The rainforest was also greatly destroyed from the forest fires of 1997 to 1998, which were started by the locals to clear the forests for crops and perpetuated by an exceptionally dry El Niño season during that period.

EU accession negotiations started on 31 March 1998, and concluded when Cyprus joined the organization as a full member in 2004.

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.

The tax regime which started in 1998 had a single rate but since September 2007 entered into a multiple rate regime.

This was started in 1998 to distribute that year's surplus prizes ; this additional contest has remained unchanged since then, even without the original reason for its existence.

Interest in letterboxing in the U. S. is generally considered to have started with a feature article in the Smithsonian Magazine in April 1998.

Von Trier's use of sexually explicit images in The Idiots ( 1998 ) started a wave of arthouse mainstream films with unsimulated sex, such as Catherine Breillat's Romance ( 1999 ), Baise-Moi ( 2000 ), Intimacy ( 2001 ), Vincent Gallo's The Brown Bunny ( 2003 ) and Michael Winterbottom's 9 Songs ( 2004 ).

The trial started on May 18, 1998 with the U. S. Justice Department and the Attorneys General of twenty U. S. states suing Microsoft for illegally thwarting competition in order to protect and extend its software monopoly.

In late 1998, the group started looking for Terminator X's permanent replacement.

The bombings started in 1998, and included nine bombings in 2000.

And, since the program has started in 1998, over 77, 000 scholarships have been granted.

The band started drifting back together in 1998. and officially re-formed to record a song for the soundtrack of Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, at the behest of the film's director ( and Hoffs ' husband ) Jay Roach.

However, this system has been sidelined following the initial 1998 election of current president Hugo Chávez, which started the Bolivarian Revolution.

The 1998 season started with a seven-game losing streak, and the Redskins finished with a 6 – 10 record.

A project at Brown University started by Jeff Stibel, James A. Anderson, Steve Reiss and others called Applied Cognition Lab created a disambiguator using WordNet in 1998.

* Construction started in 1998 on the International Space Station.

1998 ( MCMXCVIII ) was a common year that started on a Thursday.

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.

Williams and Chambers started writing the second album in Jamaica in early 1998.

In 1998, the Dakota pickup started production in a new plant in Campo Largo, Paraná by Mercedes-Benz, which belongs to its former partner Daimler AG.

In Russia in 1998 the Institute of the Human Brain ( Russian Academy of Sciences ) started a programme of stereotactic cingulotomy for the treatment of drug addiction.

In reality the train traffic started in 1997 and road traffic in 1998.

It was not started until 1998, and is still in the process of development.

The global recession of 1998, which started with the Asian financial crisis in July 1997, exacerbated Russia's economic crisis.

Davenport started 1998 by reaching the singles semifinals of the Australian Open, which was her second consecutive Grand Slam singles semifinal.

* 1998 – India conducts three underground atomic tests in Pokhran to include a thermonuclear device.

* 1998 – Nuclear Testing: Pakistan conducts an underground test in the Kharan Desert.

Retired LAPD Detective, Tom Lang, later talked about becoming Holmes ' undercover contact and handler while Lang was working as a vice squad officer during the 1970s and explained in the 1998 documentary Wadd: The Life and Times of John C. Holmes about working with Holmes and how Holmes would contact him with information about the underground porn industry as well as give him the names of various actors, actresses, directors and the financiers of the porn films and when they would be filmed.

In May 1998, India conducted five underground nuclear tests in Pokhran desert in Rajasthan.

* Chagai-II: Two days later, on 30 May 1998, Pakistan detonated a 6th nuclear device completing its own series of underground tests with this being the last test the two nations have carried out to date.

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 entire Gang Starr catalog, especially Step in the Arena ( 1990 ), Daily Operation ( 1992 ), Hard to Earn ( 1994 ) and Moment of Truth ( 1998 ) are well respected among underground rap fans and critics.

In 1998, the Prado annex in the nearby Casón del Buen Retiro was closed for a $ 10 million two-year overhaul that included three new underground levels.

In May 1998, they released dance remixes of their songs " I Won't Play The Fool " and " Follow Me " ( from their debut album ) which were underground club hits.

This underground station, which opened in 1998, is at the east end of the Red Line, and has a large parking garage.

The last element of the original project that was shelved in 1998, separate underground tracks across the Seoul metropolitan area, was re-launched in June 2008, when an initial plan with a long alignment and two new stations was announced.

Affleck's next few films, the underground movie Desert Blue ( 1998 ) with Kate Hudson, the black comedy Drowning Mona ( 1999 ) with Bette Midler, Jamie Lee Curtis, Neve Campbell, and Danny DeVito, and the 2001 horror movie Soul Survivors ( co-starring Luke Wilson ) were all critical as well as commercial failures.

Rounders is a 1998 film about the underground world of high-stakes poker.

It was during the time she was unable to record, that Watley says she was inspired by 4Hero whose 1998 album Two Pages exposed her to the underground electronic dance music out side of the mainstream ; she credits this inspiration for not retiring after the disappointment of how Flower was handled.

Dance remixes of " Follow Me " and " I Won't Play the Fool " were released in May 1998 and became popular in underground clubs.

* Big Pooh, MC from underground Hip Hop group Little Brother, graduated in 1998.

The imprint Tommy Boy Gospel was launched in 1998 under the direction of Max Siegel along with Marvie Wright and the Tommy Boy Black Label ( specializing in underground hip hop music ) and the Tommy Boy Silver Label ( specializing in dance music ).

Although a few Canadian hip hop artists did break through to mainstream success around 1990, and a few Canadian acts such as Maestro Fresh-Wes, Main Source and Dream Warriors even gained cult-status recognition internationally from the underground hip hop scene, through much of the following decade, Canadian hip hop acts experienced a slowdown without any significant artists breaking through to the mainstream — although many hip hop musicians continued to record and tour, not one Canadian hip hop song reached even the Top 100 on a Canadian pop chart between 1992 and 1998.

In early 1998, city planners began plans to renovate the plaza to create more paved surfaces for easier maintenance, with outdoor cafes, and more levels to the underground garage.

When Dilated debuted in 1998, they were an underground sensation creating a huge buzz about the man behind the beats.

Undergroove Records was founded as a British underground metal record label in 1998, the label has since become much more open minded releasing everything from the post-rock of Aereogramme to the trip hop influenced grooves of 27.

This program aired on local community access and documented the Flint underground music scene from 1989 to 1998.

Hospital's early drum and bass output earned the label an underground fanbase, but it was London Elektricity's " Song in the Key of Knife ", released in Spring 1998, that launched Hospital to the forefront of the scene.

X-Tripping, interviewee and research advisor on documentary on underground film and culture, Channel 4, 1998.