As a result, Switzer resigned as head coach in January 1998 and former Steelers offensive coordinator Chan Gailey was hired to take his place.

Albanian Socialist Party Chairman Fatos Nano was elected Prime Minister, a post which he held until October 1998, when he resigned as a result of the tense situation created in the country after the assassination of Azem Hajdari, a prominent leader of the Democratic Party.

As a result of this lockout the 1998 – 99 NBA season was reduced from 82 to 50 games ( 61 % of a normal season ), and the All-Star Game was cancelled.

Growth turned sharply negative in 1998 and 1999 as a result of the 1997 Asian financial crisis.

After being hit hard by El Niño in 1998, fisheries exports have recovered, and minerals and metals exports recorded large gains in 2001 and 2002, mostly as a result of the opening of the Antamina copper-zinc mine.

The economy stagnated from 1998 through 2001, the result of the century's strongest El Niño weather phenomenon, global financial turmoil, political instability, a stalled privatization program, increased government intervention in markets, and worsening terms of trade.

* Former U. S. President Bill Clinton was accused of perjury and as a result was impeached by the House of Representatives on 19 December 1998.

State Street Bank v. Signature Financial Group is the landmark case in which the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled ( July 23, 1998 ) that a computer algorithm can be patented to the extent that it produces " a useful, concrete and tangible result ".

Appearing in an episode of Horizon titled Psychedelic Science originally broadcast 5 April 1998, Bob Wallace said the idea for shareware came to him " to some extent as a result of my psychedelic experience ".

As a result, Criterion's 1998 DVD release of the film created much collector's interest.

The government of Northern Ireland was established as a result of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.

The practical result of this was to prevent a number of works from entering the public domain in 1998 and following years, as would have occurred under the Copyright Law of 1976.

The origins of the field in the 1970s and 1980s were a result of the development of development geography and cultural ecology ( Bryant 1998, p. 80 ).

In 1998, 16 % of the world's reefs died as a result of increased water temperature.

Partly as a result of these credits but also as a result of previous reforms, average GDP growth exceeded the population growth rate of 2. 8 % in 1997 ( 3. 5 %), 1998 ( 3. 9 %), 1999 ( 4. 7 %) and 2000 ( 4. 8 %).

The lower percentage of Mečiar's HZDS ( 20 %) compared to the 1998 result was due to internal disputes within the organization shortly before the election, which caused many traditional HZDS members to leave the party.

Helmut Kohl served as chairman until the party's electoral defeat in 1998, when he was succeeded by Wolfgang Schäuble ; Schäuble resigned in early 2000 as a result of a party financing scandal and was replaced by Angela Merkel, who remains the leader of the CDU to this day.

In the 1998 federal election, the CDU polled 28. 4 % and the CSU 6. 7 % of the national vote, which was the lowest result for CDU / CSU since 1949.

The last RUC officer to be killed as a direct result of the conflict died on the 6 October 1998, a month after he had been injured in a Red Hand Defenders pipe-bomb attack in Portadown.

Their successful methods inspired competition, with the result that early in 1998 both the SCP and the High-Z Supernova Search Team announced the surprising discovery that expansion is accelerating ; the cause was soon named dark energy.

During his tenure as prime minister, Brian Mulroney's close relationship with U. S. President Ronald Reagan helped result in both a landmark treaty on acid rain and the ratification of a free-trade treaty with the United States under which all tariffs between the two countries would be eliminated by 1998.

However, partly in response to the Asian financial crisis in 1998, China has been concerned that the mainland Chinese financial system would not be able to handle the potential rapid cross-border movements of hot money, and as a result, as of 2012, the currency trades within a narrow band specified by the Chinese central government.

As a result of a sting operation in April 1998, Flynt was charged with a number of obscenity-related offenses concerning the sale of sex videos to a youth in a Cincinnati adult store he owned.

To date no one has been killed as a result of an ELF or ALF action since both groups forbid harming human or non-human life .< ref name = rel > Bron Taylor ( 1998 ).

Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner, 1998.

* Turner, Val ( 1998 ) Ancient Shetland.

In 1998, Turner pledged to donate $ 1 billion of his then $ 3 billion to United Nations causes, and created the United Nations Foundation to administer the gift.

The United Nations Foundation started up in 1998 with a $ 1 billion grant from Ted Turner in order to support the United Nations in executing its programs worldwide.

According to Sybert, 1998 the data are inadequate to allow conclusions about phenotype-karyotype correlations in regard to cardiovascular malformations in Turner syndrome because the number of individuals studied within the less common karyotype groups is too small.

Sybert, 1998 found that more than 50 % of the cardiovascular malformations observed in her study of individuals with Turner syndrome were bicuspid aortic valves or coarctation of the aorta, alone or in combination.

So the risk of aortic dissection in Turner syndrome appears to be a consequence of structural cardiovascular malformations and hemodynamic risk factors rather than a reflection of an inherent abnormality in connective tissue ( Sybert, 1998 ).

* In 1998, Sir Nicholas Serota, director of Tate, conceived ' Operation Cobalt ', the secret and ultimately successful buyback of two of the Tate's paintings by JMW Turner that had been stolen from a German gallery in 1994.

* Turner, Adrian " Robert Bolt: Scenes from two lives " ( Hutchinson, London 1998 )

This television channel, that launched on April 18, 1998, was aimed at children ages 6 – 12 ; the network's main competition were Turner Broadcasting / Time Warner's Cartoon Network and Boomerang, and Viacom / MTV Networks ' Nicktoons.

This running joke culminated in a Friday the 13th all-night marathon during Halloween of 1998, where it was implied that Ted Turner was out to kill him.

Up until 1998, TNT would also show cartoons from the Turner library, such as The Flintstones, Scooby-Doo, the DePatie-Freleng Pink Panther cartoons, Dexter's Laboratory, The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest, among many others on a block called " TNT Toons ".

* Turner, Steve ( 1998 ).

* Bulldog Turner ( 1919 – 1998 ), American football player

* Touch And Go, a 1998 BBC Two drama, focused on a young couple, played by Martin Clunes and Zara Turner visiting a swinging club in order to reinvigorate their marriage.

In 1998, Chris Ofili won the annual Turner Prize.

de Monchaux was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1998.

Total Solar Eclipse Grid ( 1998 ), a set of which was included in his Turner Prize installation and is now in the permanent collection of the Tate, documents the spectacle of a solar eclipse.

In 1998, Ofili won the Turner Prize, and in 2003 was selected to represent Britain at the Venice Biennale of that year, where his work for the British Pavilion was done in collaboration with the architect David Adjaye.

* Turner Prize Winner 1998: Chris Ofili

In 1998 and 1999 there was some controversy over the decision by university authorities to sell the Turner Collection, a valuable collection of mathematical printed books including some which had belonged to – and had been heavily annotated by – Isaac Newton, in order to fund major improvements to the university library.

His first unpublished manuscript was shortlisted for the George Turner Prize in 1998 and the manuscript for Crossover was shortlisted in 1999.

* The George Turner Prize 1998 shortlist

In 1998, he covered the Nagano Olympics and the Goodwill Games for Turner, and in 2000, he covered the Sydney Olympics, again for NBC.

* 1998 in art-Death of Dick Bellamy, Dick Higgins, Wolf Vostell, John Krushenick, Chris Ofili wins the Turner Prize