By 1997, the refinery reached the same rate of production it was at before the war.

By 1996, the cemetery and marker were in poor condition, but a new granite headstone was erected in 1997.

By the 1920s, the U. S. reached what is still its era of greatest-ever output, producing an average of 800 feature films annually, or 82 % of the global total ( Eyman, 1997 ).

By the end of 1997 the consolidated public sector deficit decreased to 4. 6 % of GDP — with public sector spending falling from 62 % of GDP to below 50 %— the current account deficit was reduced to 2 % of GDP, and government debt was paid down to 94 % of annual export earnings.

By the end of 1997, Hungary had shifted much of its trade to the West.

By 1997, the federal government had already cut tariffs to 22. 5 percent from 57. 5 percent ten years earlier, and by 2000 were planning to reduce this even further down to 15 percent.

By November 1997, rapid currency depreciation had seen public debt reach US $ 60 bn, imposing severe strains on the government's budget.

By 1997, it was apparent that the IA-64 architecture and the compiler were much more difficult to implement than originally thought, and the delivery of Merced began slipping.

By 1997, the phrase had entered the legal lexicon as seen in an opinion by Supreme Court of the United States Justice John Paul Stevens, ' An example of " junk science " that should be excluded under the Daubert standard as too unreliable would be the testimony of a phrenologist who would purport to prove a defendant ’ s future dangerousness based on the contours of the defendant ’ s skull.

By this time the " New " Labour Party was seen as a reformed and fresh alternative under the leadership of Tony Blair, and after eighteen years in office the Conservatives lost the 1997 general election in one of the worst electoral defeats since the Great Reform Act of 1832.

By this time billionaire Sir James Goldsmith had set up his own Referendum Party, siphoning off some Conservative support, and at the 1997 General Election many Conservative candidates were openly expressing reluctance to join.

By the time Labour returned to government in 1997 after 18 years in opposition, Tony Blair ( leader since 1994 ) had abandoned the Labour policy of going back on Tory-led union reforms, as well as ending the commitment of nationalisation of industries and utilities.

By 1997, the Ministry of Information and Telecommunications was created to formulate and implement policies regarding the development of the ICT sector.

By the end of 1997 GemStone III and DragonRealms had become the first and second most played games on AOL.

By the late 1990s MIPS was a powerhouse in the embedded processor field, and in 1997 the 48-millionth MIPS-based CPU shipped, making it the first RISC CPU to outship the famous 68k family.

By late 1997, however, search engine providers realized that information stored in elements, especially the attribute, was often unreliable and misleading, and at worst, used to draw users into spam sites.

By 1997, Miramax shut down the company due to " lack of interest " in the pictures released.

By 1997, software synthesizers were beginning to take hold among electronic musicians.

By December 1997, the IMF had approved a USD $ 21 billion loan, that would be part of a USD $ 58. 4 billion bailout plan.

By 1997, the predominantly Kulyabi-led Tajik government and the UTO successfully negotiated a power-sharing peace accord and implemented it by 2000.

By 1997, 81 % of the developing world's wheat area was planted to semi-dwarf wheats, giving both increased yields and better response to nitrogenous fertilizer.

By 1997 Scottish and Newcastle claimed that it was the most widely distributed alcoholic product in both pubs and off licences in the country.

Bob Marley in France noted as a Rasta. By 1997, there were, according to one estimate, around one million Rastafari faithful worldwide.

By the end of the 1990s, Judd had managed to achieve significant fame and success as a leading actress, after leading roles in several thrillers that performed well at the box office, including Kiss the Girls in 1997 and 1999's Double Jeopardy.

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

By 2006, such was the confusion from these multiple Acts, each amending the others ( and not all of which were ever actually commenced and thus were in the public record but not enforced as actual legislation ); and the amendments of Irish firearms legislation by other Acts ranging from the Wildlife Acts ( mostly relating to hunting law ) to the Road Traffic Acts ( relating to how and where firearms could be transported ) and others ; the large amount of secondary legislation ( Statutory Instruments, which set out regulations, the design of application forms for licences and so forth, as well as the details of when various parts of the Acts came into force ); as well as the introduction of EU firearms law into the canon of Irish legislation ; led the Irish Law Reform Commission to recommend that all the extant legislation be restated a legal process by which all the existing primary and secondary legislation would be read as one and a single document produced as the new Firearms Act ( and all prior Acts would be repealed ).

By the late 17th century, the electorate of the three seats comprised the resident freemen of Monmouth, Newport and Usk, and after the Great Reform Act of 1832 the constituency was generally referred to as the Monmouth Boroughs.

By the turn of the century, organizations including the Reform Association and the Reform Club began to demand greater participation in the colony's affairs.

' By the end of 1904, the Tariff Reform League's numerous branches were challenging the Conservative National Union.

By the 18th century the fees charged to become a freeman, with voting rights, were exorbitant and the borough of Sudbury, along with 177 other English towns, was reformed by a Municipal Reform Act ( 1835 ).

By January 1, 2007 Pandrup municipality ceased to exist as the result of Kommunalreformen (" The Municipality Reform " of 2007 ).

By 1 January 2007, the old Esbjerg municipality was, as the result of Kommunalreformen (" The Municipal Reform " of 2007 ), merged with the former Bramming and Ribe municipalities to form the new Esbjerg municipality.

By January 1, 2007, Trehøje municipality ceased to exist, as the result of Kommunalreformen (" The Municipality Reform " of 2007 ).

By January 1, 2007 Ulfborg-Vemb municipality ceased to exist due to Kommunalreformen (" The Municipality Reform " of 2007 ).

By the early 1830s his paper had earned the nickname " The Thunderer ", with Robert Peel declaring it to be " a powerful advocate of Reform " and his colleague Lord Lyndhurst describing Barnes as " the most powerful man in the country.

By the 19th century, the settlement was officially uninhabited and yet still had formal parliamentary representation, making it the most notorious of the rotten boroughs that existed before the Reform Act 1832.

By the nineteenth century, the Great Reform Act of 1832 led to parliamentary dominance, with its choice invariably deciding who was prime minister and the complexion of the government.

By June 1875, there were two factions in the Jacobite Church ( Oriental Orthodox ): Patriarchal Party and Reform Party.

By the October 2003 National Convention, the Reform Party had only begun rebuilding, but several former state organizations had elected to rejoin now that the interference from the Freedom Parties was gone. They increased their ranks from 24 to 30 states, and managed to retrieve ballot access for seven of them.

By 1955, when the next Session of the Seventh Day Adventist Reform Movement General Conference convened under the auspices the USA registered association, delegates present represented " 9000 members ( 1000 less than in 1951 )".

By this time the attitude of many in the country had ceased to be apathetic regarding Reform.

By the 1850s, the Reform Party had dissipated: moderate reformers had joined with Tories in 1854 to form a Liberal-Conservative coalition government under the leadership of John A. Macdonald and George-Étienne Cartier.

By the time the election was called, however, only the Family Coalition Party and a large majority of Reform BC segments had remained in the BC Unity coalition.

By enacting ( relating to limitations on deductions for passive activity losses and limitations on passive activity credits ) to remove many tax shelters, especially for real estate investments, the Tax Reform Act of 1986 significantly decreased the value of many such investments which had been held more for their tax-advantaged status than for their inherent profitability.

The " Stand By Your Ad " provision ( SBYA ) of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act ( BCRA, also known as " McCain-Feingold "), enacted in 2002, requires candidates in the United States for federal political office, as well as interest groups and political parties supporting or opposing a candidate, to include in political advertisements on television and radio " a statement by the candidate that identifies the candidate and states that the candidate has approved the communication.