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.

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 ".

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.

Earlier strips did engage in a degree of low-key political satire ( for instance, a series of strips in 1992 where Dogbert runs for President ), but since the early 1990s Adams has mostly focused the strip on corporate issues.

As a means of overcoming objections to EVM's lack of connection to qualitative performance issues, the Naval Air Systems Command ( NAVAIR ) PEO ( A ) organization initiated a project in the late 1990s to integrate true technical achievement into EVM projections by utilizing risk profiles.

Despite declarations by the Callejas government in 1989 of its intent to increasingly address social issues, including land tenure and other needs of small farmers, the early 1990s were jolted by increased conflicts between peasants and the Honduran security forces.

In the late 1990s, Kemp remained outspoken on political issues: he was critical of Clinton's International Monetary Fund lax policies toward South Korea.

As sensitive ethnic, national security and economic issues cooled relations with Russia in the 1990s, Nazarbayev cultivated relations with the People's Republic of China, the other Central Asian nations, and the West.

Emerging themes in the 1990s included environmental issues, the implications of the global Internet and the expanding information universe, questions about biotechnology and nanotechnology, as well as a post-Cold War interest in post-scarcity societies ; Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age comprehensively explores these themes.

In the 1990s soap operas increasingly focused on younger characters and social issues, such as Erica Kane's drug addiction on All My Children, the re-emergence of Viki Lord's Multiple Personality Disorder on One Life to Live, Katherine Chancellor's alcoholism on The Young and the Restless and Stone and Robin dealing with AIDS and death on General Hospital.

The creation of the Consultative Council in the early 1990s did not satisfy demands for political participation, and, in 2003, an annual National Dialogue Forum was announced that would allow selected professionals and intellectuals to publicly debate current national issues, within certain prescribed parameters.

Although the security situation in the country has greatly improved, addressing the underlying issues which brought about the political turmoil of the 1990s remains the government's major task.

Since the 1990s, a handful of films ( such as Spider-Man 2 ) have used it for this purpose, but the usage of digital intermediate for compositing has largely negated these issues.

" Only in the 1990s did historical musicologists, preceded by feminist musicologists in the late 1980s, begin to address issues such as gender, sexualities, bodies, emotions, and subjectivities which dominated the humanities for twenty years before ( ibid, p. 10 ).

Throughout the 1990s alt. zines was really the only forum for zinesters to promote, talk, and discuss small publishing issues and tips.

Some feminist critics of the SRA diagnoses maintained that, in the course of attempting to purge society of evil, the panic of the 1980s and 1990s obscured real child abuse issues, a concern echoed by Gary Clapton.

Through approval of varied construction projects to address the needs of residents of different incomes, improved rent control laws and community input on such issues, this " Hobokenization " resulted in positive comparisons with the redeveloped Hoboken of the mid-to-late 1990s, with new restaurants, bars and art galleries cited as evidence of renewal.

Some of Penthouses secondary publications, such as Girls of Penthouse, continue to feature occasional images of explicit sex, most of them reused images from the 1990s issues.

The long tension between the Sōka Gakkai and the Priesthood of Nichiren Shōshū culminated in early 1990s in exchange of various accusations and in disagreement about basic doctrinal issues.

The show has featured a number of gritty storylines reflecting major issues in Irish society, particularly from the mid 1990s onwards.

The show features X-Men similar in look and line-up to the early 1990s X-Men drawn by Jim Lee ( more specifically, Cyclops ' Blue Team, established in the early issues of the second X-Men comic series ), composed of Cyclops, Wolverine, Rogue, Storm, Beast, Gambit, Jubilee, Jean Grey, Professor X, as well as an original character, Morph ( an adaptation of previous X-Men member Kevin Sydney ).

During the 1980s and 1990s critical organizational scholarship began to gain prominence with a focus on issues of gender, race, class, and power / knowledge.

In the late 1990s and 2000s, prolonged litigation over copyright of the magazine as a collective work in Greenberg v. National Geographic and other cases caused National Geographic to withdraw from the market The Complete National Geographic, a digital compilation of all its past issues of the magazine.

This led to debates of the 1990s surrounding restoration and development issues and a more recent environmental controversy brought a new political life to the park as it became a symbol of China's " national wound.

Until the late 1990s, the nearest airport was in Fall River ; however, the airport closed due to various issues.