* " 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after 1996 was gradually replaced by " first-person shooter " By 1998 the phrase " first-person shooter " had firmly superseded " Doom clone "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 using the appropriate version any one of these factors can be determined for any combination of the other three.

Reports Jim Lendrum: `` By studying men on the job, we found that two men -- a carpenter and a helper -- can lay a floor faster than three.

By the time Barco reached the count of three, the situation seemed to Welch almost too good to be true.

By the time the film was released we were three million dollars over-spent, war was imminent and the public apparently had forgotten all about Mother Cabrini.

By rough estimate her Committee, headed by Henry Francis Du Pont, contains three times as many Republicans as Democrats.

By the time he had smoked three cigarettes he had calmed down.

By having three stations, a total of three different cars can be operated on at the same time, each one at a different stage of its assembly.

By age three, however, her mother changed her name to Elizabeth Sewall Alcott, after her own mother.

By his marriage to Euphrosyne Doukaina Kamatera Alexios had three daughters:

By his wife Eurydice, Amyntas had three sons, Alexander II, Perdiccas III and the youngest of whom was the famous Philip II of Macedon.

By his first wife, whose name is not known, he had three children:

By the early 5th century Britain had been Roman for over three hundred and fifty years.

By his advice Benedict became a hermit and for three years, unknown to men, lived in this cave above the lake.

By now Blenheim was under assault from every side by three English generals: Cutts, Churchill, and Orkney.

By 03: 00, after more than three hours of close quarter combat, Majestic had lost its main and mizzen masts while Tonnant was a dismasted hulk.

By 1781 three more societies had been established in Birmingham, with a fourth in the nearby town of Dudley ; and 19 more formed in Birmingham between 1782 and 1795.

Boroughs proliferated in the suburban areas of the larger cities: By the 1980s there were 19 boroughs and three cities in the area that is now the City of Auckland.

By the next day the Doge and the leading Franks were installed in the Great Palace, and the city was given over to pillage for three days.

By the Oligocene, all three subfamilies of canids ( Hesperocyoninae, Borophaginae, and Caninae ) had appeared in the fossil records of North America.

By 1604, Charles was three and a half and was by then able to walk the length of the great hall at Dunfermline Palace unaided.

By 1943 however, large numbers of fleet and light carriers became available, which required larger formations of three or four carriers.

By three years, infants will move further away from their mothers.

By the time of the national assembly elections in December 1992, only three had qualified.

By 1916 the three of them became the center of radical anti-art activities in the United States.