VLD most recently formed the Federal Government ( the so-called purple governments from June 2003 through 2007 with the Flemish sp. a-Spirit cartel, the Francophone Socialist Party ( PS ) and the Francophone Reformist Movement ( MR ).

* 1789 – On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States.

Eisenhower made clear his stance in his first State of the Union message in February 1953, saying " I propose to use whatever authority exists in the office of the President to end segregation in the District of Columbia, including the Federal Government, and any segregation in the Armed Forces ".

Federal law allows a national bank to " import " these laws from the state in which its principal office is located.

In late May 1932, with the resignation of Karl Buresch's Christian-Social government, Dollfuss, age 39 and with only one year's experience in the Federal government, was offered the office of Chancellor by President Wilhelm Miklas, also a member of the Christian-Social Party.

Shortly after, Philipp Rösler changed office and became Federal Minister of Economics and Technology.

At his inauguration, Washington took the oath of office as the first President of the United States of America on April 30, 1789, on the balcony of Federal Hall in New York City.

The King appoints the proposed successor as prime minister, who takes office when the new Federal Government is sworn in.

* Briefly considered running for the office of Federal President in 1959.

Using the Seagram as a prototype, Mies ' office designed a number of modern high-rise office towers, notably the Chicago Federal Center, which includes the Dirksen and Kluczynski Federal Buildings and Post Office ( 1959 ) and the IBM Plaza in Chicago ; the Westmount Square in Montreal, and the Toronto-Dominion Centre in 1967.

Burned structures included the Federal Building and post office, Lamar County Courthouse and Jail, City Hall, most commercial buildings, and several churches.

The 1981 recession is thought to have been caused by the tight-money policy adopted by Paul Volcker, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, before Ronald Reagan took office.

The status of leadership of the Federal Yugoslav president was unstable with no president lasting more than four years in office.

In addition, unlike the other successor states of the former Yugoslavia, Slovenia did not normalize relations with the " Federal Republic of Yugoslavia " ( Serbia and Montenegro ) until after the passing from power of Slobodan Milošević ; although the Slovenes did open a representative office in Podgorica to work with Montenegrin President Milo Đukanović's government.

He also blamed the international community for its failure to support the government, and said that the speaker of parliament would succeed him in office per the Charter of the Transitional Federal Government.

He also blamed the international community for its failure to support the government, and said that the speaker of parliament would succeed him in office per the Charter of the Transitional Federal Government.

While the patent was initially rejected by the patent office as being a purely mathematical invention, following 12 years of appeals, Pardo and Landau won a landmark court case at the CCPA ( Predecessor Court of the Federal Circuit ) overturning the Patent Office in 1983 — establishing that " something does not cease to become patentable merely because the point of novelty is in an algorithm.

Under Federal Law, the resignation of a President or of a Vice-President is only valid if declared in writing, in an instrument delivered to the office of the Secretary of State.

Federal law provides that a presidential or vice-presidential resignation or refusal to accept office must be accomplished by written communication from the President to the office of the Secretary of State.

In 1789, Wall Street was the scene of the United States ' first presidential inauguration when George Washington took the oath of office on the balcony of Federal Hall on April 30, 1789.

This was the only time in the history of the Federal Republic that a Chancellor was ousted from office in this way.

The standardized form of Austrian German for official texts and schools is defined by the Austrian Dictionary (), published under the authority of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture.

The constitutional law in Germany is ruled in the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany ( German Grundgesetz, ) from 23. 05. 1949.

* 1977 – German Federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light.

In 1949, the Federal Republic of Germany was founded in West Germany and eventually included all of the American, British, and French zones, excluding those three countries ' zones in Berlin, while the Marxist-Leninist German Democratic Republic was proclaimed in East Germany.

On 3 October 1990, the two parts of Germany were reunified as the Federal Republic of Germany, and Berlin again became the official German capital.

The Reichstag building was also occasionally used as a venue for sittings of the Bundestag and its committees and the Bundesversammlung, the body which elects the German Federal President.

Meyer became director when Gropius resigned in February 1928, and brought the Bauhaus its two most significant building commissions, both of which still exist: five apartment buildings in the city of Dessau, and the headquarters of the Federal School of the German Trade Unions ( ADGB ) in Bernau.

There were major commissions: one from the city of Dessau for five tightly designed " Laubenganghäuser " ( apartment buildings with balcony access ), which are still in use today, and another for the headquarters of the Federal School of the German Trade Unions ( ADGB ) in Bernau bei Berlin.

* Bundesministerium des Innern, the German Federal Ministry of the Interior

1900 ( German Federal Archives )

The German Confederation or German Union ( Deutscher Bund ) was a loose confederation of thirty-five monarchical states and four republican ( but hardly democratic ) free cities, with a Federal Assembly in Frankfurt.

** The Federal Diet ( In German: Deutscher Bundestag ), federal parliament of Germany

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.

In addition, the Occupation Statute of 1949, which granted partial independence to the newly created Federal Republic of Germany, specifically forbade the imposition of import quotas to protect German film production from foreign competition, the result of lobbying by the American industry as represented by the MPAA.

As a consequence of this, numerous German production and distribution companies went out of business in the 1950s and 1960s and cinemas across the Federal Republic closed their doors ; the number of screens in West Germany almost halved between the beginning and the end of the decade.

Despite the foundation of the Kuratorium Junger Deutscher Film ( Young German Film Committee ) in 1965, set up under the auspices of the Federal Ministry of the Interior to support new German films financially, the directors of this New German Cinema, who rejected co-operation with the existing film industry, were consequently often dependent on money from television.

This situation changed after 1974 when the Film-Fernseh-Abkommen ( Film and Television Accord ) was agreed between the Federal Republic's main broadcasters, ARD and ZDF, and the German Federal Film Board ( a government body created in 1968 to support film-making in Germany ).

* The Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic ( West and East Germany ) were both recognised on January 7, 1972 by Finland.

The German word Land is the exact cognate of English land but it carries many political, constitutional, and historical meanings absent from the English term ( among other things a constituent state of the German Federal Republic, historically a principality of the Holy Roman Empire, but also " rural " as opposed to " urban ", etc .— the Swedish lantis equating to " country bumpkin " or " hick "— most of these meanings are borne by the Anglo-Norman word country in English ).

Wilson broke with the big lawsuit tradition of his predecessors Taft and Roosevelt as Trustbusters, finding a new approach to encouraging competition through the Federal Trade Commission, which stopped perceived unfair trade practices.

This action, brought by the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission, claimed the five integrated studio-theater chain combinations restrained competition.

In an international design competition conducted by the Department of Home Affairs, on 24 May 1911, the design by Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin was chosen for the city, and in 1913 Griffin was appointed Federal Capital Director of Design and Construction and construction began.

The Wheeler – Lea Act of 1938 is a United States federal law that amended Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act to proscribe “ unfair or deceptive acts or practices ” as well as “ unfair methods of competition .” It provided civil penalties for violations of Section 5 orders.

Initially, the U. S. Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) took a hands off approach to VoIP in order to let the service mature and also to facilitate competition in the telephony market.

Because woofies would have had access to the Federal Reserve discount window and payments service, critics ( including the Independent Bankers Association of America and Paul Volcker ) opposed woofies ( and a similar 1996 proposal by Representative James A. Leach ) for providing unfair competition to banks.

On account of the competition with the similar Adobe Illustrator, the Federal Trade Commission issued a complaint of Adobe Systems on October 18, 1994 ordering a divestiture of FreeHand back to Altsys.

The Federal Capital Commission ( FCC ) announced a competition to design a coat of arms for both the ACT and the FCC.

As a consequence of winning the Capitol competition, Thornton was frequently asked to give ideas for public and residential buildings in the Federal City.

The Federal League of Base Ball Clubs, known simply as the Federal League, was an American professional baseball league that operated as a " third major league ", in competition with the established National and American Leagues, from to.

The RUB has been very successful in the Excellence Initiative by the German Federal and State Governments ( 2007 ), a competition among Germany's most prestigious universities.

This brought great concern to Federal and state regulators, who in turn didn't approve the merger until SBC and Ameritech agreed to several conditions to ensure adequate competition.

To resolve the long-standing dispute over trusts, the Wilson Administration dropped the " trust-busting " legal strategies of Roosevelt and Taft and relied on the new a Federal Trade Commission to issue orders prohibiting " unfair methods of competition " by business concerns in interstate trade.

In competition with the CIO movement, the AFL established Federal Labor Unions ( FLUs ), which were local industrial unions affiliated directly with the AFL, a concept initially envisioned in the 1886 AFL Constitution.

A Country Study by the U. S. Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress attributes this to a " morbid competition with Hungary to curry Hitler's favor ... hope of ... regaining northern Transylvania.

The Freie Universität Berlin was one of nine German top-universities ( also known as elite universities ) to win in the German Universities Excellence Initiative, a national competition for universities organized by the German Federal Government with the intention of identifying and forming a German Ivy League.

When the US telephone industry was opened to more competition in the 1980s, the specifications became US law, ordered by the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) and codified in the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 47 CFR Part 68, Subpart F superseded by T1. TR5-1999.

Stymied, Fleer turned its efforts to supporting an administrative complaint filed by the Federal Trade Commission, alleging that Topps was engaging in unfair competition through its aggregation of exclusive contracts.

Finally, the underlying contracts would be subject to competition, and would also be subject to the requirements of the Cost Accounting Standards and the Federal Acquisition Regulation.

or Federal Cartel Office, is Germany's national competition regulator.

Due to printing costs for the Best of Show stamp sheet it was determined that a national competition, using the Best of Show winning designs from each state, would be held to select a design for a Federal Junior Duck Stamp.