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.

" In 1997 Ted Drozdowski of The Boston Phoenix described the 1997 Beavis and Butt-Head state as " reduced to self-parody of their self-parody.

In 1997, the state legislature created the Metropolitan Highway System and transferred responsibility for the Central Artery and Tunnel " CA / T " Project from the Massachusetts Highway Department and the Massachusetts Governor's Office to the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority ( MTA ).

1997 ) ( noting continued vitality of INS " hot news " tort under New York state law, but leaving open the question of whether it survives under federal law ).

* 1997 – Acteal massacre: Attendees at a prayer meeting of Roman Catholic activists for indigenous causes in the small village of Acteal in the Mexican state of Chiapas are massacred by paramilitary forces.

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

The Coke bottles, installed in 1997, were also removed to return the light towers to their original state.

When Elizabeth II made a state visit to India marking the 50th anniversary of Independence in 1997, many Indians in India and Britain including several MPs demanded the return of the diamond.

Latvia's state budget was balanced in 1997 but the 1998 Russian financial crisis resulted in large deficits, which were reduced from 4 % of GDP in 1999 to 1. 8 % in 2003.

From 1997 to 2004, Michigan was listed as the only state to top the 10, 000 mark for the number of major new developments ; however, the effects of the late 2000s recession have slowed the state's economy.

President Taya, who won elections in 1992 and 1997, first became chief of state through a December 12, 1984 bloodless coup which made him chairman of the committee of military officers that governed Mauritania from July 1978 to April 1992.

After three years of consolidating his power, Kim Jong-il became Chairman of the NDC on October 8, 1997, a position described by the NDC as the nation's " highest administrative authority ," and thus North Korea's de facto head of state.

The party contested several federal and state elections between 1990 and 1997.

In the United States, following a series of landmark cases in the Supreme Court of the United States, persons diagnosed with paraphilias and a history of anti-social behavior, particularly pedophilia ( Kansas v. Hendricks, 1997 ) and exhibitionism ( Kansas v. Crane, 2002 ), can be held indefinitely in civil confinement under various state legislation generically known as Sexually violent predator laws and the federal Adam Walsh Act ( United States v. Comstock, 2010 ).

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.

An example of this would be that if a person is electrocuted by a wiring defect incorporated into a structure in, say, 1990, a state law may allow his heirs to sue only before 1997 in the case of an open ( patent ) defect, or before 2000 in the case of a hidden defect.

The new state also abandoned the collective presidency of the former SFRY and replaced it with the system consisting of a single president, who was initially appointed with the consent of the republics of Serbia and Montenegro until 1997 after which the president was democratically elected.

Mobile communication in Slovakia became first available in the early 90's with the first NMT network operator being EuroTel Bratislava, a. s., a subsidiary of the then state owned Slovenské Telekomunikácie a. s. EuroTel introduced the first GSM service to public in 1997.

Nick Xenophon was elected on an independent No Pokies ticket in the South Australian Legislative Council at the 1997 South Australian state election on 2. 9 percent, and re-elected at the 2006 election on 20. 5 percent, before being elected to the Australian Senate at the 2007 federal election on 14. 8 percent.

The team relocated from the Astrodome in Houston, Texas to the state of Tennessee in 1997.

The federal system limits the ability of the federal government to use state governments as an instrument of the national government, as held in Printz v. United States, 521 U. S. 898 ( 1997 ).

In 1997 the long-lost episode, " Alf's Dilemma ", was found in a private collection on a 21-minute 16mm telerecording ( some sources state that the episode is an edited version, others that it was just a short episode ).

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.

Charges were dismissed in the 1997 case, and were not filed in the 1998 case.

Ct. 1997 ), for example, the petitioner who had originally been found not guilty by reason of insanity and committed for ten years to the jurisdiction of a Psychiatric Security Review Board filed a pro se writ of habeas corpus and the court vacated his insanity acquittal.

In 1997, Intel filed suit against AMD and Cyrix Corp. for misuse of its trademark MMX.

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.

The Gabrielino / Tongva of California Tribal Council and the Coastal Gabrielino-Diegueno Band of Mission Indians filed in 1997.

The company was acquired by American Homestar Corporation of League City, Texas in 1997, due to the declining manufactured housing industry the plant was closed on April 15, 2000, American Homestar Corporation subsequently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy later in 2001.

As the TV news program 60 Minutes reported in 1997, Scientologists filed over fifty lawsuits against the non-profit organization, which spent over $ 2 million on its legal defense.

Stern filed a $ 1. 5 million lawsuit against Ministry of Film Inc. in October 1997, claiming it recruited him for a film titled Jane starring Melanie Griffith while knowing it had insufficient funds.

Dionne Warwick was listed with a tax delinquency of $ 2, 665, 305. 83 in personal income tax and a tax lien was filed July 24, 1997 .< ref >

On August 22, 1997, stockholders filed a class-action lawsuit in the California Superior Court in San Francisco, " accusing Macromedia and five executives — including chairman, CEO, and former president, John Colligan — of misleading stockholders on the company's product success and financial health and of engaging in insider trading during the class period of April 18, 1996 to January 9, 1997 ".

Following the creation of this school in 1997, a number of these districts filed suit against UCMHS.

* UNMOVIC Chairman Hans Blix tells UNSC members that the Iraqi weapons declaration filed on December 7 " is essentially a reorganized version " of information Iraq provided UNSCOM in 1997, and that it " is not enough to create confidence " that Iraq has abandoned its WMD efforts.

In 1997, the international lawyer Kōnen Tsuchiya filed a class action suit against the Japanese government demanding reparations for the actions of Unit 731, using evidence filed by Rikkyo University professor Makoto Ueda.

The two had wed in July 1997, and Ian filed for divorce in February 2002, citing irreconcilable differences.

CBI had filed two chargesheets naming him as accused ; sent Letters Rogatory abroad ; even sent a probe team to the US and put Chatwal and his wife behind bars from 2 to 5 February 1997.

Haim filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in July 1997.

Gratz and Hamacher were contacted by the Center for Individual Rights, which filed a lawsuit on their behalf in October 1997.

On June 23, 1997, CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern filed a joint application with the Surface Transportation Board for authority to purchase, divide and operate the assets of the 11, 000-mile Consolidated Rail Corporation ( Conrail ), which had been created in 1976 by bringing together several ailing Northeastern railway systems into a government-owned corporation.

The SEC charged that in proxy statements filed with the Commission from 1997 to 2003, Tyson Foods made misleading disclosures of perquisites and personal benefits provided to Don Tyson both prior to and after his retirement as senior chairman in October 2001 .”

In November 1997, Debbie filed a restraining order against Goad, claiming he was beating her on a daily basis, eventually withdrawing it, stating she was " bullied into " filing it and was mad at Goad for having an affair with Ryan.

Rees-Jones married his wife Sue Jones and filed for divorce in June 1997.

The T. Eaton Co. first filed for bankruptcy protection in 1997.