* " 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after 1996 was gradually replaced by " first-person shooter " By 1998 the phrase " first-person shooter " had firmly superseded " Doom clone "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 maintaining the nuclear deterrent, but gearing American military forces to fight conventional wars too, Secretary of State Rusk junks bluff and nuclear brinkmanship and builds more muscle and greater safety into our military position.

By this standard, it is determined that where two stations operating on the same frequency are involved, objectionable interference from station A exists at any point within the service area of station B where station A's signal is of an intensity one-twentieth or more of the strength of station B's signal at that point.

By sharing the load of important speeches with his colleagues, the president can develop a cadre of able spokesmen who will help to create a public perception of the university as an institution, something more than the lengthened shadow of one man.

By this time Henri's entire chest-back-lat-shoulder area is pumped-up to almost bursting point, and Claude takes time to do a bit more pectoral-front deltoid shaping work.

By contrast, even experienced linguists commonly know no more of the range of possibilities in tone systems than the over-simple distinction between register and contour languages.

) By its greater corporeal presence and its greater extraneousness, the affixed paper or cloth serves for a seeming moment to push everything else into a more vivid idea of depth than the simulated printing or simulated textures had ever done.

By the spring of 1863, he was ready to recruit black troops in more than token numbers.

By reducing detail in one direction more than another, these effects can be reduced.

The largest species are red alder ( A. rubra ) on the west coast of North America, and black alder ( A. glutinosa ), native to most of Europe and widely introduced elsewhere, both reaching over 30 m. By contrast, the widespread Alnus viridis ( green alder ) is rarely more than a 5 m tall shrub.

By late 1053 Ealdred was once more in royal favour.

By the 1950s, the development of civil jets grew, beginning with the de Havilland Comet, though the first widely-used passenger jet was the Boeing 707, because it was much more economical than other planes at the time.

By the end of the book, Paul realizes that he no longer knows what to do with himself and decides that he has nothing more to lose.

By the 5th century AD, Rome was in decline and the Roman predecessor town of Alicante, known as Lucentum ( Latin ), was more or less under the control of the Visigothic warlord Theudimer.

By the 1960s, more citizens worked in service industries or for the canton-level government than in manufacturing.

By contrast, in an inquisitiorial system, the fact that the defendant has confessed is merely one more fact that is entered into evidence, and a confession by the defendant does not remove the requirement that the prosecution present a full case.

By opening the stop wider, similar deviations arise for lateral points as have been already discussed for axial points ; but in this case they are much more complicated.

By 1970, LAFTA expanded to include four more Latin American nations: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela.

By having separate units, it was possible to operate on more than one floating point instruction at once.

By 1818, the Sadozai rulers who succeeded Ahmad Shah controlled little more than Kabul and the surrounding territory within a 160-kilometer radius.

Zinc metal was also becoming more commonplace By 1513 metallic zinc ingots from India and China were arriving in London and pellets of zinc condensed in furnace flues at the Rammelsberg in Germany were exploited for cementation brass making from around 1550.

By contrast, in mainstream Analytical philosophy the topic is more confined to abstract investigation, in the work of such influential theorists as W. V. O. Quine, to name one of many.

By the time the army had expanded to over 200, 000 men with hundreds of thousands of more reserve troops.

By lowering the activation energy, the enzyme speeds up that reaction by a rate of 10 < sup > 11 </ sup > or more: a reaction that would normally take over 3, 000 years to complete spontaneously might take less than a second with an enzyme.

By World War II, the use of the smaller divisions, platoons and companies, became much more important as precise operations became vital.

By making these data available to local public health officials in real time, most models of anthrax epidemics indicate that more than 80 % of an exposed population can receive antibiotic treatment before becoming symptomatic, and thus avoid the moderately high mortality of the disease.