No less noteworthy is the fact that the SM-3 utilized to shoot down the target was one of the first of the production rounds to come off the manufacturing line.
One result was that Raytheon was able to develop a new version of the Standard Missile used by the Navy for air defense engagements designated the SM-3 that was designed specifically to intercept ballistic targets.
Japan has also ordered 16 Lockheed Martin ground-based Patriot Advance Capability-3 missiles to protect critical targets and get a second shot at incoming missiles if the SM-3s miss.
The best children's programme award also went to an ITV show - Blaze Television's SM: tv.
At a vegetarian dinner with a TIME correspondent last week in Alhambra, California, she wore a bright yellow dress that she designed herself--embroidered with the Supreme Master monogram (SM) and available to followers by catalog.
President Obama confirmed the commitment of the United States to implement the Phased Adaptive Approach to European missile defense, including basing land-based SM-3 interceptors in Poland as part of this program in the 2018 timeframe, and expressed his gratitude for the commitment by the government of Poland to host this system.
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The SM-3s system will be located at the Redzikowo military base in Poland, close to the Baltic Sea and Lithuania.
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But one novel strategy has been adopted by rival SM Entertainment, which is trying to make inroads into the Chinese market with Exo -- a boy band that performs their songs in Mandarin as well as Korean.
The family's SM Development is currently building four 38-story residential towers, called Mezza Residences, across from its SM Centerpoint mall, and claims to have sold out two towers, to be completed in 2009.
"Our family was born to be working in the business, our father gave us no choice, " chuckles Sy-Coson (known as Tessie to her friends), who first worked part-time as a cashier in an sm store while a college student.
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