In 1999, five hydroelectric dams on Battle Creek, a major tributary of the Sacramento River, were removed to allow better passage of the fish.

In August 1999 the U. S. affiliate of Amnesty International issued a report " Race, Rights & Brutality: Portraits of Abuse in the USA ," prompted by high-profile excessive-force cases involving local and state police in Chicago, New York and other cities, that called on federal officials to better document excessive-force cases and to ensure that the officers responsible are prosecuted.

Ramón Antonio Gerardo Estévez ( born August 3, 1940 ), better known by his stage name Martin Sheen, is an American film actor best known for his performance as President Josiah Bartlet in the television series The West Wing ( 1999 – 2006 ).

In a 1999 interview, he talked about the his hopes for the role of science fiction in society: How much science fiction is being published now that's set in worlds that are better than ours?

In a 1999 report, the Commission found that 8VSB has better threshold or carrier-to-noise ( C / N ) performance, has a higher data rate capability, requires less transmitter power for equivalent coverage, and is more robust to impulse and phase noise.

She has released two solo albums, one in 1999 titled Por Un Mundo Mejor ( For a better world ) and the other in 2001 titled Corazón. com ( Heart. com ).

The work has been staged internationally, and has been adapted to film twice, in 1982 and in 1999 the better known being perhaps the former, directed by John Huston and starring Aileen Quinn as Annie, Albert Finney as Warbucks, Ann Reinking as his secretary Grace Farrell, and Carol Burnett as Miss Hannigan.

William John Owen Rowbotham MBE ( 14 March 1914 – 12 July 1999 ), better known as Bill Owen, was an English actor and songwriter.

The 1999 – 2000 season was much better for the Battalion as they finished with a 25-29-14 record, good enough for a 3rd place finish in the Midwest Division and 7th in the Western Conference which gave them their first ever trip to the post season.

The film fared substantially better in Europe, where distributors such as Germany's Neue Constantin Film were able to give it a more appropriate release, and subsequently on home video, actually in 1999 becoming the very first feature DVD issued by Columbia.

PHT changed its name to Turbolinux in June 1999 to better identify with its flagship product.

This led to an overall 20 % better Fed Conversion Efficiency as compared to the wild stock ( Thodeson et al. 1999 ).

From 1998 to 1999, he chaired the Independent Commission on Policing for Northern Ireland, better known as the Patten Commission, which had been established in 1998 as part of the Belfast Agreement.

The decade started with Rob Reiner's Misery ( 1990 ), based on the book by Stephen King, with Kathy Bates as an unbalanced fan named Annie who terrorizes, in her care, an incapacitated author named Paul ( James Caan ); in one horrifying scene, she ' hobbles ' his ankles so that he can't escape, a battered wife who left her sadistic husband to find a better life was vengefully pursued in Sleeping with the Enemy ( 1991 ), Curtis Hanson's The Hand That Rocks the Cradle ( 1992 ), with Rebecca De Mornay as a nanny intent on seeking revenge against her dead obstetrician husband's patient ( Annabella Sciorra ), Unlawful Entry ( 1992 ) with Ray Liotta as cop being obsessed with a woman he saved, Barbet Schroeder's suspenseful Single White Female ( 1992 ), with Bridget Fonda and her obsessed roommate-from-hell Jennifer Jason Leigh, Harold Becker's Malice ( 1993 ) with Alec Baldwin and Nicole Kidman, and lastly Anthony Minghella's psychological thriller The Talented Mr. Ripley ( 1999 ) with Matt Damon being obsessed with, and then assuming the identity of, Jude Law.

Unfortunately, the charismatic Minah Angong ( better known as Mak Minah ) died just three weeks after winning over the hearts of a whole new audience at the RWMF 1999.

Formed in 1999 they campaign for better cycling provision for leisure and utility cyclists.

Efteling used to be closed all winter ( only being open from April through October ), but the park's management, struggling to make the park more profitable and creating a better return-on-investment, has been experimenting with a so-called " Winter Efteling " since 1999 ( see index below for attractions closed during " Winter Efteling " 15px ).

Though they too were basically enemies of the Spanish monarchy, at the same time, " a tired and inactive Spain promised to be a better neighbour than a powerful and aggressive France " ( Lynn 1999: 108 ).

The demands by the Canadian public for changes for the better in dealing with youth crime, particularly in the wake of the beating and attempted murder in 1999 of then-15-year-old Jonathan Wamback in Newmarket, Ontario by a gang of teenagers, led to the introduction of the Youth Criminal Justice Act to replace the YOA.

( 1999 ) found that people who worked on their self-regulatory capacities by daily exercises such as improving their posture ended up performing better than other people on laboratory tests of self-control.

As with the vast majority of biathletes, her prone shoot was her best, averaging mid 80 % shooting, whilst her standing shoot gradually got better, from 65 % in 1999 / 00 to 74 % in the 2005 / 06 season.

Dyke himself criticised the channel directly during the 2000 Edinburgh International Television Festival, firstly claiming it " had to do better " while delivering the annual MacTaggart Lecture, and then later criticising the policy of building lightweight drama series such as Harbour Lights ( 1999 – 2000 ) and Sunburn ( 1999 – 2000 ) around former soap opera stars.

Early 1999 marked the release of their latest video codec, Bink Video, which provided better than DVD quality compression in true color at up to three times the playback speed.

She recorded a series of bluegrass-inspired albums, beginning with The Grass Is Blue ( 1999 ), winning a Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album, and Little Sparrow ( 2001 ), with its cover of Collective Soul's " Shine " winning a Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance.

In September 1999, Lewinsky took this interest further by beginning to sell a line of handbags bearing her name under the company name The Real Monica, Inc.

He returned to the show in 1999 at the beginning of the sixth season, but it was later cancelled in 2000.

Abidjan was is in the process of regaining Niger's port trade, following the disruption of the Ivorian Civil War, beginning in 1999.

When his stint on This Week in Baseball concluded, Smith then moved on to do work for CNN-SI beginning in 1999.

However, there wasn't one scheduled for 2001, due to the NFL's decision beginning in the 1999 season to move the opening week of games to the weekend after Labor Day.

She started her campaign for the presidency at the beginning of 1999 after President Martti Ahtisaari announced that he would not stand for a second term in the office.

The 1999 team would be the last playoff-bound team for over a decade, as the Rangers took a step backwards at the beginning of the new millennium.

Master's and Doctoral degree programs were first introduced through the Atlantic Veterinary College and, beginning in 1999, a Master of Science degree was offered through the Faculty of Science.

*** Fight Club ( 1999 ) The year within Fight Club is said to be 1999, just before the beginning of the Millennium.

The current millennium is perhaps more popularly ( albeit inaccurately ) thought of as beginning and ending a year earlier, thus starting at the beginning of 1000 and finishing at the end of 1999.

The first legal threats against sites hosting DeCSS, and the beginning of the DeCSS mirroring campaign, began in early November 1999 ( Universal v. Reimerdes ).

He stepped down as Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee at the beginning of 1999, as he had pledged to do in late 1997.

This is the beginning of the tale of hope .< ref > Magaletta, Philip R., & Oliver, J. M ( April 1999 ).

In recent years, beginning in mid 1999, Baen has emphasized electronic publishing and Internet-focused promotions for its publications.

The Trade Marks Act, 1999 is a reproduction of the UK ’ s Trade Marks Act 1994 as India follow the English Trade Mark laws from the beginning.

Many of these draw more directly on the 1939 MGM Technicolor film version of the novel, a now-classic of popular culture shown annually on American television from 1959 to 1991, and shown several times a year every year beginning in 1999.

After defeating Metzenbaum, Glenn defeated Ralph Perk, the Republican mayor of Cleveland, in the general election, beginning a Senate career that would continue until 1999.

It came into use beginning in 1999, gradually supplanting Fast Ethernet in wired local networks where it performed considerably faster.

However, at the beginning of 1999, the Brazilian currency underwent a strong depreciation.

The projects were demolished beginning in the 1999, and the area began to revitalize, with major renovations to King Drive and many of the historic structures and an influx of new, upscale, housing developments.

After this, however, the club lapsed into a state of decline ; their status as a potential powerhouse at the beginning of the decade was reduced with each passing season and the club ultimately received a second wooden spoon in 1999.

Branstad focused most of his efforts on endeavors outside of politics when he left office at the beginning of 1999.