The ongoing conflict with Azerbaijan over the ethnic Armenian-dominated region of Nagorno-Karabakh ( which was part of Soviet Azerbaijan ) and the breakup of the centrally directed economic system of the former Soviet Union contributed to a severe economic decline in the early 1990s.

The West Indies would go on to record resounding Test series wins over Australia and England and dominated world cricket until the 1990s.

During the 1980s and 1990s, she became one of the first CCM artists to cross over into mainstream pop on the heels of her successful albums Unguarded and Heart in Motion, the latter of which included the No. 1 single " Baby Baby ".

Developed by the United States Navy in the 1950s, it was deployed in the 1960s, updated in the 1990s, and eventually installed on over 200 USN surface ships, specifically cruisers, destroyers, and frigates.

The building was again remodeled by British architect Norman Foster in the 1990s and features a glass dome over the session area, which allows free public access to the parliamentary proceedings and magnificent views of the city.

Originally BBSes were accessed only over a phone line using a modem, but by the early 1990s some BBSes allowed access via a Telnet, packet switched network, or packet radio connection.

Staying at what they considered rock-bottom however showed that the Conservatives had failed to improve their negative public image, had remained somewhat disunited over Europe and had not regained the trust that they had lost in the 1990s.

The 49ers ' two wins over the Rams in 1981 marked the shift of dominance in favor of the 49ers that lasted until the late 1990s.

Anheuser-Busch has placed Budweiser as an official partner and sponsor of Major League Soccer and Los Angeles Galaxy and was the headline sponsor of the British Basketball League in the 1990s, taking over from rival company Carlsberg.

In the late 1990s, violence between Christians and Muslims and between indigenous locals and transmigrants spilled over from intercommunal conflict in Ambon.

According to the CIA World Factbook, during the early 1990s, Chile's " reputation as a role model for economic reform " was strengthened when the democratic government of Patricio Aylwin, who took over from the military in 1990, deepened the economic reform initiated by the military government.

Other telephone companies, many of which were publicly owned, were regulated by provincial authorities until court rulings during the 1990s affirmed federal jurisdiction over the sector, which also included some fifty small independent incumbents, most of them in Ontario and Quebec.

Most episodes in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s rated with over 20 million viewers and during the 1990s and early 2000s 15 – 20 million per episode would be typical Like most terrestrial television in the UK, a dramatic decline in viewership has taken place and the show currently posts figures of between 8 and 14 million per episode.

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.

Beginning in the 1980s and 1990s, many governments presiding over planned economies began marketization ( or as in the Soviet Union, the system collapsed ) and moving toward market-based economies by allowing individual enterprises to make the pricing, production, and distribution decisions, granting autonomy to state enterprises and ultimately expanding the scope of the private sector through privatization.

Dublin City Council began installing cycle lanes and tracks throughout the city in the 1990s, and the city has over of specific on-and off-road tracks for cyclists.

It wasn't until the late 1990s that feature length projects could be sent over the ' wire ' ( Internet or dedicated fiber links ).

In Taiwan in the 1990s and first decade of the 21st century a movement tried to prioritize reasoning over mere facts, reduce the emphasis on central control and standardized testing.

Several primarily freestyle artists released ballads during the 1980s and early 1990s that crossed over to the pop charts and charted higher than their previous work.

The government also borrowed against future Compact disbursements in the early 1990s, yielding an external debt of $ 111 million in 1997 ( over 50 % of GDP ).

Note that in Europe, sophisticated diesel-engined cars have taken over about 40 % of the market since the 1990s.

An IMAP Working Group formed in the IETF in the early 1990s took over responsibility for the IMAP2bis design.

Victims of their campaign against the Egyptian state in the 1990s included the head of the counter-terrorism police ( Major General Raouf Khayrat ), a parliamentary speaker ( Rifaat al-Mahgoub ), dozens of European tourists and Egyptian bystanders, and over 100 Egyptian police.

* John Ford Noonan ( born 1943 ), American actor and writer for theater, film and television ; authored over 30 plays during 1970s, 1980s and 1990s ( A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking, 1979 )

Memories of World War II linger among the older members of the Australian public, as does a contemporary fear of Japanese economic domination over countries, particularly Australia, although such fears have fallen off in response to Japan's economic stagnation in the 1990s.

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.

Lodge's was bought in the 1990s by Co-operative Retail Services who eventually closed the store down in 1997, after investing in a brand new £ 2m supermarket for the town.

As a result, the area was subjected to a £ 290 million regeneration programme in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

However by the late 1990s the canal network and British Waterways was flourishing ; revenues generated for canal maintenance reached £ 100, 000, 000 for the first time in 1998, large grants from the Heritage Lottery Fund allowed the canal network to expand again by restoring former canals and additional funding was announced for British Waterways in 1999 by the then Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott.

In the late 1990s Brunel devised a 10-year, £ 250 million Masterplan for the campus.

The façade, foyer and auditorium were designed by Edward Barry, and date from 1858, but almost every other element of the present complex dates from an extensive £ 178 million reconstruction in the 1990s.

The considerable extent of the estate meant that by the end of the 1990s it was valued at £ 536 million.

The 1990s was also the era of player exports in Norwegian football, and Viking made substantial earnings from the sales of striker Egil Østenstad to Southampton for £ 900, 000 in 1996 and goalkeeper Thomas Myhre to Everton for £ 800, 000 in 1997, among others.

In the 1990s it was thought that the path brought £ 15 million into the area each year, but new research in 2003 indicated that it generated around £ 300 million a year in total, which could support more than 7, 500 jobs.

Škoda Auto, a well known car manufacturer, nearly changed its name in 1997, instead it kept its £ 350m UK sales and followed an aggressive marketing campaign to change its perceived image during the 1990s and early into the 21st century, to great success doubling its car sales in 11 years, 1997 336, 000 sold, 2008 saw 674, 000 vehicles sold.

Hirst had sold these pieces to Saatchi in the early 1990s for rather less, his first installations costing under £ 10, 000.

Located around a hill in the southern part of the Vale of Clwyd-the older part of the town, the castle and Saint Peter's Square are located on top of the hill, while many newer parts of the town are on the floodplain of the River Clwyd ( which became apparent on several occasions in the late 1990s — new flood control works costing £ 3 million were inaugurated in autumn 2003 ).

Costing £ 174m, this was constructed as M6 as originally planned in the 1990s, and was opened on 5 December 2008.

Grampian also had a studio in Edinburgh, despite it being in Scottish's franchise area, which had closed by 1969, and a new £ 4 million studio complex in Stornoway, opened in the early 1990s to facilitate an expansion in Scottish Gaelic language output, including the daily news bulletin Telefios.

In the mid 1990s only the occasional top show charged £ 10 per seat, while the average price was £ 5 –£ 7 ; in 2006, prices were frequently over £ 10, and £ 20 was reached for the first time in 2006 for a show that lasted 1 hour.

It was extended throughout the 1990s and saw thousands of UK citizens living and working in Saudi Arabia representing £ 40bn worth of business.

In the 1990s Hepburn was fined £ 75 for an assault on fellow councillor Iain Malcolm.

Conceived as early as the late 1990s, it was completed in 2002 at a cost of approximately £ 44 million.

Season ticket sales rose from 7, 000 in 1986 to over 30, 000 in the 1990s, while commercial income increased from £ 239, 000 in 1986 to over £ 2 million in 1989.