* " 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after 1996 was gradually replaced by " first-person shooter " By 1998 the phrase " first-person shooter " had firmly superseded " Doom clone "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 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 gathering turn cards from a number of players and processing them all at the same time, games can provide simultaneous actions for all players.

By passing several simultaneous connections through an existing copper wire, capacity could be upgraded without the laying of new cable, a process which remained very costly.

By using an internal forwarding plane much faster than any interface, they give the impression of simultaneous paths among multiple devices.

In 2007, the label celebrated its 60th anniversary with the May 2 PBS broadcast of the American Masters documentary Atlantic Records: The House that Ahmet Built and the simultaneous Starbucks CD release of Atlantic 60th Anniversary: R & B Classics Chosen By Ahmet Ertegun.

By alternating the faster and slower burning explosives in a carefully calculated spherical configuration, they would produce a compressive wave upon their simultaneous detonation.

By executing the loop fast enough, typically many times per second, the effect of simultaneous and immediate execution is relatively achieved to within the tolerance of the time required to execute every rung in the " loop " ( the " scan time ").

By late 1991 MTS at UM was running on an IBM ES / 9000-720 supporting over 600 simultaneous terminal sessions and from 3 to 8 batch jobs.

By the Framingham criteria, diagnosis of congestive heart failure ( heart failure with impaired pumping capability ) requires the simultaneous presence of at least 2 of the following major criteria or 1 major criterion in conjunction with 2 of the following minor criteria:

By the late 1990s and into the 2000s, the simultaneous substitution regulation had reached its full potential, with Canadian broadcast networks airing almost all of their US-purchased programming in sync with the US network's broadcast to ensure maximum eligibility to request substitution.

By comparison, the Sun Microsystems SPARC architecture provides simultaneous visibility into four sets of eight registers each.

By making simultaneous measurements at the two different frequencies, the resulting data enabled theoretical physicists to verify the mathematical predictions of Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.

By using receivers and transmitters tuned to different frequencies, and solving the problems introduced by operation of a receiver immediately next to a transmitter, simultaneous transmission and reception was possible at each end of a radio link, in so-called " full duplex " mode.

By definition, a hermaphroditic connector includes mating surfaces having simultaneous male and female aspects, involving complementary paired identical parts each containing both protrusions and indentations.

By age twenty-three, she had beaten Rudolf Spielmann twice in simultaneous competition and turned chess professional.

By mid-1971 the TENEX implementation of NLS was put into service as the new Network Information Center, but even this computer could only handle a small number of simultaneous users.

By the summer of 1970, groups in at least eight American cities were sufficiently organized to schedule simultaneous events commemorating the Stonewall riots for the last Sunday in June.

By dividing the whole population in two subpopulations, faster genetic progress can be achieved in both traits compared to simultaneous selection in the whole population.