Andre Kirk Agassi (; born April 29, 1970 in Las Vegas, Nevada ) is a retired American professional tennis player and former World No. 1, who was one of the game's most dominant players from the early 1990s to the mid 2000s.

In the early 1990s, the latter group blamed Armenia's economic woes on the role played by the former in closing major industries.

Newly independent Armenia needed the income from foreign sales of Nairit rubber and chemical products, many of which had been assigned exclusively to that plant under the Soviet system and were still unavailable elsewhere to the former Soviet republics in the early 1990s.

The ongoing conflict with Azerbaijan over the ethnic Armenian-dominated region of Nagorno-Karabakh ( which was part of Soviet Azerbaijan ) and the breakup of the centrally directed economic system of the former Soviet Union contributed to a severe economic decline in the early 1990s.

Australia reached a cricketing peak in the 1990s and early 2000s, coupled with a general decline in England's fortunes.

When Title IV took effect in the early 1990s, it led to installation of public Teletypewriter ( TTY ) machines and other TDDs ( Telecommunications Device for the Deaf ).

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Cancún had been favored at the spring break destination of choice.

Since the early 1990s, many American Chinese restaurants influenced by California cuisine have opened in San Francisco and the Bay Area.

Dau Miu () is a Chinese vegetable that has become popular since the early 1990s, and now not only appears on English-language menus, usually as " pea shoots ", but is often served by upscale non-Asian restaurants as well.

* Gungahlin, settled in the early 1990s, 18 suburbs although only 12 are developed or under development

The best selling model, the Amiga 500, was introduced in 1987 and became the leading home computer of the late 1980s and early 1990s in much of Western Europe.

Whilst it may not have been as popular as the Spectrum, Commodore 64 or Amstrad CPC, it did sell in sufficient numbers to ensure that new software was being produced right up until the early 1990s.

Axenthof Thiad originated in the early 1990s as the Fresena Thiad and part of the Winland Rice.

For some time in the early 1990s, the Mac was a primary client on the rapidly expanding Internet.

It was commercially available from that summer into the early 1990s.

Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, assassinations and extortion in what they describe as their fight for an independent Islamic province in the Philippines.

After a period of dereliction Aberdour House was developed for residential use in the early 1990s.

The town has one of the two Welsh-medium primary schools in Monmouthshire, Ysgol Gymraeg y Fenni, which was founded in the early 1990s.

Finding a way to integrate various approaches has been a subject of much discussion since the early 1990s.

After initial successes such as the Oslo accords of the early 1990s, Clinton attempted to address the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Originally BBSes were accessed only over a phone line using a modem, but by the early 1990s some BBSes allowed access via a Telnet, packet switched network, or packet radio connection.

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.

In the early 1990s a small number of BBSes were also running on the Commodore Amiga models 500, 1000 and 1200 ( using external hard drives ), and the Amiga 2000, Amiga 3000 and Amiga 4000 ( which had built-in hard drives ).

A number of companies wanted to license the COCONET GUI but Coconut Computing chose not to, and as a result, a competing approach called Remote Imaging Protocol ( RIP ) emerged and was promoted by Telegrafix in the early to mid 1990s but it never became widespread.

During the late 1980s and early 1990s, most BBSes used ANSI to make elaborate welcome screens, and colorized menus, and thus, ANSI support was a sought-after feature in terminal client programs.

His early mentors as a singer included Arturo Melocchi, his teacher at Pesaro, and Maestro Raffaelli, who recognized his talent and helped launch his career.

An early 1983 Maestro

Originally a manufacturer of electronic effects devices ( most notably the Maestro phase shifter ), and briefly an ARP Instruments dealer, Oberheim went on to create several ground-breaking products in the early days of synthesizers and electronic music including the DS-2 ( one of the first digital music sequencers ) and the Synthesizer Expansion Module ( SEM ).

Rushed into production against engineers ' advice at the launch in early 1983, the original MG Maestro was under-developed.

With the Rover Group only a few months away, the limited edition ( 500 + 5 press cars ) MG Maestro Turbo ( launched in early 1989 ) was the final car from ARG.

Despite only going on sale in early March 1983, the Maestro was Britain's sixth best selling car in 1983 with more than 65, 000 sales.

From Mid 1980s until early 1990s, a local importer sold the Montego along with the Mini and Maestro under Austin, then Rover badge.

UK sales of the Horizon ( which went on sale there in early 1978 and was badged as a Chrysler until 1 August 1979, when it became a Talbot ) were initially quite strong, but within five years of its launch it was starting to lose sales in a segment dominated by an increasing number of newer models including the Ford Escort Mark III, Vauxhall Astra, Austin Maestro and Volkswagen Golf Mark II.

In early 2000, an ecommerce ASP company named Maestro Commerce was acquired by GoldMine and rolled into the FrontRange Solutions family of companies.

The program was influential in promoting and developing many of Canada's early hip hop stars, including Maestro Fresh-Wes and Michie Mee.

Artists such as Devon, Maestro Fresh-Wes and Dream Warriors did manage, for a brief time in the late ' 80s and early ' 90s, to break into the mainstream.

* José Escobar Saliente: Maestro de Maestros ( contains early images of Escobar and his works )

The core ideas of the Big Bang — the expansion, the early hot state, the formation of helium, and the formation of galaxies — are derived from many observations that are independent from any cosmological model ; these include the abundance of light elements, the cosmic microwave background, large scale structure, and the Hubble diagram for Type Ia supernovae.

The discovery of the cosmic microwave background in 1965 lent strong support to the Big Bang model, and since the precise measurements of the cosmic microwave background by the Cosmic Background Explorer in the early 1990s, few cosmologists have seriously proposed other theories of the origin and evolution of the cosmos.

Cosmic background radiation is well explained as radiation left over from an early stage in the development of the universe, and its discovery is considered a landmark test of the Big Bang model of the universe.

The LCDs were an early form using the Dynamic Scattering Mode DSM with the numbers appearing as bright against a dark background.

In the mid-1970s the first calculators appeared with field-effect, Twisted Nematic TN LCDs with dark numerals against a grey background, though the early ones often had a yellow filter over them to cut out damaging ultraviolet rays.

Some early symptoms that correlate with a later diagnosis of dyslexia include delays in speech, letter reversal or mirror writing, and being easily distracted by background noise.

This was the background to the concept of Messiahship in early Christianity, which interpreted the career of Jesus " by means of the titles and functions assigned to David in the mysticism of the Zion cult, in which he served as priest-king and in which he was the mediator between God and man.

Historically, especially in late 18th-and early 19th-century Britain, a dandy, who was self-made, often strove to imitate an aristocratic lifestyle despite coming from a middle-class background.

While not enough is known about Hebrews or its background, its dependence on any early Jewish tradition cannot be proved.

In contrast, Zamenhof declared that " Esperanto belongs to the Esperantists ", and moved to the background once the language was published, allowing others to share in the early development of the language.

As early as 1914, Sennet shifted the Keystone Cops from starring roles to background ensemble, in support of comedians like Charlie Chaplin and Fatty Arbuckle.

Andvari gives some background information about himself, including that he was cursed by a " norn of misfortune " in his " early days ".

The background to the Mahabharata suggests the origin of the epic occurs at a time " after the very early Vedic period " and before " the first Indian ' empire ' was to rise in the third century B. C .".

The strike's defeat early in the year, and the bad publicity associated with the entryism practised by the Militant tendency were the immediate background for the 1985 Labour Party conference.

* Tropical Plumana: sugary tropical punch flavor, medium-sized, red over greenish yellow background with yellow flesh, early mid season

In an analogous way to the development of quantum electrodynamics in the early part of the 20th century ( when physicists considered quantum mechanics in classical electromagnetic fields ), the consideration of quantum field theory on a curved background has led to predictions such as black hole radiation.

An aging Robert Zubrin also appears as a background character in The Martian Race ( 1999 ) by Gregory Benford, a science fiction novel depicting early human explorers on Mars in the very near future.

The creator of Babylon 5, J. Michael Straczynski, indicated that Paramount was aware of his concept as early as 1989, when he attempted to sell the show to the studio, and provided them with the series bible, pilot script, artwork, lengthy character background histories, and " synopses to about 22 or so planned episodes taken from the overall course of the planned series ".

This experience, and his study of the region's folk art ( particularly the use of bright colours on a dark background ), was reflected in much of his early work.

Unlike in the early issues of the original series, the new team was not made up of teenagers and they also had a more diverse background.

The sixth UN conference on trade and development in Belgrade, 6 – 30 June 1983 was held against the background of earlier UNCTADs which have substantially failed to resolve many of the disagreements between the developed and developing countries, and of a world economy in its worst recession since the early 1930s.

The polarization of the cosmic microwave background is being used to study the physics of the very early universe.

Hinnells proposes that the early Music Department's " mixture of scholarship and cultural nationalism " in an area of music with largely unknown commercial prospects was driven by its sense of cultural philanthropy ( given the Press's academic background ) and a desire to promote " national music outside the German mainstream.

In 2007, Khatri and Wandelt of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign realized that the 21 cm hyperfine transition in neutral hydrogen of the early Universe leaves a unique absorption line imprint in the cosmic microwave background radiation.