The firm made no U. S. buys in 1998, but doubled its employee base with purchases including Spain's largest retail insurance broker, Gil y Carvajal, and the formation of Aon Korea, the first non-Korean firm of its kind to be licensed there.

Long-Term Capital Management ( LTCM ) lost 4. 6 billion U. S. dollars in fixed income arbitrage in September 1998.

In response to the 1998 al-Qaeda bombings of U. S. embassies in East Africa that killed a dozen Americans and hundreds of Africans, Clinton ordered cruise missile strikes on terrorist targets in Afghanistan and Sudan.

It reopened in 1998 with limited staff, but U. S. Agency for International Development ( USAID ) and Peace Corps missions previously operating in Bangui did not return.

In 1998, U. S. support to Croatia came through the Southeastern European Economic Development Program ( SEED ), whose funding in Croatia totaled $ 23. 25 million.

U. of North Carolina Press 1998.

In 1998, a United States federal district court in Virginia ruled that the imposition of mandatory filtering in a public library violates the First Amendment of the U. S. Bill of Rights.

* 1998 – Iraq announces its intention to fire upon U. S. and British warplanes that patrol the northern and southern no-fly zones.

* 1998 – Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U. S. state to abandon such a law.

* 1998 – First flight of RQ-4 Global Hawk, the first unmanned aerial vehicle certified to file its own flight plans and fly regularly in U. S. civilian airspace.

The American version was released on VHS by GoodTimes Entertainment ( which acquired the license of some of Universal's film catalogue ) in 1987, and then on DVD to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the film's U. S release in 1998.

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

On September 10, 1998, the U. S. Post Office issued a 32-cents stamp as part of its Celebrate the Century series recalling various important events in the 20th century.

Since then, gubernatorial elections have been offset by two years from U. S. Presidential elections ( e. g., Presidential elections were in 2000 and 2004, gubernatorial elections were in 1998 and 2002 ).

The chief reason why survivors have so far seen nothing of the $ 1. 25 billion Swiss settlement, reached in 1998, is that U. S. courts have yet to rule on a method of distribution.

A 1998 document by the U. S. State Department confirms that " 20-40 percent of Taliban soldiers are Pakistani.

A History of Finland's Literature (( U. of Nebraska Press, 1998 ) online edition

Irina Krush ( born December 24, 1983 ) is an American chess player who has won the U. S. Women's Chess Championship in 1998, 2007, 2010, and 2012.

At age 14 Krush won the 1998 U. S. Women's Chess Championship to become the youngest U. S. Women's Champion ever.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ( ICANN, ) is a nonprofit private organization headquartered in Los Angeles, California, United States, that was created on September 18, 1998, and incorporated on September 30, 1998 to oversee a number of Internet-related tasks previously performed directly on behalf of the U. S. government by other organizations, notably the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ( IANA ), which ICANN now operates.

On January 30, 1998, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration ( NTIA ), an agency of the U. S. Department of Commerce, issued for comment, " A Proposal to Improve the Technical Management of Internet Names and Addresses.

* 1998 – Lewinsky scandal: On American television, U. S. President Bill Clinton denies having had " sexual relations " with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

She has won or shared first in the chess tournaments of Hastings 1993, Madrid 1994, León 1996, U. S. Open 1998, Hoogeveen 1999, Siegman 1999, Japfa 2000, and the Najdorf Memorial 2000.

The radio broadcast of the September 8, 1937 Hollywood Bowl George Gershwin Memorial Concert, in which An American in Paris, also conducted by Shilkret, was second on the program, was recorded and was released in 1998 in a two-CD set.

* Jean-Pierre Changeux, Alain Connes, M. B. DeBevoise ( translator ): Conversations on Mind, Matter, and Mathematics, Princeton University Press, 1998, ISBN 978-0691004051

* In 1998, Benoît Lecomte was the first man to swim across the northern Atlantic Ocean without a kick board, stopping for only one week in the Azores.

Since 1998, Angola has successfully worked with the United Nations Security Council to impose and carry out sanctions on UNITA.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1998.

* Tim Puckett, the principal investigator of the Puckett Observatory World Supernova Search team, which has discovered over 200 supernovae since 1998.

A paper published at the same time as the 2009 classification proposed seven subfamilies for the families recognized in the very first APG classification of 1998.

The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group system ( APG ) of 1998 and APG II ( 2003 ) assigned the Alismatales to the monocots, which may be thought of as an unranked clade containing the families listed below.

However Juhanen ( 1992 ) is skeptical about an affiliation of Japanese to Altaic languages, while Róna-Tas ( 1998: 77 ) remarked that a relationship between Altaic and Japanese, if it ever existed, must be more remote than the relationship of any two of the Indo-European languages.

In 1998, the Modern Library ranked A Clockwork Orange 65th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.

Aztlan Underground appeared on television on Culture Clash on Fox in 1993, was part of Breaking Out, a concert on pay per view in 1998, and was featured in the independent films Algun Dia and Frontierlandia.

It was nominated in the New Times 1998 " Best Latin Influenced " category, the BAM Magazine 1999 " Best Rock en Español " category, and the LA Weekly 1999 " Best Hip Hop " category.

The American Film Institute operated the National Film Theatre in Washington D. C .' s Kennedy Center until 1998.

The popular AFI 100 Years … series, which ran from 1998 to 2008, and created jury-selected lists of America ’ s best movies in categories including Musicals, Laughs and Thrills, drove new generations to experience classic American films.

In the 1998 version, Alliaceae were a distinct family ; in the 2003 version, combining the Alliaceae with the Agapanthaceae and the Amaryllidaceae sensu stricto was recommended but optional ; in the 2009 version, only the broad circumscription of the Amaryllidaceae is allowed, with the Alliaceae reduced to a subfamily, Allioideae.

* Halbrook, Stephen P. ( 1998 ).

* 1998 – Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of reaching India.

* 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.

* 1916 – Phil Leeds, American actor ( d. 1998 )

* 1919 – Georgios Mylonas, Greek politician ( d. 1998 )

* 1998 – An earthquake in Slovenia, measuring 5. 6 on the Richter scale occurs near the town of Bovec.

* 1900 – David Manners, Canadian-American actor ( d. 1998 )