This treaty was prematurely exposed to public scrutiny and subsequently abandoned in November 1998 in the face of strenuous protest and criticism by national and international civil society representatives.

The London Assembly was the first of these, established in 2000, following a referendum in 1998, but further plans were abandoned following rejection of a proposal for an elected assembly in North East England in a referendum in 2004.

" When GEC put MES up for sale on 22 December 1998, BAE abandoned the DASA merger in favour of purchasing its British rival.

The last 1. 8 miles was abandoned by Union Pacific in 1998.

The merger plans were abandoned in February 1998 due to client opposition, antitrust issues, cost problems and difficulty of merging the two diverse companies and cultures.

Slated for release in late 1998, the project was abandoned just before completion, when Acorn's Workstation Division was closed.

Between 17 April 1998, when the police abandoned the investigation, and Shipman's eventual arrest, he killed three more people.

In 1992 a number of MPs registered an official complaint about this practice, with some commenting that it " has undoubtedly been retained to deter honourable Members from raising points of order during divisions by making them appear ridiculous and feel acutely embarrassed ".< Ref > Early day motion 1623 In 1998 it was recommended that the opera hat be abandoned, since " although some Members may feel that they look particularly fetching in it, it makes the House of Commons look ridiculous when someone wearing the hat is trying to raise a point of order from a seated position while everyone else is milling around and going to vote.

Barentsburg is the only remaining Russian settlement, after Pyramiden was abandoned in 1998.

In 1998 the monks abandoned the site, and it reverted to the Lovat family which in turn sold it to Terry Nutkins.

Although Realtime had abandoned the NSX program in 1998, the NSXs returned to the top class in 2001.

In March 1998, Arsenal made a bid to buy Wembley in hope of gaining a larger stadium to replace their Highbury ground which had a capacity of less than 40, 000 and was unsuitable for expansion, but the bid was later abandoned in favour of building the 60, 000 capacity Emirates Stadium which was opened in 2006.

In 1998, for reasons other than their technology base, SSA had to down-size dramatically, Newi development was halted then abandoned, and the development team ( around forty people in UK and USA ) was dispersed.

A joint press release in December 1997, followed by an announcement at an ARB meeting in early 1998 by SGI, announced that work on OpenGL ++ had been abandoned and SGI had partnered with Microsoft to produce a new system code-named " Fahrenheit ".

Grouse shooting on the moor was abandoned for the 1998 season onwards.

It was formally closed in June 1998, after being abandoned several years earlier and was replaced with a new housing development and Dashwood Primary School.

The youth league was for a time abandoned by the parent party, but was again formed as an independent organization in 1998.

( a revisit of the 1998 NSW Government announcement, which despite a detailed report in 2003 was abandoned earlier in 2010 by the NSW Kristina Keneally Government ).

He wrote a song (" A Little Soul " on This Is Hardcore ) about being abandoned by his father, and in 1998 travelled with his sister to Australia to meet him for the first time in nearly 30 years.

In 1998 NGS abandoned the Robinson projection in favor of the Winkel tripel projection for that use.

There were plans for the spacecraft to go on to an encounter with 21P / Giacobini-Zinner in 1998 but they had to be abandoned due to lack of propellant.

Adam's death, along with 1998 Winston Cup Rookie of the Year Kenny Irwin, Jr .' s at the same track ( on July 7, 2000 ) led NASCAR to mandate the use of a kill switch on the steering wheel and the adoption of the Whelen Modified Tour restrictor plate for the September Cup race ; the plate was abandoned after that race.

A short section on the waterfront of Lévis was abandoned on October 24, 1998, due to network rationalization, resulting in the CN main line between Charny and the east end of Levis running on former NTR trackage.

At Survivor Series 1998 — the first anniversary of the screwjob — McMahon's son Shane, a match referee, abandoned his on-screen rebellion against his father and allowed his father to screw Austin, by refusing to count Austin's pinfall against Mankind.

Apple abandoned work on QD3D after Steve Jobs took over in 1998, and announced that future 3D support would be based on OpenGL.

After the charge of monetary and exchange rate policies was shifted in 1998 to the European Central Bank, within the European institutional framework, the bank implements the decisions, issues euro banknotes and withdraws and destroys worn pieces.

In 1998, the bank was given responsibility for interest rate policy.

From 1970 until 1998, Jardine Matheson operated a pan-Asian investment banking joint venture, Jardine Fleming, with Robert Fleming & Co., a London merchant bank controlled by the Fleming family.

This recovery was interrupted twice, first by a banking crisis and the bankruptcy of Banka Baltija, Latvia's largest bank, in 1995 and second by a severe crisis in the financial system of neighbouring Russia in 1998.

* 1998: The Los Angeles Times staff, " for its coverage of a botched bank robbery, which led to a shootout with the police in North Hollywood.

A number of well-known people were educated at Dumfries Academy, among them Henry Duncan, founder of the world's first commercial savings bank, Sir James Anderson, who captained the SS Great Eastern on the Transatlantic telegraph cable laying voyages in 1865 and 1866, James Matthew Barrie, author of Peter Pan, missionary Jane Haining, international diplomat Alexander Knox Helm, John Laurie, actor ( Private Fraser in Dad's Army ), artist Robin Philipson, singer John Hanson, Alex Graham, cartoonist best known for the Fred Basset series and Jock Wishart, who in 1998 set a new world record for circumnavigating the globe in a powered vessel.

The house was bought by locally-born businessman Wensley Grosvenor Haydon-Baillie, who started a programme of restoration ; however a business failure caused it to be repossessed by a Swiss bank and put back on the market in 1998.

A year before the law was passed, Citicorp, a commercial bank holding company, merged with the insurance company Travelers Group in 1998 to form the conglomerate Citigroup, a corporation combining banking, securities and insurance services under a house of brands that included Citibank, Smith Barney, Primerica, and Travelers.

1998 saw Hawke appearing in Great Expectations, a contemporary film adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel, and collaborating for a second time with director Richard Linklater in The Newton Boys, based on the true story of the Newton Gang, a family of bank robbers from Uvalde, Texas.

In 1998 and 1999 Greenspan testified to Congress in opposition to the Clinton Administration proposal to permit national bank subsidiaries to engage in expanded securities and other activities.

As from 1 June 1998, the Dutch central bank, De Nederlandsche Bank N. V., forms part of the European System of Central Banks ( ESCB ).

In 1998 he was appointed president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and settled in London, where the headquarters of the bank is located.

The bank, which at the time was the second largest bank in Switzerland, merged with Swiss Bank Corporation in 1998, to become UBS to form what was then the largest bank in Europe and the second largest bank in the World.

Of the 808 bank robbery incidents between January 1998 and May 2002 in which the number of offenders involved in the hold-up was recorded, 55 % were committed by lone offenders, 25 % by pairs, and 20 % by three or more robbers.

ING Group expanded its international business through a number of acquisitions through the 1990s including Belgium bank Banque Bruxelles Lambert ( BBL ) in 1998, US based insurance company Equitable of Iowa and the commercial bank Furman Selz.

In 1998, the Banrisul incorporated the agencies of the old " Caixa Econômica " ( State Public, in English ) saving bank, consolidating its position of bigger net of distribution of the south of the country, besides becoming a retail bank.

Birthday Girl ( a 1998 film starring Nicole Kidman and Ben Chaplin ) features Hemel Hempstead prominently during scenes showing the main character going to and from his place of work ( a fictional bank somewhere in Bank Court ).

He returned to First Commercial Bank in Little Rock after his 1986 defeat as a business development executive until his retirement from the bank in 1998.

* ‘ Global Finance ’ gives central bank governor an A-bringing the total number of A ’ s he has received to six since 1998

Other major acquisitions included the Brazilian bank Banco Real in 1998 and the Italian bank Antonveneta in 2006.