Amateurs are serious about the work they do, providing outstanding examples of contributions to society ( Stebbins, 1992 ).

But whereas professionals obtain licenses as their “ measurability of the excellence of service provided ” ( Stebbins, 1992, p. 21 ), amateurs break taboos by loving their work and not passing standardized tests.

Advanced power management ( APM ) is an API developed by Intel and Microsoft and released in 1992 which enables an operating system running an IBM-compatible personal computer to work with the BIOS ( part of the computer's firmware ) to achieve power management.

The previous record, 13, 200 cubic metres poured in 54 hours despite a severe tropical storm requiring the site to be covered with tarpaulins to allow work to continue, was achieved in 1992 by joint Japanese and South Korean consortiums Hazama Corporation and the Samsung C & T Corporation for the construction of the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

* A Guide to Jewish Religious Practice: Official work on Jewish law, by Isaac Klein, 1992

Leading contemporary composer Philip Glass described Low as " a work of genius " in 1992, when he used it as the basis for his Symphony No. 1 " Low "; subsequently, Glass used Bowie's next album as the basis for his 1996 Symphony No. 4 " Heroes ".

In 1990 additional observations were published that supported the existence of the planet orbiting Gamma Cephei, but subsequent work in 1992 again raised serious doubts.

Awareness in the United States of the conflict in Guatemala, and its ethnic dimension, increased with the 1983 publication of the " testimonial " account I, Rigoberta Menchú ; Rigoberta Menchú was later awarded the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize for her work in favor of broader social justice.

His work with Body Count, whose 1992 debut album Marrow described as a " rock album with a rap mentality ", is described as paving the way for the success of rap rock fusions by bands like Kid Rock and Limp Bizkit ; however, Marrow states that the band's style does not fuse the two genres, and is solely a rock band.

* 1992 Botham was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE ) for services to cricket and for his charity work in the Queen's Birthday Honours.

Spacey would later work with Lemmon in Dad ( 1989 ), the critically acclaimed film Glengarry Glen Ross ( 1992 ) and on stage in a revival of Long Day's Journey Into Night.

* In 1992, shortly thereafter, engineers at Hitachi work out various practical details of the IPS technology to interconnect the thin-film transistor array as a matrix and to avoid undesirable stray fields in between pixels ( Abstract ).

Malawians were viewed as important workers in the South African mines due to their " skills, work discipline and lack of militancy " From 1988 to 1992, around 13, 000 Malawian migrant laborers were forcefully repatriated out of South Africa.

These aircraft were reinforced in 1992 by a single twin turbo prop Pliatus / BN BN-2T Maritime Defender for coastal patrol work.

* Intron Depot 1 ( 1992 ) ( science fiction – themed color illustration art book collecting his work from 1981 to 1991 )

By winning the award of " The Best New Coming Director " with his first feature film, Balcony, at Ankara Film Festival in 1992, Altioklar drew the attention of Turkish film industry to his work.

The historical data is derived from the work done by United States scholar Nicholas Eberstadt and demographer Judith Banister in 1992.

In 1992, the IUPAC-IUPAP Transfermium Working Group ( TWG ) assessed the claims of discovery and concluded that only the Dubna work from 1966 correctly detected and assigned decays to Z = 102 nuclei at the time.

* The most important work by Paul S. Fiddes is The Creative Suffering of God ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992 ); see also his short overview " Process Theology ," in A. E. McGrath, ed., The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Modern Christian Thought ( Oxford: Blackwell, 1993 ), 472 – 76.

This sequence was published in the first issue of the journal Nature Genetics in 1992 in work that is highly cited.

His work was exhibited in the United States in New York in 1936 and again in that city in two retrospective exhibitions, one at the Museum of Modern Art in 1965, and the other at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1992.

It commenced work on 27 August 1992 with both President Rene and Mr. Mancham calling for national reconciliation and consensus on a new democratic Constitution.

In 1992 he became the first Mexican ever to win the Eisner Award for his work in Groo the Wanderer, along Mark Evanier.

Their 1992 album Nonsuch ( named after Henry VIII's fabled palace ), united them with UK producer Gus Dudgeon, known for his 1970s work with Elton John and drummer Dave Mattacks ( Fairport Convention ).

For her work as the character, Smith received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance in 1992.

* " Lip Service " ( song ), a 1992 song by Wet Wet Wet

In April 1992 Bowie appeared at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, following the Queen frontman's death the previous year.

The term " evidence-based medicine " first appeared in the medical literature in 1992 in a paper by Guyatt et al.

A live " best of " album, Saturday Night Live, appeared in 1992.

By the beginning of 1992, several proposals appeared and by the end of 1992, the IETF announced a call for white papers.

He appeared on television on one episode of Mad About Yous first season in 1992, playing an eccentric billionaire.

She was a choreographer for Whitney Houston's world tour from 1988 – 1992, and also appeared as a dancer in Natalie Cole's video for " Pink Cadillac " in 1988.

Doohan competed successfully throughout the early 1990s and appeared to be on his way to winning his first world championship when he was seriously injured in a practice crash before the 1992 Dutch TT.

In 1992, he appeared as himself on Roger Waters's rock album Amused to Death, giving a mock commentary on the destruction of an oil rig on the song " Perfect Sense, Part II ".

As a testament to his national visibility during this time, Smith appeared in a 1992 episode of The Simpsons titled " Homer at the Bat ".

Between 1986 and 1992, a spin-off strip appeared at the end called Roger the Dodger's Dodge Clinic.

She later appeared in several films, such as Love Potion No. 9 ( 1992 ), The Thing Called Love ( 1993 ) and Fire on the Amazon.

The Band appeared at Bob Dylan's 30th anniversary concert celebration in New York City in October 1992, where they performed their version of Dylan's " When I Paint My Masterpiece ".

Instead, it was released as a B-side of the " Go Your Own Way " single, and would remain in some obscurity until it appeared on the four-disc Fleetwood Mac retrospective 25 Years – The Chain in 1992.

A special glyph in the script, the Soyombo, became a national symbol of Mongolia, and has appeared on the national flag since 1921, and on the national coat of arms since 1992, as well as money, stamps, etc.

She first appeared in the 1992 film Buffy the Vampire Slayer before going on to appear in the television series and subsequent comic book of the same name.

Throughout the 1990s, Hoffman appeared in many large, studio films, such as Dick Tracy ( 1990 ) ( where his Ishtar co-star Beatty plays the titular character ), Hero ( 1992 ) and Billy Bathgate ( 1991 ) co-starring with Nicole Kidman who was nominated for a Golden Globe ).

On February 20, 1992, he appeared on CNN's Larry King Live and announced his intention to run as an independent if his supporters could get his name on the ballot in all fifty states.

She also appeared in Woody Allen's Alice ( 1990 ), and Eugene Levy's Once Upon a Crime ( 1992 ), as well as several television films.

She appeared in two Harrison Ford films, Patriot Games ( 1992 ) and its sequel, Clear and Present Danger ( 1994 ), where she played Sally Ryan, the daughter of Ford's character Jack Ryan.

In 1992 he made his first appearance at the UK's Glastonbury Festival and in 1993 he appeared as himself on episodes of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and The Simpsons.

Miffy appeared in her first TV show in 1992, called Miffy.

" which appeared in the Washington City Paper on 3 July 1992 ( pp. 12 – 13 ), one of the seismologists, Jim Mori, noted: " We can't tell anything about the vehicle.

On 5 January 1992, Dirk Gently, Richard MacDuff, Dirk's secretary, and the Electric Monk all appeared in the Douglas Adams episode of the British arts documentary series The South Bank Show.

On March 4, 1992 he appeared on his own MTV Unplugged, offering renditions of many of his most famous compositions.