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In 1999, Sweatshop Watch, Global Exchange, Asian Law Caucus, Unite, and the garment workers themselves filed three separate lawsuits in class-action suits on behalf of roughly 30, 000 garment workers in Saipan.
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According to Human Rights Watch, as “ many as one thousand Serbs and Roma have been murdered or have gone missing since June 12, 1999 .”
An expansion pack, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Mission Pack: Eagle Watch, was released on January 31, 1999.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Mission Pack: Eagle Watch was released on January 31, 1999 as an expansion pack to the original game.
Following Operation Desert Storm, the 355 WG supported Operation Southern Watch during deployments to Al Jaber, Kuwait, in 1997 by deploying 24 A-10s, in 1998 by deploying 16 A-10s, and in 1999 by deploying 14 A-10s — all to ensure compliance of the 33rd parallel southern no-fly zone.
When CNBC Asia launched its regional ticker in 1998, it introduced new shows such as Lunch Money ( later replaced by Power Lunch Asia in 1999 ) and Market Watch ( later renamed Global Market Watch ) where the latter was produced by CNBC Europe but anchored from both London and Singapore.
Many historical romance novels i. e. the Bow Street Runners series by novelist Lisa Kleypas which includes Someone To Watch Over Me ( 1999 ), Lady Sophia's Lover ( 2002 ) and Worth Any Price ( 2003 ), features the Bow Street Runners / Magistrates as the heroes in them.
" Battersea " was used in the 1999 pilot of NBC TV series Third Watch and in the end of the show's last episode (" Goodbye to Camelot "), in 2005.
The NBC drama Third Watch ran from 1999 to 2005 and provided a fictionalized and dramatized depiction of the firefighters and paramedics of the FDNY and police officers of the New York City Police Department.
Human Rights Watch reported Friday, February 27, 2004, that during Philippe's term as police chief of the Port-au-Prince suburb of Delmas from 1997 to 1999, international monitors " learned that dozens of suspected gang members were summarily executed, mainly by police under the command of Inspector Berthony Bazile, Philippe's deputy.
In 1999, reporters Richard Ackland, Deborah Richards and Ann Connelly from the public broadcaster's Media Watch TV program revealed that 2UE talk radio hosts John Laws and Alan Jones had been paid to give favourable comment to companies including Qantas, Optus, Foxtel, Mirvac and major Australian banks, without disclosing this arrangement to listeners.
* Market Watch ( fill-in co-anchor from October, 1998 to March, 1999, co-anchor from March, 1999 to 2002 )
Though religious factors were not prominent ( the event was ethnically motivated ), in its 1999 report Human Rights Watch faulted a number of religious authorities in Rwanda, including Roman Catholic, Anglican, and other Protestants for failing to condemn the genocide directly – though that accusation was belied over time.
* Cohen, N., Muir, E., Lojkasek, M., Muir, R., Parker, C., Barwick, M. and Brown, M. ( 1999 ) ' Watch, wait and wonder: testing the effectiveness of a new approach to mother-infant psychotherapy.
* Human Rights Watch, 1999, Famine in Sudan, 1998, The Human Rights Causes, ( New York, Human Rights Watch ).
1999 and Global
Dan Quayle joined Cerberus Capital Management, a multi-billion dollar private equity firm, in 1999 and is chairman of the company's Global Investments division.
In chronological order others include: " I've Been Everywhere " by Hank Snow ( 1962 ) ( album of the same title ) and Johnny Cash ( 1996 ) Unchained reworked from the original 1959 Geoff Mack Australian-place-names version made popular by the singer Lucky Starr ; " Down on the Corner " ( 1969 ) by Creedence Clearwater Revival on their fourth studio album, Willy and the Poor Boys covered by a dozen other groups ; " Kalamazoo " ( 1995 ) by Luna on Penthouse ; " Cold Rock a Party " ( 1997 ) by MC Lyte on Bad As I Wanna B ; " Kalamazoo " a song by the rock trio Primus on the 1997 Brown Album ; " Top of the World " by Rascalz ( 1999 ) on Global Warning ; " Kalamazoo ", a song by Ben Folds Five on the 2004 EP Super D ; " 65 Miles from Kalamazoo " ( 2008 ) by R. J. Miller ( a lament for a lost Gibson guitar and a metaphor about " an old girlfriend from Kalamazoo "); and " Kalamazoo " ( 2009 ) by Mike Craver on his album Shining Down.
Port Vila was the location in August 1999 for the important UNESCO meeting ” 2nd World Heritage Global Strategy Meeting for the Pacific Islands Region ”.
In 1999, CDS was bought out by Syntegra ( USA ), a subsidiary of the BT Group, and merged into BT's Global Services organization.
In 1999, the company acquired Frontier Corporation, the former Rochester Telephone Corporation, and renamed it Global Crossing North America, Inc.
In 1998, former U. S. president George H. W. Bush gave a speech in Tokyo on behalf of Global Crossing, for which he was compensated with $ 50, 000 of Global Crossing stock, which he sold in 1999 and 2000 for more than $ 4. 5 million.
" The effect of human activity on radiative forcing of climate change: a review of recent developments " Global and Planetary Change, Volume 20, Issue 4, May 1999, Pages 205-225.
The connection was explicitly mentioned for the first time by Stuart L. Hart and Mark B. Milstein in their 1999 article Global Sustainability and the Creative Destruction of Industries, in which he argues new profit opportunities lie in a round of creative destruction driven by global sustainability.
* June 1999 Global carnival against capital ; London ; Scotland ; Nigeria ; Czech Republic ; Los Angeles ; Germany ; Australia ; Spain ; New York City.
In 1999 Wang Global, by then back up to $ 3. 5 billion in annual revenues, was acquired by Getronics of The Netherlands, a $ 1. 5 billion network services company active only in parts of Europe and Australia.
* Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s, exh. cat., New York: Queens Museum of Art, 1999
He also jointly received the Global Environment Facility's 1999 Global Environment Leadership Award.
In 1999, Iacocca became the head of EV Global Motors, a company formed to develop and market electric bikes with a top speed of 15 mph and a range of 20 miles between recharging at wall outlets.
It has supported United Nations programs throughout its history, such as the recent First Global Forum On Human Development, organized by the United Nations Development Programme ( UNDP ) in 1999.
* " Canadian Cultural Policy in a Global Economy ", Canadian Business Economics, 7 ( 3 ): 40-3, Oct. 1999.
Subsequent Global Action Days have included the ' carnival against capital ' ( June 18, 1999 ), the 3rd World Trade Organization summit in Seattle ( November 30, 1999 ), the International Monetary Fund / World Bank meeting in Prague ( September 26, 2000 ), the G8 meeting in Genoa ( June 21, 2000 ) the 4th WTO summit in Qatar ( November 9, 2001 ), etc.
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