But the hearings also gave new life to the Urban Land Institute's 1998 redevelopment ideas, and formally adopted them as a tentative design plan for L ' Enfant Promenade.

In 1998, Gilley and Burnett reported " only tentative signs that the Magarac story has truly made a substantive transformation from ' fake -' into ' folklore '", but noted his importance as a local cultural icon.

* 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.

* 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.

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.

An attempt to increase majority elements by tweaking the system parameters ( more smaller districts, d ' Hondt method used ) by ČSSD and ODS during their " opposition agreement " 1998 – 2002 was vehemently opposed by smaller parties and blocked by the Constitutional Court as going too much against the constitution-stated proportional principle ; only a moderated form was adopted.

Individual Sudeten German claims for restitution of property confiscated in connection with their expulsion after World War II ; agreement with Slovakia signed 24 November 1998 resolves issues of redistribution of former Czechoslovak federal land.

In 1998 an agreement was signed between Portugal and Guinea-Bissau for construction of railway to Guinea.

The firm's master hedge fund, Long-Term Capital Portfolio L. P., collapsed in the late 1990s, leading to an agreement on September 23, 1998 among 14 financial institutions for a $ 3. 6 billion recapitalization ( bailout ) under the supervision of the Federal Reserve.

In 1998 Moldova contributed to the founding of GUAM, a regional cooperation agreement made up of Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova.

* 1998 – A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives " Unabomber " Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty.

* 1998 – Exxon and Mobil sign a $ 73. 7 billion USD agreement to merge, thus creating Exxon-Mobil, the world's largest company.

* 1998 – Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat reach a " land for peace " agreement.

After several legal confrontations, the parties settled their claims in 2006, partially re-negotiating the 1998 licensing agreement, which allows Stainbrook and Staind the right to use the trademark in certain areas.

Since the devastation unleashed by Hurriance George in 1998, Cuba entered a humanitarian agreement with Haiti whereby Haitian doctors would be trained in Cuba, and Cuban doctors would work in rural areas.

Tensions have since lessened, especially after the signing of a 1998 agreement on border peace and tranquility, the first bilateral agreement between China and Bhutan.

Despite the general agreement among film critics regarding these political connotations of the film, lead actor Kevin McCarthy said in an interview included on the 1998 DVD release that he felt no political allegory was intended.

In 1998 the two countries began talks on a free-trade agreement.

* On December 24, 1998, USC entered into a transition agreement with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ICANN, transferring the IANA function to ICANN, effective January 1, 1999, thus making IANA an operating unit of ICANN.

In 1998, the governments of the United States and Singapore signed an agreement laying the foundation of the Peace Carvin III program.

AT & T discontinued InterNIC services on March 31, 1998 after their cooperative agreement with NSF expired.

Even though German spelling was already more consistent than English or French spelling, the German speaking countries signed an agreement on spelling reforms in 1996 ; these were planned to be gradually introduced beginning in 1998 and fully in force by 2005.

Beginning in 1998, after Puntland was formed, Sanaag was one of the regions of Puntland, with Sanaag elected politician given the Speaker of the House position in a power sharing agreement.

In 1998 American Stores RxAmerica division and Longs Drug Stores Integrated Health Concepts ( IHC ) division agreed to merge their Pharmacy Benefits Management ( PBM ) ventures.

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

In 1998, Quinnipiac Council and Fairfield County Council voted to merge the two Councils to create the Connecticut Yankee Council.

In 1998, Riverwood residents rejected a ballot initiative to merge into the city of Indian Hills, Kentucky along with three other small cities.

It also used the Esso brand in New York and the six New England states, where the Standard Oil Company of New York ( Socony-Vacuum, later Socony-Mobil ) had the rights, but did not object to the New Jersey company's use of the trademark ( the two companies did not merge until 1998 ).

In May 1998, Ameritech announced its intent to merge with SBC Communications.

There was an attempt by CIBC to merge with the Toronto-Dominion Bank in 1998.

In 1998 Bank of Montreal shocked the Canadian financial community by announcing plans to merge with RBC.

In January 1998 it was announced that Sibneft would merge with Mikhail Khodorkovsky's Yukos to create the third-largest oil company in the world.

In 2000, Wassall plc was acquired in order to merge Thorn Lighting Group with the luminaire business of the Zumtobel Group ( 1998 Thorn Lighting Group is acquired by Wassall plc.

Before the airlines could fully merge, the holding company and its two independently operated airlines, Pan Am and Carnival, filed for bankruptcy protection and ceased scheduled flight operations in February 1998.

In 1998, after losing one of their primary sponsors, it was announced that crosstown rivals Yokohama Flügels would merge with Marinos.

The municipality was created in 1998 when 11 out of the 12 municipalities in Skagafjörður held votes on whether they should merge or not.

However, falling demand in the late 1990s led Pearson to fully merge Ladybird into its Penguin Books subsidiary in 1998, joining other household names in British children's books such as Puffin Books, Dorling Kindersley, and Frederick Warne.

After the 1997 season in Australia the Super League war came to an end, with News International and the Australian Rugby League agreeing to merge their competitions to create the National Rugby League, which commenced in 1998.

The decision to merge the two stations together operationally was made in 1998 and the Wey Valley service was renamed Delta, and then in 2000, the Haslemere licence ( which had previously been a part of the Surrey and North East Hampshire franchise ) was merged with the Alton licence to finally form a single radio station.

In 1985, the college changed its name to Wuhan University of Technology, which later passed the evaluation of " State 211 Project " in 1996 and entered into the direct administration of the Ministry of Education in 1998 before its merge with the other two universities in May 2000.

In late 1998 or early 1999, in the season five premiere " The Unstuck Man ", Quinn and his brother Colin were unwillingly used in an experiment by Dr. Oberon Geiger to merge people and parallel worlds together.

By 1998, the two leagues would merge under the Ontario Provincial banner with 37 teams under its belt.

Regal and United Artists had attempted to merge before, in 1998, using a similar method.

In June 1998, Atlantis Communications announced that it planned to merge with Alliance Communications, another fellow television and film producer and broadcaster, owners of History Television and Showcase at the time, to form a new company called Alliance Atlantis Communications.

In August 1998, GEC acquired the 40 % stake of Siemens in GPT ( by now only exist as a legal entity ), and merge into its newly founded subsidiary-Marconi Communications.