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.

Traveling in the same social circles, the two men engaged in a 20-year mutual vendetta, as described by the Daily News in 1998: " They crossed paths often, in the midtown watering holes and at National Cartoonists Society banquets, and the city's gossip columns were full of their snarling public donnybrooks.

" In 1998, two years after the warning, the Clinton administration ordered several military missions to capture or kill bin Laden that failed.

In 1998, there had been two AM stations, two FM stations, and no shortwave stations.

From 1998 to 2011, the wild-card team has been assigned to play the division winner with the best winning percentage ( outside of their own division ) in one series, and the other two division winners meet in the other series.

From 1998 to 2011, the wild-card team has been assigned to play the division winner with the best winning percentage ( outside of their own division ) in one series, and the other two division winners meet in the other series.

In 1998, Steven Longbaugh and David Heritage, two American deckhands from a fishing boat based in California, were stranded on the island for three weeks.

Following the 1998 presidential election, Klerides tried to form a government of national unity, by including six ministers from Klerides ' Democratic Rally party, two ministers from the socialist EDEK, three from the Democratic Party ( who broke ranks with party leader Spyros Kyprianou ) and one from the United Democrats.

Daily strips have suffered as well, in 1910 the strips had an unlimited amount of panels, covering the entire width page, while by 1930 most " dailies " had four or five panels covering six of the eight columns occupied by a traditional broadsheet paper, by 1958 those four panels would be narrower, and those would have half of the space a 1910 daily strip had, and around 1998 most strips would have three panels only ( with a few exceptions ), or even two or one on an occasional basis, apart from strips being smaller, as most papers became slightly narrower.

Dr. Wijdicks studied 30 films ( made between 1970 and 2004 ) that portrayed actors in prolonged comas, and he concluded that only two films accurately depicted the state of a coma victim and the agony of waiting for a patient to awaken: Reversal of Fortune ( 1990 ) and The Dreamlife of Angels ( 1998 ).

Charles most notably presented the cult TV hit Robot Wars on BBC2 ( 1998 – 2003 ) and Channel 5 ( 2003 – 2004 ), from series 2 until its conclusion at series 7, which included two Extreme series and numerous ' specials '.

Colombia was a participant in the December 1994 and April 1998 Summits of the Americas and followed up on initiatives developed at the summit by hosting two post-summit, ministerial-level meetings on trade and science and technology.

Another example occurs in the 1998 film Waking Ned, when two of the film's characters, Jackie and Michael, are walking through a storm towards Ned's house.

Falaises près de Dieppe ( Cliffs near Dieppe ) has been stolen on two separate occasions: once in 1998 ( in which the museum's curator was convicted of the theft and jailed for five years and two months along with two accomplices ) and most recently in August 2007.

After the Panthers ' success in 1996, Capers led the Panthers through two disappointing seasons: a 7 – 9 season in 1997, and a 4 – 12 season in 1998 which resulted in Capers being fired after four seasons with the team.

The Cubs were swamped by media attention in 1998, and the team's two biggest headliners were Sosa and rookie flamethrower Kerry Wood.

Neil Finn released two solo studio albums, Try Whistling This ( 1998 ) and One Nil ( 2001 ), as well as two live albums, Sessions at West 54th ( 2000 ) and 7 Worlds Collide ( 2001 ).

A 1998 case study found that users would consult the help menu for an average of two or three screens, abandoning the assistance if desired results weren ’ t found by that time.

Three regional electricity distribution systems were privatized in 1998 via sale of 50 % of shares to foreign operators ; the Mejía administration repurchased all foreign-owned shares in two of these systems in late 2003.

Gailey led the team to two playoff appearances with a 10 – 6 record in 1998 and an NFC East championship, but the Cowboys were defeated in the playoffs by the Arizona Cardinals 20-7 ; after an 8 – 8 season in 1999 ( during which Irvin suffered a career-ending spinal injury in a loss to the Philadelphia Eagles ) ending in another playoff loss ( this time to the Minnesota Vikings 27-10 ), he was fired and became the first Cowboys coach who did not take the team to a Super Bowl.

No presidential candidate obtained a majority, so a run-off election between the top two candidates-Quito Mayor Jamil Mahuad of the DP and Social Christian Álvaro Noboa Pontón-was held on July 12, 1998.

( 1998 ) polled labor economists at the top 40 research universities in the United States on a variety of questions in the summer of 1996.

According to the Good Universities Guide to Australian universities, starting salaries for Macquarie graduates have been ranked as the highest in Australia for ten consecutive years ( 1998 – 2007 ) and in 2009, the university received 5 star ratings in six different performance categories including non-government earnings, staff qualifications and toughness of admissions.

SFU has been rated as Canada's best comprehensive university ( in 1993, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 ) in the annual rankings of Canadian universities in Maclean's magazine since 1991.

* In 1998, Technion successfully launched the " Gurwin TechSat II " microsatellite, making Technion one of five universities with a student program that designs, builds, and launches its own satellite.

In 1998, with the approval of the State Council, the new Zhejiang University was established as a combination of four major universities that had grown up in Hangzhou over the previous half-century, namely Zhejiang University, Hangzhou University, Zhejiang Agricultural University and Zhejiang Medical University.

Since the 1997 – 1998 season, UGA has seven top ten rankings in the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics ( NACDA ) Directors ' Cup, a numerical ranking based on the success of universities in all varsity sports.

However, since 1998 universities have also been directly funding these positions, which led to a significant increase of positions available.

In 1998, Uninett FAS was established as a subsidiary to manage the technical network and service infrastructure Uninett had established, including operation of the network systems for the universities and colleges.

The show ran for four seasons from 1998 to 2002, with each season corresponding to the traditional freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior years students attend at universities.

Previous to 1998 membership of Students ' Associations was compulsory at all public Tertiary Education providers ( universities, polytechnics and colleges of education ).

SIIT is one of a very small number of universities that can secure numbers of Thailand Research Fund's Royal Golden Jubilee grants, considered to be the country's most prestigious research grants for PhD students, for every single year since the program began in 1998 — one of the only three that can secure Engineering discipline grants that often.

Tuition fees were first introduced across the entire United Kingdom in September 1998 as a means of funding tuition to undergraduate and postgraduate certificate students at universities, with students being required to pay up to £ 1, 000 a year for tuition.

The annual event, known since 1998 as " An Evening of Stars: A Celebration of Educational Excellence ", consists of stories of successful African-American students who have benefited from and / or graduated from one of the many historically black colleges and universities who receive support from the UNCF, along with musical performances from various recording artists in support of the UNCF's and Rawls ' efforts.

Graduates of other universities may wear the academic dress of those universities on ' scarlet days ', unless they are university officials or participating in a degree ceremony, but this has only been permitted since 1998.

It was proposed by former British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown in the summer of 1998, who wanted to bring the entrepreneurial spirit of MIT to British universities.

He went to Essex and Leningrad universities for his postgraduate work, and taught at Keele and the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, which later joined University College London, before joining Oxford University in 1998, where he currently teaches.

In 1985, the college changed its name to Wuhan University of Technology, which later passed the evaluation of " State 211 Project " in 1996 and entered into the direct administration of the Ministry of Education in 1998 before its merge with the other two universities in May 2000.

In his 1998 paper Digital Diploma Mills, Noble writes: " universities are not only undergoing a technological transformation.

Numerous tours, interviews and television appearances have followed, and Baylis has been awarded many honours including the OBE in 1997, and eleven honorary degrees from UK universities ( 1998 to 2005 ) including the degree of Doctor of the University from the Open University in 2001.

In 1998, $ 9 million was set aside to fund the NASA Astrobiology Institute ( NAI ), an interdisciplinary research effort using the expertise of different scientific research institutions and universities from across the country, centrally linked to Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California.

In 2000 Equitrac acquired Software Metrics Inc. based in Waterloo, Ontario, near several universities with strong software programming curricula, who had been working with Equitrac since 1998 under a technology licensing agreement.

After the bankruptcy of the university in 1998, the liquidation of assets yielded $ 3 million in funds for the formation of the Phillips University Legacy Foundation ( PULF ), which awards annual scholarships to undergraduate students attending Disciples of Christ-related colleges and universities.

In 1989 Hans Albert was discharged from active service as Professor Emeritus but continued writing books and giving lectures at many universities, such as the 1990 lectures at the University of Graz on Critical Rationalism, the 1995 ' Walter Adolf Lectures ' at the Hochschule St. Gallen, and the 1998 Wittgenstein-Lectures at the University of Bayreuth ( with Prof. Rainer Hegselmann ) about Critical Rationalism.