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.

Denis Sassou-Nguesso, who returned to power when the war ended in October 1997, publicly expressed interest in moving forward on economic reforms and privatization and in renewing cooperation with international financial institutions.

IFE, a publicly held company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, was sold in 1997 to Fox Kids Worldwide, Inc. for $ 1. 9 billion, whereupon it was renamed Fox Family Channel.

During the run up to the 2010 General Election, Caine publicly endorsed the Conservative Party, despite claiming to have supported New Labour in 1997.

In an interview on Swedish television in 1997, the condition was admitted publicly when the Queen addressed the issue.

In December 1997, Canibus first publicly discussed a verbal confrontation with LL Cool J in an interview with Tourè for the Village Voice.

Alfred Leslie Rowse, CH, FBA ( 4 December 1903 – 3 October 1997 ), known publicly as A. L. Rowse but to friends and family as Leslie, was a British historian from Cornwall.

The three frequently play together both publicly and privately, for example in an annual benefit concert grouping known as Philharmonia, dating to 1997, most recently on December 18, 2011 at a Christmas gig including Bob Weir and Jackie Greene at the Tenderloin Middle School cafeteria attended by 250 people.

The unabridged Oxford Text of 1922 was not made publicly available until its UK copyright expired in 1997.

The company became publicly listed on September 24, 1997, with vice-president Doug Massingill being promoted to Chief Executive Officer, at an initial price of $ 23 per share, trading on NASDAQ under the symbol JDEC.

In 1997, CBS launched the beta version of the first publicly available free fantasy football website.

In May 1997, Sandia fusion scientist Rick Spielman publicly stated that NIF had " virtually no internal peer review on the technical issues " and that " Livermore essentially picked the panel to review themselves ".

On taking his seat, he undertook publicly to stand down from Parliament at the age of 65 ( therefore in 1997 ), just as he would have retired as a miner.

Alomar and Hirschbeck settled their differences publicly and made apologies to each other on April 22, 1997, standing at home plate and shaking hands in front of the crowd before an Orioles game.

In all leadership elections since 1997, CWF has always publicly supported the candidate who ultimately won.

Temple-Morris was suspended from the party in 1997 because he had " repeatedly and publicly questioned his continued commitment to the Conservative Party ".

Horam gained some notoriety during the 1997 general election when he was the first member of the Major Government to come out publicly against joining a single currency.

A number of Australian studies of early initiatives to promote private investment in infrastructure concluded that, in most cases, the schemes being proposed were inferior to the standard model of public procurement based on competitively tendered construction of publicly owned assets ( Economic Planning Advisory Commission ( EPAC ) 1995a, b ; House of Representatives Standing Committee on Communications Transport and Microeconomic Reform 1997 ; Harris 1996 ; Industry Commission 1996 ; Quiggin 1996 ).

In July 1997, Tyco merged by reverse takeover with smaller publicly traded security services company named ADT Limited, controlled by Lord Ashcroft.

" Because the group and the label were disappointed with the video, it was not publicly released at the time, although it later appeared on Shockumentary in 1997 and again on Psychopathic: The Videos in 2007.

The marriage was publicly dissolved in 1997 when she learned from tabloid newspaper stories about Jarre's affairs with other women and had a nervous breakdown.

Kingham was elected as MP for Gloucester in 1997, but retired from Parliament in disillusionment after one term, having complained publicly about the antiquated ways of working in the Palace of Westminster.

In 1997 he faced controversy on another front, as he publicly defended the Chinese government's ( of which he is not a supporter, post-Mao ) intervention during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, on the grounds that it was a necessary action to preserve east-Asian stability.

In 1986 it was bought by the Times Mirror Company ; in 1997 / 98 it became a publicly held company.

In December 1997, Omega publicly said that they were searching for a new investment partner, because their current one " was becoming impatient ".