Tessa Jowell, Labour cabinet minister, embroiled in a scandal about a property remortgage allegedly arranged to enable her husband to realise £ 350, 000 from an off-shore hedge fund, money he allegedly received as a gift following testimony he had provided for Silvio Berlusconi in the 1990s.

Since the 1980s, following the popularization of computer technology, it has become fashionable in marketing for names of products and companies, and for 1990s online video games where players use pseudonyms ( when spaces were not allowed ).

The Ilois, now called Chagos Islanders or Chagossians since the late 1990s, were descended primarily from slaves brought to the island from Madagascar by the French between 1793 and 1810, and Malay slaves from the slave market on Pulo Nyas, an island off the northwest coast of Sumatra, from around 1820 until the slave trade ended following the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833.

Economic growth picked up in the late 1990s following slow growth and domestic fiscal adjustment in early years of the decade.

After experiencing GDP growth averaging nearly six percent a year in the late 1990s, economic growth declined considerably after 2001 as a result of a decline in the tourism industry following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and damages caused by several hurricanes.

Hee Haw continued to pop up in reruns ( see below for details ) throughout the 1990s and later during the following decade, in a series of successful DVD releases from Time Life.

The kingfishers were traditionally treated as one family, Alcedinidae with three subfamilies, but following the 1990s revolution in bird taxonomy, the three former subfamilies are now often elevated to familial level.

In the early 1990s, Lithuania restored its sovereignty and in the following years became integrated into the European political structures.

Swaziland ’ s public finances deteriorated in the late 1990s following sizable surpluses a decade earlier.

No other show attracted a large organized following until the 1990s, when Babylon 5 attracted both Star Trek fans and a large number of literary SF fans who previously had not been involved in media fandom.

Up until the 1990s, each of Gilliam's non-Python films was to feature at least one of his fellow Monty Python alumni ( particularly Palin, Cleese, and Idle ), and for his finished projects Gilliam has worked with the following actors more than once ( in order of first film appearance ):

* Political correctness in the 1980s and increasingly in the following 1990s, was a trend of behaviour, in western societies, designed to fit the mores of those opposed to forms of prejudice against certain minority groups.

They included G. 707 to G. 709, and I. 121 which defined the principal aspects of B-ISDN, with many others following through the 1990s.

In Victoria the term " secondary college " has largely replaced the term " high school " following the reforms of the Labor Government in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

( Yakuza saw the potential following the constant Vietnamese cafe shoot outs, and home invasion burglaries throughout the 1980s and early 1990s ).

The concept of indigo children gained popular interest with the publication of a series of books in the late 1990s and the release of several films in the following decade.

In the early 1990s, following the end of the Cold War the garrison tradition of the town came to an end when the Bundeswehr's Margrave Barracks ( Markgrafenkaserne ) and the Röhrensee Barracks ( Röhrenseekaserne ), used by the US Army and the BGS ( Grenzschutzabteilung Süd 3 ), were closed.

Running in theaters in 1939, it disappeared for many years at a time until the 1980s and 1990s, when it slowly appeared in revival theater houses, video and cable and earned a following of fans ( both audience members and film critics ) who praised the movie for its brilliant interpretation of the Steinbeck novella.

Maud Foster Mill The seven-storeyed Maud Foster Tower Windmill, completed in 1819, by millwrights Norman & Smithson of Kingston upon Hull for Issac and Thomas Reckitt, is currently the tallest operating windmill in England ( 80 ft / 24. 4 metres to the top of the cap ), following extensive restoration during the 1980s and early 1990s and is now a working museum.

Belka, another former SLD member, had left the party in the early 1990s, but joined Leszek Miller's government as a non-party minister of economic affairs in 2001 before resigning the following year.

This government still governs Taiwan but transformed into a democracy in the 1990s following decades of martial law.

Its use has been controversial, but since the late 1990s following the Rwanda Genocide, it has been used by congolese Tutsi, formally known as Banyarwanda ( people of Rwanda ) to avoid being seen as foreigners.

The Argentine telephone system is more modern following privatization in the 1990s and, more recently, market deregulation.

The team received attention when it chose teal as its primary color, setting off a sports fashion craze in the late 1980s and early 1990s, with many pro and amateur clubs soon following with teal in their color schemes.

Prior to the integration of Newfoundland's public ( government-funded ) school system in the late 1990s, those public schools administered by the Catholic Church mandated strict, uniform-like dress codes ( shirts and ties for boys, dresses or skirts for girls ), though many girls were outraged at this due to the freezing weather, at the elementary and junior high school levels, lifting most restrictions for high school students.

Only after the lifting of martial laws in 1987 and mother tongue movement in the 1990s did Taiwan see a true revival in the Taiwanese language.

The product's position in South Africa began to erode in the 1990s following the lifting of economic sanctions against South Africa, as other CAD packages entered that market.

Before the 1990s, all excavators had a long or conventional counterweight that hung off the rear of the machine to provide more digging force and lifting capacity.

* MBB-Sondertechnik, ( today FHS Förder – und Hebesysteme GmbH ) developed wind rotors in the 1980s and 1990s, and lifting systems for military use.

It was not until the early 1990s, following the lifting of martial law, that legislative efforts striving to create a public television station emerged in earnest.

Following the lifting of martial law in 1988 and the democratization of the 1990s, the mission of the ROC Army has been shifted to the defense of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu from a PLA invasion.

Towards the early 1990s, the BBS industry became so popular that it spawned three monthly magazines, Boardwatch, BBS Magazine, and in Asia and Australia, Chips ' n Bits Magazine which devoted extensive coverage of the software and technology innovations and people behind them, and listings to US and worldwide BBSes.

By the 1990s, the US had adopted the M4 carbine, a derivative of the M16 family which fired the same 5. 56mm cartridge but was lighter and shorter ( in overall length and barrel length ), resulting in marginally reduced range and power.

Notable rockabilly revivalists and psychobilly performers from the 1990s and first decade of the 21st century include Scott Owen ( from the Australian band The Living End ), Jimbo Wallace ( from the US band Reverend Horton Heat ), Kim Nekroman ( Nekromantix ), Patricia Day ( HorrorPops ), Geoff Kresge ( Tiger Army, ex-AFI ).

She continued to enjoy steady success during the 1990s and 2000s ; her 2000 album A Day Without Rain sold 15 million copies, and became the top selling new age album of the 2000s in the US, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Over a million Guatemalan emigrants went to the US in the 1980s and 1990s for a better life mostly because of the Civil War.

However, new borrowing during the 1990s swelled the debt to more than US $ 1 billion.

Despite the efforts of the growers, coffee prices plunged on the international market from a high of more than US $ 2. 25 per kilogram in the mid-1970s to less than US $ 0. 45 per kilogram in the early 1990s.

The DF-5, with range of 10, 000 to 12, 000 km long enough to strike the western US and the USSR, was silo deployed with the first pair in service by 1981 with possibly twenty missiles in service by the late 1990s.

Another factor in the early 1990s that worked to radicalize the Islamist movement was the Gulf War, which brought several hundred thousand US and allied non-Muslim military personnel to Saudi Arabian soil to put an end to Saddam Hussein's occupation of Kuwait.

Following the collapse of the so-called Bubble economy and the 1990s boom in the US, the Japanese economy was perceived as less of a threat to US interests.

* Bank of New York: US $ 7 billion of Russian capital flight laundered through accounts controlled by bank executives, late 1990s

* Nauru: US $ 70 billion of Russian capital flight laundered through unregulated Nauru offshore shell banks, late 1990s

His earlier ( late 60s early 70s ) psychedelic-Anatolian works with English lyrics released under US, Dutch, German and Canadian labels in the late 1990s through 2002.

In the 1980s and 1990s, much of the original 1950s roadside infrastructure on now-bypassed US Highways had fallen into decline and was being razed for development.

US export regulations regarding cryptography remain in force, but were liberalized substantially throughout the late 1990s.

* Spontaneous Combustion ( band ), US bluegrass / rock fusion band of the 1990s

Tuesday Night Music Club went on to sell more than 7 million copies in the US and UK during the 1990s.

Music historians typically divide the history of ska into three periods: the original Jamaican scene of the 1960s ( First Wave ), the English 2 Tone ska revival of the late 1970s ( Second Wave ) and the third wave ska movement, which started in the 1980s ( Third Wave ) and rose to popularity in the US in the 1990s.

After the collapse of the Siad Barre government and the start of the Somali Civil War in the early 1990s, the US embassy in Mogadishu closed down.

The most successful pioneer in the 1990s ' talk radio movement in the US was the politically conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh.

In the 1990s future Who Wants to be a Millionaire ( USA ) executive producer Michael Davies attempted to revive The $ 64, 000 Question in the US as The $ 640, 000 Question for ABC, before abandoning that effort in favour of the British hit.

Deregulation in the US energy markets in the late 1990s provided Enron with trade opportunities, including buying energy from cheap producers and selling it at markets with floating prices.