EG & G became a prime contractor for the Atomic Energy Commission and had a major role in photographing and recording nuclear tests for the United States through the fifties and sixties.

In 1965, BECO became the prime support contractor for MSFC's P & VE Laboratory.

On top of wrong allocation of finances, large bribes are given to and received by officials ( or their families ) in charge of choosing contractors for the jobs, like in the recent Suvarnabhumi Airport project, where a car park contractor allegedly gave $ 250 million USD to an the prime minister's sister in order to secure acquisition of the job.

The original prime contractor and developer of the missile was Lockheed Martin Space Systems.

The Abu Dhabi Shipbuilding company-ADSB () produce a range of ships and are a prime contractor in the Baynunah Program, a program to design develop and produce 5-6 corvettes customized for operation in the shallow waters of the Persian Gulf.

The prime contractor for the program was North American Aviation ( later Rockwell International, now Boeing ), the same company responsible for building the Apollo Command / Service Module.

Groves recruited the DuPont Company to be the prime contractor for the construction of the plutonium production complex.

On 26 September 1985, the UK and Saudi Arabian governments signed the Al Yamamah contract, with BAe as prime contractor.

United Defense was the prime contractor ; General Dynamics the major subcontractor.

During the 1970s, Shuttle prime contractor Rockwell International studied a $ 200 – 300 million removable cabin that could fit into the Shuttle's cargo bay.

The current working IRI was completed in 2007, and its prime contractor was BAE Systems Advanced Technologies.

As a result of the launch failure, trading in the stock of the Martin Company, prime contractor for the project, was temporarily suspended by the New York Stock Exchange.

SNCF supervised the prime contractor responsible for construction of the Taiwan Railways Administration ’ s main high-speed rail line.

Boeing began as NASA's prime contractor for U. S. hardware in January 1995.

With IBM as the prime contractor, the IU was the only full Saturn component manufactured in Huntsville.

According to the NP's construction records at the University of Montana's K. Ross Toole Archives, the primary contractors were banker Horace C. Henry of Seattle, Washington, and long-time railroad contractor Nelson Bennett of Tacoma, Washington, the NP's prime contractor for Stampede Tunnel, which he completed in 1888.

Martin Company of Orlando, Florida, was the prime contractor for the U. S. Army's Pershing missile.

The company is the prime developer and contractor of the Russian manned spaceflight program ; it also owns a majority of Sea Launch.

The ELS project is being co-funded by Arianespace, ESA, and the European Union, with CNES being the prime contractor.

Western Union was a prime contractor in the Automatic Digital Network ( AUTODIN ) program.

Redstone's prime contractor was the Chrysler Corporation.

The prime contractor for the space segment was Alenia while Nuova Telespazio led the development of the ground segment.

ESA chose EADS Astrium Space Transportation as prime contractor for Columbus.

He was joined in this action by the later prime minister, Harold Wilson.

Having served as prime minister for six years and 92 days, his reign as prime minister was the longest unbroken reign of any Labour leader until Tony Blair more than 50 years later.

Their policies of low public expenditure and low taxation were adopted by William Ewart Gladstone when he became chancellor of the exchequer and later prime minister.

Ten days later, on 17 October 1854, at the Eureka Hotel between 1, 000 and 10, 000 miners gathered to protest that James Bentley, the hotel proprietor and prime suspect in Scobie's murder, had been acquitted by a corrupt magistrate.

On April 9, it was announced that President João Bernardo Vieira had rejected the choice of Kabi, but the coalition said that they maintained him as their choice and later on the same day, Vieira appointed Kabi as the new prime minister.

His grandson, Morihiro Hosokawa, became prime minister fifty years later.

The election resulted in a hung parliament with the Tories having the most votes but Labour having slightly more seats, and failed attempts by Heath to form a coalition with the Liberals led to the resignation of his government and the return of Harold Wilson as prime minister of a minority Labour government, which gained a three-seat majority at a second election later in the year.

Another member of this infiltrative resistance group was Hartmann's colleague Viggo Kampmann, who would later become prime minister of Denmark.

Five years later, conservative prime minister Dominique de Villepin enacted the New Employment Contract ( CNE ).

It was the first Mersenne prime to be identified in thirty-eight years ; the next one, M < sub > 607 </ sub >, was found by the computer a little less than two hours later.

* The German economy needed more oil and controlling the Baku Oilfields would achieve this ; as Albert Speer, the German Minister for Armaments and War Production, later said in his interrogation, " the need for oil certainly was a prime motive " in the decision to invade.

Keating's friendship with Indonesian President Suharto was criticised by human rights activists supportive of East Timorese independence and by Nobel Peace Prize winner, José Ramos-Horta ( later to be East Timor's prime minister and president ).

Keating was critical of the then opposition leader ( and later prime minister ) Kevin Rudd's leadership team.

As a later prime minister, Lord Melbourne, said: " It matters not what we say, gentlemen, so long as we all say the same thing.

The government depended on support from two independents, who two months later voted against Fadden's budget and brought the government down, paving the way for John Curtin to be appointed as Labor prime minister.

The original remuneration for prime minister and other ministers were specified in the Part B of the second schedule of the constitution of India, which was later removed by an amendment.

Syndication did not exist as such in Britain until the arrival of satellite, cable and later, from 1998 on, digital television, although it could be argued that many ITV programs up to the early 1990s, particularly imported programming was syndicated in the sense that each ITV region bought in some programs independently of the ITV Network, and in particular many programs out of prime time made by smaller ITV stations were " part-networked " where some regions would show them and others would not.

ITV introduced General Hospital, which later transferred to a prime time slot, and Scottish Television had Take the High Road, which lasted for over twenty years.

After the assassination of Park Chung-hee, prime minister Choi Kyu-hah took the president's role only to be usurped 6 days later by Major General Chun Doo-hwan's 1979 Coup d ' état of December Twelfth.

John Compton was premier of St. Lucia from 1964 until independence in February 1979 and remained prime minister until elections later that year.

An interim prime minister was elected to take over command, but not four months later his residence was shelled with heavy artillery by Eyadéma's army.

Three months later, King retired after 22 years as prime minister.

* September 20 – WWII: Jüri Uluots, prime minister in capacity of president of Estonia, escapes to Sweden ; 2 days later, Tallinn is taken by the Red Army.