The tension may be rooted in power shift arising from the dramatic increase in oil production which has occurred since 1997.

In March 1997, Moorer retained his belt with a 12 round decision over previously undefeated Vaughn Bean before parting ways with trainer Teddy Atlas, with whom he'd been experiencing increasing tension since the beginning of their professional relationship.

Regardless of the success Jackson had as head coach of the Bulls, the tension between Jackson and Krause grew in the succeeding years, and by the 1997 – 98 season, was especially illustrated by the following incidents:

This internal tension between the two men was resolved on 4 January 1997, when Ngandu died under mysterious circumstances in North Kivu.

Since their coming to power in 1997, controversies affecting the Labour Government such as David Blunkett's affair with Spectator editor Kimberly Fortier and financial scandals involving senior ministers and officials shifted the focus to sleaze within the Labour Party.

He became soon unpopular within the army, resulting in violent mutinies in 1996 – 1997.

It was not until 1997, however, that a direct experiment, by S. Lamoreaux, described above, quantitatively measured the force ( to within 15 % of the value predicted by the theory ), although previous work van Blockland and Overbeek ( 1978 ) had observed the force qualitatively, and indirect validation of the predicted Casimir energy had been made by measuring the thickness of liquid Helium films by Sabisky and Anderson in 1972.

These forces have been heavily armed since before the handover in 1997, and are within the portfolio of the Secretary for Security.

This culminated in the dismissal and imprisonment on unsubstantiated charges of the Deputy Prime Minister, Anwar Ibrahim, in 1997 after an internal dispute within the government.

Larson ( 1997 ) studied the morphological variation in the jaguar and showed there is clinal north – south variation, but also the differentiation within the supposed subspecies is larger than that between them, and thus does not warrant subspecies subdivision.

There are many local variations of Szechuan cuisine within Sichuan province and the Chongqing municipality, which was part of Sichuan until 1997.

* 1997 – After a nationwide referendum, Scotland votes to establish a devolved parliament within the United Kingdom.

On June 27, 1997 the spacecraft flew within 1200 km of Mathilde at 12: 56 UT at 9. 93 km / s, returning imaging and other instrument data.

Taco Bell later opened in 1997 in Australia with a store in the cinema district on George St in Sydney and a year later in 1998 within a few KFC stores in the state of New South Wales, but by 2005, the Taco Bell brand was pulled out of the country.

Most of Brazzaville fell to rebel and Angolan forces on October 14, 1997, and Lissouba fled ; within two days the capital was under the control of forces loyal to Sassou Nguesso and Pointe-Noire fell with little resistance.

VicTrack, a new statutory authority within the Victorian Government, was created in 1997 to hold the ownership of land and assets relating to Victoria's tram and rail systems.

However due to controversies regarding massive purges of its members in the mid-1980s and political miscalculations, it suffered several splits within its ranks in 1992 and 1997 forming several separate communist parties.

* Argentinean folk singer Leon Gieco released a novelty song in 1997 called " Ojo con los Orozco " (" Be Aware of the Orozco Brothers ") where he described the personalities and proclivities of eight fictional corrupt politicians, all brothers within the same family.

Before 1997, most organisations affiliated to the CWI sought to build an entrist Marxist wing within the large social democratic parties.

It comprises the RPG / MMO Group within Electronic Arts, with Muzyka, EA Senior VP and the Group General Manager and Zeschuk EA VP and Group Creative Officer of the BioWare Group ; co-founder Doctor Yip left in early 1997 to return to medicine.

for this are as follows: Wilfred P. Deac, " Road to the Killing Fields: The Cambodian War of 1970-1975 " ( Texas A & M University Press, 1997 ) pp. 61 – 2 ; Robert Dallek, " Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power ," ( Harper Collins, 2007 ), p. 191 ; Steve Heder " Cambodian Communism and the Vietnamse Model, Volume I: Imitation and Independence, 1930-1975 ," ( White Lotus Press, 2004 ), p. 156.: It seems likely that Lon Nol initially intended to strengthen his position against the North Vietnamese with the ultimate aim of preventing their troops ( and those of the Viet Cong ) from operating within Cambodian borders, and wished to apply pressure on Sihanouk to achieve this.

Before 2011 it held the same position in the administrative hierarchy, according to Law 2539 of 1997, the Kapodistrias Plan, except that Ithomi was an independent municipality and Ancient Messene was a local division ( topiko diamerisma ) within it.

The only subsequent change took place in 1997 and involved the incorporation, for administrative reasons, of the little commune of Han-devant-Pierrepont which had previously fallen within the Meuse department.

Formed in 1961 by a group of enthusiasts in New Barnet under the conductorship of Terry Hawes, Southgate College Symphony Orchestra continued as an evening class within Southgate College until July 2005, having become semi-autonomous in 1997.

Today, many of the original Victorian buildings survive, particularly within the White Springs Historic District, established in 1997 by the National Register of Historic Places.

Army sexual harassment incidents at Aberdeen Proving Ground and sexual harassment policies within the Department of Defense: hearing before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Fifth Congress, first session, February 4, 1997.

In 1997, the Oneida tribe purchased land within the city, eventually initiating a dispute about whether they had to pay taxes.

Formerly a neighborhood within nearby unincorporated Cullowhee, it became incorporated in 1997.

Costa Rica occupied a nonpermanent seat in the Security Council from 1997 to 1999 and exercised a leadership role in confronting crises in the Middle East and Africa, as well as in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

In 1997 he also gave over the leadership of the National Party and retired from politics.

By this time the " New " Labour Party was seen as a reformed and fresh alternative under the leadership of Tony Blair, and after eighteen years in office the Conservatives lost the 1997 general election in one of the worst electoral defeats since the Great Reform Act of 1832.

The NLP was active in Ireland since 1994, and was based in Dublin under the leadership of John Burns who ran with nine other NLP candidates in the 1997 General Election and four others in the 1999 European elections.

Stott Despoja was elected to the party's deputy leadership in 1997, under Meg Lees.

In a 1997 interview, FARC-EP Commander Alfonso Cano argued that some guerrilla units continued to do so for " political and economic reasons " in spite of the prohibition issued by the leadership.

Gingrich's hold on the leadership was weakened significantly by that and several other controversies, as he faced a caucus revolt in 1997, and after the Republicans lost House seats in 1998 ( although retaining a majority ) he did not stand for a third term as Speaker.

* Jeff Helmreich, Orthodox women moving toward religious leadership, Friday June 6, 1997, Long Island Jewish World

The FNM was re-elected by a landslide in 1997, but lost to a resurgent PLP, under the leadership of his former law partner Perry Christie, in 2002.

He has contested the Conservative Party leadership three times — in 1997, 2001 and 2005 — being defeated each time.

After the Conservatives entered Opposition in 1997, Clarke contested the leadership of the party for the first time.

Hall received a 1997 Academy Award for the creative leadership ( Kovacs ) and the principal engineering ( Hall ) efforts that led to the Wavefront Advanced Visualizer computer graphics system.

* Pitcher, P. ( 1994 French ) Artists, Craftsmen, and Technocrats: The dreams realities and illusions of leadership, Stoddart Publishing, Toronto, 2nd English edition, 1997.

A revised and updated translation of Bower's work was produced under the leadership of Professor D. E. R. Watt, in nine volumes, published between 1977 and 1997.

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.

In 1997, Ripon College entered into a formal agreement with the Wisconsin Leadership Institute ( WLI ) to collaborate on the production and distribution of learning materials related to the development of leadership skills and values.

Six days after the Derek Lewis incident on Newsnight, Ann Widdecombe, his former minister of state at the Home Office, made a statement in the House of Commons about the dismissal of then director of the Prison Service, Derek Lewis, and famously remarked of Howard that " there is something of the night about him ", a widely quoted comment that may have contributed to the failure of his 1997 bid for the Conservative Party leadership.

When Major resigned after the 1997 General Election defeat, Redwood stood for the leadership, and was again defeated, though he secured more support than rival candidates Peter Lilley and Michael Howard.

Supporting the Leach and Rubin arguments, Volcker testified that Congressional inaction had forced banking regulators and the courts to play “ catch-up ” with market developments by “ sometimes stretching established interpretations of law beyond recognition .” In 1997 Volcker testified this meant the “ Glass-Steagall separation of commercial and investment banking is now almost gone ” and that this “ accommodation and adaptation has been necessary and desirable .” He stated, however, that the “ ad hoc approach ” had created “ uneven results ” that created “ almost endless squabbling in the courts ” and an “ increasingly advantageous position competitively ” for “ some sectors of the financial service industry and particular institutions .” Similar to the GAO in 1988 and Representative Markey in 1990 Volcker asked that Congress “ provide clear and decisive leadership that reflects not parochial pleadings but the national interest .”

Although the two groups had previously agreed to work together under the umbrella of the Combined Loyalist Military Command, the body had crumbled by 1997 and tensions simmered between West Belfast UDA brigadier Johnny Adair, who had grown weary of the Northern Ireland peace process and the Good Friday Agreement, and the UVF leadership.

Following the leadership of Neil Kinnock and John Smith, the party under the New Labour brand attempted to widen its electoral appeal and, by the 1997 general election, had made significant gains in the upper and middle classes.

After Blair took the leadership, the party made significant gains in higher social classes and won 39 % support from managers and administrators in the 1997 election, more than in previous elections that the party had lost.

In the 1997 Canadian federal election, the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada won 20 seats under Charest's leadership, an improvement on its previous two.

As stipulated in the 1997 National Defense Law, the CMC also controls the paramilitary People ’ s Armed Police ( PAP ), who have the politically sensitive role of guarding key government buildings, including the main leadership compound of Zhongnanhai in Beijing.