* " Hanging By His Hair " from the 1998 WORMWOOD album by The Residents recounts Absalom's defiance and death.

By summer 1998, Compaq was suffering from product-quality problems.

The phrase " Doom clone | Doom clone " was initially popular to describe the style of gameplay in Doom-like games, but after 1996 was gradually replaced by " first-person shooter " By 1998 the phrase " first-person shooter " had firmly superseded " Doom clone "

By 1998, he was ready to retire from the group and focus full-time on raising African black ostriches on his farm.

By 1998 Star Trek TV shows, movies, books, videotapes, and licensing provided so much of the studio's profit that " it is not possible to spend any reasonable amount of time at Paramount and not be aware of presence "; filming for Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine required up to nine of the largest of the studio's 36 sound stages.

By early 1998, the punk revival had commercially stalled, but not for long.

By 1994, sales of CD-i systems had begun to slow, and in 1998 the product line was dropped.

By January 1998, the government had shut down a third of Korea's merchant banks.

By 1998, simultaneous with Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Đukanović coming out on top in the power struggle with Montenegrin President Momir Bulatović, the republic undertook a different economic policy by adopting the Deutsche Mark as its currency.

By December 1998, Singapore ONE is available nationwide with the completion of the national fibre optics network.

By 1998, the economic crisis had grown even worse.

By 1998, Petersen was an established Hollywood director, with the power to both re-release his classic Das Boot in a new director's cut and to helm star-studded action-thrillers.

By 1998, however, output of copper had fallen to a low of 228, 000 tonnes, continuing a 30-year decline in output due to lack of investment, and until recently, low copper prices and uncertainty over privatization.

By 1998, UPI had fewer than 250 employees and 12 offices.

By 1998 its user base had almost completely evaporated, being replaced by other web browsers.

By November 1998, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley, and Mena Suvari had been cast in the parts — in Birch's case, despite the fact she was underage for her nude scene.

By 1998, Sega's 128-bit console, the Dreamcast, could produce 3D graphics on-par with arcade machines at the time.

By 1998 Printronix pushed the speed to 1000 LPM.

" By 1998 it had sold more than 50 million copies.

By January 1998, the WWF began broadcasting more violence, swearing, and more edgy angles in its attempt to compete with WCW.

By 1998, 42 Charters had been published, and they included services provided by public service industries such as the health service and the railways, as well as by the civil service.

By the end, only one composer, Elizabeth Parker, remained and the Workshop closed in March 1998.

By the end of 2002, the economy had contracted by 20 % since 1998.

By 1998, more than fifteen million people had downloaded the program.

By mid-1942, the Allies began to regroup and while some Allied aircraft such as the Brewster Buffalo and the P-39 were hopelessly outclassed by fighters like Japan's Zero, others such as the Army's P-40 and the Navy's Wildcat possessed attributes such as superior firepower, ruggedness and dive speed, and the Allies soon developed tactics ( such as the Thach weave ) to take advantage of these strengths.

By 1990 Japan's interaction with the vast majority of Asia-Pacific countries, especially its burgeoning economic exchanges, was multifaceted and increasingly important to the recipient countries.

By 1905, Taiwan was financially self-sufficient and had been weaned off of subsidies from Japan's central government.

By the mid-1930s as Japan's empire was reaching its zenith, the colonial government began a political socialization program designed to enforce Japanese customs, rituals and a loyal Japanese identity upon the aborigines.

By leasing Liaodong and railway concessions, Russia crashed its Sphere of Influence squarely into Japan's.

By the late 1930s, it included most of Japan's warships — only the base units, the Special Naval Landing Forces, and the China Area Fleet lay outside the Combined Fleet.

By then, Japan's industrial output had dropped and production levels were limited.

By the first two decades of the 20th century, " Korea " began to be seen more frequently than " Corea "-a change that coincided with Japan's consolidation of its grip over the peninsula.

By the beginning of the 1960s Japan's economy was gearing up ; wages were rising and the idea of family motoring was taking off.

By 1991, it had fallen to 15, 000, signifying the end of Japan's famed " bubble economy ".

By the start of World War II, the Big Four zaibatsu alone had direct control over more than 30 % of Japan's mining, chemical, metals industries and almost 50 % control of the machinery and equipment market, a significant part of the foreign commercial merchant fleet and 60 % of the commercial stock exchange.

By the end of the Second World War in 1945, the " heavy " bomber, epitomized by the British Avro Lancaster and American B-32 used in the Pacific Theater, showed what could be accomplished by area bombing of Japan's cities and the often small and dispersed factories within them.

By the late years of the Shōwa period, Japan's economy was the second largest in the world after the United States.

By 1980, many Japanese products, particularly automobiles and electronics, were being exported around the world, and Japan's industrial sector was the second-largest in the world after the U. S. This growth pattern continued unabated despite recession in the 1990s.

By the end of 1942 the Allied navies had overcome most of the technological edges Japan's ships and planes had held at the start of the war.

By late 1943 Japan's ' outer ' defensive ring had been thoroughly punctured, with the U. S. fleet working its way over or past such strongholds in their steady progression across the Central Pacific islands.

By that point in the war, most of Japan's merchant fleet had already been sunk, but Street went into shallow water close to shore and found several ships.

By now, their popularity had reached the point to which they would headline the Tokyo Dome, Japan's largest indoor live venue titled Lunatic Tokyo.

By the end of the war, only 12 % of Japan's pre-war merchant tonnage was still afloat.

By 1970 half of world's and 80 % of Japan's steel output was produced in oxygen converters.

By 1960, as conditions improve on second and third class trains, there were few passengers travelling on first class ; therefore, the few remaining first class carriages were rebranded " special " carriages available for hire, and consequently moved Japan's railway system to a two-class system, of which the original second class became the first, and the original third became second.

By the 1970s, however, with Japan enjoying a remarkable economic boom, Ōtsuka began to consider the ' feudal residues ' in a positive light, as a badge of Japan's distinctive difference from the West ( Ōtsuka, Kawashima, Doi 1976 passim ).

By age 21, she had earned a reputation as Japan's best dancer and maiko.

By July 16, the storm continued tracking west and became a threat to Taiwan and Japan's Sakishima Islands.