Until the mid 1990s the tariff was decided by the FINA diving committee, and divers could only select from the range of dives in the published tariff table.

Until better out-of-band signaling equipment was developed in the 1990s, fast, unacknowledged, and loud DTMF tone sequences could be heard during the commercial breaks of cable channels in the United States and elsewhere.

Until the 1990s, child-sized double basses were not widely available, and the large size of the bass meant that children were not able to start playing the instrument until their hand size and height would allow them to play a 3 / 4-size model ( the most commonly available size ).

Until the 1990s, economists generally agreed that raising the minimum wage reduced employment.

Until the early 1990s, the Chilean wine industry mistakenly sold a large quantity of wine made from the Carmenere grape as Merlot.

Until the early 1990s, the PLA Navy performed a subordinate role to the PLA Ground Force.

Until the arrival of digital technology in the early 1990s, a split screen was accomplished by using an optical printer to combine two or more actions filmed separately by copying them onto the same negative, called the composite.

Until the early 1990s locals filled water cisterns from the rain that fell on roofs and courts, from small springs, and with imported assistance from other areas of Greece.

Until nitrox was widely accepted in the late 1990s, almost all recreational scuba used simple compressed and filtered air.

Until the 1990s they were mainly used for satellite stabilization in North-South and in East-West directions.

* Until the late 1990s, the cost of digital signal processors for DSL was prohibitive.

Until the 1990s systems design had a crucial and respected role in the data processing industry.

Until the 1990s being an open relay was a common configuration for a mail server and was often the default on UNIX systems at installation.

Until late 1990s, CPU s in desktop computers did not have much support for multithreading, although threads were still used on such computers because switching between threads was generally still quicker than full process context switches.

Until the early 1990s, most Fox stations were still essentially independents.

Until the 1990s, the toys were seldom numbered at all, which can make identification difficult ( although some early toys, especially hand-painted figurines, have a Ferrero mark ).

Until the early 1990s, it was widely believed that general relativity hides every singularity behind an event horizon, making naked singularities impossible.

Until the late 1990s, most of Inner Mongolia's prefectural regions were known as Leagues (), a usage retained from Mongol divisions of the Qing Dynasty.

Until the mid 1990s, Yangon remained largely constrained to its traditional peninsula setting between the Bago, Yangon and Hlaing rivers.

Until the end of the 1990s, political life in Omsk was defined by an ongoing feud between the oblast and city authorities.

Until recently, art exhibitions deemed controversial have been routinely shut down by police, and performance artists in particular faced the threat of arrest in the early 1990s.

Until the 1990s, the government actively stated that the ROC is the only legitimate " One China " while the PRC is illegitimate.

Until the 1990s, there was only one game televised each Saturday night in any particular locality and up to 1968, regular season games were still not broadcast in their entirety.

Until the 1990s, the refrigerants were often chlorofluorocarbons such as R-12 ( dichlorodifluoromethane ), one in a class of several refrigerants using the brand name Freon, a trademark of DuPont.

Until the Charter of Liberties was issued in the fall of 1958, there were no guarantees of the right to assemble or to organize for political purposes.

Until such work is done, there must remain the nagging suspicion that alienation may be little more than an expression of the malaise of the intellectual, who, rejected by and in turn rejecting the larger society, projects his own fear and despair onto the broader social screen.

Until modern times there was no clear distinction between the architect and engineer.

Until the 1970s there was considerable debate within psychiatry on the most appropriate term to use to describe the new drugs.

Until June 2007, The New York Times, from which the Square gets its name, was published at offices at 239 West 43rd Street ; the paper stopped printing papers there on June 15, 1997.

Until there it is used nearly exclusively for freight.

Until recently there were restrictions on the import of bananas to Greece, therefore bananas were grown on the island, predominantly in greenhouses.

Until this German Federal legislation was introduced, there were no recognised mechanism to prevent administrators in private bodies and civil servants in public-funded bodies ( such as universities ) from automatically discriminating between the qualifications of people with German doctorates compared to holders of doctorates from an EU member state.

Until the 20th century, there was no technology capable of detecting the deviations from Euclidean geometry, but Einstein predicted that such deviations would exist.

Until fairly recent times, there has been a remarkable homogeneity in the culture throughout this area, which traditionally relied on fish, sea mammals, and land animals for food, heat, light, clothing and tools.

Until recently, photovoltaics were most commonly used in remote sites where there is no access to a commercial power grid, or as a supplemental electricity source for individual homes and businesses.

Until World War II there were many Gothic, renaissance and baroque houses in Elbląg's Old Town ; some of them are reconstructed.

Until recently there was no genetic transfection vector available for this organism and detailed study at the cellular level was not possible.

Until the birth of Prince Hisahito, son of Prince Akishino, on September 6, 2006, there was a potential succession problem, since Prince Akishino was the only male child to be born into the imperial family since 1965.

Until 1963 when the line was closed, Terrier steam locomotives pulled carriages along the Hayling Billy line from Havant station on the mainland to a station which was located at the northern end of Staunton Avenue, passing through Langstone where there was a Halt.

Until Pope Pius X reduced in 1911 the number of Holy Days of Obligation to 8, there were in the course of the year 36 such days, apart from Sundays.

Until the day I die people will keep saying, ‘ Leni is a Nazi ’, and I ’ ll keep saying, ‘ But what did she do ?’” Although she won more than 50 libel cases against people accusing her of collaborating with the Nazis, there are many unanswered questions about her relation to National Socialism in particular and fascism more generally.

Until the 1970s there were no more than a dozen such sites around the moor, usually in the most inaccessible locations.

Until the mid-20th century, there were Jews all across the Levant ; now most are in Israel.

Until 3 July 2011, when Arriva took over bus operations, there were approximately 500 buses in public transit service in Malta, most of them privately owned by the bus drivers themselves, and operated to a unified timetable set by the transport authority.

Until recently, the last woolly mammoths were generally assumed to have vanished from Europe and southern Siberia about 12, 000 years ago, but new findings show some were still present there about 10, 000 years ago.

Until the early 1970s there was large apiary which was well known in the region and has lived on in the Scottish country dance " The Bees of Maggieknockater ".

Until the beginning of the 18th century, there appears to have been no national government or national leader.

Until the beginning of the 18th century, there appears to have been no national government or national leader in Niue.

Until the selection of Rickey Jackson in 2010, there had been no players in the Hall of Fame whose time with the Saints contributed to their selection ; the others were chosen for their work with previous teams.