A few cars, notably the Alfa Romeo Alfetta, Porsche 924, and Chevrolet Corvette ( since 1997 ), sought a more even weight distribution between front and back by placing the weight of the transmission at the rear of the car, combined with the rear axle to form a transaxle.

Transmission and distribution losses in the USA were estimated at 6. 6 % in 1997 and 6. 5 % in 2007.

Interscope Records released Transister's self-titled debut in the US in 1997 ; UK and international distribution was handled by Virgin Records.

Langdon, in his 1997 critique of the theory, stated that the streamlining features attributed to hair follicle distribution and direction would be more reasonably achieved through changes in the shape of the skeleton and soft tissues.

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:

The unusual sex distribution can be partially explained by the presence of VMI, which did not admit women until 1997 and remains overwhelmingly male today.

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.

None of these labels made the distribution transition after American Recordings left Warner Bros. Records in 1997, and its recordings were deleted.

After a falling out with Geffen over the content of the Geto Boys ' only Def American release, Warner Bros. itself took over distribution duties from 1990 to 1997.

Rubin signed a distribution deal with Columbia / SME Records in 1997, which distributed the label's titles until 2001.

After reaching a new distribution deal with Def Jam in 1997, Jay-Z released his follow-up In My Lifetime, Vol.

November, 1996, followed by U. S. players in March, 1997, with distribution limited to only 7 major cities for the first 6 months.

The Samuel Goldwyn Company ( with HBO Home Video ) handled North American home entertainment distribution rights, which were later transferred to MGM ( which had purchased Goldwyn's parent Orion Pictures in 1997 ).

Iveco Mercosul was created in Brazil in 1997, as a base for manufacturing and distribution operations all over South America.

Cinemax ( through HBO ) also shows sub-runs ( runs of films that have already received broadcast network / syndicated television releases ) of theatrical films from Paramount Pictures ( usually those released prior to 1997 ), Universal Pictures, Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group ( including Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures and Miramax ), Sony Pictures Entertainment ( including Columbia Pictures and TriStar Pictures ), Twentieth Century Fox ( select films from all five studios are shared with Starz and Encore ), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, DreamWorks Pictures ( those made prior to the 2010 shift of film distribution rights from Paramount to Touchstone Pictures ), and Lionsgate Entertainment.

In 1997 the company acquired two sales and distribution companies in North America, establishing a firm foothold in the single largest videoconferencing market in the world.

Despite ICE's many successes, in 1997 ICE suffered financial difficulties from a rapid decline in its distribution net ; nearly 70 % of ICE's distributors either went bankrupt or became moribund.

With the assistance of Bird and Olson, the band addressed the label's concerns and released Calling Ov the Dead in late 1997, with American distribution following through Pendragon in 1998.

The various organization which acquired the rights to distribute WQM and WAIFM include: 1961-69 Economics Research Unit ( University of Pennsylvania ) distributes the Wharton Quarterly Model ; 1969 University of Pennsylvania Board of Trustees ( WEFA Inc is incorporated and takes over distribution of the Wharton Quarterly Model ); 1969 WEFA Inc begins distribution of the Wharton Annual and Industry Forecasting Model ; 1980 Ziff-Davis Publishing Co. acquires WEFA Inc ; 1983 Cie International de Services en Informatique acquires WEFA Inc ; 1986 WEF Associates AG acquires WEFA Inc ; 1987 WEF Associates AG acquires Chase Econometrics, WEFA Inc becomes WEFA-CEIS ; 1994 Information Partners ( Bain Capital ) acquires WEFA-CEIS ; 1997 Primark Corporation acquires WEFA-CEIS ; 2000 The Thomson Corporation acquires Primark Corporation ; 2001 Global Insight acquires WEFA-CEIS from The Thomson Corporation and merges it with DRI ; 2008 IHS Inc. acquires Global Insight.

The group signed to EMI for its British releases but in 1997 the group signed to both Virgin and Sparrow Records for distribution in secular and Christian markets in the United States.

In April 2009, the label announced that they were extending their existing distribution deal with EMI, who had been distributing their releases in the United States since 1997, and in Europe since 2005, to include Australasia.

All titles were distributed in Canada on MCA's behalf, but the film distribution outlet ceased operations in 1997 and the home video outlet a year later after MCA sold Universal Studios.

On January 1, 1997, Animal Planet's distribution grew as a result of Discovery Communications buying the channel space of WOR EMI Service ( a national feed of New York's WWOR-TV ), that was implemented in the light of the SyndEx laws enforced by the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ).

He has sponsored many pieces of significant legislation, including the phosphate detergent ban ; the Waste Management Act of 1989, which established an aggressive policy on reducing solid waste in North Carolina ; the. 08 DWI bill, lowering the permissible level of blood alcohol content for drivers ; the Taxpayer Bill of Rights, giving additional protections to taxpayers dealing with the N. C. Department of Revenue ; domestic relations reform measures, including bills to streamline procedures for equitable distribution, alimony and divorce ; in 1995, a new rewrite of alimony laws and DWI laws ; in 1997, Governor's DWI reform bill, including vehicle seizure and forfeiture provisions, and three equitable distribution reform bills ; in 1999, clean air, clean water, and sedimentation bills, HMO liability, and DWI improvements.

In 1997, Borland sold Paradox to Corel, but – importantly – retained all development rights for the core BDE.

In 1997, a group led by Vladimiro Roca, a decorated veteran of the Angolan war and the son of the founder of the Cuban Communist Party, sent a petition, entitled La Patria es de Todos (" the homeland belongs to all ") to the Cuban general assembly requesting democratic and human rights reforms.

* 1998 – Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U. S. state to abandon such a law.

In 1997, Channel Seven bought the rights to the series, however they only aired a handful of episodes.

In late 1997, Nuevo Petroleum concluded an oil exploration agreement accounting for the last of Ghana's offshore mineral rights zones.

* 1997 – The United States of America imposes economic sanctions against Sudan in response to its human rights abuses of its own citizens and its material and political assistance to Islamic extremist groups across the Middle East and Eastern Africa.

In 1994 DEC sold the PDP-11 system-software rights to Mentec Inc., an Irish producer of LSI-11 based boards for Q-Bus and ISA architecture personal computers, and in 1997 discontinued PDP-11 production.

Socratic Puzzles ( 1997 ) is a collection of papers that range in topic from Ayn Rand and Austrian economics to animal rights, while his last production, Invariances ( 2001 ), applies insights from physics and biology to questions of objectivity in such areas as the nature of necessity and moral value.

The US State Department at times labeled Serbia and Montenegro as a rogue state solely because Slobodan Milosevic, who served as President of Serbia between the years 1989 and 1997, had violated the rights of some of his nation's citizens.

Rival network Channel 5 also acquired repeat rights for a full rerun of the series, starting in 1997.

In 1997 Tolkien Enterprises licensed the film rights to Miramax, which assigned them in 1998 to New Line Cinema.

The category acquired the moniker ' V8 Supercars ' in 1997 after event-management company IMG won the rights to promote the series in 1997, and led the championship on a rapid expansion.

From the 2007 season onwards the Seven Network returned as the official V8 Supercars broadcaster, after Network Ten had shown the series for almost a decade after taking the rights from Seven in 1997, ending Seven's 35 year reign as the official broadcaster of V8 Supercars.

In 1997, King World Productions bought the worldwide format rights to Hollywood Squares from MGM, successor-in-interest to the series ' previous production companies Orion and Filmways.

At the start of the 1997 season, the WNBA had television deals in place with NBC ( NBA rights holder ), and the Walt Disney Company and Hearst Corporation joint venture channels, ESPN and Lifetime Television Network, respectively.

In 1997, Henry Vlug, a deaf lawyer in Vancouver, filed a complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission alleging that an absence of captioning on some programming on CBC Television and Newsworld infringed on his rights as a person with a disability.

However, three months after the 1997 closing, Spano had only paid Pickett a fraction of the first installment on the cable rights deal.

Fire Down Below is a 1997 American action thriller film directed by Félix Enríquez Alcalá, starring Steven Seagal as an EPA agent who investigates a Kentucky mine and helps locals stand up for their rights ; co-starring Marg Helgenberger, Kris Kristofferson, Harry Dean Stanton, and Stephen Lang, the film also includes cameos by country music performers Randy Travis, Mark Collie, Ed Bruce, Marty Stuart, and Travis Tritt, and country-rocker and The Band member Levon Helm.

In 1997 / 98 season the Paxton Road stand had a new upper tier added which included the second Jumbotron screen and increased capacity to 36, 240 and was funded by a rights issue in 1996.

From October 11, 1997 to April 18, 1998 the network's Goodson-Todman library rights expired, with the exceptions of The Price Is Right and the 1994-1995 season of Family Feud, which were both on a separate contract.

In 1990, it obtained partial rights to the Sunday Night Football package for the National Football League, which it retained until 1997.

They lost out the rights for new Disney releases to Liberty's Starz in 1997.

In 1997, an announcement of Amnesty International's forthcoming campaign and briefing for the UN Commission on Human Rights included this quote: " The right to conscientious objection to military service is not a marginal concern outside the mainstream of international human rights protection and promotion.

* Ernest Bromley, ( 1912 – 1997 ) American civil rights activist and tax resister