In the December 1997 issue of Dragon Magazine, in an article on Garfield's trading card game patent application, it was reported that Garfield is the great-great-grandson of U. S. President James A. Garfield ( 1831 – 81 ), and that his great-uncle invented the paper clip.

In a 1997 U. S. case, the Ninth Circuit addressed conversion therapy in the context of an asylum application.

In 1997, the Lower Brulé Sioux submitted an amended trust application to DOI, requesting that the United States take the of land into trust on the Tribe's behalf.

The Safina party was routinely harassed and even its application to become an official political party was not approved until 1997.

The Metropolis light transport ( MLT ) is a SIGGRAPH 1997 paper by Eric Veach and Leonidas J. Guibas, describing an application of a variant of the Monte Carlo method called the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm to the rendering equation for generating images from detailed physical descriptions of three dimensional scenes.

Less than a year after acquiring NeXT in the final days of 1996, Apple opened an online store on November 10, 1997, built using NeXT's WebObjects web application technology.

In 1997 the Creator codebase was used as the starting point for the Promethean application PandA, later Activstudio and Activprimary

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania approved the institution ’ s application for university status in February 1997.

On June 23, 1997, CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern filed a joint application with the Surface Transportation Board for authority to purchase, divide and operate the assets of the 11, 000-mile Consolidated Rail Corporation ( Conrail ), which had been created in 1976 by bringing together several ailing Northeastern railway systems into a government-owned corporation.

Apple licensed the iCal name from Brown Bear Software, who have used it for their iCal application since 1997.

On 31 December 1997, Berthelot requested the termination of his contract on medical grounds, and his application was accepted.

NACMCF was initially responsible for defining HACCP's systems and guidelines for its application and were coordinated with the Codex Committee for Food Hygiene, that led to reports starting in 1992 and further harmonization in 1997.

Although the name persists in normal usage, the common law application of this order has been largely superseded by a statutory search order under the Civil Procedure Act 1997.

This division developed and released the Tarantella terminal services application in 1997 and became the core of Tarantella, Inc. in 2001.

The GFA's application for becoming a member of FIFA was filed in 1997.

* 1997, Schoonderwoerd and his colleagues developed the first application to telecommunication networks ;

In 1997, the United States Army mounted an exercise code-named " Force 21 ", to test the application of digital technologies in warfare.

The first independent license was granted in 1997, four-and-a-half years after the initial application.

Between October 1992 ( when the application was registered ) and May 1997 ( when the license was granted ), Nepal had four different governments, four ministers and four secretaries of communication.

The original goals to deliver a true teraflop machine by the end of 1996 that would be capable of running an ASCI application using all memory and nodes by September 1997 were met.

Carroll and Rosson ( 1997 ) pointed out that no empirical evidence exists regarding the effectiveness of progressive disclosure and that the training wheels approach only studied a " single computer application ( word processor ) and a single interface style ( menu based control )".

The commission's decision, released January 31, 1997, approved the Baton application and denied the others.

The application was granted, and the station began broadcasting over the airwaves at 96. 7 MHz in 1997.

For instance, the European Patent Office ( EPO ), acting as ISA and IPEA, is not be obliged to search, by virtue of Article 17 ( 2 )( a )( i ) PCT, or examine, by virtue of Article 34 ( 4 )( a )( i ) PCT, any international application to the extent that the EPO considers that such application relates to subject matter which does not comply with the provisions of the European Patent Convention to such an extent that it is not possible to carry out a meaningful search into the state of the art on the basis of all or some of the claims .< ref > Agreement between the European Patent Organisation and the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization in relation to the functioning of the European Patent Office as an International Searching Authority and International Preliminary Examining Authority under the Patent Cooperation Treaty, Done at Geneva on October 1, 1997, ( as in force from April 1, 2006 ), Article 4 (" Subject Matter Not Required to Be Searched or Examined ") and Annex B (" Subject Matter Not Excluded from Search or Examination "), and

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.