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* Virgin Cola was popular in South Africa and Western Europe in the 1990s but has waned in availability.
A series of disputes in the early 1990s caused tension between Virgin Atlantic and British Airways, which viewed Virgin as an emerging competitor.
In 1986, W H Smith bought a 75 % controlling share of the Our Price music chain ; in the 1990s it also bought other music retailers including the Virgin Group's smaller ( non-Megastore ) shops.
Its ceiling is covered with frescos dating from the early part of the 13th century which depict the Visitation and miracles performed by the Virgin Mary which were revealed during conservation work in the 1990s.
While tensions have subsided to some extent in recent years, mainly due to intermarriage among Crucians and other Caribbean peoples, in the late 1990s an attempt was made to legislate the definition of a " native U. S. Virgin Islander " as anyone who could trace their ancestry to 1927, the year in which U. S. Virgin Islanders were granted American citizenship.
In the 1990s, world boxing champion Julian Jackson, the third boxer from the Virgin Islands to become a world champion and a big celebrity in St. Thomas, was hired as a worker, to attract more tourists to the site.
Cobain says that, even with Virgin, the reason they were able to do their own thing and create the music they wanted in the 1990s was because they already had some major hits under their belts such as " Papua New Guinea ", " Metropolis " and " Stakker Humanoid " before joining the label.
Virgin Cola was set up during the early 1990s in conjunction with Cott, a Canadian company that specialises in bottling own-label drinks.
During the 1990s, Virgin Publishing launched a series of Doctor Who-based short story anthologies titled Decalog.
During the 1990s, Dicks contributed to Virgin Publishing's line of full-length, officially-licensed original Doctor Who novels, the New Adventures, which carried on the story of the series following its cancellation as an ongoing television programme in 1989.
In the Virgin Missing Adventures novel System Shock ( 1995 ) and the Past Doctor Adventures novel Millennium Shock ( 1999 ), both by Justin Richards, he is seen during the 1990s as a Deputy Director of MI5.
During the late 1980s and early 1990s BA was witnessing the emergence of a dangerous rival, Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic.
He has also written three books: Brothers-from Childhood to Oasis ( Virgin Publishers ), Reds in the Hood ( André Deutsch 1999 ) and My Word, a look at the world of television in the 1990s, was published by Orion Books in June 2007 to favourable reviews, and came out in paperback in May 2008.
A renovation in the 1990s did not restore any of Harris's decorative painting, but did preserve many of his most important works, including a nativity scene, the Virgin Mary Enthroned, St. Patrick's and St. Catherine's altars, " The Precious Blood ", a carved and painted frieze featuring lambs, a memorial to deceased Paulists, and a crucifixion.
The 1990s brought fierce competition after the arrival of HMV and Virgin Megastores in 1988 as well as the strength of hypermarkets.
The stadium was built by the University of San Agustín in the early 1990s and named after the Virgin Chapi.
In the 1990s he fought for Puerto Rico's inclusion in the proposed World War II Memorial on the National Mall after only two territories ( Hawaii and Alaska ) had been included in the first memorial design and all other U. S. territories ( Philippines, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa and the United States Virgin Islands, several of which were actually invaded by Japan, had been excluded.
Through the 1970s and well into the 1990s, Air St. Thomas faced stiff competition from Puerto Rico International Airlines, Aero Virgin Islands and Vieques Air Link, among others.
In the late 1990s Hooper set up the Meanwhile imprint, which is a subsidiary of Virgin Records.
She was born Nicola Anne Hemming in Northampton, England in 1967, and she emigrated to Australia in the early 1990s to work for Virgin Interactive.
Following vocalist Alex Ebert's previous band The Lucky 13's breakup, Ima Robot formed in the late 1990s and, in the early 2000s, after signing with Virgin Records, became successful.
In the 1990s, EU competition forced BT to sell / lease the service to NTL ( later becoming Virgin Media ).

1990s and Atlantic
Since the 1990s the region has experienced an exceptionally tumultuous period in its regional economy with the collapse of large portions of the ground fishery throughout Atlantic Canada, the closing of coal mines and a steel mill on Cape Breton Island, and the closure of military bases in all three provinces.
In the 1990s, poker and casino gambling spread across the United States, most notably to Atlantic City, New Jersey.
The northwest Atlantic cod has been regarded as heavily overfished throughout its range, resulting in a crash in the fishery in the United States and Canada during the early 1990s.
Nuclear submarines and submarine tenders were based at the Naval Weapons Station ( NWS ) in Goose Creek until the early 1990s, at which time they were homeported at other naval bases on the Atlantic coast due to a " reduction in force " ( RIF ) of US military and naval bases.
For most of the 1990s and 2000s, Canada AM had a consistent running time of two and a half hours, airing between 6: 30 and 9: 00 a. m. local time, with most affiliates repeating the previous night's late local news at 6: 00 a. m. As the program is produced live for the Eastern Time Zone, the program would be " delayed " in Atlantic Canada to 7: 30-10: 00 AT / 8: 00-10: 30 NT.
The Club Sobeys name was previously used for a similar loyalty program offered at the chain's Atlantic Canada locations during the 1990s, prior to securing the regional rights to Air Miles through the Oshawa Group merger.
Together, Lélia and Sebastião have worked since the 1990s on the restoration of a small part of the Atlantic Forest in Brazil.
Scientific 1990s records, however, suggest that the Harpy Atlantic Forest population may be migratory.
Greco bills itself as the largest pizza chain in Atlantic Canada and is arguably the dominant pizza chain in the region, with the exception of the St. John's area, where local non-chain pizza shops are predominant, and where Greco currently has no locations, despite attempting to break into the market twice, in the early 1990s and the mid-2000s.
In the 1990s a fundraising event on the Atlantic Ocean beach at Fire Island Pines, New York evolved into a major Circuit Party and developed a reputation for being connected with unsafe sex and recreational drug use.
In the mid 1990s, the United States was involved in the Bosnian War through the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ), most notably the 1995 bombing campaign, which finally led to the Dayton Agreement which ended the war by the end of 1995.
Five more studio albums, as well as a live album and a compilation album, followed throughout the 1990s and into 2000 on Atlantic before the label's country division was closed in 2001.
Longwave radio station Atlantic 252's broadcasting station was situated in Trim throughout the 1990s.
Large parts of Atlantic Canada were hard hit by the closure of the cod fishery in the 1990s, including the closure of several fish plants in southeastern Cape Breton Island.
Domestically, the Atlantic nations since the 1970s and large Asian states such as China and India since the 1990s also have largely pursued a mixture of realist and liberal policies.
During the 1990s two more immature specimens were found in the Atlantic ( Magnapinna sp.
At the beginning of the 1990s, the Royal Navy was a force designed for the Cold War-with its three small aircraft carriers and a force of anti-submarine frigates and destroyers, its main purpose was to search for-and in the event of an actual declaration of war, to destroy-Soviet submarines in the North Atlantic.
Although Thomas would release albums in the 1990s and in the 2000s, she is best known for the work she completed for both Atlantic Records and most notably, Stax Records in the 1960s.
The musical premiered on Broadway in 1963, and subsequently had productions in the West End in 1964 and award-winning revivals on each side of the Atlantic in the 1990s, as well as regional productions.
Many new SuperValu locations appeared in the Maritimes in the early 1990s, operated by Atlantic Wholesalers, a subsidiary of Loblaw Companies Limited.
Another notable journalist is Nicholas Lemann who published a handful of articles on the underclass in the Atlantic Monthly during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
However, by the late 1990s, many of the remaining AHL teams in Atlantic Canada had disappeared, either by relocation or by the franchise being rendered dormant.
The book foreshadowed the development in the 1990s and early 2000s of ideas of Atlantic history and global history.

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