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At the end of 2000, following its 25th anniversary, BMG pushed Davis out as label head and promoted L. A. Reid as its new President and CEO.
Rozelle, again according to Monday Night Football commentator Howard Cosell, pushed the NFL into an internecine struggle with Al Davis concerning the movement of the Oakland Raiders franchise to Los Angeles.
Later re-examinations of the remains confirmed Smith's original identification of the mummy as belonging to a young male ( although with feminine trends )< ref name =" aldred p. 201 "> Aldred, C., < cite > Akhenaten, King of Egypt </ cite > ( Thames and Hudson, 1988 ) p. 201 </ ref > but pushed the estimated age of death back to around 20 years .< ref name =" aldred p. 201-202 "> Aldred, C., < cite > Akhenaten, King of Egypt </ cite > ( Thames and Hudson, 1988 ) p. 201-202 </ ref > These re-examinations also indicated that the body showed no signs of delayed maturation < ref name =" davis p. xi "> Davis, T. M., < cite > The Tomb of Queen Tiyi </ cite >, ( KMT Communications, 1990 ) p. xi </ ref > and that, while the skull was of unusual shape, it certainly wasn't abnormal, and showed no indication of hydrocephalus.
General speculation regarding the factors influencing the recall's outcome continues to center on the idea that Californians simply voted for a " change " — because Davis had mismanaged the events leading up to the energy crisis, e. g., Davis had not fought more vigorously for Californians against the energy fraud nor had he pushed for legislative or emergency executive action soon enough ; because Davis had signed deals agreeing to pay energy companies fixed yet inflated prices for years to come based on those paid during the crisis ; and / or because the fraudulent corporations had prevailed, and a corporate-friendly Republican governor could politically shield California from further corporate fraud.
Deciding that " Life Is a Flower " was " too European in nature ", Clive Davis pushed " Cruel Summer " as the lead-off single for the United States and it took Ace of Base back into the US Top 10 for the first time in four years, being certified gold.
" Everytime It Rains ", previously included on the Cruel Summer album was released as a radio single in the US the following year in remixed-form ( pushed by Clive Davis ) in order to promote a new Greatest Hits album for the American market, which failed to chart, selling fewer than 5, 000 copies in its first week.
When O ' Neal arrived at his new club, new coach Isiah Thomas — who had pushed for the O ' Neal / Davis trade — told him that he simply needed to work harder on his game to succeed.
Some others claimed that the battle was fought only to justify growth in the American army, which was pushed for by then Secretary of War Jefferson Davis.
Allen signed into law Louisiana's popular homestead exemption, legislation pushed to pasage by State Senator W. Scott Heywood of Jennings, who earlier had been the first to discover oil in his adopted Jeff Davis Parish.

Davis and Infocom
Davis believed that his company had paid too much for Infocom and initiated a lawsuit against them to recoup some of the cost, along with changing the way Infocom was run.

Davis and release
The Regents, unhappy with the decision, continued to search for ways to release Davis from her position at UCLA.
When Ronald Reagan's daughter Patti Davis posed naked for Playboy, donating half her $ 100, 000 fee to PETA, the group issued a press release saying Davis " turns the other cheek in an eye-opening spread ," then announced she had been photographed naked with Hugh Hefner's dog for an anti-fur ad.
Davis performed a novelty song, " They're Either Too Young or Too Old ", which became a hit record after the film's release.
After the release of The Petrified Forest, Friz Freleng made the short-length cartoon parody She Was an Acrobat's Daughter ( 1937 ), which portrays a cinema audience watching The Petrified Florist, starring Bette Davis and Lester Coward.
Among these was Bette Davis, one of the studio's leading stars, who once fled to England to secure release from her contract.
Though on first release the film was lauded by critics, it was a commercial disaster with the home audiences and the critics, and prompted John Davis, the head of the Rank Organisation to announce that he was pulling out of British New Wave, " kitchen sink " drama, nor would his company make such a " squalid " film again.
It was Davis who insisted " Rose Garden " be the country singer's next single release.
Only release: single " In My Own Lifetime "/" I'll Begin Again ", by Davis in 1971.
In 1867 Greeley was one of 21 men who signed a $ 100, 000 bond for the release of former president of the Confederacy Jefferson Davis.
The Blu-ray release featured one new special feature, a picture-in-picture track that lasts the length of the film and features interviews with the crew and several minor cast members including Warwick Davis.
One has only to watch his performances as the returning emigrant unjustly convicted in Detenuto in attesa di giudizio or the miserly sub-proletarian of Lo scopone scientifico teased by the old millionaire Bette Davis into endless card games where he hopes to find release from his poverty to appreciate his skills in the first role, while the rampant, unscrupulous doctor he plays in Il medico della mutua is the perfect example of his aptness at rendering characters who were both truly despicable and completely believable.
The release included an audio commentary by Warwick Davis and two " making of " featurettes.
Since the film's release in 1988, Lucas and Davis commented in April 2005 that a television series acting as a sequel was under consideration.
A year later, Arnold channeled much of her heavily media-discussed experiences into the production of her third studio album, All Eyez on Me, her first release on mentor Clive Davis newly-founded J Records label.
A promotional CD release of the soundtrack accompanied the video game, with compositions by Erik Lundborg in the style of Don Davis, who composed the music for the films.
In honor of Davis, she used the pseudonym Andrea Davis for the release of those two singles.
However, over the next couple of years, Davis reformed the nonet on three occasions to record twelve pieces for release as singles.
Shortly after the release of the tape J. D. s ceased publication and a new crop of zines arose, such as Jane and Frankie by Klaus and Jena von Brücker, Shrimp by Vaginal Davis and Fanorama by REB.
Initially forbidden to have any contact with her husband, Howell Davis worked tirelessly to secure his release.
Davis died before the release of the album.
In order to freshen up the album for US release, Davis insisted that some new tracks were recorded, including " The Sign " which became the new title for the album and the second American single.

Davis and more
Slapstick and visual gags became more confined to Sunday strips, because as Garfield creator Jim Davis put it, " Children are more likely to read Sunday strips than dailies.
As global interconnectedness makes legitimate suspense more difficult to achieve, several writers — including Elizabeth Peters, P. C. Doherty, Steven Saylor, and Lindsey Davis — have eschewed fabricating convoluted plots in order to manufacture tension, instead opting to set their characters in some former period.
During his presidency, Davis took charge of the Confederate war plans but was unable to find a strategy to stop the larger, more powerful and better organized Union.
After Davis left Fort Crawford in 1833, he did not see Sarah for more than two years.
The Brewers parted ways with 2006 starters Doug Davis and Tomo Ohka, as well as fan favorite Jeff Cirillo, who wanted more playing time with another team.
Sessions with Davis and Evans in 1962 resulted in the album Quiet Nights, a short collection of bossa novas that was released against the wishes of both artists: Evans stated it was only half an album, and blamed the record company ; Davis blamed producer Teo Macero, whom he didn't speak to for more than two years.
Davis created a version that removes the shakiness of the camera, permitting the creature to be seen from a more stable perspective.
Historian and biographer Edmund King, whilst painting a slightly more positive picture than Davis, also concludes that Stephen, while a stoic, pious and genial leader, was also rarely, if ever, his own man, usually relying upon stronger characters such as his brother or wife.
Gorman went on to lead the US Davis Cup team, where he captained a record 18 match wins and one Davis Cup title ( 1972 ) as a player and two more Davis Cup championships as a coach ( 1990 and 1992 ).
In a review of The Mismeasure of Man, Bernard Davis, professor of microbiology at Harvard Medical School, said that Gould erected a straw man argument based upon incorrectly defined key terms — specifically reification — which Gould furthered with a " highly selective " presentation of statistical data, all motivated more by politics than by science.
Running back Stephen Davis rushed for a club-record and quarterback Brad Johnson completed a club-record 316 passes and threw for more than in regular play that season.
Garfield voted with the Radical Republicans in passing the Wade – Davis Bill, designed to give Congress more authority over Reconstruction, but the bill was defeated by Lincoln's pocket veto.
Only slightly more than a year later, the first landing on the Antarctic mainland was arguably by the American Captain John Davis, a sealer, who claimed to have set foot there on 7 February 1821, though this is not accepted by all historians.
They chose to juxtapose Abraham Lincoln's inaugural address with that of Confederate president Jefferson Davis ; they debated removing Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and labor-leader César Chávez and rejected calls to include more Hispanic figures, in spite of the high Hispanic population in the state.
Lincoln vetoed the Radical plan, the Wade – Davis Bill of 1864, which was much more strict than the Ten-Percent Plan.
The act authorized Joshua R. Stone and Green Baker from White County, William Davis and Isaiah Warton from Overton County, John Brown and Austin Morgan from Jackson County, William B. Stokes and Bird S. Rhea from DeKalb County, and Benjamin A. Vaden and Nathan Ward from Smith County to study the Conner survey and select a spot, not more than two and one-half miles from the center of the county, for the courthouse.
Davis addressed the issue in an interview, pointing out that many Hollywood wives earned more than their husbands, but the situation proved difficult for Nelson, who refused to allow Davis to purchase a house until he could afford to pay for it himself.
After more than 20 film roles, the role of the vicious and slatternly Mildred Rogers in the RKO Radio production of Of Human Bondage ( 1934 ), a film adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's novel, earned Davis her first major critical acclaim.
Davis anticipated that her reception would encourage Warner Bros. to cast her in more important roles, and was disappointed when Jack Warner refused to lend her to Columbia Studios to appear in It Happened One Night, and instead cast her in the melodrama Housewife.

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