However, one track was reserved by DOS for directory and file allocation information ( so-called BAM, Block Allocation Map ).

The modules based on the DOS design are not the only heritage of the Almaz program still in use: The habitat, propulsion and service module of the TKS spacecraft, the so-called Functional Cargo Block ( FGB ), went on to become the core of many Soviet and Russian space station modules.

Rangers 6, 7, 8, and 9 were the so-called Block 3 versions of the Ranger spacecraft.

Rangers 6, 7, 8, and 9 were the so-called Block 3 versions of the Ranger spacecraft.

The United States government has voiced its concerns about the so-called " offensive potential " of some of Taiwan's indigenous missile programs, including HF-3, even though the HF-3 technically does not constitute an " offensive weapon ", as it is purely an anti-ship weapon in its present form and is not inherently more capable of being used in an offensive strike mission than a Harpoon Block II missile which has littoral suppression capability and had already been sold to Taiwan.

In the 1990s ( before Blu-ray Disc or HDTV ), when so-called " Sixteen-By-Nine " or " Widescreen " televisions offered a wider 16: 9 aspect ratio ( 1. 78 times the height instead of 1. 33 ), they allowed films made at 1. 66: 1 and 1. 85: 1 to fill most or all of the screen, with only small letterboxing or cropping required.

" The Point " of Building 66 ( so-called because the building tapers to a wedge-shaped point ) is the easternmost point that is accessible at ground level while remaining indoors.

Under the so-called " batteries directive " ( 2006 / 66 / EC ), the sale of consumer Ni – Cd batteries has now been banned within the European Union except for medical use ; alarm systems ; emergency lighting ; and portable power tools.

This important development finally brought stereo sound to so-called Flat Wide-Screen ( preferentially 1. 85: 1, but sometimes 1. 75: 1 or 1. 66: 1 ) theatrical productions.

The party began to co-operate closely with the social-democratic Labour Party ( PvdA ), the newly-founded social-liberal Democrats 66 and initially with the left-wing Pacifist Socialist Party in the so-called Progressive Accords ( PAK ).

The so-called Virgil Dom was built from 767 to 774 and was 66 metres long and 33 metres wide.

The so-called " Berlin Trilogy " albums all reached the UK top five and garnered lasting critical praise.

* 2004 – The national flag of The Republic of Georgia, the so-called " five cross flag ", is restored to official use after a hiatus of some 500 years.

In an apparent twist on the myth of the so-called Five Ages of Man found in Hesiod's Works and Days ( wherein Cronus and, later, Zeus created and destroyed five successive races of mortal men ), Prometheus asserts that Zeus had wanted to obliterate the human race, but that he somehow stopped him.

The " Regulae Iuris " appear at the end of the so-called Liber Sextus ( in VI °), promulgated by Boniface VIII and now published as one of the five Decretals in the Corpus Iuris Canonici.

Outcasts is set in the middle of the 21st-century on Carpathia, a so-called Goldilocks planet five years ' travel from Earth.

In 1914, Prokofiev finished his career at the Conservatory by entering the so-called ' battle of the pianos ', a competition open to the five best piano students for which the prize was a Schreder grand piano: Prokofiev won by performing his own Piano Concerto No. 1.

) A number of other scandals were associated with the IWW, a five pound note forgery scandal, the so-called Tottenham tragedy in which the murder of a police officer was blamed on the IWW, and above all the IWW was blamed for the defeat of the October 1916 conscription referendum.

Of the five royal titularies it was the prenomen, the throne name, also referred to as the, and the " Son of Ra " titulary, the so-called nomen, the name given at birth, which were enclosed by a cartouche.

In February 1927, an agreement was signed by five leading Hollywood movie companies: the so-called Big Two — Paramount and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer — a pair of studios in the next rank — Universal and the fading First National — and Cecil B. DeMille's small but prestigious Producers Distributing Corporation ( PDC ).

The so-called " fruit " of camellia plants is a dry capsule, sometimes subdivided in up to five compartments, each compartment containing up to eight seeds.

The so-called Boston Associates, including Nathan Appleton and Patrick Tracy Jackson of the Boston Manufacturing Company, named the new mill town after their visionary leader, Francis Cabot Lowell, who had died five years before its 1823 incorporation.

He became a member of the so-called " gang of five " with Jackie Fahey, Mark Killilea, Jnr, Tom McEllistrim and Seán Doherty which aligned itself to Charles Haughey and supported him in the subsequent leadership contest.

The Oslo Accords of 1993 between the later assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat had provided that agreement should be reached on all outstanding issues between the Palestinians and Israeli sides – the so-called final status settlement – within five years of the implementation of Palestinian autonomy.

This results in so-called gravity darkening: the photosphere at Regulus ' poles is considerably hotter, and five times brighter per unit surface area, than its equatorial region.

They are set on a so-called " K factor " which determines the average value of price rises above the current rate of inflation ( RPI ) for the next five years.

It allows the transport of up to five channels of sound with a sixth channel for low-frequency effects ( the so-called " 5. 1 " configuration ).

Russian has five so-called hard vowels ( а, э, ы, у, о ), which follow hard or unpalatized consonants, each with a corresponding soft vowel ( я, е, и, ю, ё respectively ), which follow soft or palatized consonants.

In 1979, Doherty was a key member of the so-called " gang of five " which supported Charles Haughey's attempt to take over the leadership of the party.

Joseon Buddhism, which had started off under the so-called " five doctrinal and two meditational " schools system of the Goryeo, was first condensed to two schools: Seon and Gyo.

The first Congress of the Confederation of Anarchists Groups, under the name of Nabat (" the Alarm Drum "), issued five main principles: rejection of all political parties, rejection of all forms of dictatorships ( including the dictatorship of the proletariat, viewed by Makhnovists and many anarchists of the day as a term synonymous with the dictatorship of the Bolshevik communist party ), negation of any concept of a central state, rejection of a so-called " transitional period " necessitating a temporary dictatorship of the proletariat, and self-management of all workers through free local workers ' councils ( soviets ).

He voted for the Brady Bill and, in 1999, was one of only five Republicans to vote to close the so-called gun show loophole.

The contestant in control was shown the first card in the row of five, the so-called " base card ," and could either keep it or replace it with the next card off the top of the deck, which they had to play.

This led to the disappearance of the five parties which governed Italy from 1947: DC, PSI, PSDI, PLI and PRI ( they formed a successful five-party coalition called Pentapartito from 1983 to 1991, and then governed without PRI from 1991 to 1994 ) and to the end of the so-called First Republic.

Dempsey was one of the so-called " big five " sports legends of the 1920s, and it was widely rumored that he had refused to participate in the military during World War I.

Later he assumed the office of rector in Cæsarea, the former seat of R. Hoshaya I, and established himself at the so-called Kenishta Maradta ( Insurrectionary Synagogue ; Yer.

Many more non-Kazakhs arrived in the years 1953 – 1965, during the so-called Virgin Lands Campaign of Soviet premier Nikita S. Khrushchev ( in office from 1956 to 1964 ).

Al Capone's support allowed Thompson to return to the mayor's office using such tactics as the " Pineapple Primary " which occurred ( April 10, 1928 ), so-called because of the hand grenades thrown at polling places to disrupt voting.

The increasing dominance of the Junto led to a split among the Whigs, with the so-called " Country Whigs " seeing the Junto as betraying their principles for office.

The province of Holland, the center of anti-Orangism, abolished the office of stadtholder and four other provinces followed suit in March 1670, establishing the so-called " Harmony ".

Following William of Orange's assassination and Prince Maurice of Nassau's assumption of his father's office, he became an advisor and tutor of Maurice, who asked his advice on many occasions, and made him a public officer – at first director of the so-called " waterstaet " ( the government authority for public works ) from 1592, and later quartermaster-general of the army of the States-General.

For example, Patrick Buchanan and Ralph Nader, both candidates for the office of President of the United States, held rural rallies together and spoke for measures to preserve the so-called family farm.

Examples of these efforts are a biomass power plant operated by the Fernwärme Ulm GmbH ( 10 MW electrical output ), and the world's biggest passive house office building, the so-called Energon, located in the " Science City " near the university campus.

However, during his first term in office ( 1993 – 1999 ), three military mutinies in 1996 – 1997 led to increasing conflict between so-called " northerners " ( like Patassé ) and " southerners " ( like his predecessor President André Kolingba ).

The 1845 Congressional act did, in fact, raise the rate on one significant class of mail: the so-called “ drop letter ”— i. e., a letter delivered from the same post office that collected it.

In most circumstances, the so-called " white collar " counterpart — office work — was aggregated as well in large buildings, usually in cities or densely populated suburban areas.

During his final years in office, Ramos tried to amend the country's 1987 constitution ; a process popularly known to many Filipinos as Charter Change or the so-called " Cha-Cha ".

On May 1, 2004, during her hiatus from office, McKinney was awarded the so-called fifth annual Backbone Award by an advocacy group, " because she was willing to challenge the Bush administration and called for an investigation into 9-11 when few others dared to air their criticism and questions.

He, however, refused to assume any public role, office or position, thus becoming an emblem of the so-called passive resistance.

These so-called " smart power strips " are intended to be installed in offices, to shut down equipment when the office is unoccupied.

Initially the Doge of Genoa was elected without restriction and by popular suffrage, holding office for life in the so-called " perpetual dogate "; but after the reform effected by Andrea Doria in 1528 the term of his office was reduced to two years.

An underground office complex ( the so-called " bunker ") was built under the front square, during the 1973-1980 restorations to provide a safe escape for then President General Augusto Pinochet in case of an attack.

Because of this so-called " amigo-affair ", Germany-Government and Politics Encyclopædia Britannica online, accessed: 10 May 2008 coming to the surface in January 1993, he was forced to resign on 27 May 1993 and Edmund Stoiber took office, despite the later being involved in the affair, too. Democracy and Corruption in Europe google book review, author: Donatella Della Porta, Yves Mény, publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group, page 89-90, accessed: 10 May 2008 The affair did result in a policy change in Bavaria, aimed at untangling the connections between politics and business. Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship Policy google book review, author: David B. Audretsch, Isabel Grilo, A. Roy Thurik, publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, page 204, accessed: 10 May 2008

LaRue was one of the principal planners of Nixon's so-called " Southern strategy " for winning the election, part of which he helped coördinate with advertisements from the campaign office of segregationist Strom Thurmond.

But from the 1960s through present, many small specialized retailers are in turn crushed by the so-called " category killers ", which are " big-box " wholesale-type retailers large enough to carry the majority of best-selling goods in a specific category like sporting goods or office supplies.

Unfortunately the pontifex maximus ( whose office was generally held by a politician or soldier, notably Julius Caesar during the so-called Years of Confusion ) often neglected to insert the month at the proper time, or deliberately inserted it early or late to allow some officials to stay in office longer or force others out early.