In a major May 1999 decision on " New Media ", the CRTC held that under the Broadcasting Act the CRTC had jurisdiction over certain content communicated over the internet including audio and video, but excluding content that is primarily alphanumeric such as emails and most webpages.

Others, such as Andrew Vayda and Bradley Walters ( 1999 ), criticize political ecologists for pre-supposing “ the importance … of certain kinds of political factors in the explanation of environmental changes ” ( 167 ).

The Comptroller of the Currency continues to have significance in the U. S. economy and is responsible for administration and supervision of national banks as well as certain activities of bank subsidiaries ( per the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 ).

It has also been defined as " the arrangements, activities and inputs people undertake in a certain land cover type to produce, change or maintain it " ( FAO, 1997a ; FAO / UNEP, 1999 ).

In the case of persons who are not initially under suspicion and unlikely to commit a certain crime, a decision from 1999 ( 18th of November, BGH 1 StR 221 / 99, in German ) stated that entrapment of such persons violates the right to a fair trial ( and therefore the punishment for the committed offence may be reduced ).

Although neoprene itself is not a skin contact sensitizer, certain neoprene adhesives contain 4 % rosin ( CAS No. 8050-09-7, previously known as " colophony "), which is a skin contact sensitizer under the European Union Dangerous Preparations Directive 1999 / 45 / EC.

In November 1999, Congress authorized a study of Fort Hunter Liggett partly in response to a 1995 recommendation made by a Base Realignment and Closure ( BRAC ) commission which listed certain structures within the base as excess to the Army's needs.

He attracted support from certain elements of the Fijian population who were angered by the results of the 1999 election, which had swept away a government dominated by ethnic Fijians and brought to power a multiracial government led by Mahendra Chaudhry, who became Fiji's first-ever Indo-Fijian Prime Minister.

But the 5 Satellite Units of the system, together with the Maxi-Water Unit ( known as Satellite 6 since 1999 ) are still actively used as of 2007 for multiple alarm fires and certain other incidents.

In several instances since 1999, sources for certain of Hirst's works have been challenged and contested as plagiarised, both in written articles by journalists and artists, and, in one instance, through legal proceedings which led to an out-of-court settlement.

Records released under his own name include Cathode ( 1999 ), which includes pieces that are sine wave-based or made from samples, and Anode ( 2001 ), a group improvisation where the players are constrained by certain pre-determined rules ( similar in some respects to John Zorn's game pieces ).

In early 1999 when the construction of Taipei 101 had just started, Taiwan's Civil Aeronautics Administration changed this airport's certain SID and STAR procedures to avoid possible collision with the building.

The Zhuhai International Circuit was designed and built and was provisionally added to the 1999 F1 World Championship calendar, but the track failed to meet certain standards set by the FIA.

However, in December 1999, a security team from BindView found a security hole in Syskey that indicates that a certain form of cryptanalytic attack is possible offline.

Whereas efficient exact algorithms have been found for the signed sorting by reversals see Shamir, Robert Tarjan | Tarjan, 1997, the problem of sorting by reversals has been proven to be hard even to approximate to within certain constant factor Marek Karpinski | Karpinski, 1999, and also proven to be approximable in polynomial time to within the approximation factor 1. 375 Marek Karpinski | Karpinski, Hannenhalli, 2002.

After the Parliamentary Assembly failed to do that the Court, acting upon the request of the applicant and pursuant to its decision of 14 August 1999 and the legal standpoint exemplified in the reasons of the decision, established that certain provisions of the Law on Ministers and Ministries shall cease to be valid.

The Amsterdam Treaty, officially the Treaty of Amsterdam amending the Treaty of the European Union, the Treaties establishing the European Communities and certain related acts, was signed on 2 October 1997, and entered into force on 1 May 1999 ; it made substantial changes to the Maastricht Treaty, which had been signed in 1992.

Owing to criticism of the practice by academics and certain inner party elements, beginning in 1999, practitioners resorted to group appeals or letter writing.

This is especially true in an age when resources are limited and there is competition between organizations for certain projects to be prioritised over others ( Louw, 1999 ).

Between the late 1980s and 1999, local cable operators could configure listings for certain channels to appear with alternate background colors ( their choice of red or light blue ).

Since 1968, the basis has been wins ( increased from 10 points in 1968, to 12 in 1976, to 16 in 1981, then back down to 12 in 1999, up to 14 in 2004 and currently 16 ) and " bonus points ", which are earned for scoring a certain number of runs or taking a certain number of wickets in the first 110 overs of each first innings ( the number of overs has changed at various times, but has been 110 since 2010 ).

The Government declaration was made on 2 December 1999, bringing the changes to Articles 2 and 3 and certain other parts of the constitution into effect.

Technologies of power are those " technologies imbued with aspirations for the shaping of conduct in the hope of producing certain desired effects and averting certain undesired ones " 1999: 52.

Born to the Quraish tribe of Saudi Arabia, Nami served as a muezzin at the Seqeley mosque after having reportedly become very religious sometime in early 1999.

Trophy hunting has the potential to provide economic justification for the preservation of larger areas of bongo habitat than national parks, especially in remote regions of Central Africa where possibilities for commercially successful tourism are very limited ( Wilkie and Carpenter 1999 ).

Since 1999 the results of the WMAP mission in 2006 made the empirical case for cosmic inflation very compelling.

For example, Australian left-wing " true believers " levelled it at supporters of the failed republic referendum of 1999 ( where the vote was split not along conventional party lines but very much along socio-economic divides, with the rich overwhelmingly supporting the change while the less well-off were opposed – a superficially bizarre pattern for a non-economic issue ).

In 1999 the National Arbitration Forum began advocating that such contracts should be drafted so as to force consumers to waive the right to a class action completely, and such provisions have become very popular among businesses.

* A 1999 TV movie from the Bible Collection that follows the biblical account very closely, Esther, starred Louise Lombard in the title role and F. Murray Abraham as Mordecai.

* In November 1999, Galaxy Quest was novelized by science fiction writer Terry Bisson, who stayed very close to the plot of the movie.

The film mainly takes place in 2024, with flashbacks to events in 1999, and also a very distant past on the planet Zeist.

In 1999, there was an unconfirmed sighting of a pair of birds in the Pearl River region of southeast Louisiana by a forestry student, David Kulivan, which some experts considered very compelling.

The rivalry would in the following years be virtually negated by very poor play of he Colts ; the Colts would win just 117 games in the twenty-one seasons ( 1978 – 98 ) that bracketed their 1977 playoff loss to the Oakland Raiders and the 1999 trade of star running back Marshall Faulk ; this included a 0 – 8 – 1 record during the NFL's strike shortened 1982 season.

Twins are very rare ; the world's first confirmed identical twin koalas, named " Euca " and " Lyptus ", were born at the University of Queensland in April 1999.

In 1999, he succeeded in establishing one uniform political party – the Democratic Left Alliance – which turned out to be very successful in following elections.

In 1999 Doohan had another accident, this time in a very wet qualifying session for the Spanish Grand Prix.

* The Big Test ( 1999 ) ISBN 978-0-374-52751-8 ( The story of how standardized tests ( such as the SAT ) became very important in the United States )

An aging Robert Zubrin also appears as a background character in The Martian Race ( 1999 ) by Gregory Benford, a science fiction novel depicting early human explorers on Mars in the very near future.

More recently, in 1980 and 1987, hurricanes devastated banana and coconut plantations ; 1998 and 1999 also saw very active hurricane seasons, with Hurricane Lenny in 1999 causing extensive damage to the west coast of the island.

As early as 1999 it was clear the Itanium was going to be delivered very late, and then that it would have nowhere near the performance originally expected.

Between 1999 and 2008, the annualized growth rate of the state was very low: 3. 5 %.

Lynn Gottlieb became the first female rabbi in Jewish Renewal in 1981, and Tamara Kolton became the very first rabbi ( and therefore, since she was female, the first female rabbi ) in Humanistic Judaism in 1999.

In 1999 the game underwent a slight restructuring when Rolemaster Fantasy Roleplaying ( RMFRP ) was released, but this was mostly a rearranging of material with very few changes to the rules themselves.

In 1999, researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory made use of these predictions and announced the discovery of ununhexium ( now livermorium ) and ununoctium, in a paper published in Physical Review Letters, and very soon after the results were reported in Science.

A variation on the traditional impact story was provided by Jack McDevitt's 1999 novel Moonfall, in which a very large comet traveling at interstellar velocities collides with and partially destroys the Moon, fragments of which then collide with the Earth.

In contrast to the past where the head of Taiwan province was considered a major official, the Governor of the Taiwan Provincial Government after 1999 has been considered a very minor position.

The format was discontinued on 16 June 1999 because of the costs of introducing the format, as well as its very limited acceptance by the general public.