By the mid-1990s, however, companies were beginning to ask what the return was on the investment they had made in this loosely controlled PC software buying spree.

By the mid-1990s, Compaq's price war had enabled it to overtake IBM and Apple, while other IBM PC Compatible manufacturers such as Packard Bell and AST were driven from the market.

By the mid-1990s, Ghana Airways operated international scheduled passenger and cargo service to numerous European, Middle Eastern, and African destinations, including London, Düsseldorf, Rome, Abidjan, Dakar, Lagos, Lomé, and Johannesburg.

By the mid-1990s, McLane ( like McMullen before him ) wanted his team out of the Astrodome and was asking the city to build the Astros a new stadium.

By the mid-1990s, an estimated 60 % of the republic's pastureland was in various stages of desertification.

By the mid-1990s, work on microkernel systems was largely dead, despite the market generally believing that all modern operating systems would be microkernel based by the 1990s.

By the mid-1990s, Hart was running Project Gutenberg from Illinois Benedictine College.

By the mid-1990s, SANS evolved into a more commercial format offering events which combined training with tradeshows and vendor-oriented marketing.

By the mid-1990s, such issues had become a key concern of all opposition groups and a cause of growing concern among the population as a whole.

By the mid-1990s cappuccino was made much more widely available to North Americans, as upscale coffee houses sprang up.

By the mid-1990s, many ski hills were dominated by boarders, and their ability to do stunts in terrain parks.

By the mid-1990s, Telluride had shed both its mining personality and drug image to establish itself as a premier resort town balancing modern culture with fascinating western history.

By the mid-1990s, a new movement emerged called heroin chic.

By the mid-1990s, reports surfaced of sightings of unidentified aircraft flying over California and the United Kingdom involving odd-shaped contrails, sonic booms and related phenomena that suggested the US had developed such an aircraft.

By the mid-1990s, inkjet technology had surpassed dot-matrix in the mainstream market.

By the mid-1990s, some x86 CPUs had achieved performance on a parity with RISC in some areas, such as integer performance ( albeit at the cost of greater chip complexity ), relegating the latter to even more high-end markets for the most part.

By the mid-1990s, Bishop's art had long been out of print.

By the mid-1990s, Jefferson Parish was exhibiting some of the symptoms presented by inner-ring suburbs throughout the United States.

By the mid-1990s Lovett Library was showing its age, and it was furthermore not compliant with the Americans for Disabilities Act.

By the mid-1990s the Wall Street Journal described Kerrville as one of the wealthiest small towns in America.

By the mid-1990s, the town lost its status as the primary alcohol stop in the county as other nearby communities began to repeal their Blue laws.

By the mid-1990s, WLS had such low ratings that management seriously considered going back to its classic rock format.

By the mid-1990s, he was not only addicted to cocaine and crack, but also heroin, which he often smoked along with marijuana.

By the mid-1990s he had his first solo museum exhibition at the Kunsthalle Bern in Switzerland, which traveled to Paris.

By the 1960s, as VFL clubs increasingly recruited the best players from other states, they began to dominate the competition and the last match was played in 1976, with North Adelaide being the last non-Victorian winner in 1972.

By the mid 1970s, born again Christians were increasingly referred to in the mainstream media as part of the born again movement.

By 1951, the Attlee government was looking increasingly exhausted, with several of its most important ministers ailing or having died.

By the mid-20th century, it was increasingly clear to historians that the notion of " changeless China " was untenable.

By the time Gorbachev ushered in the process that would lead to the dismantling of the Soviet administrative command economy through his programs of glasnost ( political openness ), uskoreniye ( speed-up of economic development ) and perestroika ( political and economic restructuring ) announced in 1986, the Soviet economy suffered from both hidden inflation and pervasive supply shortages aggravated by an increasingly open black market that undermined the official economy.

By 1940 the CCC was no longer wholly a relief agency, rapidly losing its non-military character, and becoming a system for work-training as its ranks had become increasingly younger, with life-inexperienced enrollees.

By the coming of the Age of Enlightenment, however, Erasmus increasingly returned to become a more widely respected cultural symbol and was hailed as an important figure by increasingly broad groups.

By 1952 Dafo's health had begun to decline, and she was increasingly wary of Gardner's publicity-seeking.

By the mid-eighties, bands began proliferating and became increasingly popular, including The Sisters of Mercy, The Mission ( known as The Mission UK in the US ), Alien Sex Fiend, The March Violets, Ausgang, Kommunity FK, Xmal Deutschland, Dead Can Dance, This Mortal Coil, The Bolshoi, and Fields of the Nephilim.

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 the time of Henry II, these posts were increasingly being filled by " new men " from outside the normal ranks of the barons.

By 1213, though, John was increasingly worried about the threat of French invasion.

By the 16th century Germanic dominance in the region was increasingly challenged by other powers.

By the mid-century the initial enthusiasm had somewhat diminished in both countries, although the use of lithography was increasingly favored for commercial applications, which included the great prints of Daumier, published in newspapers.

By the 1980s, financiers grew increasingly confident in the musical genre, partly buoyed by the relative health of the musical on Broadway and London's West End.

By the end of the 1970s, electronic musical devices were becoming increasingly common and affordable in North America, Europe and Japan.

By 1958, virtually all farming was being carried out collectively, and the co-operatives were increasingly merged into larger productive units.

By the 12th century, the peoples inhabiting the lands now known as Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania formed a pagan wedge between increasingly powerful rival Christian states – Greek Orthodox Church to their east and Catholic Church to their west.

By the late 1960s, the Nordschleife and many other tracks were becoming increasingly dangerous for the latest generation of F1 cars.

By this time, however, Panama ’ s importance and influence had become insignificant as Spain ’ s power dwindled in Europe and advances in navigation technique increasingly permitted to round Cape Horn in order to reach the Pacific.

By early 2011 Colombian authorities and news media reported that the FARC and the clandestine sister groups have partly shifted strategy from guerrilla warfare to ' a war of militias ', meaning that they are increasingly operating in civilian clothes while hiding amongst sympathizers in the civilian population.

By the early 1920s, however, the inherent limitations of this type of engine had rendered it obsolete, with the power output increasingly going into overcoming the air-resistance of the spinning engine itself.

By 2008, these state-owned corporations had become increasingly dynamic and generated large increases in revenue for the state, resulting in a state-sector led recovery during the 2009 financial crises while accounting for most of China's economic growth.

By the late 1980s, structural flaws within the Soviet system, growing economic problems, the rise of anti-communist sentiment and the effects of the Afghan war made it increasingly impractical for the Soviet Union to impose its will on its neighbors.