In July 2006, Wired News, which had been part of Lycos since the purchase of Wired Digital in 1998, was sold to Condé Nast Publications and re-merged with Wired Magazine.

Lycos acquired HotBot in 1998 and for a number of years HotBot languished with limited development and falling market share.

During 1998 and 1999, FAST announced strategic alliances with Lycos, Dell and TIBCO, and the first commercial launch of products took place in 1999.

© Lycos 1998.

As it turned out, Tripod would be sold in February 1998 to Lycos for a reported $ 58 million in stock.

After gaining online syndication partners including Lycos. com and WebTV, the series first adopted Flash animation in July 1998.

( It was subsequently sold to Lycos in 1998 ) He was also a co-founder of Eziba ( later acquired by Overstock. com ), an Internet venture which sold handcrafted goods from artisans around the world.

The site was bought by Mountain View, California – based WhoWhere in 1997, which was itself subsequently purchased by the search engine company Lycos in 1998.

On November 21, 1989, George H. W. Bush signed an appropriation bill authorizing payments to be paid out between 1990 and 1998.

Simon paid out early on the bet in 1997 ( before his death in 1998 ) based on his expectation that prices would remain above 1996 levels ( which they did ).

From 1956 to August 1998, at least $ 759 million was paid to the Marshallese Islanders in compensation for their exposure to U. S. nuclear testing.

Martínez paid immediate dividends in 1998, with a 19 – 7 record, and finishing second in the American League in ERA, WHIP, strikeouts, and the Cy Young voting.

PLAN task groups also paid visits to Indonesia in 1995 ; North Korea in 1997 ; New Zealand, Australia, and the Philippines in 1998 ; Malaysia, Tanzania, South Africa, the United States, and Canada in 2000 ; and India, Pakistan, France, Italy, Germany, Britain, Hong Kong, Australia, and New Zealand in 2001.

Until 1998, Kavner was paid $ 30, 000 per episode.

Until 1998, Smith was paid $ 30, 000 per episode.

On 9 January 1998, the British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Mo Mowlam, paid a surprise visit to the prison to talk to members of the Ulster Defence Association / Ulster Freedom Fighters ( UDA / UFF ) including Johnny Adair, Sam McCrory and Michael Stone.

Between the two groups there was a third small group, the assimilados, comprising native blacks, mulatos, Asians, and mixed-race people, who had at least some formal education, were not subjected to paid forced labor, were entitled to some citizenship rights, and held a special identification card that differed from the one imposed on the immense mass of the African population ( the indigenas ), a card that the colonial authorities conceived of as a means of controlling the movements of forced labor ( CEA 1998 ).

Turbine was a privately held company backed by Highland Capital Partners, Polaris Venture Partners, and other private investors since 1998 ; it has paid no dividends.

Until 1998, Castellaneta was paid $ 30, 000 per episode.

Until 1998, Smith was paid $ 30, 000 per episode.

In 1998, 75 % of health payments in France were paid through the public healthcare system.

Until 1998, Kavner was paid $ 30, 000 per episode.

Until 1998, Cartwright was paid $ 30, 000 per episode.

A work party of seven hired laborers, paid $ 12 per month each, soon began work clearing the forest ( McCormick 1998: 29 ).

Esri has paid Lowery's firm $ 320, 000 since 1998.

From 1969 to 1998, cartoonist Charles M. Schulz ( himself a veteran of World War II ) regularly paid tribute to Bill Mauldin in his Peanuts comic strip on Veterans Day.

In 1998, two former Northwestern basketball players were charged and convicted for sports bribery as a result of being paid to shave points in games against three other Big 10 schools during the 1995 season.

In 1995, Wiedlin formed a band called froSTed ( the capital ST paid homage to Star Trek ), which released an album, Cold, before disbanding in 1998.

In 1998 Granada paid £ 2 million in two cases, to three Metropolitan Police officers who were wrongly accused of covering up a murder and Marks and Spencer for alleging M & S knew one of its suppliers was using child labour.

From May 2, 1996, until August 1998, he was on paid administrative leave from USF pending the outcome of a federal investigation into whether he was running fronts for terrorist organizations.

The American public, however, soured on the Republican drive for impeachment, and Republicans paid the price at the polls during the 1998 congressional " midterm " election, as the GOP sustained a net loss of five seats to Democrats in the House of Representatives.

On December 26, 2006 McClatchy Co sold the paper to private-equity firm Avista Capital Partners for $ 530 million, less than half of what McClatchy paid for the paper in 1998, when it bought the Star Tribune from Cowles Media for $ 1. 2 billion.

* 1998 – Travelers Group announces an agreement to undertake the $ 76 billion merger between Travelers and Citicorp, and the merger is completed on October 8, of that year, forming Citibank.

* 1998 – In Japan, the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge linking Awaji Island with Honshū and costing about $ 3. 8 billion USD, opens to traffic, becoming the largest suspension bridge in the world.

The Congressional Budget Office reported budget surpluses of $ 69 billion in 1998, $ 126 billion in 1999, and $ 236 billion in 2000, during the last three years of Clinton's presidency.

In July 1998, the UDF-led government and the IMF reached agreement on a 3-year loan worth about $ 800 million, which replaced the 14-month stand-by agreement that expired in June 1998.

The project was scheduled to be completed in 1998 at an estimated cost of $ 2. 8 billion ( in 1982 dollars, US $ 6. 0 billion adjusted for inflation ).

Bunge remained a privately held company of 180 shareholders ( including the longtime controlling family interests ) and divested itself in 1998 of almost all its retail foods interests in favor of a greater role in international agribusiness and commodity markets ; by then the company's gross annual turnover had reached US $ 13 billion.

In 1998 the company acquired Dewar's scotch and Bombay Sapphire gin from Diageo for $ 2 billion.

Costa Rican colones (₡) per US $ 1 – 512. 11 ( September 4, 2010 ), US $ 1 – 559. 51 ( October 24, 2008 ), per US $ 1 – 500. 10 ( December 2007 ), 516. 78 ( November 2007 ), 506. 11 ( April 2006 ), 479. 57 ( July 2005 ), 299. 63 ( February 2000 ), 285. 68 ( 1999 ), 257. 23 ( 1998 ), 232. 60 ( 1997 ), 207. 69 ( 1996 ) and 179. 73 ( 1995 )

In 1998, U. S. support to Croatia came through the Southeastern European Economic Development Program ( SEED ), whose funding in Croatia totaled $ 23. 25 million.

Colombia planned to finance US $ 4 billion of the estimated US $ 7. 5 billion overall cost, most of which would go towards the social portion of the project, but was ultimately unable to do so due to the state's 1997 – 1998 economic crisis.

: New Zealand dollars ( NZ $) per US $ 1-1. 4203 ( 2005 ), 1. 9451 ( January 2000 ), 1. 8886 ( 1999 ), 1. 8632 ( 1998 ), 1. 5083 ( 1997 ), 1. 4543 ( 1996 ), 1. 5235 ( 1995 )

In 1998, Compaq acquired Digital Equipment Corporation for a then-industry record of $ 9 billion USD.

Rando, senior vice president and general manager of Compaq Services, who had been said to be the heir-apparent to Pfieffer ; his division had performed strongly as it had sales of $ 1. 6 billion for the first quarter compared to $ 113 million in 1998, which met expectations and was anticipated to post accelerated and profitable growth going forward.

In 1998 net official development assistance was US $ 135. 8 million ; in 2002 it reached US $ 217. 6 million.

The parties deferred this issue, and finally a settlement was reached in 1998, when the jurors awarded Coppola $ 20 million as compensation for losing the film project, Pinocchio.

Comptoirs Francais du Pacifique francs ( CFPF ) per US $ 1 – 95. 89 ( 2005 ), 96. 04 ( 2004 ), 105. 66 ( 2003 ), 126. 71 ( 2002 ), 133. 26 ( 2001 ), 117. 67 ( January 2000 ), 111. 93 ( 1999 ), 107. 25 ( 1998 ), 106. 11 ( 1997 ), 93. 00 ( 1996 ), 90. 75 ( 1995 ); note-linked at the exact official rate of 0. 055 French francs to one Pacifique franc.