Many of these vehicles are second hand ( such as the 1500 decommissioned Dutch buses, which the Netherlands donated to Cuba in the mid 1990s ) and despite the United States trade embargo, American-style yellow school buses ( imported second-hand from Canada ) are increasingly common sights.

The " minicomics " form, an extremely informal version of self-publishing, arose in the 1980s and became increasingly popular among artists in the 1990s, despite reaching an even more limited audience than the small press.

Recovery began in the 1990s, but growth has been constrained by the lack of suitable hotels and other infrastructure, despite a boom in construction of small and medium-sized hotels and restaurants, and by the impact of drought, the 1998 – 2000 war with Eritrea, and the specter of terrorism.

The show, Kabaddi in the early 1990s, however, failed to capture viewer attention despite fixtures such as West Bengal Police versus the Punjab.

By the mid-1990s, work on microkernel systems was largely dead, despite the market generally believing that all modern operating systems would be microkernel based by the 1990s.

Since the general animation renaissance headlined by the likes of Who Framed Roger Rabbit and The Little Mermaid at the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s, there have been an increasing number of traditional stop motion feature films, despite advancements with computer animation.

The bloody Yugoslav wars in the 1990s were related mostly to borders issues because the international community applied a version of uti possidetis juris in transforming existing internal borders of the various Yugoslav republics into international borders, despite the conflicts of ethnic groups within those boundaries.

In London, England a raft of such so-called " lap dancing clubs " grew up in the 1990s, featuring pole dancing on stage and private table dancing, though, despite media misrepresentation, lap-dancing in the sense of bodily contact was forbidden by law.

In the United States, for example, the economy saw stable inflation despite low unemployment during the late 1990s, contradicting most economists ' estimates of the NAIRU.

Hochschild records that, on his visit to the colonial Royal Museum for Central Africa in the 1990s, there was no mention of the atrocities committed in the Congo Free State, despite the museum's large collection of colonial objects.

The term gained widespead acceptance by the 1990s in academic discourse ; despite originally being used by the perpetrators during the Yugoslav Wars, the term is now considered " the widely accepted scholarly term used to describe the systematic and violent removal of undesired ethnic groups from a given territory.

In the 1990s, despite issues surrounding the controversial Spirit Games, the Clinton administration still managed to help turn around the situation regarding peace with North Korea through Jimmy Carter's support.

Due to lack of maintenance, the mansion was in disrepair by the 1990s, and despite public outcry, the mansion was tragically torn down in the summer of 1998.

Wales played their Five Nations and autumn international home matches at Wembley ( as Twickenham Stadium would not accommodate them ) while Cardiff Arms Park was being rebuilt as the Millennium Stadium in the late 1990s ( despite being in England ).

In describing the “ transformation of the U. S. financial services industry ” from 1975-2000 ( i. e., from after the “ revolution in banking ” described by Mayer in 1974 to the effective date of the GLBA ), Arthur Wilmarth described how during the 1990s, despite remaining bank holding companies, J. P. Morgan & Co. and Bankers Trust “ built financial profiles similar to securities firms with a heavy emphasis on trading and investments .” In 1993, Helen Garten described the transformation of the same companies into “ wholesale banks ” similar to European “ universal banks .”

Adrian Belew has been the singer, guitarist and frontman ( as well as occasional drummer ) in King Crimson since 1981, and has maintained the position ever since despite several splits or hiatuses in group activity ( and despite a very brief period in the early 1990s during which group leader Fripp unsuccessfully invited singer David Sylvian to front a possible new version of the band ).

The media routinely refer to its iconic status, despite being relatively recent development ; there were only a few outlets before the chain's expansion in the late 1990s and 2000s.

In the United States, the United Kingdom and other countries, despite the relatively high morbidity and mortality rates that resulted from the epidemic in 1918 – 1919, the Spanish flu began to fade from public awareness over the decades until the arrival of news about bird flu and other pandemics in the 1990s and 2000s.

By the late 1990s, despite its reputation for dealing heavily in hip-hop, Jive signed pop acts Backstreet Boys, ' N Sync, and Britney Spears — all of whom achieved massive success as the 2000s dawned, and would become the three best-selling acts in the label's history.

Upper Southampton Township has embraced industry and development, but retains a certain small-town feeling despite rapid growth in the post-war years, and again in the 1980s and 1990s.

In the 1990s the M11 link road was built through the area despite a long running protest by locals and road protestors.

He had supported Joe Clark from the first ballot at the party's 1976 leadership convention, and continued to support the federal Tories in the 1990s despite the rise of the Reform Party as a rival right-wing force.

By 1980, many Japanese products, particularly automobiles and electronics, were being exported around the world, and Japan's industrial sector was the second-largest in the world after the U. S. This growth pattern continued unabated despite recession in the 1990s.

Because of Cuomo's refusal to take up the party's banner for national office despite his popularity within the liberal wing of the Democratic party during the 1980s and 1990s, his name has in some circles become a metaphor for a reluctant political leader, the " Hamlet on the Hudson ".

Whilst it may not have been as popular as the Spectrum, Commodore 64 or Amstrad CPC, it did sell in sufficient numbers to ensure that new software was being produced right up until the early 1990s.

At that point three launches in combat resulted in three kills, resulting in the AMRAAM being informally named " slammer " in the second half of the 1990s.

Since the 1990s, the changeup has made a resurgence, being thrown masterfully by pitchers such as Tim Lincecum, Pedro Martinez, Trevor Hoffman, Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, Johan Santana, Justin Verlander and Cole Hamels.

B continued to see use as late as the 1990s on Honeywell mainframes, and on certain embedded systems for a variety of reasons, including limited hardware in the small systems ; extensive libraries, tools, licensing cost issues ; and simply being good enough for the job on others.

In the 1980s and early 1990s, numerous media reports emerged that plans were underway to do a biopic based upon Haley's life, with Beau Bridges, Jeff Bridges and John Ritter all at one point being mentioned as actors in line to play Haley ( according to Goldmine Magazine, Ritter attempted to buy the film rights to Sound and Glory ).

As well as being a regular panellist on Radio 4's Loose Ends ( 1987 – 88 ), and guest appearances on shows such as Radio 4's Kaleidoscope, in the early 1990s, Charles could be heard on the London Radio Station Kiss 100 ( Kiss FM ) as the Breakfast show presenter.

It was originally introduced in the early 1990s and is currently being produced by TekGear.

In a number of nationally publicized cases in the early 1990s, prosecutors charged parents belonging to the Christian Science church with murder or manslaughter after their children died of likely curable ailments without being medically treated.

The House of Lords of the UK parliament had, for example through the 1990s, over 700 members with a hereditary right to being a lawgiver ; this practice was reformed in 2004, still some 92 parliamentary seats are set aside for hereditary peers as of 2012.

Natural gas was also discovered in the 1980s during exploration work, and this is being commercially recovered, beginning in the late 1990s.

By the 1990s, many of these bands and artists had disbanded, were no longer performing, or were being carried by independent labels because their music tended to be more lyrically complex ( and often more controversial ) than mainstream Christian pop.

With the development of the internet, by the late 1990s and early 2000, much of that regulation had been replaced where newer industry technologies developed, offering viewers alternate choices for local events and programming leading to what is today, that being Digital Cable, Internet, and Phone being offered to consumers, bundled, by 2010.

It rose to become the largest supplier of PC systems during the 1990s before being overtaken by Dell in 2001.

Atkins continued performing in the 1990s, but his health declined after being diagnosed again with cancer in 1996.

Starting in the 1990s a new wave of books started to appear on critical psychology, the most influential being the edited book Critical Psychology by Dennis Fox and Isaac Prilleltensky.

During the 1990s, the English football club Wimbledon, based in London, expressed interest in relocating to the city after being forced to leave their Plough Lane stadium and ground-share with Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park.

Nevertheless the consolidation held through the 1990s, assisted by the group being renamed to the European People's Party – European Democrats ( EPP-ED Group ), and the group reclaimed its position as the largest group in the Parliament after the 1999 elections.

Difficulties were recognized, which led to these being in turn superseded in the 1990s by time scales Terrestrial Time ( TT ), Geocentric Coordinate Time GCT ( TCG ) and Barycentric Coordinate Time BCT ( TCB ).

The early 1990s saw a dramatic slump in fish stocks, which were being overfished with new high-tech equipment.

The higher education sector expanded in the second half of the 20th century, with four institutions being given university status in the 1960s ( Dundee, Heriot-Watt, Stirling and Strathclyde ) and five in the 1990s ( Abertay, Glasgow Caledonian, Napier, Paisley and Robert Gordon ).

During the mid to late 1990s, " the launch of each successive round of technology it's been expected to occupy a headlining position ", with the Quake III engine being most widely adopted of their engines.

Since the late 1990s, analog sticks ( or thumbsticks, due to their being controlled by one's thumbs ) have become standard on video game consoles and have the ability to indicate the stick's displacement from its neutral position.

In the late 1990s, the government took action against Sunni Muslim extremists in the north who had attacked its soldiers, and it continues to move against groups such as Asbat al-Ansar, which has been accused of being partnered with Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network.

Marvel's major heroes were created in the 1960s, but the amount of time that has passed between then and now within the universe itself has ( after a prolonged period of being identified as about ten years in the mid-to-late 1990s ) most recently been identified as thirteen years.