The term alphasyllabary was suggested for the Indic scripts in 1997 by William Bright, following South Asian linguistic usage, to convey the idea that " they share features of both alphabet and syllabary ".

After the fall of the Conservative government to Labour in 1997, she served as Shadow Health Secretary between 1998 and 1999 and later as Shadow Home Secretary between 1999 and 2001 under William Hague.

* 1906 – William J. Brennan, American Supreme Court Justice ( d. 1997 )

* Greider, William ( 1997 ).

The Black Sea deluge theory ( published in 1997 by William Ryan and Walter Pitman from Columbia University ) contends that the Bosphorus was formed about 5600 BC when the rising waters of the Mediterranean / Sea of Marmara breached through to the Black Sea, which at the time ( according to the theory ) was a low-lying body of fresh water.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1997.

He was a team captain on the sci-fi quiz series Space Cadets ( 1997 ) on Channel 4, which guest starred William Shatner.

More recent efforts to introduce undergraduates to categories as a foundation for mathematics include William Lawvere and Rosebrugh ( 2003 ) and Lawvere and Stephen Schanuel ( 1997 ) and Mirroslav Yotov ( 2012 ).

Clyde William Tombaugh ( February 4, 1906January 17, 1997 ) was an American astronomer.

* William Galen Gray chronology — Timeline of Conan's Journeys ( 1997, rev.

Among his predecessors as editors-in-chief were Hugh Chisholm ( 1902 – 1924 ), James Louis Garvin ( 1926 – 1932 ), Franklin Henry Hooper ( 1932 – 1938 ), Walter Yust ( 1938 – 1960 ), Harry Ashmore ( 1960 – 1963 ), Warren E. Preece ( 1964 – 1968, 1969 – 1975 ), Sir William Haley ( 1968 – 1969 ), Philip W. Goetz ( 1979 – 1991 ), and Robert McHenry ( 1992 – 1997 ).

1929 was a watershed year: William Wellman with Chinatown Nights and The Man I Love, Rouben Mamoulian with Applause, Alfred Hitchcock with Blackmail ( Britain's first sound feature ), were among the directors to bring greater fluidity to talkies and experiment with the expressive use of sound ( Eyman, 1997 ).

* 1914 – William S. Burroughs, American author ( d. 1997 )

234 bypass, ten miles ( 16 km ) south of Manassas, by the year 1997, and is now known as the Prince William Campus.

* Shakespeare, William ( 1997 ).

* 1997 – William Cuddy, Canadian actor

Following his resignation as Prime Minister, Major briefly became Leader of the Opposition, and Shadow Foreign Secretary ( as Sir Malcolm Rifkind, who was Foreign Secretary prior to the election, had lost his seat ), and remained in this post until the election of William Hague as leader of the Conservative Party in June 1997.

Following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997, Major was appointed a special guardian to Princes William and Harry, with responsibility for legal and administrative matters.

* Everdell, William R., The First Moderns: Profiles in the Origins of Twentieth Century Thought, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997

* Mars Underground ( 1997 ) by William K. Hartmann, a novel about a partially terraformed Mars by a noted astronomer.

Three researchers at NIST have been awarded Nobel Prizes for their work in Physics: William D. Phillips in 1997, Eric A. Cornell in 2001, John L. Hall in 2005, which is the largest number for any US government laboratory.

Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1997.

* 1927 – William Hickey, American actor ( d. 1997 )

Stephen Hilgartner, the Cornell University science and technologies department chairman, wrote " The Sokal Affair in Context " ( 1997 ) comparing Sokal's hoax to " Confirmational Response: Bias Among Social Work Journals " ( 1990 ), an article by William M. Epstein published in Science, Technology & Human Values.

One source, Dr. William S. Haubrich in his book Medical Meanings ( 1997, American College of Physicians ) claims that the name came from the Eastern United States.

Other television roles include Pamela Flitton in A Dance to the Music of Time ( 1997 ), Miss Gilchrist in St. Ives ( 1998 ), Bettina the obsessive-compulsive interior decorator in Absolutely Fabulous, the sadistic Queen Elspeth in Hallmark's Snow White: The Fairest Of Them All ( 2001 ), and the emotionally repressed Queen Mary in The Lost Prince ( 2003 ).

Mary Therese Winifred Robinson ( née Bourke ) (; born 21 May 1944 ) served as the seventh, and first female, President of Ireland from 1990 to 1997, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, from 1997 to 2002.

* De Boer Esther A., Mary Magdalene, beyond the Myth ( SCM Press London, 1997 ).

* 1997 – 2004, 30 St Mary Axe, Swiss Re London headquarters, London, UK

Vacancies in the presidency have occurred three times: on the death of Erskine Hamilton Childers in 1974, and on the resignations of Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh in 1976 and Mary Robinson in 1997.

* June 26 – Bertie Ahern is appointed as the 10th Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland and Mary Harney is appointed as the 16th, and first female, Tánaiste, after their parties, Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats respectively, win the 1997 General Election.

* Webster, James, Hunter, Mary ( 1997 ).

On June 1, 1997, the Tribune published what ended up becoming a very popular column by Mary Schmich called " Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young ", otherwise known as " Wear Sunscreen " or the " Sunscreen Speech.

In her essay " What Nature Allows the Jealous Laws Forbid " literary critic Mary Aswell Doll compares the love between the two male protagonists of Annie Proulx ' book Brokeback Mountain ( 1997 ) with the love Myrrha has for her father in Ovid's Metamorphoses.

He and Mary remained together in Collioure until her death in 1998, but he continued to work on his naval novels, spending the winter of 1998 – 1999 at Trinity College, Dublin, which had awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1997.

Republican Mary Jo White of the 21st District has represented Corry in the Pennsylvania State Senate since 1997.

She appeared in Neil Jordan's The Butcher Boy in 1997, playing the Virgin Mary.

Mary Patricia McAleese (; née Leneghan ; ; born 27 June 1951 ) served as the eighth President of Ireland from 1997 to 2011.

She was the second female president and was first elected in 1997 succeeding Mary Robinson, making McAleese the world's first woman to succeed another as president.

Her opponents in the 1997 presidential election were Mary Banotti of Fine Gael, Adi Roche ( the Labour Party candidate ) and two independents: Dana Rosemary Scallon and Derek Nally.

Mary McAleese made her final overseas visit as head of state to Lebanon in October 2011, the location of her very first official overseas visit in 1997.

* Lorna Siggins, The Woman Who Took Power In The Park: Mary Robinson, President of Ireland, 1990-1997 ( Mainstream Publishing, 1997 ) ISBN 1-85158-805-1

During this time, Mammoth and Atlantic split, forcing Seven Mary Three to sign with Atlantic Records, releasing RockCrown in 1997.

* Nelson Starr – ( 1997 ) Friend and occasional side-man for John & Mary, Buffalonian Starr toured as a fill-in bassist for approximately two weeks during Summer tours in 1997.

The songs " Cruise Control " and " Love Is a Many Splendored Thing " from Very Proud of Ya were used in the 1996 independent film Mary Jane's Not a Virgin Anymore, which was first screened in 1997 and also featured Havok in a small role.

Andrew Collins, Stuart Maconie, Steve Lamacq and Mary Anne Hobbs all left the NME in protest, and moved to Select ; Collins, Maconie and Lamacq would all also write for Q, while Lamacq would join Melody Maker in 1997.

* Mary Pickford: A Life on Film ( 1997 ) ( documentary )