SDI
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SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative) (USA) A US defence system intended to protect the USA from ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles) by destroying them in space before they reached their target. Its development was started under
Reagan in 1983, when huge funds were spent on the development of the SDI despite criticism that it could never be infallible. While it worsened US–Soviet relations and inaugurated a new round in the arms race between the two countries, pressure from the programme contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Empire, whose military and financial resources were already overstretched. During the 1990s the unsuccessful programme was abandoned, but under President George W.
Bush the concept was revived by his controversial endorsement of the nuclear missile defense programme.
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CANAAN TO SPEND REST OF LIFE IN PRISON
Newspaper article from: Evansville Courier & Press; 6/7/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...prison. For convicted killer Keith B. Canaan, the agreement means he won't die by...Once in the general prison population, Canaan will have educational, work and recreation...has been denied, his attorney said. Canaan agreed Tuesday to serve 160 years in prison...
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Canaan Partners Launches $500 Million Equity Fund.
Business Wire; 12/20/1999; 671 words
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Newspaper article from: The Journal Record; 3/15/2002; 619 words
; OKLAHOMA CITY (JR) -- Canaan Energy's board of directors on Thursday...unsolicited tender offer to acquire Canaan for $12 per share. Under the plan...purchase rights will be distributed to Canaan Energy shareholders. The shareholder...
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Newspaper article from: The Journal Record; 4/23/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...has reached an agreement to acquire Canaan Energy for $118 million, it was announced Monday. The announcement sent Canaan's stock soaring 28 percent on Monday...3.89. Before Monday's surge, Canaan's 52- week high was $14.50...
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Newspaper article from: The Journal Record; 11/28/2001; ; 662 words
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Canaan Partners Appoints Former Yahoo! and Symantec Executive, Sharad Sharma, as Entrepreneur-in-Residence.
News Wire article from: PRWeb; 5/27/2009; 700+ words
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Canaan Energy adopts shareholder rights plan
Newspaper article from: THE JOURNAL RECORD; 3/15/2002; ; 619 words
; Canaan Energy's board of directors on Thursday...made an unsolicited tender offer to acquire Canaan for $12 per share. Under the plan, preferred...stock purchase rights will be distributed to Canaan Energy shareholders. The shareholder rights...
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Canaan Partners Names Wende Hutton General Partner.
PR Newswire; 5/15/2007; 700+ words
; ...Calif., May 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Canaan Partners, a $2.4 billion global venture...a General Partner. Ms. Hutton joined Canaan in March, 2004 and has helped lead investments...IPO) of 2006. "In her three years at Canaan, Wende has demonstrated excellent leadership...
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Business Wire; 5/3/2005; 700+ words
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Conquest of Canaan, The
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
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Canaan(ites)
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible
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Canaan
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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New England Canaan
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
New England Canaan, descriptive work by Thomas Morton , subtitled New Canaan, Containing an Abstract of New England, published at Amsterdam (1637). The first part deals with the Indians, the second with the natural endowments of the country...
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Fathad Canaan
Book article from: A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
Fathad Canaan. See FOTHAD .
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