The term alphasyllabary was suggested for the Indic scripts in 1997 by William Bright, following South Asian linguistic usage, to convey the idea that " they share features of both alphabet and syllabary ".

All churches apart from the Armenian Apostolic Church must register with the government, and proselytizing was forbidden by law, though since 1997 the government has pursued more moderate policies.

A liberal foreign investment law was approved in June 1994, and a Law on Privatization was adopted in 1997, as well as a program on state property privatization.

This was the first $ 50 coin issued by the U. S. Mint and no higher was produced until the production of the $ 100 platinum coins in 1997.

Ozanam was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1997.

The 1899 act mentioned above was replaced in 1997 — until then the government had stated there were no ethnic minority groups.

It was discovered only as recently as 1997.

By 1997, the refinery reached the same rate of production it was at before the war.

Like his mother, neither he nor Christine sought a divorce for the next thirty years and it was only in 1997 that they formally divorced ; Ayckbourn married Heather Stoney.

Arbor Day reached its height of popularity on its 125th anniversary in 1997, when David J. Wright, noticed that a Nebraska nonprofit organization called the National Arbor Day Foundation had taken the name of the holiday and commercialized it for their own use as a trademark for their publication " Arbor Day ," so he countered their efforts, launched a website, and trademarked it for " public use celebrations " and defended the matter in a federal district court in the United States to ensure it was judged as property of the public domain, the case was settled in October 1999.

Esquisse d ’ un Programme was published in the two-volume proceedings Geometric Galois Actions ( Cambridge University Press, 1997 ).

In New York, the New Normannii Reik of Theodish Belief was founded in 1997 and is led by Dan Halloran, but in 2009 many members split off and formed the Arfstoll Church of Theodish Belief, White Marsh Theod, and Álfröðull þjóð.

In a 1997 open letter to Ms. magazine she expressed displeasure that what she considers a way to ensure her own artistic freedom was seen by others solely in terms of its financial success.

In 2001, it achieved high rankings in the annual Maclean's University Rankings, including Best Overall for Primarily Undergraduate University in their opinion survey, and it received the Canadian Information Productivity Award in 1997 as it was praised as the first university in Canada to fully utilize information technology in the undergraduate curriculum.

FIC demonstrated the first Socket 7 AGP system board in November 1997 as the FIC PA-2012 based on the VIA Apollo VP3 chipset, followed very quickly by the EPoX P55-VP3 also based on the VIA VP3 chipset which was first to market.

The first Windows NT-based operating system to receive AGP support was Windows NT 4. 0 with service pack 3, introduced in 1997.

She is a Privy Councillor and was the Member of Parliament for Maidstone from 1987 to 1997 and for Maidstone and The Weald from 1997 to 2010.

She was first elected to the House of Commons in the 1987 general election as member for the constituency of Maidstone ( which became Maidstone and The Weald in 1997 ).

After she covered the 10cc song " The Things We Do For Love " for the Mr. Wrong soundtrack, Behind the Eyes was released in September 1997.

The organization was formed in December 1997 to " provide IP registration services as an independent, nonprofit corporation.

The first president of ARIN was Kim Hubbard, from 1997 until 2000.

Stanley B. Prusiner of the University of California, San Francisco ( UCSF ) was awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1997 for his discovery of prions.

Billboard magazine awarded him their Century Award, their " highest honor for distinguished creative achievement ", in December 1997.

In 1997 he was awarded the Lemelson-MIT Prize of $ 500, 000, the world's largest single prize for invention and innovation, and the ACM Turing Award.

Doraemon was awarded the first Shogakukan Manga Award for children's manga in 1982, and the first Osamu Tezuka Culture Award in 1997.

In 1997, it was awarded the first Osamu Tezuka Culture Award.

Sinatra was honored at the Kennedy Center Honors in 1983 and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Ronald Reagan in 1985 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 1997.

United Nations Environment Programme awarded Greenpeace for " outstanding contributions to the protection of the Earth's ozone layer " in 1997.

They were awarded an Ivor Novello Award for " Outstanding Contribution to British Music " in 1977, as well as a " Lifetime Achievement Award " at the 42nd Annual Ivor Novello awards ceremony in 1997.

Later, part of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Paul D. Boyer and John E. Walker for their clarification of the working mechanism of ATP synthase.

Three researchers at NIST have been awarded Nobel Prizes for their work in Physics: William D. Phillips in 1997, Eric A. Cornell in 2001, John L. Hall in 2005, which is the largest number for any US government laboratory.

In 1997 Nashville was awarded an NHL expansion team which was subsequently named the Nashville Predators.

Prusiner was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1997 for his research into prions.

Approaching free agency, Martínez was traded to the Boston Red Sox in November 1997 for Carl Pavano and Tony Armas, Jr., and was soon signed to a six-year, $ 75, 000, 000 contract ( with an option for a seventh at $ 17 million ) by Red Sox general manager Dan Duquette, at the time the largest ever awarded to a pitcher.

In 1997, his collaboration with Toshio Iwai, Music Plays Images X Images Play Music, was awarded the Golden Nica, the grand prize of the Prix Ars Electronica competition.

In 1997, Waits and Brennan wrote and performed the music for Bunny the animated short film by 20th Century Fox's Blue Sky Studios, which was awarded Best Animated Short Film by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

In 1997, White was posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.

In 1997 he was awarded the Silver Slate for Dear Grandma Bunny, a book where Miffy's Grandmother was sick and died.

Aykroyd also received a dubious honour in 1997, when the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal awarded him the Snuffed Candle award, for " contributing to the public's lack of understanding of the methods of scientific inquiry.

He was knighted in 1997 and in 2002 received the £ 1 million Templeton Prize, awarded for exceptional contributions to affirming life's spiritual dimension.

He was awarded the AIA Gold Medal in 1997.

Three years later Binoche gained further acclaim in Anthony Minghella's The English Patient ( 1996 ), for which she was awarded an Academy Award and a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress in addition to the Best Actress Award at the 1997 Berlin Film Festival.

In 1996 and 1997, the SSI Pro Tour staged eight televised events in both North America and Europe with $ 36, 000 in cash prizes awarded to freefly teams.

The Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet has awarded Kent with 11 Rockbjörnen awards, including the prestigious " Award for best effort in Sweden for Swedish music " in 1997.

In 1997, he was posthumously awarded the Windsor McCay Award by ASIFA-Hollywood, the United States chapter of the International Animated Film Society ASIFA ( Association internationale du film d ' animation ).

Also in 1997, Rossellini was awarded The George Eastman Award.