The merged firm never managed to find an effective response to Java as to market positioning, and by 1997 its owners were looking to sell the business.

DEC agreed to sell StrongARM to Intel as part of a lawsuit settlement in 1997.

By 1997 it would sell for only $ 500, due to the proliferation of guns in Japan during the 1990s.

After playing at the Goldstone Ground for 95 years, they were forced to sell it in 1997 to pay off debts.

Finally, in 1997, COMSAT agreed in principle to sell Ascent to Liberty Media.

Finally, in 1997, COMSAT agreed in principle to sell Ascent Entertainment Group, the umbrella corporation for its sporting assets, to Liberty Media.

Some established acts continued to enjoy commercial success, such as Aerosmith, with their number one multi-platinum albums: Get a Grip ( 1993 ), which produced four Top 40 singles and became the band's best-selling album worldwide ( going on to sell over 20 million copies ), and Nine Lives ( 1997 ).

In 1997 Siemens agreed to sell the defence arm of Siemens Plessey to British Aerospace ( BAe ) and a German aerospace company, DaimlerChrysler Aerospace.

The airport has recently applied for a complete removal of the limit on the seats it can sell – a key element of the 1997 planning agreement, which guards against over-expansion of an airport which is sited in a densely populated location.

In November 2002, Lai Sun Development, which was heavily indebted following the HK $ 7 billion acquisition of the Furama Hotel at the height of the property bubble in 1997, announced that it would sell its 32. 75 % stake to the company's chief executive, Chan Wing-kee ( 陳永棋 ), for HK $ 360 million in cash.

In 1997, Daewoo Motors bought a controlling stake from the Ssangyong Group, only to sell it off again in 2000, because the conglomerate ran into deep financial troubles.

After the Asian financial crisis reached South Korea in 1997, Daewoo took over the troubled SUV manufacturer SsangYong in 1998, but ran into financial trouble and was forced to sell the company off in 2001 to GM affiliate SAIC.

The album continued to sell well with the release of " L ' Instant X ", " California " ( a jazzy-pop ballad bolstered with bass guitar featuring a highly acclaimed video directed by Abel Ferrara ), " Comme j ' ai mal " and " Rêver ", which helped the album reach Nº1 in January 1997 – 16 months after its release – becoming Diamond.

The CRTC's decision to allow the joint ownership of CJOH and CHRO appeared to contradict its own rationale for forcing CTV to sell the Citytv stations, specifically that a single company could not own two stations, in the same language, based in the same large urban centre – however, even before CTV confirmed it would keep CHRO, the twinstick was approved by the CRTC on the basis of CHRO's financial situation and the stations ' prior common ownership ( until 1997 ).

According to Darryl Rehr, in his 1997 book, " Antique Typewriters & Office Collectibles ", Remington claimed ... they could sell as many as N. E.

The decision by the University to sell its hospital to Tenet Healthcare Corp. in 1997 met much resistance by both local and national Church leaders, but went ahead as planned.

WWHO ( then " WB 53 ") remained a The WB affiliate until the Paramount Stations Group ( a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures, whose parent company is Viacom ) agreed to acquire the station in 1997, along with sister station WLWC in Providence and sell Hartford's NBC affiliate WVIT to NBC in return.

The share price reached $ 9. 00 in the middle of 1997, and some of the original Tranz Rail shareholders took advantage of the high share price to sell down their shares in the company.

On New Year's Eve in 1997 he had a garage full of calendars to sell, and with requests for live demonstrations mounting he finally decided to create an act with fellow Aussie David " Friendy " Friend.

Pepsico also tried to sell Mirinda in Brazil in late 1996, but the brand was discontinued in 1997 after weak sales, keeping the local brand Sukita under production.

In 1997, while still serving as prime minister, he was implicated in a scheme to sell Vanuatuan passports to foreigners, and the Office of the Vanuatu Ombudsman recommended that he resign from his post.

The company has been producing their version of the Ford Transit van in a joint venture with Ford Motor Company since 1997, and in 2005 it started selling a sport utility vehicle called Landwind X6 in some of the European markets, becoming the first Chinese company to sell cars in Europe.

In addition, at the recommendations of international financial institutions such as International Monetary Fund and the World Bank-aid granters to Mongolia, and discount interest rate loan giver Asian Development Bank, Elbegdorj made a decision to sell state owned Reconstruction Bank which became illiquid and was experiencing enormous loss, the biggest financial burden to the economy since its establishment in 1997.

In 1997, frustrated by the inability to control its own IP and thus its own destiny, Metaflow convinced Hyundai to sell out to ST.

Bonneville decided to sell KBIG to Chancellor in 1997.

* 1926 – Rawya Ateya, Egyptian politician and first female parliamentarian in the Arab world ( d. 1997 )

At a Braveheart Convention in 1997, held in Stirling the day after the Scottish Devolution vote and attended by 200 delegates from around the world, Braveheart author Randall Wallace, Seoras Wallace of the Wallace Clan, Scottish historian David Ross and Bláithín FitzGerald from Ireland gave lectures on various aspects of the film.

According to Blair ( 1997 ) British Steel faced serious problems at the time of its formation, including obsolescent plants ; plants operating under capacity and thus at low efficiency ; outdated technology ; price controls that reduced marketing flexibility ; soaring coal and oil costs ; lack of capital investment funds ; and increasing competition on the world market.

Including these failed drug tests, 27 Chinese swimmers were caught using performance enhancing drugs from 1990 through 1997 ; more than the rest of the world combined.

The world record for largest continuously poured concrete floor was completed 8 November 1997, in Louisville, Kentucky by design-build firm EXXCEL Project Management.

Although contacts between Cubans and foreign visitors were made legal in 1997, extensive censorship has isolated it from the rest of the world.

In 2000, nickel production was 39, 943 tons, ranking tenth in the world, a decrease from 49, 152 in 1997.

Between 1994 and 1997, when relations with Ethiopia and the rest of the world were stable, GDP growth averaged 7 percent.

It is one of the IAAF's foremost indoor track and field events and two-time Olympic champion Hicham El Guerrouj set a world record at the event in 1997.

It was noted, in 1997, that those who favor their left-brain such as skilled code writers usually do not make it in the ethereal gamemaster world of storytelling and verse.

Howland Island was overflown in 1967 by Ann Dearing Holtgren Pellegreno and in 1997 by Linda Finch during memorial circumnavigation flights to commemorate Earhart's 1937 world flight.

Anarchy in late 1996 to early 1997, as a result of the collapse of these pyramid schemes, alarmed the world and prompted international mediation.

Papua New Guinea was the first country in the world to grant commercial exploration licenses for seafloor massive sulphide deposits when it granted the initial license to Nautilus Minerals in 1997.

Since 1997 it has been in the hands of a private developer, on a long term lease, which has transformed the property into a world class resort.

As a junior Hewitt posted a 44-19 record in singles and reached as high as No. 17 in the world in 1997 ( and No. 13 in doubles ).

In 1997, it became one of the first profitable internet businesses in the world.

With an investment in excess of 30 million GBP, the Boots Advantage Card, launched in 1997, is / was the largest smart card retail loyalty card scheme in the world, and the third-largest retail loyalty scheme in the UK in terms of cards issued.

Twenty-one of the MiG-29s were sold to the United States in October 1997 to prevent their sale on the world market, and for research purposes.

Economic growth picked up in 1997 – 99 after stalling in 1996 due to a series of natural disasters and increases in world prices of copper and cashmere.

About 55 % of all CPUs sold in the world are 8-bit microcontrollers, over two billion of which were sold in 1997.

His career has not been without controversy, including being twice involved in collisions in the final race of a season that determined the outcome of the world championship, with Damon Hill in 1994 in Adelaide, and with Jacques Villeneuve in 1997 in Jerez.

* 1997 – October 27, 1997 mini-crash: Stock markets around the world crash because of fears of a global economic meltdown.

The largest optical telescope in the world as of 2009 to use a non-segmented single-mirror as its primary mirror is the 8. 2 m ( 8. 7 yards ) Subaru telescope of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, located in Mauna Kea Observatory on Hawaii since 1997 ; however, this is not the largest diameter single mirror in a telescope, the U. S ./ German / Italian Large Binocular Telescope has two 8. 4 m ( 9. 2 yards ) mirrors ( which can be used together for interferometric mode ).

John Beloff in his book Parapsychology: A Concise History ( 1997 ) has written that in the Western world parapsychology has been " driven by desire to confound materialism or reductionism " and that there has only been a minority of parapsychologists who have advocated physical theories for psi.