Until the mid-1990s, a strong consensus existed among economists, both conservative and liberal, that the minimum wage reduced employment, especially among younger and low-skill workers.

Until the mid-1990s, updating firmware typically involved replacing a storage medium containing firmware, usually a socketed ROM.

Until the mid-1990s, supporters of Chinese reunification on Taiwan were also bitterly opposed to the Communist Party of China.

Until the widespread adoption of cellular and broadband internet networks in the mid-1990s, electronic monitoring devices were typically home-based, dependent on a dedicated land line, and able to report only whether or not the criminal being tracked was remaining at home.

Until the mid-1990s it operated a trimesterised academic term, then changed to US-style semesterisation.

Until the mid-1990s, the paramount leader was able to wield power without necessarily holding any official or formally significant governmental position.

Until the mid-1990s the festival attracted mostly Scandinavians, but in recent years it has become more and more international ( with an especially large influx of Germans, Australians and British ).

Until the mid-1990s, most of the funding came from a tax on the petroleum and chemical industries, reflecting the polluter pays principle, and Congress yielded to corporate pressure.

Until the mid-1990s, the different forms within Delphinus were not recognized as separate species, but were all considered members of the species D. delphis.

Until the mid-1990s, the different forms within Delphinus were not recognized as separate species, but were all considered members of the species D. delphis.

Until the mid-1990s, YTV called their program jockeys " PJs " in the same vein as disc jockey ( DJ ) or video jockey ( VJ ).

Until the mid-1990s, it was viewed as very hostile to the People's Republic of China, in part because the paper referred to people from mainland China as " Communist Chinese.

Until the mid-1990s, most foreign operas were sung in Russian, but Italian and other languages have been heard more frequently on the Bolshoi stage in recent years.

Until the mid-1990s, Deng Xiaoping was China's de facto leader, retaining only the official title of Chairman of the Central Military Commission, but not the chief offices of the State, government, or the Party.

Until the mid-1990s he held a number of official posts in France.

Until 2009, ABKCO administered Philles Records and its master recordings, including hits by the Righteous Brothers, the Ronettes, the Crystals and others ( via a licensing deal with EMI Music Publishing, which owned the Philles catalog since the mid-1990s ).

Until around 1994 – 1995 their logos were opaque white and black, presumably due to being inserted into the analog CVBS signal just before being broadcast instead of an analog YUV, RGB or digital SDI signal, while in the mid-1990s they upgraded to colorized but still opaque logos.

Until the mid-1990s, Walmart took out corporate-owned life insurance policies on its employees including " low-level " employees such as janitors, cashiers, and stockers.

Until the mid-1990s, up to 150, 000 people — about a fifth of the Palestinian labor force — entered Israel each day.

Until the mid-1990s, Kenwood still owned part of Kensonic.

Until 2001 it was an industrial and transportation company named Preussag AG, which in the mid-1990s decided to reinvent itself as a tourism, shipping, and logistics company.

Until the mid-1990s, the area was primarily used for small-scale agriculture.

Until the mid-1990s, the network carried a variety of American programs in addition to its core Canadian programming, directly competing with private Canadian broadcasters such as CTV and Global.

Until the mid-1990s, the town site of Coco Solo was utilized by the civilian employees of the Panama Canal enterprise as a residential area.

Until we translate this gospel into a language that enlightened men today can understand, we are depriving ourselves of the very resources on which the continued success of our witness most certainly depends.

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

Until the mid 19th century most boats were of all natural materials ; primarily wood although reed, bark and animal skins were also used.

Planning may involve the development of biological identification systems. Until recently in the United States, most biological defense strategies have been geared to protecting soldiers on the battlefield rather than ordinary people in cities.

Until about 2000, users of Unix desktops regarded CDE as the de facto standard, but at that time, other desktop environments such as GNOME and K Desktop Environment 2 were quickly becoming mature, and became almost universal on the Linux platform, which already had a larger user base than most commercial Unixes in total.

Until the two World Wars, in most European countries the political class was formed by conservative liberals, from Germany to Italy.

Until the wolves returned, Yellowstone National Park had one of the densest and most stable coyote populations in America due to a lack of human impacts.

Until the 1930s most of the crop was sold fresh.

Until the 21st century most used cathode ray tubes but they have largely been superseded by LCD monitors.

Until about 2003, most computer monitors had a 4: 3 aspect ratio and some had 5: 4.

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 high school, of which he attended Saint Xavier High School in Louisville, Kentucky his featured characters were a large cast of stick figures featured in comedy-adventures like the Barks comics and old movies Don enjoyed most.

Until the 19th century, the most common theory among scientists was still the concept of scala naturae, proposed by Aristotle.

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 this point, the cinemas of France and Italy had been the most globally popular and powerful.

Until recently, fur seals were all grouped under a single subfamily of Pinnipedia, called Arctocephalinae, to contrast them with Otariinae – the sea lions – based on the most prominent common feature, namely the coat of dense underfur intermixed with guard hairs.

Until his retirement in 1829, Rossini had been the most popular opera composer in history.

Until about 1800, it was almost entirely a written language, but now it is so widely spoken that most of the former German dialects are nearly extinct.

Until the late 20th century Protestantism — especially of the Presbyterian variety — was a central value for most Scots, helping shape their identity and way of thinking.

Until Henry's time, Cape Bojador remained the most southerly point known to Europeans on the unpromising desert coast of Africa, although the Periplus of the Carthaginian Hanno the Navigator described a journey farther south about 2, 000 years earlier.

Until the mid-twentieth century, most efforts to control the waters were primarily concerned with irrigation.

Until about 1800, the most common pattern of steam engine was the beam engine, built as an integral part of a stone or brick engine-house, but soon various patterns of self-contained portative engines ( readily removable, but not on wheels ) were developed, such as the table engine.

Until the early 19th century Africans were captured, kidnapped, and forced into slavery to work on plantations when sugarcane became the most important export of the island.

Until at least 1444 he lived in Strasbourg, most likely in the St. Arbogast parish.

Until 1987, 1-2-3 Jell-O could readily be found in grocery stores throughout most of the United States, but the dessert is now extremely rare.