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late and 1990s
In the late 1980s and 1990s authors such as George Marcus and James Clifford pondered ethnographic authority, in particular how and why anthropological knowledge was possible and authoritative.
While Angola's foreign policy shifted to a pro-U. S. stance based on substantial economic ties, under the rule of President Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe's ties with the West soured in the late 1990s.
Also, a new version of Asteroids was developed for PlayStation, Nintendo 64, Windows, and the Game Boy Color in the late 1990s.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Cancún had been favored at the spring break destination of choice.
The best selling model, the Amiga 500, was introduced in 1987 and became the leading home computer of the late 1980s and early 1990s in much of Western Europe.
In the late 1990s, under Project Monterey, IBM and the Santa Cruz Operation planned to integrate AIX and UnixWare into a single 32-bit / 64-bit multiplatform UNIX with particular emphasis on running on Intel IA-64 ( Itanium ) architecture CPUs.
The local economy is based upon tourism directed to the beaches of the Costa Blanca and particularly the second residence construction boom which started in the 1960s and reinvigorated again by the late 1990s.
When emulators of 1980s video game consoles began to appear on home computers in the late 1990s, the Atari 7800 was one of the last to be emulated.
Also in the late 1990s in the Walloon south of the country, French speaking / rapping Starflam was the biggest name in hip hop.
AMD ex-CEO and founder Jerry Sanders developed strategic partnerships during the late 1990s to improve AMD's presence in the PC market based on the success of the AMD K6 architecture.
Sparrow and its derivatives were the West's principal beyond visual range ( BVR ) air-to-air missile from the late 1950s until the 1990s.
As the use of the Internet became more widespread in the mid to late 1990s, traditional BBSes rapidly faded in popularity.
During the late 1980s and early 1990s, most BBSes used ANSI to make elaborate welcome screens, and colorized menus, and thus, ANSI support was a sought-after feature in terminal client programs.
In the late 1990s, functions that had been administered separately by the two major leagues ' administrations were united under the rubric of Major League Baseball.
A small selection was issued on a 1971 LP and a 2-cassette set of the series ' soundtrack was made available in the late 1990s.
Significant progress in Big Bang cosmology have been made since the late 1990s as a result of advances in telescope technology as well as the analysis of data from satellites such as COBE, the Hubble Space Telescope and WMAP.
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.
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.
Carbamazepine became widely used to treat bipolar disorder in the late 1980s and early 1990s, but was displaced by sodium valproate in the 1990s.
) Construction of residential buildings began north of the World Financial Center in the late 1990s and completion of the final lots scheduled to be completed by spring 2011.
This was revived in the late 1990s due to accounts of so-called " sleaze " by the Labour government.
Firms started highlighting their ethical stature in the late 1980s and early 1990s, possibly trying to distance themselves from the business scandals of the day, such as the savings and loan crisis.
In the end, after a number of large demutualisations, and pressure from carpetbaggers moving from one building society to another to cream off the windfalls, most of the remaining societies modified their rules of membership in the late 1990s.
Through the late 1990s, BeOS managed to create a niche of followers, but the company failed to remain viable.

late and amateur
An early pioneer of radio astronomy was Grote Reber, an amateur astronomer who constructed the first purpose built radio telescope in the late 1930s to follow up on the discovery of radio wavelength emissions from space by Karl Jansky.
" Cozy mysteries " began in the late 20th century as a reinvention of the Golden Age whodunnit ; these novels generally shy away from violence and suspense and frequently feature female amateur detectives.
Experiments with color films were made as early as the late 19th century, but practical color film was not commercially viable until 1908, and for amateur use when Kodak introduced Kodachrome for 16 mm in 1935 and 8 mm in 1936.
In the late 1800s, amateur microscopy became a popular hobby in the United States and Europe.
Following the establishment of a definition for an amateur athlete at the 1894 Congress, he would continue to argue that this definition should be amended as necessary, and as late as 1909 would argue that the Olympic movement should develop its definition of amateurism gradually.
A bookish and intellectual child, he was also a fan of boxing and spent some time in his late teens bodybuilding, eventually taking up amateur boxing himself.
By the late 1950s, new organizations focused on amateur radioteletype started to appear.
During most of the late 1930s and early 1940s Milligan performed as an amateur jazz vocalist and trumpeter before, during and after being called up for military service in the fight against Nazi Germany, but even then he wrote and performed comedy sketches as part of concerts to entertain troops.
A late entry by amateur architect William Thornton was submitted on January 31, 1793, to much praise for its " Grandeur, Simplicity, and Beauty " by Washington, along with praise from Jefferson.
Until the 1970s, literary critics dismissed Thoreau's late pursuits as amateur science and philosophy.
The amateur sports movement in the late 19th century marginalised competitions based on the professional, gambling model.
In late 1995, he appeared in Devious, an amateur video drama set between the second Doctor's trial at the end of The War Games and before the start of Spearhead From Space, which shows an interim ( between second and third ) Doctor played by Tony Garner being told he was " never meant to be the Doctor " and that the third, played by Jon, will complete him.
Cassette culture, or the cassette underground, refers to the practices surrounding amateur production and distribution of recorded music that emerged in the late 1970s via home-made audio cassettes.
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.
The original format for magnetic tape sound reproduction was the reel-to-reel tape recorder, first available in the U. S. in the late 1940s but too expensive and bulky to be practical for amateur home use until well into the 1950s.
Cabot boasts a movie theater and larger city library built in the late 1990s, plus a growing number of restaurants, amateur sporting venues and community organizations.
He put together a string of 30 straight competitive amateur victories in the late 70s, mostly in his home state Florida, culminating in a win at the Oceanside Nationals in June, 1979.
What came to be known as the " MJ-12 papers " – detailing a secret UFO committee allegedly involving Vannevar Bush – first appeared on a roll of film in late 1984 in the mailbox of television documentary producer ( and amateur ufologist ) Jaime Shandera.
The first songs traditionally referred to as bard songs are thought to be written in late 1930s and early 1940s, and the very existence of the genre is traditionally originated from the amateur activities of the Soviet intelligentsia, namely mass backpacking movement and the students ' song movement of 1950s and 1960s.
The Electro-Theremin, often called the Tannerin, is an electronic musical instrument developed by trombonist Paul Tanner and amateur inventor Bob Whitsell in the late 1950s to produce a sound to mimic that of the theremin.
Subsidy republication as late as 1995 by Pyrotek Inc., an amateur rocketry supply house.
After over half a century of amateurism, the amateur status of the sport began to be displaced by growing professionalism in the late 1970s.
Sometime late in 1915 or in 1916 he proposed to the company's president, Edward J. Nally, that the company develop a " Radio Music Box " for the " amateur " market of radio enthusiasts.
After an amateur career where he won various titles, he turned professional in the late 1970s, and has boxed the likes of Robin Blake, former world champion Roger Mayweather, Hector Macho Camacho and Carlos Bolillo Gonzalez, the last two of which Baltazar fought for world titles.

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