One major partnership announced in 1998 paired AMD with semiconductor giant Motorola.

In June 1998, Buyoya promulgated a transitional constitution and announced a partnership between the government and the opposition-led National Assembly.

The CIRA continues to oppose the Belfast Agreement and, unlike the Provisional IRA ( and the Real IRA in 1998 ), the CIRA has not announced a ceasefire or agreed to participate in weapons decommissioning — nor is there any evidence that it will.

ClearType was first announced at the November 1998 COMDEX exhibition.

Collier's has not been in print since 1998 ; the Encyclopedia Americana was last published in 2006 and Britannica announced the discontinuation of its print editions in 2012.

In 1998, the Ericsson AXD301 switch was announced, containing over a million lines of Erlang, and reported to achieve a reliability of nine " 9 " s. Shortly thereafter, Erlang was banned within Ericsson Radio Systems for new products, citing a preference for non-proprietary languages.

With the Bombers looking towards a new era, it was announced on 27 September that Matthew Lloyd would replace James Hird as Essendon captain for the 2006 season, marking the end of Hird's reign since he took over the captaincy in 1998.

On October 28, 2010, Garth announced he would do his first " arena " concert in Nashville since 1998.

In 1998, Ashcroft briefly considered running for U. S. President ; but on January 5, 1999, he announced that he would not seek the presidency and would instead defend his Senate seat in the 2000 election.

Following a 1998 Arab League meeting in which fellow Arab states decided not to challenge U. N. sanctions, Gaddafi announced that he was turning his back on pan-Arab ideas, one of the fundamental tenets of his philosophy.

January 22, 1998 Netscape announced that it would be relicensing its source code for future development.

In a government-led initiative to connect the island in a high-speed broadband network using various mediums such as fibre, DSL and cable, the Singapore ONE project was formally announced in June 1996, and commercially launched in June 1998.

In 1998, SGI announced that future generations of its machines would be based not on their own MIPS processors, but the upcoming " super-chip " from Intel, code-named " Merced " and later called Itanium.

The Super-Kamiokande Collaboration announced the first evidence of neutrino oscillation in 1998.

In July 1998, Central Park Media announced they had licensed the manga for distribution in North America.

Leading up to the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, it was announced that NHL players would be eligible to play for the first time.

On October 27, 1998, Microsoft announced that the name of the final version of the operating system would be Windows 2000, a name which referred to its projected release date.

* Lewinsky scandal – US president Bill Clinton was caught in a media-frenzied scandal involving inappropriate relations with a White House intern Monica Lewinsky, first announced on 21 January 1998.

Observations announced in 1998 of distance – redshift relation for Type Ia supernovae indicated that the expansion of the universe is accelerating.

In response British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook announced on 12 February 1998 that in the interests of openness, he had commissioned the historians of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to prepare a historical memorandum on the Zinoviev Letter, drawing upon archival documents.

In October 1998, Netscape announced that its next browser would use Gecko ( which was still called NGLayout at the time ) rather than the old layout engine, requiring large parts of the application to be rewritten.

On November 20, 1998, Cendant announced the sale of its entire consumer software division to Paris-based Havas S. A. With this sale, Sierra became a part of Havas Interactive, the interactive entertainment division of the company.

In December 1998, a second attempt was announced by the Chechen Security Service, who discovered a container filled with radioactive materials attached to an explosive mine.

" In 1998, Rational Recovery announced, " The Recovery Group Movement is Over !... Beginning January 1, 1999, all addiction recovery group meetings for Rational Recovery in the United States, Canada, and abroad are hereby canceled and will not be rescheduled ever again, it's just a waste of time and is completely unproductive.

On August 11, 1998, Amoco announced it would merge with British Petroleum ( BP ) in the world's largest industrial merger.

As one law review article pointed out, the perception that the ADA primarily helps freeloaders was harshly satirized by The Onion in 1998 in the form of an article about the " Americans With No Abilities Act ".

At its inception in 1998, the Bluetooth SIG was primarily run by a staff effectively seconded from its member companies.

Inflation was steady before Robert Mugabe in 1998 began a program of land reforms that primarily focused on taking land from white farmers and redistributing those properties and assets to black farmers, which sent food production and revenues from export of food plummeting.

Three of these films, Constance ( 1998 ), Pink Prison ( 1999 ) and the adult / mainstream crossover-feature All About Anna ( 2005 ), were made primarily for a female audience, and were extremely successful in Europe, with the first two being directly responsible for the March 2006 legalizing of pornography in Norway.

In 1998 there was an estimated 16. 9 million hectares ( 41. 8 million acres ) of arable land and approximately 1. 9 million hectares ( 4. 7 million acres ) set aside for irrigation, primarily in the north of the country along the banks of the Nile and other rivers.

In 1998, Syria began a slow rapprochement with Iraq, driven primarily by economic needs.

Historically, political ecology has focused on phenomena in and affecting the developing world ; since the field ’ s inception, “ research has sought primarily to understand the political dynamics surrounding material and discursive struggles over the environment in the third world ” ( Bryant 1998, p. 89 ).

During 1998-2005, global ocean net primary productivity rose during 1998 followed by primarily decline during the rest of that period, although still slightly higher at its end than at its start.

During 1998-2005, global ocean net primary productivity rose during 1998 followed by primarily decline during the rest of that period, although still slightly higher at its end than at its start.

The company ’ s growth under WorldCom was fueled primarily through acquisitions during the 1990s and reached its apex with the acquisition of MCI in 1998.

In 1998, however, the US Congress authorized $ 97 million in U. S. military aid for Iraqi opposition via the Iraq Liberation Act, intended primarily for INC. ( Katzman, 1998 ).

Grim Fandango is a dark comedy neo-noir Windows adventure game released by LucasArts in 1998, primarily written by Tim Schafer.

A live album primarily featuring these new orchestral arrangements of the group's songs was released in 1998.

" Although a Human Effects Advisory Panel was established in 1998 to provide independent assessment on human effects, data, and models for the use of ' non-lethal weapons ' on the general population, the TECOM Technology Symposium in 1997 concluded on non-lethal weapons: " Determining the target effects on personnel is the greatest challenge to the testing community ," primarily because " the potential of injury and death severely limits human tests.

The Internet Network Information Center, known as InterNIC, was the Internet governing body primarily responsible for domain name allocations from 1972 until September 18, 1998 when this role was assumed by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ( ICANN ).

Graf stated after the match she was extremely nervous heading into match primarily because of how strongly Seles had started in their prior match at the 1998 Corel WTA Championships.

It was primarily during 1997 and 1998 that much of the city's roads, bridges and high rises were built.

The album, and cover were influenced by popular disaster movies around the time of the album's release in 1998, primarily Armageddon and Deep Impact.

1998 ; 133: 134-139 ), the bleeding time continues to be used by many clinicians, primarily surgeons.

When Scottish Aviation merged with British Aerospace as a result of the Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act, BAe maintained aircraft production at the site until 1998, primarily updates of the Jetstream line.

In 1998, Blockbuster created DEJ Productions which acquired 225 films primarily to provide exclusive content to its Blockbuster stores prior to being sold off to First Look Studios in 2005 .." During that same year, Blockbuster bought the Irish video rental store xtra vision, with over 200 stores in Ireland and the UK.

In his 1998 book Death Traps, Belton Cooper, who was a lieutenant in the 3rd Armored Division during World War II, working as a liaison officer for the division's armor repair units, made the claim that General George S. Patton was primarily responsible for delaying the development and production of the M26.

Dan Raymond " Quiz " Quisenberry (; February 7, 1953 – September 30, 1998 ) was an American right-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played primarily for the Kansas City Royals.

Many male Tamagotchi fans have criticised Bandai for marketing the recently released Tamagotchi Connection series ( 2004 – 2009 ) primarily towards a female audience, rather than to a unisex audience, as was the case of the original releases ( 1996 – 1998.