In the UK the Madchester scene influenced the early sound of 1990s Britpop bands like Blur, and Oasis who drew on 1960s psychedelic pop and rock, particularly on the album Standing on the Shoulder of Giants ( 2000 ).

In the late 1990s, Buffy the Vampire Slayer drew a large mainstream audience into fandom ; greater demand allowed ( even obliged, for the sake of time management ) Buffy actors to charge much higher appearance fees than the Star Trek actors had.

During the 1990s, Graham Nelson drew up a Z-machine standard, based on detailed studies of the existing Infocom files.

However Karin Westerman drew parallels with 1990s Britain: a class system that was breaking down but defended by those whose power and status it upheld ; the multi-ethnic composition of Hogwarts ' students ; the racial tensions between the various intelligent species ; and school bullying.

In the 1980s and 1990s, the city drew attention with a number of major redevelopment projects, such as the Corum and especially the Antigone District.

It was called The Summertime Car Show and Sound Off Competition, which at its height drew upwards of 300 contestants and continued into the 1990s.

The improvement of roads, and the ease of access to larger cities ( in this case, Dalton ), drew shoppers away, so that by the 1990s, Cohutta had no businesses at all.

Despite having a large stable of noted acts, as the 1990s drew to a close, Elektra began to see a slump in revenue, while noticeably underperforming on the charts.

During a 1990s television interview, when asked what had happened to the sentry who spotted her, Wake simply drew her finger across her throat.

The campaign drew an angry reaction from lawmaker Colette Avital, a former diplomat who served as Israel's consul-general in New York City in the 1990s.

The British Labour Party, which grew out of the organized labour movement and originally drew almost all of its support from the working class, reinvented itself under Tony Blair in the 1990s as " New Labour ", a party competing with the Conservative Party for the votes of the middle class as well as the working class.

However, in the 1990s extensive new neighborhoods were built, constituting in effect a whole new town, which drew a considerable number of Israelis of other origins.

The use of the notwithstanding clause in the 1990s to circumvent the Quebec Charter of Rights and Freedoms with regards to signage also drew a reaction in other Canadian provinces ; the syndrome de Sault Ste.

The Invisibles was Morrison's first major creator-owned title for DC Comics and it drew from his Zenith strip as well as 1990s conspiracy culture.

With the OAM's increasing budget in the 1990s, the Office drew increasing criticism for its perceived lack of rigorous scientific study of alternative approaches in favor of uncritical boosterism.

In the early 1990s, following the collapse of the Mengistu Haile Mariam government, the EPRDF drew interest and support from the United States.

On the magic circuit, Daniels ' appeal diminished as the 1980s drew to a close, and in the 1990s the ratings for his TV show slumped.

Planners drew up designs for a new arena in the early 1990s after years of pressure on the owners of the Boston Bruins hockey club to replace the aging Boston Garden, which had been considered inadequate as a major league sports facility for many years.

Stan Drake, who drew Blondie in the 1980s and 1990s, stated that Young " has to go down in history as one of the geniuses of the industry.

Metcalfe later drew the strip full-time, gradually bringing the strip's artwork more in line with his early 1990s work, until his sudden departure from the comic in 2007, after which the Beano started running re-prints of the strips drawn by David Parkins.

Subsequently in the 1990s, “ reports in the BMJ drew attention to a series of decrees of the RCC introducing amputation of the right hand as judicial punishment for theft, with amputation of the left foot for a second offence, amputation of one ear for evasion of the draft, military desertion, or harbouring deserters .” Amnesty International received reports that confirmed the governmental judicial acts of amputation.

Christian Lacroix has designed many dresses for Hollywood stars ; among them, he is responsible for designing Christina Aguilera's wedding dress and in the 1990s was famed as being a favourite designer of Edina Monsoon in the UK sitcom Absolutely Fabulous ( for which the house drew dubious credit ).

With the renaissance of animation in the 1990s, Canadian animation further prospered with conventional fare from companies like Nelvana and Cinar while innovative work from Mainframe Entertainment such the first computer animated series, ReBoot drew considerable success on its own.

Late 1990s bands drew on the work of Fugazi, SDRE, Jawbreaker and Weezer, including The Promise Ring, Get Up Kids, Braid, Texas Is the Reason, Joan of Arc, Jets to Brazil and most successfully Jimmy Eat World, and by the end of the millennium it was one of the more popular indie styles in the US.

The close relationship Comoros developed with South Africa in the 1980s was much less significant to both countries in the 1990s.

The alliance was especially close in the late 1980s and early 1990s under the leadership of Christian Democrat Helmut Kohl and Socialist François Mitterrand.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, however, the CGT leadership developed close ties to the National Party of Honduras ( Partido Nacional de Honduaras — PNH ), and several leaders served in the Callejas government.

As 1990s came to a close, the Brewers were on their way to becoming a perennial doormat.

Nationalism reached an apex the 1970s and 1990s, with contentious constitutional debates resulting in close to half of all of French-speaking Québécois seeking recognition of nation status through tight referendums on Quebec sovereignty in 1980 and 1995.

Since the 1990s some Spanish companies have gained multinational status, often expanding their activities in culturally close Latin America.

Negotiations were conducted intermittently through the 1990s, and came very close to succeeding.

Since the end of the 20th century, the economic strength during the 1920s has drawn close comparison with the 1950s and 1990s, especially in the United States of America.

In the 1990s, the statue was reinstalled near 18th Street and Prairie Avenue, close to its original site, at the time of the revival of the Prairie Avenue Historic District.

Meanwhile, the national birth rate, after continuing to drop for a time, began to rebound in the 1990s and currently the country's fertility rate is close to the replacement level.

At the beginning of the 1990s, because of new social and economic conditions, a decision was made to close down the town's coal mines.

In the 1990s the special charter flights were approved by the US government, to operate from Miami for Cuban citizens living in the United States that have close relatives in Cuba.

The long awaited Guns N ' Roses album Chinese Democracy was finally released in 2008, but only went platinum and failed to come close to the success of the band's late 1980s and early 1990s material.

However, the 1990s saw most of these industries decline and in some cases close completely.

Due to the close proximity to the airport, Southlake became a boom-burb throughout the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s.

The shock absorber business was the last part of the site operations to close in the early 1990s.

The 1990s saw the proliferation of Mock Tudor style estates at Moorgate and along Huddersfield Road, close to Staley Hall, this continued into the 21st century with the completion of the Crowswood estate in Millbrook.

There were reunions and subsequent tours from Van Halen ( with Hagar in 2004 and then Roth in 2007 ), The long awaited Guns N ' Roses album Chinese Democracy was finally released in 2008, but only went platinum in the U. S., produced no hit singles, and failed to come close to the success of the band's late 1980s and early 1990s material.

However, by the early 1990s depleted reserves and low prices caused the last mines in the area to close.

In part due to its central location in the UK ( on the main A5 national route and close to the M42 motorway ), Atherstone's economy has expanded rapidly since the 1990s, with several major companies such as TNT ( 1987 ), Aldi, Bhs and 3M ( 1960s ) setting-up their head office operations and / or national distribution centres in the town.

Vineland Winery in Ontario once broke their pneumatic press in the 1990s while pressing the frozen grapes because they were too hard ( the temperature was close to − 20 ° C ).

During the 1990s, Zeng was a close ally of then-general secretary Jiang Zemin, and was instrumental in consolidating Jiang's power.

Having been both the Mayor of Shanghai and the city's party chief in the 1990s, Huang enjoyed very close relations with his patron Jiang Zemin, he was known to be strongly opposed to General Secretary and President Hu Jintao.