After a decade of impressive growth rates, Chile began to experience a moderate economic downturn in 1999, brought on by unfavorable global economic conditions related to the Asian financial crisis, which began in 1997.

The growing presentation of cheerleading as a sport to a global audience has been led by the 1997 start of broadcasts of cheerleading competition by ESPN International and the worldwide release of the 2000 film Bring it On.

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.

By the 1920s, the U. S. reached what is still its era of greatest-ever output, producing an average of 800 feature films annually, or 82 % of the global total ( Eyman, 1997 ).

On February 29, the Marlins were recognized on Sports Illustrated's magazine for the 5th time ( 11 / 3 / 1997, Edgar Renteria who had a walk-off hit in Game 7 of the World Series ; 5 / 25 / 1998, Mike Piazza after his trade from the Dodgers ; 11 / 3 / 2003 ; Josh Beckett, after winning World Series MVP and 3 / 12 / 07 Dontrelle Willis, chronicling global warming with Willis in a flooded Sun Life Stadium.

Holden VT Commodore | Commodore VT, introduced in 1997, marked the Commodore's global expansion.

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.

Although Macau was hit hard by the 1997 – 98 Asian financial crisis and the global downturn in 2001, its economy grew approximately 13. 1 % annually on average between 2001 and 2006.

* 1997 – October 27, 1997 mini-crash: Stock markets around the world crash because of fears of a global economic meltdown.

The economy turned for worse as the global recession hit the country ; the worst economic crisis since 1997.

After a strong recovery from the global recession of the early 1990s, Spain experienced a property boom from 1997 to 2007.

However, beginning in 1997, a global resurgence in currency movement provided the necessary stimulus to the Swiss economy.

On September 2, 1997, Singer said that " The possibility that global temperatures could rise because of an increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is a concern that needs to be monitored ... But there has been no indication in the last century that we've seen anything other than natural climate fluctuations.

* In the United Kingdom, the first cloned mammal, Dolly the sheep was confirmed by the Roslin Institute, and was reported by global media on 26 February 1997.

The global recession of 1998, which started with the Asian financial crisis in July 1997, exacerbated Russia's economic crisis.

In October 1997, EY announced plans to merge its global practices with KPMG to create the largest professional services organization in the world, coming on the heels of another merger plan announced in September 1997 by Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand.

In 1997, at the 14th World Council of YMCAs, the World Council in Germany adopted " Challenge 21 ", giving even more focus to the global challenges, like gender equality, sustainable development, war and peace, fair distribution and the challenges of globalisation, racism, and HIV / AIDS:

It is estimated that in 1997, peat and forest fires in Indonesia released between 0. 81 and 2. 57 Gt of carbon ; equivalent to 13 – 40 percent of the amount released by global fossil fuel burning, and greater than the carbon uptake of the world's biosphere.

LaMoure was one of eight global transmission sites of the Omega Navigation System until its closure on September 30, 1997.

In 1991, after a trip to the Killing Fields of Cambodia, VVAF co-founded and coordinated the global campaign to ban landmines, called Campaign for A Landmine Free World, which was awarded the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to persuade countries to sign a treaty eradicating the use of antipersonnel landmines.

Further reductions in the Defense budget after 1997 would require cuts in the force structure and make it impossible for the United States to remain a global power.

Along with a number of figures who later assumed leading positions in the George W. Bush administration, Gaffney was one of 25 signatories of the June 3, 1997 " Statement of Principles " from the Project for the New American Century, an educational and political advocacy organization whose stated goal was " to promote American global leadership.

By 1997, 81 % of the developing world's wheat area was planted to semi-dwarf wheats, giving both increased yields and better response to nitrogenous fertilizer.

This agricultural production includes wheat, barley, horticulture, and dairy farming, with 13, 201 acres ( 53 km² ) in 1997 planted in orchards.

Derelict for the greater part of the 20th century it was restored in 1997 and can grind wheat into flour.

It was originally located in a wheat field, but in 1997 the installation was quietly moved by a local contractor two miles ( three kilometers ) to the west, to a cow pasture along Interstate 40, in order to place it further from the limits of the growing city.

They were rediscovered in 1997 and have since been reported to exist in a number of angiosperm species including Arabidopsis thaliana, wheat, rice and tomato, but their role is not yet fully understood.

( The government constructs the poverty line based on an outdated 1987 household consumption poll, instead of more recent polls from 1997 or 2007 ).

The stereotype was solidified in 1997 when Kraft foods released sales figures, revealing Salt Lake City to have the highest per-capita Jello consumption.

The consumption capacity of petroleum, gas, oil, kerosene and IDO is increasing annually, going from a total of 5, 650 tons consumed in 1997 to more than 7, 500 tons in 1999.

( 1997 ) Limits to substitution and irreversibility in production and consumption: A neoclassical interpretation of ecological economics.

Supporting interpretations and explanations of contemporary conspicuous consumption are proffered in Consumer Culture ( 1996 ), by C. Lury, Consumer Culture and Modernity ( 1997 ), by D. Slater, Symbolic Exchange and Death ( 1998 ), by Jean Baudrillard, and Spent: Sex, Evolution, and the Secrets of Consumerism ( 2009 ), by Geoffrey Miller.

Shortly after the tax was introduced Japan fell into recession, which was blamed by some on the consumption tax increase, and by others on the 1997 Asian financial crisis.

A study of clients in Frankfurt in 1997 found that 63 % claimed to be daily visitors, while in another surveyed non-random sample from 18 German consumption rooms, 84 % claimed use of the facility at least once weekly, with 51 % claiming at least once per day utilization.

In 1997 Nevada passed a Renewable Portfolio Standard as part of their 1997 Electric Restructuring Legislation ( AB 366 ) It required any electric providers in the state to acquire actual renewable electric generation or purchase renewable energy credits so that each utility had 1 percent of total consumption in renewables.

Special concern for flatulence-producing substances is important when a pulse is promoted for human consumption ( Smil, 1997 ).

Novel foods or novel food ingredients have no history of “ significant ” consumption in the European Union prior to 15 May 1997.

He formed Pickens Fuel Corp. in 1997 and began touting natural gas as the best vehicular fuel alternative because it is a domestic resource that, among many advantages, is cleaner-burning ( Natural Gas Vehicles or NGVs emit up to 30 % less pollution than gasoline or diesel vehicles ) and reduces foreign oil consumption.

Shortly after the tax was introduced Japan fell into recession, which was blamed by some on the consumption tax increase, and by others on the 1997 Asian financial crisis.

Elizabeth Gaskell wrote a novel of manners, but in the broader context of an industrial novel about inhabitants of the Black Country, where young girls like Bessy die of " cotton consumption ", capitalists disregard legal obligations, and workers refuse prophylactic facilities, instigate strikes or create riots ( O ' Farrell, 1997, p 58 ).

* Cao J., Zhao Y., Liu J., ( 1997 ), " Brick tea consumption as the cause of dental fluorosis among children from Mongol, Kazak and Yugu populations in China " Food Chem Toxicol 35 ( 8 ): 827-833