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In 1996, Watson joined the World Bank as Senior Scientific adviser in the Environment Department, became Director of the Environment Department and Head of the Environment Sector Board in 1997 and is currently the Chief Scientist and Senior Adviser for Sustainable Development.
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Watson would leave the Astros after the 1995 season to become general manager of the New York Yankees and helped to lead the Yankees to a World Championship in 1996.
Von Trier's next film, Breaking the Waves ( 1996 ), the first film in von Trier's ' Golden Heart Trilogy ', won the Grand Prix at Cannes and featured Emily Watson, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
The structure of DNA was determined in 1953 by James Watson, Francis Crick, Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins, following by developing techniques which allow to read DNA sequences and culminating in starting the Human Genome Project ( not finished in the 20th century ) and cloning the first mammal in 1996.
* John S. Watson ( 1924 – 1996 ), African-American Democratic Party politician in New Jersey
* Johnny " Guitar " Watson ( 1935 – 1996 ), American blues guitarist
* Harry Watson ( cyclist ) ( 1904 – 1996 ), New Zealand cyclist
* Paul Watson, Ocean Warrior: My Battle to End the Illegal Slaughter on the High Seas ( 1994 ; Key Porter Books, 1996 ).
* David Watson / Jim Denley / Rik Rue / Amanda Stewart / Ikue Mori-Bit-Part Actor ( CD ), Braille Records, 1996
* E. T. Whittaker and G. N. Watson A Course of Modern Analysis, ( 1940, 1996 ) Cambridge University Press.
Fentie was first elected MLA for Watson Lake in the 1996 election as a member of Yukon New Democratic Party, succeeding retiring incumbent John Devries.
The asymmetry was described as “ robust and quite general ” ( Jones, 1976, p. 304 ), “ firmly established ” ( Watson, 1982, p. 698 ), and “ an entrenched part of scientific psychology ” ( Robins, Spranca, & Mendelsohn, 1996, p. 376 ).
Since emigrating to the U. S. in 1996 he has been working for the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York State.
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Breaking the Waves is a 1996 film directed by Lars von Trier and starring Emily Watson.
Breaking the Waves won the Grand Prix at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival, and three awards at the 1996 European Film Awards including: Film of the Year, International Film Journalists Award, and European Actress of the Year ( Watson ).
Emily Watson was nominated for the 1996 Academy Award for Best Actress, the 1997 British Academy of Film and Television Arts award, the National Society of Film Critics prize, and the European Film Award for Best Actress.
He was traded to the Giants after the 1996 season for left-handed pitcher Allen Watson and minor league pitcher Fausto Macey.
In that year, he became Deputy Permanent U. S. Representative to the United Nations, holding this post until 1993, when Watson was appointed Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs by President Bill Clinton, retiring at the end of Clinton's first term in 1996.
In 1996 Watson co-founded Caldwell Watson Real Estate Group and was a Principal.
Watson captained Everton to sixth place in 1996, but the following season they were struggling again and manager Joe Royle resigned in March 1997, with Watson taking over as manager for the final few weeks of the season and overseeing Everton's Premier League survival as they finished 15th.
Watson was appointed Everton manager in March 1997 for the remainder of the 1996 / 97 season following the resignation of Joe Royle, but reverted to his playing duties in June 1997 when Howard Kendall was appointed manager for the third and final time.
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Mozambique is an exception-although English is widely spoken there, it is a former Portuguese colony which joined the Commonwealth in 1996.
By 1996, other engineers had joined in, because it was clear that Cygwin would be a useful way to provide Cygnus ' embedded tools hosted on Windows systems ( the previous strategy had been to use DJGPP ).
In Iran, the Community of Kabaddi was formed in 1996, in same year they joined the Asian Kabaddi Federation and in 2001 they joined the International Kabaddi Federation.
Similarly, in early 1996 Mozambique joined its Anglophone neighbors in the Commonwealth.
" In 1994, Stephenson joined with his uncle, J. Frederick George, to publish a political thriller, Interface, under the pen name " Stephen Bury "; they followed this in 1996 with The Cobweb.
After the 1996 season, Clemens left Boston via free agency and joined the Toronto Blue Jays.
The government also carried out substantial financial and economical reforms, joined the OECD in 1996, but met crisis with political and financial scandals.
In 1996 Switzerland joined NATO's Partnership for Peace, the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council in 1997, and deployed Yellow Berets to support the OSCE in Bosnia.
He moved to Moscow in 1996 and joined president Boris Yeltsin's administration where he rose quickly, becoming acting President on 31 December 1999 when Yeltsin resigned unexpectedly.
On February 27, 1996, Gretzky joined the St. Louis Blues in a trade for Patrice Tardif, Roman Vopat, Craig Johnson, and two draft picks ( Peter Hogan and Matt Zultek ).
Mani joined Primal Scream as bassist in 1996 and has remained in the band.
A split from the PPI, the United Christian Democrats ( CDU ), joined Forza Italia and the CCD in the centre-right Pole of Freedoms coalition ( later becoming the Pole for Freedoms ), while the PPI was a founding member of The Olive Tree centre-left coalition in 1996.
In 1996, the Wildlife Conservation Society joined forces with CABI to institute wildlife and hunting monitoring programs in 23 Izoceño communities.
For 22 years, he was a panellist in the long-running BBC Radio 4 panel comedy game show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue which he joined as a regular team member from the third series in 1974, and continued until death in 1996.
It joined the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) in 1996.
On 30 July 1996, for a world transfer record-breaking £ 15 million Shearer joined his hometown club and league runners-up Newcastle United, managed by his hero Kevin Keegan.
Narrowly losing her seat, she joined the Liberal Party of Australia and was endorsed as the Liberal Party's candidate for the House of Representatives electorate of Oxley ( based in Ipswich ) for the March 1996 Federal election.
Before forming the Mountain West Conference, seven of the eight charter members had been longtime members of the Western Athletic Conference ; half were WAC charter members at its formation in 1962-UNLV had only joined the WAC in 1996.
In 1996, Fairfield and Ursinus joined as associate members in field hockey.
Steven Tyler and Joe Perry joined the band onstage at a 1996 show in Madison Square Garden for renditions of the Aerosmith songs " Sweet Emotion " and " Lick & A Promise.
Brazil's largest party, the centrist Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement ( PMDB ), joined Cardoso's governing coalition after the election, as did the right-wing PPB, the Brazilian Progressive Party, in 1996.
Purple horseshoes joined the roster in 1984, followed by red balloons in 1989, rainbows in 1992, pots of gold in 1994, leprechaun hats in 1996 ( temporarily replaced the green clovers ), orange shooting stars in 1998 ( added blue, green, yellow, purple, and red in 2011.
On January 30, 1996, he joined the Phillies, where he became the first player to hit a grand slam off Greg Maddux in the regular season after Maddux had been pitching for nearly ten years.
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