 1990s the Unification Church of the United States undertook an extensive public relations campaign against the use of the word by the news media, including hiring civil rights activist Ralph Abernathy to equate it with the word " nigger ".
Since the late 1990s and especially since the arson which took place in one of these buildings, the city undertook a policy of deconstruction of these houses which is still in progress at the moment.
The town undertook an overhaul to the roof and exterior with the help of state and federal grants in the early 1990s.
From the 1990s onwards he undertook more world tours with his ensembles, including:
The London Docklands Development Corporation undertook much work during the 1980s and 1990s to improve local transport and promote new residential and commercial developments in the area.
While the band's interest in all things Indian was partly inspired by a pilgrimage to India that Mills undertook in the early 1990s, it was also born out of a love for the Indian influences present in the music of The Beatles and other late 1960s acts.
In the 1990s, a descendant of a Jewish settler undertook serious study of the religion and began to revive Judaism among his family, friends, and other Sephardim descendants.
Quarterdeck undertook a number of acquisitions in the 1990s, leading ultimately to its failure in 1998 due to the collapse of the market for MS-DOS based utilities.
The Gaiety was purchased by music promotor Denis Desmond and his wife Caroline in the late 1990s, who undertook a refit of the theatre.
In the mid 1990s, Arvind Mills undertook a massive expansion of its denim capacity even though other cotton fabrics were slowly replacing the demand for denim.
The group undertook national tours in France in the 1990s.
In the 20th century, the Soviet Union undertook “ intensive industrialization and urbanization ,” shifting from eighty percent of the population living in rural villages and towns at the time of the Revolution, to nearly the same percentage living in cities by the 1990s.
In 1993, spurred on by the recession of the early 1990s which had led to declining sales across the clothing retail market, the Burton Group undertook a major review of its trading space portfolio.
" In 1987 she undertook an anti-drug public service announcement with the animated McGruff the Crime Dog, that aired well into the 1990s.
This expedition undertook major excavations and conservation work at Nokalakevi until the early 1990s when the collapse of the Soviet Union and the civil disturbances of Georgia's early years of independence brought a halt to funding and serious damage to the expedition's infrastructure

1990s and extensive
Towards the early 1990s, the BBS industry became so popular that it spawned three monthly magazines, Boardwatch, BBS Magazine, and in Asia and Australia, Chips ' n Bits Magazine which devoted extensive coverage of the software and technology innovations and people behind them, and listings to US and worldwide BBSes.
B continued to see use as late as the 1990s on Honeywell mainframes, and on certain embedded systems for a variety of reasons, including limited hardware in the small systems ; extensive libraries, tools, licensing cost issues ; and simply being good enough for the job on others.
Despite extensive internationally financed programs to upgrade the harbors at Moroni and Mutsamudu, by the early 1990s only Mutsamudu was operational as a deepwater facility.
By the 1990s the majority of deforestation was caused by industrial factors, including extractive industries, large-scale cattle ranching, and extensive agriculture.
; Telephone system: large system ; underwent extensive upgrading during 1990s and is reasonably modern ; Telecom Egypt, the landline monopoly, has been increasing service availability and in 2006 fixed-line density stood at 14 per 100 persons ; as of 2007 there were three mobile-cellular networks and service is expanding rapidly
In the 1990s, during the army's withdrawal from Estonia, extensive damage was done to discarded buildings and equipment.
The first accurate estimate of the number of his works were provided by musicologists only during the 1980s and the 1990s, when extensive thematic catalogues were published.
In the 1990s, the industry benefited from government funding of extensive infrastructure and housing projects and elaborate palace complexes.
Another former extensive coach business was Mount Cook Landlines, which closed in the 1990s.
Transport in Sudan during the early 1990s included an extensive railroad system that served the more important populated areas except in the far south, a meager road network ( very little of which consisted of all-weather roads ), a natural inland waterway — the Nile River and its tributaries — and a national airline that provided both international and domestic service.
Their use has declined in the first decade of the 21st century due to the emerging new surface-mount technology ( SMT ) packages such as plastic leaded chip carrier ( PLCC ) and small-outline integrated circuit ( SOIC ), though DIPs continued in extensive use through the 1990s, and still continue to be used substantially as the year 2011 passes.
Dominant systems in the 1980s and 1990s were the MITalk system, based largely on the work of Dennis Klatt at MIT, and the Bell Labs system ; the latter was one of the first multilingual language-independent systems, making extensive use of natural language processing methods.
Building on existing polyurethane spray coating technology and polyetheramine chemistry, extensive development of two-component polyurea spray elastomers took place in the 1990s.
The French had already conducted extensive experiments with solar Montgolfieres, performing over 30 flights from the late 1970s into the early 1990s.
Following extensive merger and acquisition activity in the 1990s and 2000s, international markets are dominated by five firms, in alphabetical order: Altria, British American Tobacco ( represented in the U. S. market by a 42 % stake in Reynolds American, Inc .), Imperial Tobacco, Japan Tobacco, and Philip Morris International.
Completion of the Loy Yang power stations, extensive voluntary departures from the electricity industry and privatisation of the Victorian electricity industry in the early 1990s had devastating effects on the economy of the Latrobe Valley.
Maud Foster Mill The seven-storeyed Maud Foster Tower Windmill, completed in 1819, by millwrights Norman & Smithson of Kingston upon Hull for Issac and Thomas Reckitt, is currently the tallest operating windmill in England ( 80 ft / 24. 4 metres to the top of the cap ), following extensive restoration during the 1980s and early 1990s and is now a working museum.
Since the late 1990s, the party nevertheless underwent an extensive moderation policy.
This discovery, and the impending commercial development of the site by the landowner, Showerings, led archaeologists to undertake more extensive excavations in the 1990s.
It was a poor part of town, but since extensive renovation in the 1990s it has become popular with tourists and students as a pretty area with a high concentration of cafés, restaurants and night clubs.
In the 1990s extensive restoration work was carried out on the walls of the Ciutadella, and in 2004 a museum was opened inside it.
Strabane suffered extensive damage during the Troubles, from the early 1970s and continuing throughout much of the 1990s, with bombings and shootings commonplace: Irish Republican paramilitary groups, mainly the Provisional Irish Republican Army, regularly attacked the town's British army and Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ) bases.
Throughout the 1990s, the Young British Artists ( YBAs ) made extensive use of found " objects ", often with very strong press reaction.

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