However, the situation has not returned to the pre-1968 level and the number of successful hijackings continues to be high-an average of 18 per annum during the 10-year period between 1988 and 1997, as against the pre-1968 average of five.

Telegames released a number of games in the second half of the 1990s, including a port of Raiden and a platformer called Fat Bobby in 1997, as well as an action sports game called Hyperdrome in 1999.

The Liberal Democrats could point to steady progress under Charles Kennedy, gaining more seats than the main two parties – albeit only six overall – and maintaining the performance of a pleasing 1997 election, where the party doubled its number of seats from 20 to 46.

The Weston Gallery of Roman Britain, opened in 1997, displayed a number of recently discovered hoards which demonstrated the richness of what had been considered an unimportant part of the Roman Empire.

While there is not a large body of academic work examining the relationship, Hironaka's statistical study found a correlation that suggests that every major international anti-secessionist declaration increased the number of ongoing civil wars by + 10 %, or a total + 114 % from 1945 to 1997.

They have appeared together in a number of films, including Edie & Pen ( 1996 ), American Perfekt ( 1997 ) and Let the Devil Wear Black ( 1999 ).

The crisis was precipitated by a number of external shocks, including the El Niño weather phenomenon in 1997, a sharp drop in global oil prices in 1997-98, and international emerging market instability in 1997-98.

After the 1997 publication of The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Raymond was for a number of years frequently quoted as an unofficial spokesman for the open source movement.

Kate Winslet, who has starred in a number of Hollywood films including 1997's Titanic ( 1997 film ) | Titanic.

The gun crime rate rose between 1997 and 2004 but has since slightly receded, while the number of murders from gun crime has largely remained static over the past decade.

In 1997, Jonathan Kingdon suggested that the Nubian giraffe was the most threatened of all giraffes ;, it may number fewer than 250, although this estimate is uncertain.

Once Galileo < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s prime mission was concluded, an extended mission followed, starting on December 7, 1997 ; the spacecraft made a number of daring close flybys of Jupiter's moons Europa and Io.

From 1997 a number of prominent members left.

The film is ranked number 45 on the American Film Institute's list of 100 Funniest Movies of all Time, and was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 1997 for being " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.

On October 16, 1997, Engdahl became a member of the Swedish Academy, elected to seat number 17 vacated by the death of Johannes Edfelt ; on June 1, 1999, he succeeded Sture Allén as the Academy's permanent secretary, i. e. its executive member and spokesperson.

The number of Scottish seats represented by Unionists ( known as Conservatives from 1965 onwards ) went into steady decline from 1959 onwards, until it fell to zero in 1997.

In 1997, Entertainment Weekly magazine named him the number one movie legend of all time.

According to the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs White Paper on Foreign Policy, there were 213, 000 Irish citizens living in Australia in 1997 ; nearly three times the number of Irish-born immigrants to the country.

High levels of economic growth from 1987 – 1997 masked a number of structural weaknesses in Indonesia's economy.

Irsay quickly replaced general manager Tobin with Bill Polian in 1997 as the team decided to build through their number one overall pick in the 1998 draft.

In 1997, Major League Baseball " universally " retired his uniform number, 42, across all major league teams ; the first pro athlete in any sport to be so honored.

On April 15, 1997, Robinson's jersey number, 42, was retired throughout Major League Baseball, the first time any jersey number had been retired throughout one of the four major American sports leagues.

In 1997, Atlantic released a single edit of " Whole Lotta Love " in the US and the UK, making it the only Led Zeppelin UK CD single, where it peaked at number 21.

With pressure from a number of campaign groups organised through the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, a global movement to prohibit their use led to the 1997 Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction.

Hawking conceded the bet in 1997, due to the discovery of the special situations just mentioned, which he characterized as " technicalities ".

Prior to the implementation of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office Act 1996 enacted by the British Parliament, Hong Kong represented its interests abroad through the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices ( HKETOs ) and via a special office in the British Embassies or High Commissions, but the latter has ceased after the sovereignty of Hong Kong was transferred to the PRC and became a special administrative region ( SAR ) of the PRC in 1997.

In 1997, Marrow had a pay-per-view special titled Ice-T's Extreme Babes which appeared on Action PPV, formerly owned by BET networks.

* 1997 Jeep Cherokee Casablanca: A special edition of Cherokee, never produced

Following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997, Major was appointed a special guardian to Princes William and Harry, with responsibility for legal and administrative matters.

Spacey hosted Saturday Night Live twice: first in 1997 with musical guest Beck and special guests Michael Palin and John Cleese from Monty Python's Flying Circus ; and again in the last episode of season 31 with musical guest Nelly Furtado.

After considerable progress in negotiations conducted by the United States, United Nations, Organization of African Unity, and the Economic Community of West African States, disarmament and demobilization of warring factions were hastily carried out and special elections were held on 19 July 1997 with Charles Taylor and his National Patriotic Party emerging victorious.

The Netherlands ' special synthetic drug unit, set up in 1997 to coordinate the fight against designer drugs, appears to be successful.

New neighbours Derek and Betty McVitie replaced the Trenches for the 1997 special " Endgame ", however this turned out to be their only appearances in the series and they were said to have emigrated by the penultimate episode which caused Nick Swainey to leap straight in with the offer for their old house.

In 1997, special permission was granted for the film to be screened uncut at a film festival.

Life magazine ( USA ), in a special double issue in 1997, placed Edison first in the list of the " 100 Most Important People in the Last 1000 Years ", noting that the light bulb he promoted " lit up the world ".

On November 21, 1997, President Bill Clinton signed S. 923, special legislation introduced by Senator Arlen Specter to bar McVeigh and other veterans convicted of crimes from being buried in any military cemetery.

Framestore acquired the Computer Film Company ( CFC ) in 1997 which was one of the first digital film special effects companies, developing technology for digital film scanning, compositing, and output.

Jessica Mathews once wrote in Foreign Affairs in 1997: " For all their strengths, NGOs are special interests.

* 1997: Award special visual sensitivity in directing at the Camerimage

On May 19, 1997, Blaine's first television special, David Blaine: Street Magic aired on the ABC network.

Enquête, published in a special number of journal Lignes, 32 ( 1997 ): 57 – 68, republished in Papier Machine ( 2001 ), and translated into English as Intellectuals.

A part of the system, a special cryptographic processor fitted in to the weapons in 1997, had a potential Year 2000 problem.

Surveys of woodlands of County Kilkenny include A Woodland Survey of Kilkenny, undertaken in 1997 to identify woodlands in the county and A survey of broadleaved woodlands in three special Areas of Conservation, Barrow-Nore, River Unshin and Lough Forbes ( 2000 ) which covers some of County Kilkenny, and National Survey of Native Woodlands ( NSNW ) 2003-2008 which was one of the largest ecological surveys to be completed in Ireland and did its fieldwork in the county in 2003.

The Samara 2, a lightly facelifted version with a fuel-injected version of the 1, 499 cc engine and a better gearbox, went on sale in limited numbers as the 2115 ( four-door sedan ) in 1997, built at the VAZ " special vehicles " unit.

" The 300 + member SDSU Marching Band, " The Pride of the Dakotas ", given the special name the Millennium Band in 2000 by the South Dakota State Legislature, has marched in the 1981 and 1997 Presidential Inaugural Parades in Washington, D. C .; A Capital Fourth in 2000 in Washington DC which was broadcast on PBS ; the 2003 and 2008 Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California making them the second collegiate band in the history of the Rose Bowl to be invited to march twice when their team was not competing ; and the Korean War Monument Dedication at the state's capital Pierre in 2004, in the company of two other college bands and 60-some high school bands from across the state.

When Labour came to power in 1997 he was appointed a Parliamentary Under Secretary in the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, and was promoted to Minister of State in the department as Minister for Housing and Planning from 1999 to 2001, and Minister for Local Government 2001-02, and in the again reorganised Office of the Deputy Prime Minister 2002-2005, with special responsibility for local government, English regions, electoral law, fire, health and safety and London.

" Because the exhibit focused on Cleveland ’ s rock and roll history, Glass Harp was invited to give a special performance and Q & A session at the Museum in April 1997 Currently, Glass Harp is represented in the Museum ’ s ongoing " Cleveland Rocks " exhibit.

In the 1997 DC / Marvel special " Batman / Captain America ", the Skull hires the Joker to steal an atomic bomb during World War II.