Two privately owned radio stations began operations in 1999.

After a decade of impressive growth rates, Chile began to experience a moderate economic downturn in 1999, brought on by unfavorable global economic conditions related to the Asian financial crisis, which began in 1997.

In 1996, Love began a relationship with actor Edward Norton and were at one point engaged, but separated in 1999.

When it started in 1970, the Universal Press Syndicate gave cartoonists a 50-percent share on the ownership of their works, while the Creators Syndicate ( founded in 1987 ) granted artists full rights to the strips, something that Universal Press did in 1990. followed by King Features in 1995, while before 1999 both the Tribune and United Feature services began granting rights to creators over their works ; however the latter three syndicates only applied this to new strips, or to ones popular enough.

In 1999 the National Arbitration Forum began advocating that such contracts should be drafted so as to force consumers to waive the right to a class action completely, and such provisions have become very popular among businesses.

This work began with a group of representatives who revisited the 1999 document " Call to Christian Commitment and Action to Combat Racism ," which is available on the current CUIC website.

During November 1999, Compaq began to work with Microsoft to create the first in a line of small-scale, web-based computer systems called MSN Companions.

Before the 1999 season, fans began discussing Earnhardt's age and speculating that with his son, Dale Jr. getting into racing, Earnhardt might be contemplating retirement.

Over 1999 and early 2000, the U. S. Federal Reserve increased interest rates six times, and the economy began to lose speed.

Negotiations on extending the Compact began in November 1999.

Direct negotiations to determine the permanent status of Gaza and the West Bank had begun in September 1999 after a three-year hiatus, but have been derailed by the al-Aqsa Intifada that began in September 2000.

Digital satellite broadcasting began in 1999 by the South-African conglomerate Naspers which uses the trademark Nova.

In 1999 Brooks and his production company Red Strokes Entertainment, with Paramount Pictures, began to develop a movie in which Brooks would star.

The Colts began to improve towards the end of the 1998 season and showed continued growth in 1999.

The 2000 and 2001 Colts teams were considerably less successful compared to the 1999 team and pressure began to mount on team administration and the coaching staff following a 6 – 10 season in 2001.

When the Government of Lesotho began its privatisation process in 1999, it invited bids for this share in Vodacom Lesotho.

In 1999, less than a decade after the UN sanctions were put in place, Libya began to make dramatic policy changes in regard to the Western world, including turning over the Lockerbie suspects for trial.

When in 1999 Moldtelecom became a JSC the company began a rapid upgrade process of all of their equipment and installations across the country.

It began to appear on digital video cameras toward the end of the decade, and on G3 Macintosh models in 1999.

During his time on NBC, Albert continued as lead play-by-play man for the New York Knicks on local MSG Network telecasts and began calling national games for TNT in 1999 as well.

Based on information uncovered by the FBI in the 1998 United States embassy bombings case, the National Security Agency ( NSA ) began tracking the communications of Mihdhar's father-in-law Ahmad Muhammad Ali al-Hada, who was facilitating al-Qaeda communications, in 1999.

The Ethiopian Orthodox New Year, called Enkutatash, falls on the same date as Neyrouz ; the Ethiopian calendar year 1999 thus began on 11 September 2006.

In 1998, the NBA owners began a lockout which lasted 191 days and was settled on January 18, 1999.

Since 1999 a refereed Journal of Ayn Rand Studies began.

The films below are listed with their production year, so the Oscar 2000 for best art direction went to a film from 1999.

In their 1999 study of the Prime Ministers of Canada, which included the results of a survey of Canadian historians, J. L.

# Replacing permanently unplayable tiles-Per 1999 rules, players can replace permanently unplayable tile ( tiles that would merge safe corporations ) at the end of their turn.

Arbor Day reached its height of popularity on its 125th anniversary in 1997, when David J. Wright, noticed that a Nebraska nonprofit organization called the National Arbor Day Foundation had taken the name of the holiday and commercialized it for their own use as a trademark for their publication " Arbor Day ," so he countered their efforts, launched a website, and trademarked it for " public use celebrations " and defended the matter in a federal district court in the United States to ensure it was judged as property of the public domain, the case was settled in October 1999.

In their first five seasons of existence, the Diamondbacks won three division titles ( 1999, 2001, 2002 ) a National League pennant ( 2001 ) and a World Series championship ( 2001 ).

In 1998 and 1999 AMRAAMs were again fired by USAF F-15 fighters at Iraqi aircraft violating the No-Fly-Zone, but this time they failed to hit their targets.

During the spring of 1999, AMRAAMs saw their main combat action during Operation Allied Force, the Kosovo bombing campaign.

Paddy Chayefsky's Academy Award-winning Marty was the most notable examination of working class Bronx life was also explored by Chayefsky in his 1956 film The Catered Affair, and in the 1993 Robert De Niro / Chazz Palminteri film, A Bronx Tale, Spike Lee's 1999 movie Summer of Sam, centered in an Italian-American Bronx community, 1994's I Like It Like That that takes place in the predominately Puerto Rican neighborhood of the South Bronx, and Doughboys, the story of two Italian-American brothers in danger of losing their bakery thanks to one brother's gambling debts.

The president visited several European air bases to thank the troops ( not shown ) for their support of NATO Operations Allied Force and Shining Hope, 1999.

Some people even believe that this was the biblical event of Noah's flood, but despite their historical significance, the first spectacular images of these submarine channels were obtained in 1999 ( Di Iorio, et al., 1999 ) in the frame of a NATO SACLANT Undersea Research project using jointly the NATO RV Alliance, and the Turkish Navy survey ship Çubuklu.

Finding that Baldrick has forgotten to write dates on the machine's dials, the rest of the film follows their attempts to find their way back to 1999, often creating huge historical anomalies in the process which must be corrected before the end.

Lara captained the West Indies from 1998 to 1999, when West Indies suffered their first whitewash at the hands of South Africa.

When Red Hat's stock rose significantly after its initial public offering in 1999, they sold enough stock to recoup their initial investment, and retained some stocks.

Steps towards reconciliation on a global level were taken in 1965 by the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches mutually revoking the excommunications that marked their Great Schism in 1054 ; the Anglican Roman Catholic International Commission ( ARCIC ) working towards full communion between those churches since 1970 ; and the Lutheran and Roman Catholic churches signing The Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification in 1999 to address conflicts at the root of the Protestant Reformation.

Later the length of the platform decreases because the waves lose their energy as they break further off shore ( Easterbrook 1999 ).

Entry-level IT workers and white-collar American workers alike have given Mike Judge's 1999 comedy film Office Space a cult following because of its heroic portrayal of ordinary office employees who become fed up with their jobs.

* Based on their book Category Theory for Computing Science, Centre de recherches mathématiques CRM, 1999.

*" Cassiopeia ," a song by Shabütie ( now known as Coheed and Cambria ) from their 1999 EP The Penelope EP

On April 4, 1999, the Rockies made history as they played their Opening Day game against the defending National League champion San Diego Padres at Estadio de Beisbol Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico – marking the first time Major League Baseball opened the regular season outside the United States or Canada.