When pro-reform forces came into power in the spring 1997, an ambitious economic reform package, including introduction of a currency board regime, was agreed to with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and the economy began to stabilise.

When pro-reform forces came into power in the spring 1997, an ambitious economic reform package, including introduction of a currency board regime, was agreed to with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and the economy began to stabilise.

Further evidence of Chinese athletes ' drug use came in 1997 when Australian authorities confiscated 13 vials of Somatropin, a human growth hormone, from the bag of Chinese swimmer Yuan Yuan upon her arrival for the 1997 World Swimming Championships.

Its disloyalty to the president came to the fore during the mutinies in 1996 – 1997, but ever since then it has faced internal problems.

The Red Wings dedicated the 1997 – 98 season, which also ended in a Stanley Cup victory, to Konstantinov, who came out onto the ice in his wheelchair on victory night to touch the Cup.

PostScript 3 ( Adobe dropped the " level " terminology in favor of simple versioning ) came at the end of 1997, and along with many new dictionary-based versions of older operators, introduced better color handling, and new filters ( which allow in-program compression / decompression, program chunking, and advanced error-handling ).

This reform program came to a halt, however, in early June 1997 when war broke out.

Robyn's US breakthrough came in 1997, when the dance-pop singles " Show Me Love " and " Do You Know ( What It Takes )" reached the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100.

* 1997: Folklorists define a myth as " a sacred narrative explaining how the world and humankind came to be in their present form ".

When Channel 5 began in March 1997 it came with its own soap opera, Family Affairs, which debuted as a five-days-a-week soap.

One source, Dr. William S. Haubrich in his book Medical Meanings ( 1997, American College of Physicians ) claims that the name came from the Eastern United States.

In Ontario, Canada, one attempt to define the boom came from David Foot, author of Boom, Bust and Echo: Profiting from the Demographic Shift in the 21st century, published in 1997 and 2000.

The breakthrough came in February 1997 when the satellite BeppoSAX detected a gamma-ray burst ( GRB 970228 ) and when the X-ray camera was pointed towards the direction from which the burst had originated, it detected fading X-ray emission.

Gangsta rap came to Greece in 1997 with the group Zontanoi Nekroi ( Living Dead ).

The franchise, which came into the league in 1969 as the Sorel Éperviers, moved to Sydney from Granby, Quebec in 1997, just one year after winning the Memorial Cup.

Perhaps his best performance of the season came on 2 February 1997 when Newcastle went into the final 15 minutes of the game 3 – 1 down at home to Leicester City in the league, only for Shearer to win them the game 4 – 3 by scoring a late hat-trick.

Total combined sales of both retail and wholesale products in 2007 came to ¥ 813bn, approximately a quarter less than sales in 1997 a decade prior.

Häkkinen came close to an elusive breakthrough victory a number of times in 1997, not least at Silverstone, A1-Ring and Nürburgring.

Another book by Lt. Col. Huton Downs, In 1997, German journalist Udo Ulfkotte came up with another explanation, this one more salacious.

At the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Canada, Freeman won gold in both the 200 m and 400 m. She also won the silver medal in the 1996 Olympics and came first at the 1997 World Champion in the 400 m event.

Gordon Brown, who became Chancellor when Labour came into Government in 1997, had a large personal power base in the party.

In 1997 on The Oprah Winfrey Show, actress Ellen DeGeneres came out as a lesbian.

The Samara came bottom of the annual 1996 and 1997 JD Power survey in the UK.

The 1997 third jersey came with a rare fourth jersey partner.

* 1997: WHAT ' S NEW PUSSYCAT?

Charles appeared in the John Godber comedy play Teechers, in which he swapped in and out of various roles, at the Arts Theatre, London, and at the Edinburgh Festival ( 1989 ), and he played Idle Jack in the pantomime Dick Whittington, at the Hull New Theatre ( 1997 ).

Notable former Indians broadcasters include Tom Manning, Jack Graney ( the first ex-baseball player to become a play-by-play announcer ), Jack Corrigan ( now with the Colorado Rockies ), Jimmy Dudley who received the Ford Frick Award in 1997, Ken Coleman, Joe Castiglione, Van Patrick, Joe Tait, Bruce Drennan, Jim " Mudcat " Grant, Harry Jones, Rocky Colavito and Herb Score, who called Indians ' baseball for 34 seasons.

* 1997 – Jack Vidgen, Australian singer

In the 1997 Oscar winning film As Good as It Gets, the misanthropic character played by Jack Nicholson sings " Always Look on the Bright Side of Life " as evidence of the character's change in attitude.

On April 6, 1997, Redskins owner Jack Kent Cooke died of congestive heart failure at the age of 84.

The 1990s brought Ford the role of Jack Ryan in Tom Clancy's Patriot Games ( 1992 ) and Clear and Present Danger ( 1994 ), as well as leading roles in Alan Pakula's Presumed Innocent ( 1990 ) and The Devil's Own ( 1997 ), Andrew Davis ' The Fugitive ( 1993 ), Sydney Pollack's remake of Sabrina ( 1995 ), and Wolfgang Petersen's Air Force One ( 1997 ).

* 1997: Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution by Jack N. Rakove

He was inducted into the comic book industry's Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1993 and the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1997.

Beck was recognized for his work with formal nomination as a finalist for the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1990, and induction in 1997.

A grave marked " J. Dawson " gained fame following the release of the 1997 film Titanic, since the name of Leonardo DiCaprio's character in the film is Jack Dawson.

* Fritz Von Erich ( 1929 – 1997 ), ring name of American professional wrestler and promoter Jack Adkisson

He was posthumously inducted into the comic book industry's Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame ( 1993 ) and the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame ( 1997 ).

Iowa State's football stadium was renamed Jack Trice Stadium in his honor in 1997.

When Haynes and Woody decided to concentrate full-time on Gov't Mule in 1997, Haynes was replaced on guitar by Jack Pearson, while Woody was replaced on bass by Oteil Burbridge.

* Jack Palance in Ebenezer, 1997

Their report, Islamophobia: A Challenge for Us All, was launched in November 1997 by the Home Secretary, Jack Straw.

* In James L. Brooks ' 1997 romantic comedy film As Good As It Gets, the main character, obsessive-compulsive misanthrope Melvin Udall, also played by Jack Nicholson, wears brown leather driving gloves in several scenes.

* Jack Rinella, The Master's Manual: Handbook of Erotic Dominance, Daedalus Publishing, 1997, ISBN 1-881943-03-8

" They included Orson Bean ( b. 1928 ), Sean Connery ( b. 1930 ), Allen Ginsberg ( 1926 – 1997 ), Paul Goodman 1911 – 1972 ), Jack Kerouac ( 1922 – 1969 ), Isaac Rosenfeld ( 1918 – 1956 ), J. D. Salinger ( 1919 – 2010 ), William Steig ( 1907 – 2003 ), and Robert Anton Wilson ( 1932 – 2007 ).

* Jack Johnson — 1997, Musician

She made appearances in films such as That Darn Cat ( 1997 ), 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag ( 1997 ), and Out to Sea ( 1997 ) with Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon.