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.

A number of political scandals in the 1980s and 1990s created the impression of what was described in the British press as " sleaze ": a perception that the then Conservative government was associated with political corruption and hypocrisy.

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.

* Cyan was a British progressive rock band from the 1980s and 1990s.

British journalist Duncan Campbell and New Zealand journalist Nicky Hager asserted in the 1990s that the United States was exploiting ECHELON traffic for industrial espionage, rather than military and diplomatic purposes.

The British and Danish Conservatives tried to maintain a group of their own called the European Democrats ( ED ), but lack of support and the problems inherent in maintaining a small group forced ED's collapse in the 1990s, and its members crossed the floor to join the EPP Group.

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" In film as in society at large, America ’ s influence has now reached levels and depths previously unimaginable ," said critic Geoff Brown, referring to the Americanisation of British film culture in the 1990s.

Something for Everyone: British film Culture in the 1990s.

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Walkers, a Leicester-based British producer of snack foods, temporarily named their salt and vinegar crisps after Lineker in the late 1990s — they were labelled ' Salt-n-Lineker '.

Journalist Kevin Stewart-Panko argues that the American grindcore of the 1990s borrowed from three sources: British grindcore, the American precursors, and death metal.

From the 1930s when de Havilland opened a factory until the 1990s when British Aerospace closed, Hatfield was associated with aircraft design and manufacture, which employed more people than any other industry.

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In the 1990s and early 21st century, the British Methodist Church was involved in the Scottish Church Initiative for Union, seeking greater unity with the established and Presbyterian Church of Scotland, the Scottish Episcopal Church and the United Reformed Church in Scotland.

In the late 1990s, British cable television channel L! VE TV broadcast Tiffany's Big City Tips, in which model Tiffany Banister gave the financial news while stripping to her underwear.

In the 1990s, released from the Left's pressure, the British Labour Party, under Tony Blair, posited policies based upon the free market economy to deliver public services via private contractors.

Influenced by the British Levellers, the movement's popularity rose again during the 1990s, once more due to a housing crisis, this time related to the 1992 Summer Olympics and the concomitant urban regeneration.

Massive Attack, a British trip hop group which helped bring the genre to mainstream success in the 1990s.

In the United Kingdom, he is known as the face of a long-running series of television advertisements for British Airways in the 1990s.

In the late 1980s and 1990s, as well as in 2000, Hauer acted in several British and American television productions, including Inside the Third Reich ( as Albert Speer ); Escape from Sobibor ( for which he received a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor ); Fatherland ; Hostile Waters ; Merlin ; The 10th Kingdom ; Smallville ; Alias ; and ' Salem's Lot.

The Chardonnay vintages of the early 1990s from British Columbia helped generate international attention to the quality of Canadian wines apart from ice wine varietals.

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.

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The Brown Corpus has also spawned a number of similarly structured corpora: the LOB Corpus ( 1960s British English ), Kolhapur ( Indian English ), Wellington ( New Zealand English ), Australian Corpus of English ( Australian English ), the Frown Corpus ( early 1990s American English ), and the FLOB Corpus ( 1990s British English ).

In the 1990s and 2000s, many drummers in popular music and indie music have reverted back to basic four piece drum set standard.

In the mid-1980s to the early 1990s in America, various underground scenes either directly evolved from punk or at least applied its attitudes to new styles, in the process producing the alternative rock and indie music scenes.

From the 1990s alternative rock began to dominate rock music and break through into the mainstream in the form of grunge, Britpop, and indie rock.

Alternative rock acts from the 1980s and early 1990s indie scene were the direct ancestors of the Britpop movement.

The origins of Britpop lie primarily in the indie scene of the early 1990s, and in particular around a group of bands involved in a vibrant social scene focused in the Camden Town area of London.

The group recorded several albums and EPs on an indie label, Restless, in the 1980s and early 1990s.

The city has also produced many other musicians, including singer and songwriter John Waite, who first became known as lead singer of The Babys in the 1970s ; Paul James, better known as The Rev, former guitarist of English punk band Towers Of London who is now in the band Day 21 and plays guitar live on tour for The Prodigy, Chris Acland, drummer of the early 1990s shoegaze band Lush ; Tom English, drummer of North East indie band Maxïmo Park and Steve Kemp, drummer of the indie band Hard-Fi.

However, West's 2007 single " Stronger " used a prominent sample from a song by the French dance-oriented electronic act Daft Punk, whose work in the 1990s and early 2000s was also becoming highly sampled and influential on the musical aesthetic of acts in other genres such as indie rock and indie dance.

Stylistically, music journalist J. D. Considine credits the band for anticipating and driving the late 1990s revival of vintage analog instruments among indie rock bands.

Interest began to be revived in the indie electronic and electroclash movements in the late 1990s and, in the first decade of the 21st century, it enjoyed a widespread revival with commercial success for acts including La Roux, Kesha and Owl City.

In the UK the arrival of indie rock bands, particularly The Smiths, has been seen as marking the end of synth-driven New Wave and the beginning of the guitar-based music that would dominate rock into the 1990s.

Electronic music was also explored from the early 1990s by indie electronic bands like Stereolab and Disco Inferno, who mixed a variety of indie and synthesizer sounds.

The terms alternative rock and indie rock were used interchangeably in the 1980s, but after many alternative bands followed Nirvana into the mainstream in the early 1990s it began to be used to distinguish those bands, working in a variety of styles, that did not pursue or achieve commercial success.

By the end of the 1990s indie rock developed a number of sub-genres and related styles.

Indie electronic, which had begun in the early 1990s with bands like Stereolab and Disco Inferno, took off in the new millennium as digital technology developed, with acts including Broadcast from the UK, Justice from France, Lali Puna from Germany and The Postal Service, and Ratatat and BOBBY from the US, mixing a variety of indie sounds with electronic music, largely produced on small independent labels.

** Indie folk, a music genre that arose in the 1990s from singer / songwriters in the indie rock community showing heavy influences from folk music scenes of the 50s, 60s and early 70s, country music, and indie rock

Although power trios fell out of fashion in mainstream rock during the early 1980s, the rise of post-punk and indie rock in the later 1980s and throughout the 1990s featured many trios, such as grunge band Nirvana and pop-punk bands such as Green Day and Blink-182.

Although power trios fell out of fashion in mainstream rock during the 1980s, the rise of post-punk and indie rock in the 1980s and 1990s featured many trios.

This left the paper directionless again, and attempts to embrace the rise of DJ culture in the late 1990s only led to the paper being criticised for not supporting rock or indie music.

Critical praise for Scar and a wildly popular live show established Lush as one of the most written about groups of the early 1990s UK indie scene.

Vertical Horizon's indie albums began to attract record executives from several record labels during the late 1990s.