** Carl Perkins, American musician ( d. 1998 )

In 1998 Perkins was asked by editor James Fallows to contribute a bi-weekly cartoon to U. S. News and World Report, but was fired less than six months later, reportedly at the direction of owner Mort Zuckerman.

Perkins received the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Journalism in 1998 and 2003.

Carl Lee Perkins ( April 9, 1932 – January 19, 1998 ) was an American rockabilly musician who recorded most notably at Sun Records Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, beginning during 1954.

Perkins died four months later, on January 19, 1998 at the age of 65 at Jackson-Madison County Hospital in Jackson, Tennessee from throat cancer after suffering several strokes.

In the 1980s, Perkins purchased Rolls Royce ( Diesels ) Ltd, to form Perkins Engines ( Shrewsbury ) Ltd. Perkins was sold off in 1998 by then owner LucasVarity to Caterpillar Inc., who were a major customer for their smaller and mid-sized engines ; Caterpillar was a major producer of large diesel engines for static and mobile application.

The law was slightly amended by the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Amendments of 1998 and the Higher Education Amendments of 1998.

In February 1998, with Perkins returned, the group released a single, " Hard Times " ahead of its album Over Easy in August.

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* Firestorm ( 1998 ) as Wynt Perkins

The radio telescope known as Big Ear was built on Perkins Observatory property and operated from 1963 to 1998.

In 1998 the Ohio State University formally ended its relationship with Ohio Wesleyan University and Perkins Observatory.

The Ohio State University Radio Observatory was a Kraus-type radio telescope located on the grounds of the Perkins Observatory at Ohio Wesleyan University from 1963 to 1998.

In 1998 Perkins was awarded an honorary doctorate of letters by the University of Western Sydney.

* Perkins, Pamela ( Oct. 31, 1998 ).

According to the Baptist Press, Perkins ' " concern about the influence of the homosexual movement " led to his involvement in the 1998 founding of the Louisiana Family Forum, a conservative faith-oriented, pro-life non-profit group.

* Perkins, George W. ( 1998 ).

These included portraits of Donald Bradman in 1989, Malcolm Turnbull in 1994, Graham Richardson in 1995, Tex Perkins in 1997, Gough Whitlam in 1998, Sir Les Patterson in 2000 and Robert Hughes in 2001.

Bruce Springsteen performed the song live in concert in 1998 as a tribute to Carl Perkins on news of his death.

Bevis is perhaps best known for the role of Ruth Perkins in The Young and the Restless, which she played in 1998 and 1999.

James A. Perkins ( October 11, 1911 – August 19, 1998 ) was the seventh president of Cornell University.

* 1998: Two days after the French football team became World Cup champions, huge celebrations took place nationwide.

The administration of President Andrés Pastrana Arango, when it took office on 7 August 1998, faced an economy in crisis, with the difficult internal security situation and global economic turbulence additionally inhibiting confidence.

One of Coronation Streets best known storylines took place in March / April 1998, with Deirdre Rachid being wrongfully imprisoned after a relationship with con-man Jon Lindsay.

He took a small but pivotal role as Andy Warhol in Basquiat, artist / director Julian Schnabel's 1996 biopic of Jean-Michel Basquiat, and co-starred in Giovanni Veronesi's Spaghetti Western Il Mio West ( 1998, released as Gunslinger's Revenge in the US in 2005 ) as the most feared gunfighter in the region.

He took office on August 10, 1998.

Constitutional changes enacted by a specially elected National Constitutional Assembly in 1998 took effect on August 10, 1998.

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.

In other areas of the West Bank, transfer of powers took place pursuant to the Israel-PLO 28 September 1995 Interim Agreement, the Israel-PLO 15 January 1997 Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron, the Israel-PLO 23 October 1998 Wye River Memorandum, and the 4 September 1999 Sharm el-Sheikh Agreement.

PLH's Carlos Roberto Flores took office on 27 January 1998, as Honduras ' fifth democratically elected President since free elections were restored in 1981, with a 10 % margin over his main opponent PNH nominee Nora Gúnera de Melgar ( the widow of former leader Juan Alberto Melgar ).

In 1998, Yukio Ninagawa produced an acclaimed version of Hamlet in the style of Nō theatre, which he took to London.

At the beginning of 1998 the Under Cover Music Group ( UCMG ) took over the rights to use the brand name of the label as well as the trade mark " Harthouse ".

He was succeeded as party president of the LDP and prime minister by Keizo Obuchi, who took office on 30 July 1998.

He also took a substantial role in Tony Scott's 1998 political thriller, Enemy of the State, in which Voight played Will Smith's stalwart antagonist from the NSA.

The new coalition government, under prime minister Victor Ciorbea remained in office until March 1998, when Radu Vasile ( PNŢCD ) took over as prime minister.

He took four wickets in a Second Test in Lahore that sealed the series 2-0, the last time Australia would win a Test in Pakistan until Mark Taylor's men in 1998, 37 years later.

Later in 1998, Crow took part in a live concert in tribute to Burt Bacharach, in which she contributed vocals on One Less Bell to Answer.

Since over 90 % of import transactions took place at the parallel rate, inflation took off, with 12-month inflation growing from 0. 5 % at the end of 1996, to 23 % at the end of 1998, and 113 % at the end of 1999.

In February 1998, a local company took cuttings from the Major Oak and began cultivating clones of the famous tree with the intention of sending saplings to be planted in major cities around the world.

COP 4 took place in November 1998 in Buenos Aires.

Hugo Chávez was elected president in December 1998 and took office in February 1999.

Alarmed FRY officials took several steps to tighten monetary policy in 1998, including ruling out a devaluation in the near term, increasing reserve requirements, and issuing bonds.

In 1998, Zambia took the lead in efforts to establish a cease-fire in the Democratic Republic of Congo ( DRC ).

* The Second Congo War ( 1998 – 2003 ) – took place largely in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.