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 1981, a split-season format forced the first ever divisional playoff series, in which the New York Yankees won the Eastern Division series over the Milwaukee Brewers ( who were in the American League until 1998 ) in five games while the Oakland Athletics swept the Kansas City Royals in three games in the Western Division.

Pendragon ( acquired in 1998 by Green Knight Publishing, and 2005 by White Wolf ), while related, has sufficiently different mechanics that it can be seen as a separate system.

The reincorporation of Cuba as an active member had arisen regularly as a topic within the inter-American system ( e. g., it was intimated by the outgoing ambassador of Mexico in 1998 ) but most observers did not see it as a serious possibility while the Socialist government remained in power.

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.

In 1998, 10 % of the richest population had 42. 5 % of income, while 10 % of the poor had only 0. 6 % of income.

On the other hand, Michael K. Richardson, Professor of Evolutionary Developmental Zoology, Leiden University, while recognizing that some criticisms of the drawings are legitimate ( indeed, it was he and his co-workers who began the modern criticisms in 1998 ), has supported the drawings as teaching aids, and has said that " on a fundamental level, Haeckel was correct "

Coleman was charged with assault in 1998, while he was working as a security guard.

This may even lead to an institutional variability, as in North Korea, where, after the presidency of party leader Kim Il-Sung, the office was vacant for years, the late president being granted the posthumous title ( akin to some ancient Far Eastern traditions to give posthumous names and titles to royalty ) of " Eternal President " ( while all substantive power, as party leader, itself not formally created for four years, was inherited by his son Kim Jong Il, initially without any formal office ) until it was formally replaced on 5 September 1998, for ceremonial purposes, by the office of Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, while the party leader's post as Chairman of the National Defense Commission was simultaneously declared " the highest post of the state ", not unlike Deng Xiaoping earlier in the People's Republic of China.

In King Leopold's Ghost ( 1998 ), Adam Hochschild argues that literary scholars have made too much of the psychological aspects of Heart of Darkness while scanting the horror of Conrad's accurate recounting of the methods and effects of colonialism.

* 1998 – During a historic visit to Cuba, Pope John Paul II demands the release of political prisoners and political reforms while condemning US attempts to isolate the country.

" Richard Holmes, in 1998, declared the importance of the poem's Preface while describing the reception of the 1816 volume of poems: " However, no contemporary critic saw the larger possible significance of Coleridge's Preface to ' Kubla Khan ', though it eventually became one of the most celebrated, and disputed, accounts of poetic composition ever written.

" In December 1998, while DJ ' ing at a club he met and became friends with MTV host Carson Daly.

" In 1998, while her husband was afflicted with Alzheimer's disease, Nancy told Vanity Fair, " Our relationship is very special.

* Similarly, Daniel Wallace's Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions ( 1998 ) adapts the epic to the American South, while also incorporating tall tales into its first-person narrative much as Odysseus does in the Apologoi ( Books 9-12 ).

More recently, Lass ( 1998 ) writes that phonology refers broadly to the subdiscipline of linguistics concerned with the sounds of language, while in more narrow terms, " phonology proper is concerned with the function, behaviour and organization of sounds as linguistic items ".

Pol Pot died in 1998 while under house arrest by the Ta Mok faction of the Khmer Rouge.

The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 ( Public Law 105-85 ) changed the criteria to delete authorization for award of the Purple Heart to any civilian national of the United States while serving under competent authority in any capacity with the Armed Forces.

After the bodies were exhumed in June 1991, they sat in laboratories until 1998, while there was a debate as to whether they should be reburied in Yekaterinburg or St. Petersburg.

The Central Intelligence Agency supported a variety of covert actions designed to depose Saddam Hussein, while Congress approved the Iraq Liberation Act in 1998 aimed at providing Iraqi opposition groups with increased financial assistance.

Hurricane Georges in 1998 produced strong winds of up to while passing over St. Kitts, downing power lines, telephone lines, and trees across the island.

Bono died on January 5, 1998 of injuries sustained when he hit a tree while skiing on the Nevada side of Heavenly Ski Resort near South Lake Tahoe, California.

Some may remember that the month before her 1998 victory her opponent, Don Jelinek, accused her of having disguised her identity while visiting Wilmington College, the college that rival Councilmember and Jelinek supporter Kriss Worthington attended.

Sam Lantinga created the library, first releasing it in early 1998, while working for Loki Software.

The July 1998 Salzburg Festival production featured Catherine Malfitano as Jenny, Gwyneth Jones as Begbick, and Jerry Hadley as Jimmy.

In 1998 the 2, 000th DB7 was built, and in 2002 the 6, 000th, exceeding production of all previous DB models.

The system remained in production until 1998.

The success of Michel Ocelot's Kirikou and the Sorceress in 1998 rejuvenated the production of original feature-length animated films by such filmmakers as Jean-François Laguionie and Sylvain Chomet.

Agricultural production is estimated to have fallen by 17 % during the conflict, and the civil war led to a 28 % overall drop in GDP in 1998.

Late in HT production, use of the new Tri-Matic automatic transmission, first seen in the LC Torana was phased in as Powerglide stock was exhausted, but Holden's official line was that the HG of 1971 was the first full-size Holden to receive it .< ref > Bebbington ( 1998 ), p. 36.

Inflation was steady before Robert Mugabe in 1998 began a program of land reforms that primarily focused on taking land from white farmers and redistributing those properties and assets to black farmers, which sent food production and revenues from export of food plummeting.

Jamaica is the third-leading producer of bauxite and alumina in 1998, with 12. 6 million tons of bauxite, accounting for 10. 4 % of world production & 3. 46 million tons of alumina, accounting for 7. 4 % of world production.

The VAZ-2120 Nadezhda minivan is based on the original Niva and has been in low-volume production since 1998.

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The second generation MX-5 ( NB ) was launched in 1998 and the current ( NC ) model has been in production since 2006.

In 1998, Falk returned to the New York stage to star in an Off-Broadway production of Arthur Miller's Mr. Peters ' Connections.

In 1998, Saint Helena's energy production was 6 GWh, matching its consumption, of which 90 % was produced by fossil fuels and the remaining 10 % by wind turbines.

After World War II, Newforge Foods, part of the Fitch Lovell group, were awarded the license to produce the product in the UK ( doing so at its Gateacre factory, Liverpool ), where it stayed until production switched to the Danish Crown Group ( owners of the Tulip Food Company ) in 1998, forcing the closure of the Liverpool factory and the loss of 140 jobs.

Teletubbies, particularly notable for its high production values, rapidly became a critical and commercial success in Britain and abroad and won a BAFTA in 1998.

According to Central Bank of Venezuela, the government received from 1998 to 2008 around 325 billion USD through oil production and export, and according to the International Energy Agency, to June 2010 has production of 2. 2 million of barrels per day, 800, 000 of which go to the United States of America.

The International Energy Agency shows how Venezuela's oil production has fallen in the last years, producing only daily, down from 3. 5 million in 1998, but with the recent currency devaluation the oil incomes will double its value in local currency.

The production was very well received and transferred to London's West End opening at the Prince Edward Theatre in October 1998, transferring to the Prince of Wales Theatre where it closed in January 2000.

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.

* Loseby, S. T., " Marseille and the Pirenne thesis, I: Gregory of Tours, the Merovingian kings and ' un grand port '" from Hodges, R. and Bowden, W., The sixth century: production, distribution and demand pp. 203 – 229, ( Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 1998 )

In 1998, he had a leading role as Mustapha Mond in the made-for-television production of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.

The first allegations that child slavery is used in cocoa production appeared in 1998.

Throughout her career Binoche has intermittently appeared on stage, most notably in a 1998 London production of Luigi Pirandello's Naked and in a 2000 production of Harold Pinter's Betrayal on Broadway for which she was nominated for a Tony Award.