Other artists signed to the label would include Rhett Akins, Gary Allan, Mark Chesnutt, and Lee Ann Womack ; of these, all but Sears would be shifted to the MCA Nashville roster after parent Universal Music absorbed PolyGram in 1998 and shut down Decca Nashville.

The Decca label is currently in use by Universal Music Group worldwide ; this is possible because Universal Studios ( which officially dropped the MCA name after the Seagram buyout in 1997 ) acquired PolyGram, British Decca's parent company in 1998, thus consolidating Decca trademark ownership.

In 1998, Tarrant released a compilation album entitled Ultimate Party Megamix on PolyGram Television's record label.

In December 1998, PolyGram was acquired by Seagram, and Motown was absorbed into the Universal Music Group.

In 1998, Seagram acquired PolyGram from Philips and merged it with its music holdings.

In 1998 Seagram acquired PolyGram ( owner of British Decca ) from Philips and merged it with its music holdings.

In 1998, PolyGram was purchased by Seagram and absorbed into its Universal Music Group.

In 1998, the Seagram Company Ltd. of Canada purchased Deutsche Grammophon and PolyGram.

The present organization was formed when its parent company Seagram purchased PolyGram and merged it with Universal Music Group in 1998.

Following UMG's acquisition of PolyGram in 1998, Geffen Records and A & M Records were merged into Interscope.

In late 1998, PolyGram was bought by Seagram, which then absorbed the company into its Universal Music Group unit.

Universal Music Group ( the owner of American Decca ) acquired PolyGram in 1998 ; however, by this time, London Records had become a semi-independent label within the PolyGram group operated by Roger Ames.

After PolyGram took over British Decca, classical-music albums recorded by British Decca continued to be released on the London label in the U. S., with a logo similar to the Decca classical label logo, until American Decca owner MCA Records bought British Decca owner PolyGram in 1998, which formed Universal Music, after which they were all reissued on the original British Decca label in the U. S.

Verve Records became the Verve Music Group after PolyGram was merged with Seagram's Universal Music Group in 1998.

Discs, Mavers recording contract with the label was acquired by PolyGram and eventually expired in 1998.

Later that year, the duo signed with Island / PolyGram Records, which reissued Ringmaster in 1998.

Kerkorian soon expanded the company, purchasing Orion Pictures, The Samuel Goldwyn Company and Motion Picture Corporation of America from John Kluge's Metromedia in 1998, and a majority to the pre-1996 PolyGram Filmed Entertainment from its parent Philips, which was in process to sell PolyGram to Seagram.

* In Concert – India 1998 ( PolyGram India, 1999 )

PolyGram Filmed Entertainment ( PFE ) ( aka PolyGram Films and PolyGram Pictures ) was a film studio, founded in 1979 as an European competitor to Hollywood, but eventually sold to Universal Pictures in 1998 and folded in 1999.

The radio broadcast of the September 8, 1937 Hollywood Bowl George Gershwin Memorial Concert, in which An American in Paris, also conducted by Shilkret, was second on the program, was recorded and was released in 1998 in a two-CD set.

* In 1998, Benoît Lecomte was the first man to swim across the northern Atlantic Ocean without a kick board, stopping for only one week in the Azores.

Aztlan Underground appeared on television on Culture Clash on Fox in 1993, was part of Breaking Out, a concert on pay per view in 1998, and was featured in the independent films Algun Dia and Frontierlandia.

It was nominated in the New Times 1998 " Best Latin Influenced " category, the BAM Magazine 1999 " Best Rock en Español " category, and the LA Weekly 1999 " Best Hip Hop " category.

In the 1998 version, Alliaceae were a distinct family ; in the 2003 version, combining the Alliaceae with the Agapanthaceae and the Amaryllidaceae sensu stricto was recommended but optional ; in the 2009 version, only the broad circumscription of the Amaryllidaceae is allowed, with the Alliaceae reduced to a subfamily, Allioideae.

Following public demonstrations against Ter-Petrosyan's policies on Nagorno-Karabakh, the President resigned in January 1998 and was replaced by Prime Minister Robert Kocharyan, who was elected President in March 1998.

* The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty was signed October 4, 1991 and entered into force January 14, 1998 ; this agreement prevents development and provides for the protection of the Antarctic environment through five specific annexes on marine pollution, fauna and flora, environmental impact assessments, waste management, and protected areas.

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 ".

The Sir Alexander Fleming Building on the South Kensington campus was opened in 1998 and is now one of the main preclinical teaching sites of the Imperial College School of Medicine.

" In the 1998 film Deep Impact fictional astronaut Spurgeon " Fish " Tanner, portrayed by Robert Duvall, was described at a Presidential Press Conference as the " Last man to walk on the moon " by the President of the United States, portrayed by Morgan Freeman.

André Weil (; 6 May 1906 – 6 August 1998 ) was an influential French mathematician of the 20th century, renowned for the breadth and quality of his research output, its influence on future work, and the elegance of his exposition.

On March 9, 1995, Colangelo's group was awarded a franchise to begin play for the 1998 season.

The Diamondbacks ' first major league game was played against the Colorado Rockies on March 31, 1998, at Bank One Ballpark before a standing-room only crowd of 50, 179.

A memorial pipe organ in Convovation Hall, Acadia University is dedicated to the members of Acadia University killed during the First World War A book of remembrance in Manning Chapel, Acadia University was unveiled on 1 March 1998 through the efforts of the Wolfville Historical Society

In 1998 the 2, 000th DB7 was built, and in 2002 the 6, 000th, exceeding production of all previous DB models.

This treaty was prematurely exposed to public scrutiny and subsequently abandoned in November 1998 in the face of strenuous protest and criticism by national and international civil society representatives.

This was accompanied by reduction of poverty from 28 percent in 1978 to 9 percent in 1998 in China, and from 51 percent in 1978 to 26 percent in 2000 in India.

He was awarded the World Music Award for Best Selling Middle Eastern Artist three times: 1998 for album " Nour El Ain ", 2002 for album " Aktrr Wahed Byhbak 2001 " and 2007 for album " El Lillady ".

The CBS television sitcom Becker, 1998 – 2004, was more ambiguous.

They were later to turn against Kabila and backed a rebellion against him in August 1998.

Polian in turn hired Jim Mora to become the next head coach of the team and would go on to draft Tennessee Volunteer quarterback Peyton Manning, the son of New Orleans Saints legend Archie Manning, with the first overall pick in the 1998 draft.

PA cabinet minister Abdul Aziz Shaheen told the official PA newspaper, Al-Havat Al-Jadida, on January 4, 1998, " The Oslo accord was a preface for the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian Authority will be a preface for the Palestinian state which, in its turn, will be a preface for the liberation of the entire Palestinian land.

Sometimes the anti-Chinese attitudes turn violent, such as the May 13 Incident in Malaysia in 1969 and the Jakarta riots of May 1998 in Indonesia, in which more than 2, 000 people died, mostly rioters burned to death in a shopping mall.

Dench's more recent film career has garnered six Academy Award nominations in nine years for Mrs. Brown in 1997 ; her Oscar-winning turn as Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love in 1998 ; for Chocolat in 2000 ; for the lead role of writer Iris Murdoch in Iris in 2001 ( with Kate Winslet playing her as a younger woman ); for Mrs Henderson Presents ( a romanticised history of the Windmill Theatre ) in 2005 ; and for 2006's Notes on a Scandal, a film for which she received critical acclaim, including Golden Globe, Academy Award, BAFTA and Screen Actors Guild nominations.

In 1998 the monks abandoned the site, and it reverted to the Lovat family which in turn sold it to Terry Nutkins.

In 1998, Horn, Morley, and Dudley began talking about the original intent of the project, its relevance in 20th-century music, and the impending turn of a new century.

The posthumous memoir A Genius in the Family by Hilary and Piers du Pré later became the subject of the 1998 film adaptation Hilary and Jackie, directed by Anand Tucker, that in turn promoted the popularity of the memoir.

In an attempt to turn the tide in 1998, WD recruited the help of IBM.

A modern infield road course was constructed between 1998 and 2000, incorporating the western and southern portions of the oval ( including the southwest turn ) to create a

In early 1998, dozens of groups had their licenses revoked because they did not turn in their weapons or information about their personnel.

AccelGraphics in turn was acquired by Evans & Sutherland in 1998.

The BBC reported that relations with the United States took a turn for the worse in 1998, when US Vice President Al Gore stated at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation ( APEC ) conference hosted by Malaysia: Democracy confers a stamp of legitimacy that reforms must have in order to be effective.

As more were delivered ( 66 trains by 1998 ) they replaced earlier units on Hikari service and allowed the thus displaced 100 series units to finally in turn displace 0 series units on almost all services.

Across the turn of the third millennium, the school fell under darker clouds when, in the years following 1998, five UCC staff were accused of sexual abuse or of possessing child pornography ; three were convicted of some of the charges against them.

In 1988, it became part of the Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, which in turn became a division of Random House in 1998.

When Image in turn faced legal problems after publishing twelve issues, the title switched to Dark Horse Comics in 1998.

Subsequently it became the Institute of Investigation in Basic Sciences of the University Institute of Biomedical Sciences ( Instituto de Investigación en Ciencias Básicas del Instituto Universitario de Ciencias Biomédicas ) which in turn, was transformed into the Universidad Favaloro in August 1998.

In 1998, 70-year-old Dubble Bubble was acquired by Canadian company Concord Confections ; Concord, in turn, was acquired by Chicago-based Tootsie Roll Industries in 2004.

AATV was bought out by rival communications company Pearson Television in 1998, which, in turn, was acquired by RTL Group subsidiary FremantleMedia four years later ( at one time, one of the company's predecessors, Fremantle International, was the distributor of Goodson-Todman game shows internationally ).

Salas played in Italy for five years, three with S. S. Lazio ( 1998 – 2001 ), a key catalyst in helping turn around a Lazio team that hadn't won a Scudetto since the 1973 – 1974 season.

Three international conferences have been held over the recent period on urgent issues such as, " Caucasus in the context of world history " ( 1996 ), " Peaceful Caucasus " ( 1998 ), " Caucasus at the turn of the millennia ".

After the United Nations Security Council enforced sanctions against UNITA ( 29 October 1997 ) because of delays in the implementation of the Lusaka protocol and reluctance to demilitarize and turn over its strongholds, insecurity in Huambo increased gradually, especially in the second half of 1998.

In what would turn out to be his last fight, on October 3 of 1998 he lost his titles to Floyd Mayweather Jr. by an 8th round retirement.