The downfall in this system began on August 17, 1998, when Russia defaulted on its ruble debt and domestic dollar debt.

Since the retirement of Cal Ripken Jr. in 2001, the Orioles began a downward spiral, compiling a losing record in every season between 1998 and 2011.

However, after 1998, it began to describe the drink as Cuba Libre – literally translated as " Free Cuba " which is the original name of the drink and how it's mostly called in Latin America.

There have been eight series sweeps since interleague play began: four by the Cubs in 1998, 2004, 2007, and 2008, and four by the White Sox in 1995, 2008, and 2012.

C ' mon Digimon spawned the popular Digimon Adventure V-Tamer 01 manga, written by Hiroshi Izawa, which began serialization on November 21, 1998.

Recovery began in the 1990s, but growth has been constrained by the lack of suitable hotels and other infrastructure, despite a boom in construction of small and medium-sized hotels and restaurants, and by the impact of drought, the 1998 – 2000 war with Eritrea, and the specter of terrorism.

On the other hand, Michael K. Richardson, Professor of Evolutionary Developmental Zoology, Leiden University, while recognizing that some criticisms of the drawings are legitimate ( indeed, it was he and his co-workers who began the modern criticisms in 1998 ), has supported the drawings as teaching aids, and has said that " on a fundamental level, Haeckel was correct "

This ambiguity began in 1998 when people started to use the term “ open source software ” rather than “ free software .” People in the community of free software used these separate terms as a way to differentiate what they did.

Programming on GnuCash began in 1997, and its first stable release was in 1998.

Also in 1998, local assembly of the Vectra began at Elizabeth, South Australia.

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.

The Colts began to improve towards the end of the 1998 season and showed continued growth in 1999.

The rivalry truly began heating up with the 1998 draft and the selections of Peyton Manning by the Colts and the ill-fated Ryan Leaf by the Chargers.

Based on information uncovered by the FBI in the 1998 United States embassy bombings case, the National Security Agency ( NSA ) began tracking the communications of Hada, Mihdhar's father-in-law.

In the 1998 elections, the Latvian party structure began to consolidate with only six parties winning seats in the Saeima.

As such the only major carrier on its territory is Interdnestrcom or IDC who began its operation in 1998.

Some began to return in 1998, but lack of housing limited the number.

After leaving ADM in August of 1995, Whitacre was hired as the CEO of Future Health Technologies ( FHT ), which soon thereafter FHT was renamed Biomar International, and he worked at Biomar until his incarceration began during early 1998.

Search engines began dropping support for metadata provided by the element in 1998, and by the early 2000s, most search engines had veered completely away from reliance on elements.

In June 1998, Nepal submitted its memorandum on a foreign trade regime to the World Trade Organization and in May 2000 began direct negotiations on its accession.

In September 2005, Nigeria, with the assistance of the World Bank, began to recover US $ 458 million of illicit funds that had been deposited in Swiss banks by the late military dictator Sani Abacha, who ruled Nigeria from 1993 to 1998.

Starting in 1998, experiments began to show that solar and atmospheric neutrinos change flavors ( see Super-Kamiokande and Sudbury Neutrino Observatory ).

Based on information uncovered by the FBI in the 1998 United States embassy bombings case, the National Security Agency ( NSA ) began tracking the communications of Mihdhar's father-in-law Ahmad Muhammad Ali al-Hada, who was facilitating al-Qaeda communications, in 1999.

In 1998, the NBA owners began a lockout which lasted 191 days and was settled on January 18, 1999.

The rebellion began in early 1989, active hostilities ended with a truce in October 1997 and a permanent ceasefire was signed in April 1998.

It is speculated by some intelligence agencies that North Korea is developing an ICBM ; two tests of somewhat different developmental missiles in 1998 and 2006 were not fully successful.

* 1998: John Gearhart ( Johns Hopkins University ) extracted germ cells from fetal gonadal tissue ( primordial germ cells ) before developing pluripotent stem cell lines from the original extract.

After the test, India continued expanding its nuclear power capacity and developing its nuclear physics programme, but made no further nuclear tests until 1998.

Armstrong and Baron ( 1998 ) defined it as a “ strategic and integrated approach to increase the effectiveness of companies by improving the performance of the people who work in them and by developing the capabilities of teams and individual contributors .”

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 ).

Fourdan continued developing the project, and in 1998, Xfce 2 was released with the first version of Xfce's window manager, Xfwm.

* Deputy Chairman and a director of British American Tobacco ( BAT ) ( 1998 – 2007 ), for which Clarke faced allegations relating to activities of BAT in lobbying the developing world to reject stronger health warnings on cigarette packets and evidence that that corporation had been involved in smuggling and targeting children with advertisements.

Later bilateral arrangements with individual NATO powers ( 1959 – 1983 ), the Military Training Assistance Plan, which has trained aircrews from developing countries since 1964 and NATO Flying Training in Canada ( NFTC ), since 1998, a partnership of the Canadian Forces, Bombardier Aerospace Corporation and participating air forces.

Its members, DJ Babu from the DJ crew Beat Junkies ; Evidence ; and Rakaa joined together in 1992 and released " Third Degree " ( 1997 ) and " Work the Angles " ( 1998 ) on ABB Records, developing a solid fan base in the underground hip hop community.

The museum underwent a £ 16 million refurbishment in 1998, developing a new digital technology gallery and now hosts the BBC's Bradford offices, and studios for BBC Radio Leeds and the BBC Bradford and West Yorkshire Website.

On 17 September 1998, Acorn finished a review of its business and decided to close the ' Workstation Division ', the department developing Phoebe 2100, and all work stopped.

During the filming of Treehouse Hostage in August 1998, Varney started developing a bad cough.

On its introduction in the spring of 1998, the Arnage was available as a single model with this BMW V8 engine, with twin turbochargers, developing some and of torque.

Secure Digital Music Initiative ( SDMI ) was a forum formed in late 1998, composed of more than 200 IT, consumer electronics, security technology, ISP and recording industry companies, ostensibly with the purpose of developing technology specifications that protected the playing, storing and distributing of digital music.

Having initially offered his resignation Graham Turner went on to purchase the majority shareholding in the club in 1998 from the previous regime of Peter Hill and Robin Fry who left the club with debts of £ 1 million owed to a developing company which also controlled the leases on the stadium.

The PWG Report also emphasized the desire to “ maintain U. S. leadership in these rapidly developing markets ” by discouraging the movement of such transactions “ offshore .” In the 1998 Congressional hearings concerning the CFTC “ concept release ” Representative James A. Leach ( R-IA ) had tied the controversy to “ systemic risk ” by arguing the movement of transactions to jurisdictions outside the United States would replace U. S. regulation with laxer foreign supervision.

Since 1998, the Saemaul Movement has entered into the second phase, focusing on new issues such as enhancing voluntary services in the community and international cooperation with developing countries.

Cole faced competition from new signing Dwight Yorke, Teddy Sheringham and Ole Gunnar Solskjær during the 1998 – 99 season but ended up developing an immensely successful partnership with Yorke.

It was released in mid 1998 and cemented Nvidia's reputation as a worthy rival within the developing consumer 3D graphics adapter industry.

Shanahan's run-heavy variation of the offense, under the leadership of offensive coordinator and innovator Gary Kubiak, is also known for utilizing previously unheralded running backs, including 1998 NFL MVP Terrell Davis, and developing them into league-leading rushers behind small, yet powerful, Zone Blocking offensive lines.

Through an undisclosed deal with Electronic Arts UK, most of the development staff, and the game they were developing ( which was close to completion ) – Warhammer: Dark Omen – was moved to EA's offices in Guildford, Surrey, and released in early 1998.

The architects and Disney team developing a new " safari lodge " borrowed Johnson films from the museum in 1997 and 1998 for research and inspiration.

His book Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists was the first published account of the Manhattan Project and the German atomic bomb project, and its first Danish edition included a passage which implied that the project had been purposely dissuaded from developing a weapon by Werner Heisenberg and his associates ( a claim strongly contested by Niels Bohr ), and lead to a series of questions over a 1941 meeting between Bohr and Heisenberg in Copenhagen, Denmark, which was later the basis for Michael Frayn's 1998 play, Copenhagen.

The Atlantic hurricane season officially began on June 1, 1998, with the first tropical cyclone developing on July 27.

* Wyrm ( 1998 ), a novel by Mark Fabi, deals with a virus developing emergent intelligence on the Internet.