A major programme of remedial work on the West Coast Main Line started in 1997 and finished in 2009, far over budget (£ 10bn ), many years late and still not bringing the line up to the standards originally proposed by Railtrack.

He also had his own ABC show Hessie's Shed in Australia from late 1997.

In late 1997 and in early 1998 the " space adventure " genre was a very popular TV theme in Japan.

In late July 1997, the city experienced a flash flood after and during a 31-hour period when of rain fell.

In late 1997, Nuevo Petroleum concluded an oil exploration agreement accounting for the last of Ghana's offshore mineral rights zones.

In late 1996, Aristide broke with Préval and formed a new political party, the Lavalas Family ( Fanmi Lavalas, FL ), which won elections in April 1997 for one-third of the Senate and local assemblies, but these results were not accepted by the government.

The maximum of the 1n channel was measured as 69 pb in a further run in late 1997 in which a further 20 atoms were detected.

Anarchy in late 1996 to early 1997, as a result of the collapse of these pyramid schemes, alarmed the world and prompted international mediation.

Indonesia regained its investment grade rating from Fitch Rating in late 2011, and from Moody's Rating in early 2012, after losing its investment grade rating in December 1997 at the onset of the Asian financial crisis which Indonesia spent more than Rp450 trillion ($ 50 billion ) to bail out lenders from banks.

A range of economic reforms were introduced in the late 1980s including a managed devaluation of the rupiah to improve export competitiveness, and de-regulation of the financial sector, Foreign investment flowed into Indonesia, particularly into the rapidly developing export-oriented manufacturing sector, and from 1989 to 1997, the Indonesian economy grew by an average of over 7 %.

After a visit to Transmeta in late 1996, Torvalds accepted a position at the company in California, where he would work from February 1997 until June 2003.

From 1997 to 2004, Michigan was listed as the only state to top the 10, 000 mark for the number of major new developments ; however, the effects of the late 2000s recession have slowed the state's economy.

Tightening emissions and safety legislation meant that AvtoVAZ withdrew from most Western markets by the late 1997 ; often, there were also problems with spare parts.

His third – and final – attempt at a talk radio comeback occurred in 1997 on Cleveland radio station WTAM in a late evening time slot.

However, with the increase in computing power and Internet connectivity during the late nineties, and the shift of online gaming to the mass market, the term " graphical MUD " fell out of favor, being replaced by MMORPG, Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game, a term coined by Richard Garriott in 1997.

By the late 1990s MIPS was a powerhouse in the embedded processor field, and in 1997 the 48-millionth MIPS-based CPU shipped, making it the first RISC CPU to outship the famous 68k family.

By late 1997, however, search engine providers realized that information stored in elements, especially the attribute, was often unreliable and misleading, and at worst, used to draw users into spam sites.

According to Margaret Bent ( 1997 ), " a piece of music in several parts with words " is as precise a definition of the motet as will serve from the 13th to the late 16th century and beyond.

Out of all the currencies of the Latin American region, the nuevo sol is the most stable and reliable, being the least affected by the downturn in the value of the US dollar ; during late 2007 and early 2008, the exchange rate fell to 2. 69 to 1, which had not been seen since 1997.

In his 1997 interview with Arthur Marx in Cigar Aficionado magazine, Falk said " One evening when I arrived late, she looked at me and asked, ' Young man, why are you always late?

Robyn became known in the late nineties for her worldwide dance-pop hit " Do You Know ( What It Takes )" from her debut album Robyn Is Here ( 1997 ).

In 1997, the Edythe Bates Old Grand Organ and Recital Hall and the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, renamed in 2005 for the late Nobel Prize winner and Rice professor Richard E. Smalley, were dedicated at Rice.

She worked only two weeks on the film, early and late during the production that went from January to April 1997 while Sam Elliott was only on set for two days and did many takes of his final speech.

In late 1994, a finished version 386BSD Release 1. 0 was distributed by Dr. Dobb's Journal on CDROM only due to the immense size ( 600 MB ) of the release ( the " 386BSD Reference CD-ROM ") and was a best-selling CDROM for three years ( 1994 – 1997 ).

Her essential recordings were made in the late 1960s and early 1970s for Impulse!

In late 2005, the FABF acquired two Mil Mi-35 ' Hind ' attack helicopters from Russia in apparent response by moves by neighbouring Côte d ' Ivoire to bolster its own air attack capabilities during the Ivorian Civil War.

Prior to 31 December 2010, deposits with building societies of up to £ 50, 000 per individual, per institution, were normally protected by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme ( FSCS ), but Nationwide and Yorkshire Building Societies negotiated a temporary change to the terms of the FSCS to protect members of the societies they acquired in late 2008 / early 2009.

If the natives of that time were speaking Latin they must have acquired it during the late empire.

During the late 1970s he acquired a large public audience as a critic of the then Labour government's disregard of civil liberties ; his writings from this time are collected in Writing By Candlelight ( 1980 ).

In the late 19th century, in a dispute between supporters of the adequacy of natural selection and those who held for inheritance of acquired characters, one of the arguments made repeatedly by Herbert Spencer, and followed by others, depended on what Spencer referred to as co-adaptation of co-operative parts, as in: " We come now to Professor Weismann's endeavour to disprove my second thesis — that it is impossible to explain by natural selection alone the co-adaptation of co-operative parts.

The character was conceived in late 1972 when Marvel Comics acquired the comic book rights to Sax Rohmer's pulp novel villain Dr. Fu Manchu while they also held the rights to the Kung Fu television program.

) In late 2000 IBM introduced 64-bit z / Architecture, acquired numerous software companies such as Cognos and introduced those software products to the mainframe.

The state was originally christened after Cecil Rhodes, whose British South Africa Company acquired the land in the late 19th century.

In the late 1980s Central TV acquired the Australian soap opera Prisoner, which was produced between 1979 and 1986.

In the late 1920s, a young Wernher von Braun acquired a copy of Hermann Oberth's book, Die Rakete zu den Planetenräumen ( The Rocket into Interplanetary Space ).

Since the late 19th century, zombies have acquired notable popularity, especially in North American and European folklore.

From the late 18th century onwards, the British city of Manchester acquired the nickname " Cottonopolis " due to the cotton industry's omnipresence within the city, and Manchester's role as the heart of the global cotton trade.

In late 2010, Peaceville acquired the rights to the band's Moonfog albums and re-issued Panzerfaust as a two-disc set and on vinyl.

The firm's initial location was in Naples, but even before the construction of the planned factory had started, Darracq decided late in 1906 that Milan would be a more suitable location and accordingly a tract of land was acquired in the Milan suburb of Portello, where a new factory of was erected.

Throughout the height of barbed wire sales in the late 19th century, Washburn, Ellwood, Gates, and Haish competed with one another, but Ellwood and Gates eventually joined forces again to create the American Steel and Wire Company, later acquired by The U. S. Steel Corporation.

RDM was an early document management product, acquired in the late 1980s and then integrated with Interleaf's other products.

In the late sixteenth-century, Philip II of Spain acquired many of Bosch's paintings, including some probably commissioned and collected by Spaniards active in Bosch's hometown ; as a result, the Prado Museum in Madrid now owns The Adoration of the Magi, The Garden of Earthly Delights, the tabletop painting of The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things, the The Haywain Triptych and The Stone Operation.

Kirkstall Abbey was acquired by Leeds Corporation as a gift from Colonel North and opened to the public in the late 19th century.

MCI's history, combined with the histories of companies it has acquired, echoes most of the trends that have swept American telecommunications in the past half-century: It was instrumental in pushing legal and regulatory changes that led to the breakup of the AT & T monopoly that dominated American telephony ; its purchase by WorldCom and subsequent bankruptcy in the face of accounting scandals was symptomatic of the Internet excesses of the late 1990s.

In the late twentieth century, the Stockbridge-Munsee were among tribes filing land claims against New York, which had been ruled to have unconstitutionally acquired land from Indians without Senate ratification.

The Rangers also acquired Pavel Bure late in the 2001 – 02 season from the Florida Panthers.

The first of these missiles were purchased from Swedish air force inventory, while late a higher performance model was acquired directly from the United States, with deliveries commencing in 1995.

The United States Terex Corporation acquired the majority ownership ( 71 %) of Tatra in late 2003.

After the retirement of West and Chamberlain, the team acquired another center, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who had won multiple MVP awards, but was unable to make the Finals in the late 1970s.

As the Cubs acquired Wilhelm late in the season to bolster their playoff contention, which was a source of controversy, Commissioner Bowie Kuhn investigated the transaction.