A digital text service had been available since the launch of digital terrestrial television in November 1998, but the BBC Text service was not publicly launched until November 1999, due to a lack of availability of compatible set-top boxes.

Colombia planned to finance US $ 4 billion of the estimated US $ 7. 5 billion overall cost, most of which would go towards the social portion of the project, but was ultimately unable to do so due to the state's 1997 – 1998 economic crisis.

The series premiered in Japan on TV Tokyo from April 3, 1998 until June 19, 1998, broadcasting only twelve episodes and a special due to its controversial content.

In 2002 the Prison Reform Trust warned that Dartmoor Prison may be breaching the Human Rights Act 1998 due to severe overcrowding at the jail.

Furthermore, Eritrea's diplomatic relations with Djibouti were briefly severed during the border war with Ethiopia in 1998 due to a dispute over Djibouti's intimate relation with Ethiopia during the war but were restored and normalized in 2000.

China instituted a ban on logging, beginning in 1998, due to the destruction caused by clearcutting.

In 1998, Grand Ayatollah Sistani of Iraq, issued a fatwā prohibiting University of Virginia professor Abdulaziz Sachedina from ever again teaching Islam due in part to Sachedina's writings encouraging acceptance of religious pluralism in the Muslim world.

The split between Aristide and Préval produced a dangerous political deadlock, and the government was unable to organize the local and parliamentary elections due in late 1998.

Kazakhstan's economy turned downward in 1998 with a 2. 5 % decline in GDP growth due to slumping oil prices and the August financial crisis in Russia.

Public revenues and exports collapsed in 1998 and 1999 due to the repercussions of the Asian financial crisis.

Average real economic growth leveled off to about 3. 5 % in 1996 – 99 due to the Asian financial crisis, the 1998 Russian financial crisis, and worsening commodity prices, especially copper and gold.

When Netscape acquired the website directory NewHoo in 1998, they re-branded it the Open Directory Project with the nickname " dmoz " ( Directory of Mozilla ) due to its similarity to the Mozilla project.

Arrivals from Asian countries dropped in 1998 and 1999 due to the regional economic downturn and the depreciation of many Asian currencies against the dollar, which made Palau's dollar-denominated prices more expensive.

His discovery, however, was not revealed until 1998 due to its top-secret classification, and Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman devised RSA independently of Cocks ' work.

Rugby Sevens was introduced into the Commonwealth Games in 1998 and is due to be added to the Olympic Games by 2016.

In 1999, a lawsuit was filed on her behalf against Outkast and LaFace Records due to their unauthorized use of her name in their 1998 song, " Rosa Parks ".

The use of silver in photography has rapidly declined, due to the lower demand for consumer color film from the advent of digital technology ; since 2007, of the 907 million ounces of silver in supply, just 117. 6 million ounces ( 13 %) were consumed by the photographic sector, about 50 % of the amount used in photography in 1998.

Growth slowed in 1998 – 2001, due to sluggish tourist and tuna sectors.

It was amended in September 1998 to allow direct election of the president and again in February 2001 due to EU admission requirements.

This friction has been due to disputes including the self annexation of the Hatay Province to Turkey in 1939, water disputes resulting from the Southeastern Anatolia Project, and Syria ’ s support for the outlawed Kurdistan Worker's Party ( PKK ) and the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia ( ASALA ), but relations have improved greatly since October 1998 ; when PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan was expelled by Syrian authorities.

In 1998 a vulnerability was described in SSH 1. 5 which allowed the unauthorized insertion of content into an encrypted SSH stream due to insufficient data integrity protection from CRC-32 used in this version of the protocol.

Butyl cyanoacrylate has been used medically since the 1970s outside the US, but, due to its potential to irritate the skin, the U. S. Food and Drug Administration did not approve its use as a medical adhesive until 1998 with Dermabond.

The ISC ended its activities in 1998 due to financial problems, though a website continued until 2005.

In 1969, critic Andrew Sarris commented that the success of the film had been largely due to " the inspired casting " of Leigh, and in 1998 wrote that " she lives in our minds and memories as a dynamic force rather than as a static presence.

In 1998 a book by U. S. anthropologist David Stoll challenged some of the details in Menchú's book, creating an international controversy.

In January 1998, after Lewinsky had submitted an affidavit in the Paula Jones case denying any physical relationship with Clinton, and attempted to persuade Tripp to lie under oath in the Jones case, Tripp gave the tapes to Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, and these tapes added to his ongoing investigation into the Whitewater controversy.

Despite President Clinton's optimism, the events of 1998 did not entirely resolve the controversy of the Charter.

In 1998, there was controversy over King's exclusion from a memorial to the Quebec Conference, which was attended by King, Roosevelt, and Churchill.

Sepp Blatter's 1998 election to the presidency of FIFA over UEFA President Lennart Johansson occurred amidst much controversy.

( See DePaul and Ramsey ( 1998 ) for a collection of current essays on the controversy over analysis as it relates to intuition and reflective equilibrium.

In 1998, Hull got involved in a controversy with the Russian media when he allegedly made pro-Nazi comments.

One article in 1998, proposing the existence of Rites of Same Sex Union ( in effect gay marriages ) in early Christian prayerbooks up to mediaeval times, caused a controversy.

Though it was superseded in large part, its repeal remained a matter of controversy until accomplished in the 1990s ( under the provisions of the 1998 Belfast Agreement ).

For instance, in 1998, Lott caused some controversy in Congress when as a guest on the Armstrong Williams television show, he equated homosexuality to alcoholism, kleptomania and sex addiction.

When Tripp discovered in January 1998 that Lewinsky had signed an affidavit in the Paula Jones case denying a relationship with Clinton, she delivered the tapes to Kenneth Starr, the Independent Counsel who was investigating Clinton on other matters, including the Whitewater scandal, the White House FBI files controversy, and the White House travel office controversy.

George attracted controversy in 1998 when he was widely reported to have made a statement to London newspaper executives implying that unemployment in the north of England was a price worth paying in order to preserve affluence in the south of the country.

He became a figure of controversy in 1998, when details of renovations carried out on his official residence were made public.

Carlton found itself at the centre of a major controversy about truthfulness in broadcast journalism in May 1998, when The Guardian carried a series of articles alleging the wholesale fabrication of a much-garlanded 1996 Carlton documentary, The Connection, which had purported to film the route by which heroin was smuggled into the United Kingdom from Colombia.

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.

The company became embroiled in controversy in 1998 after it was revealed it blocked Chris Patten's ( the last British governor of Hong Kong ) book East and West after a direct intervention by the then-CEO of News International, Rupert Murdoch.

Further controversy ensued in 1998 when it was discovered he was still using a full Senate office.

" After winning the AL Gold Glove at first base in both 1997 and 1998, Rafael Palmeiro won again in 1999 with the Texas Rangers while only appearing in 28 games as a first baseman ; he played in 128 games as a designated hitter that season, resulting in a controversy.

Recent guest speakers to the Denton campus have included Gloria Steinem, Frances " Sissy " Farenthold, and Oprah Winfrey who visited the campus in 1998 and 2005, and Khloé Kardashian spoke on the campus in 2012, amid controversy.

In 1998, the University of Central England was involved in a controversy when a book by Mapplethorpe was confiscated.

On February 28, 2004, two “ U. S. Bank ” logo signs were installed on the crown, amid controversy for their effect on the aesthetic appearance of the building, much like the previous First Interstate Bank logos were placed on the crown between 1990 and 1998.

In August 1998, the erection of some hundreds of additional smaller crosses outside Auschwitz, despite the opposition of the country's bishops, sparked intense controversy in the Polish Catholic and international Jewish community.

The harmony of unification in the 19th century gave way to three major divisions in the 20th century — the S. A. Hayden controversy and the formation of the Baptist Missionary Association of Texas in 1900, the fundamentalist / modernist controversy and the formation of the Premillennial Missionary Baptist Fellowship by J. Frank Norris in 1933, and the conservative / moderate controversy and the formation of the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention in 1998.