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.

After the severe economic troubles of the early 1990s, brought on by a drop in the vital fish catch and poor management of the economy, the Faroe Islands have come back in the last few years, with unemployment down to 5 % in mid-1998, and holding below 3 % since 2006, one of the lowest rates in Europe.

Haiti's cheap labor brought some textile and garment assembly work back to the island in 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.

Preferential access to sugar and clothing markets amounted to 7 % of GDP in the 1980s and 4. 5 % in the 1990s, capital and current accounts were liberalised, contributing to an investment and employment boom and the high inflow of FDI brought with it managerial skills.

The establishment and growth of the Internet in the 1990s brought rapid growth to these, and other pagan movements.

In the 1990s, with the revival of interest in constructed languages brought on by the Internet, some people rediscovered Novial.

The Pyrenean Ibex mysteriously became extinct in January 2000 ; the native Pyrenean brown bear was hunted to near-extinction in the 1990s, but it was re-introduced in 1996 when three bears were brought from Slovenia.

In the 1990s, controversy over a class-action lawsuit brought in Brooklyn, New York over Jewish assets in Holocaust-era bank accounts prompted the Swiss government to commission the most recent and authoritative study of Switzerland's interaction with the Nazi regime.

The United Kingdom has sought to be a leading member of the United Nations, the European Union and NATO, yet since the 1990s large-scale devolution movements in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales have brought into question the future viability of this constantly evolving political union.

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.

The 1990s brought Ford the role of Jack Ryan in Tom Clancy's Patriot Games ( 1992 ) and Clear and Present Danger ( 1994 ), as well as leading roles in Alan Pakula's Presumed Innocent ( 1990 ) and The Devil's Own ( 1997 ), Andrew Davis ' The Fugitive ( 1993 ), Sydney Pollack's remake of Sabrina ( 1995 ), and Wolfgang Petersen's Air Force One ( 1997 ).

The 1990s brought on rapid advances in technology along with the introduction of the dot-com era.

Inflation was brought to single digits during the late 1990s although it returned to double digits in 2000-02.

The 1990s brought Australian Indigenous Folk Rock to the world, led by bands including Yothu Yindi.

Barbados went into a deep recession in the 1990s after 3 years of steady decline brought on by fundamental macroeconomic imbalances.

The early 1990s brought a decline in the popularity of traditional thrash metal.

In the late 1990s, the show was brought to the attention of Drew Carey, who worked with regular Whose Line?

The band's evolution throughout the 1990s and early 2000s involved several tumultuous periods of commercial highs and lows, brought about in part by Weiland's well-publicized struggles with drug addiction.

Perhaps the most famous antitrust enforcement actions brought by the federal government were the break-up of AT & T's local telephone service monopoly in the early 1980s and its actions against Microsoft in the late 1990s.

B * Witched performed in the 2007 gig ' Battle of the Pop Bands ' which brought old bands from the late 1990s and early 2000s.

It also brought anime into prominence in late 1990s with its Toonami action block and aired late night programming such as the Midnight Run, ToonHeads and Space Ghost Coast to Coast which was more popular with older audiences and lead way for the creation of its young adult late night block Adult Swim in 2001.

The National Labor Committee brought sweatshops into the mainstream media in the 1990s when it exposed the use of sweatshop and child labor to sew Kathie Lee Gifford's Wal-Mart label.

Since the 1990s teams of foreign workers were brought in, many from Thailand and China.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, new homes and communities brought the population significantly increasing.

In Lebanon more than 450 outcrops of Lower Cretaceous amber were discovered between the 1960s and 1990s, among which about 20 outcrops have yielded biological inclusions comprising the oldest representatives of several recent families of terrestrial arthropods.

This has become attractive since the 1990s, especially since more traditional spring break places such as Daytona Beach, Florida have become restrictive on drinking and other behaviors.

As the use of the Internet became more widespread in the mid to late 1990s, traditional BBSes rapidly faded in popularity.

For those more nostalgic for the true BBS experience, one can use NetSerial ( Windows ) or DOSBox ( Windows /* nix ) to redirect DOS COM port software to telnet, allowing them to connect to Telnet BBSes using 1980s and 1990s era modem terminal emulation software, like Telix, Terminate, Qmodem and Procomm Plus.

As recently as the late 1990s it was rather run-down ; it underwent a controversial gentrification in recent years ( in conjunction with the development of the nearby University Park at MIT ), and continues to grow more expensive.

Partly in response to international pressures, Comorians in the 1990s have become more concerned about the environment.

A number of small publishers in the 1990s changed the format and distribution of their comics to more closely resemble non-comics publishing.

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.

As Switzerland considered closer relations with the European Union in the 1990s, the SVP adopted a more militant protectionist and isolationist stance.

By the early 1990s, the performance of microprocessor-based computers reached the point that real-time generation of computer music using more general programs and algorithms became possible.

This evolved in the late 1990s into the treatment of other parts ( that did more than just increase the life of a product ) such as amplifier valves ( improved sound quality ), baseball bats ( greater sweet spot ), golf clubs ( greater sweet spot ), racing engines ( greater performance under stress ), firearms ( less warping after continuous shooting ), knives, razor blades, brake rotors and even pantyhose.

In the Superman: The Animated Series of the late 1990s, Kent is based on John Byrne's version of him, becoming more assertive and intelligent.

By the 1990s, many of these bands and artists had disbanded, were no longer performing, or were being carried by independent labels because their music tended to be more lyrically complex ( and often more controversial ) than mainstream Christian pop.

However, CI's more successful calculators involved a line of construction calculators, which evolved and expanded in the 1990s to present.

The dawn of the personal web page in the 1990s, and more recently the blog site spawned thousands of cruising websites detailing the adventures of cruising sailors around the world.

By contrast, the Soviet Union's transition was much more problematic and its successor republics faced a sharp decline in GDP during the early 1990s.

Thomas Turner wrote in the late 1990s that .. ' ajor acts of violence, such as the killings that followed the ' Kasongo uprising ' in Bandundu Region in 1978, the killings of diamond miners in Kasai-Oriental Region in 1979, and, more recently, the massacre of students in Lubumbashi in 1990, continued to intimidate the population.

Starting in the 1990s, smaller half, quarter, eighth and even sixteenth-sized instruments became more widely available, which meant that children could start at a younger age.

While the upright bass is still occasionally used in country music, the electric bass has largely replaced its bigger cousin in country music, especially in the more pop-infused country styles of the 1990s and 2000s, such as new country.

As more and more of its demands were met during the 1990s – such as the direct popular election of Taiwan's president and all representatives in its Legislative Yuan, and open discussion of Taiwan's repressive past as represented in the 2-28 Incident and its long martial law aftermath – a greater variety of views could be advocated in the more liberal political atmosphere.

CATV licenses were granted at a local level, and while it was a more natural monopoly, pirate operators proliferated within populous cities in the 1990s.

With the advent of a Provisional IRA ceasefire and the beginning of what became known as the Peace Process during the 1990s, the official view of the Rising became more positive and in 1996 an 80th anniversary commemoration at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin was attended by the Taoiseach and leader of Fine Gael, John Bruton.