* " 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after 1996 was gradually replaced by " first-person shooter " By 1998 the phrase " first-person shooter " had firmly superseded " Doom clone "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, Japan's public works projects still could not stimulate demand enough to end the economy's stagnation.

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 2001, turnover from SAB plc's international operations accounted for 42 % of group turnover.

By Androgeneia of Phaestus he had Asterion, who commanded the Cretan contingent in the war between Dionysus and the Indians.

By the age of sixteen, Richard commanded his own army, putting down rebellions in Poitou against his father, King Henry II.

By the time the EEC was being phased into the European Union in 1993, that bloc's agricultural committees had announced their intention to eliminate preferred access of Windward Islands crops to the United Kingdom, which will cause considerable reduction in the prices which banana crops previously commanded.

By the end of the century structuralism was seen as an historically important school of thought, but the movements that it spawned, rather than structuralism itself, commanded attention.

By the time of Donal's death in the early 1560s, she commanded the loyalty of so many O ' Flaherty men that many of them left the area when she did, and followed her to Clare Island in Clew Bay, where she moved her headquarters.

By the summer Perot commanded a lead in the presidential race with thirty-nine percent of the vote.

By 16: 50, with the Prussian southern attacks in danger of breaking up, the Prussian 3rd Guards Infantry Brigade of the Second Army opened an attack against the French positions at St. Privat which were commanded by General Canrobert.

By early summer, Forrest commanded a new brigade of " green " cavalry regiments.

By 20 November 1499 Magnus hired the so-called Great or Black Guard of 6, 000 ruthless and violent mostly Dutch and East Frisian mercenaries, commanded by Thomas Slentz, prior operating in the County of Oldenburg.

By the time European powers were capable of sending ships to Chinese waters, Chinese isolationism had resulted in these developments being abandoned and forgotten, and construction halted on all but the smallest types of junks so that what they encountered were coastal defence ships comparable to European sloops and not the purported 137-metre-long ( 450 ft ) and 55-metre-wide ( 180 ft ) treasure ships Admiral Zheng He commanded.

By 1988, Nintendo commanded 83 % of the North American video game market share.

By a daring crossing of the Alps with his Army of the Reserve ( officially commanded by Louis Alexandre Berthier ) in mid-May 1800 almost before the passes were open, Napoleon ( who crossed on a mule ) had threatened Melas's lines of communications in northern Italy.

By 1755 Hyder Ali commanded 3, 000 infantry and 1, 500 cavalry, and was reported to be enriching himself on campaigns by plunder.

By June Rundstedt commanded 25 divisions.

By World War I he had attained the rank of General, and commanded a brigade on the western front.

By mid-January 1500 John hired the Black Guard of ruthless and violent Dutch and East Frisian mercenaries, commanded by Thomas Slentz, prior operating for Magnus, vicegerent in the Land of Hadeln.

By the end of 1944, Eisenhower, through SHAEF, commanded three powerful Allied army groups.

By 1943, he commanded a Tiger, and by the Battle of Kursk ( Operation Citadel ), he was a platoon leader.

By June the opposition of Vergniaud ( whose voice still commanded the country ) to the king rose to fever pitch.

By the end of 1952, the Royal Lao Army had grown to include a battalion of troops commanded by Laotian officers, as well as 17 other companies.

By April, 1953, the Viet Minh's People's Army of Vietnam ( PAVN ) invaded northeastern Laos with 40, 000 troops commanded by General Vo Nguyen Giap ; included was a token force of 2, 000 Pathet Lao led by Souphanouvong.

By November the rebels were pushed back to the strategic southern port of Jacmel ; the defence was commanded by Pétion.

By this time, the James River Squadron, commanded by John Randolph Tucker, had arrived and joined Virginia in the attack on Congress.

By July he commanded a brigade and by September he was a brigadier general.

By that time Brazil had also sent a Naval Force, the Naval Division in War Operations ( DNOG ), commanded by Pedro Max Frontin to join the Allies ' Naval Forces in the Mediterranean.