Starting on September 21, 1982, the NFL faced a 57-day long players ' strike, which reduced the 1982 season from a 16-game schedule to a nine-game schedule.

A 57-day long players ' strike reduced the 1982 season from a 16-game schedule per team to an abbreviated nine game schedule.

* 1982 – The National Football League players begin a 57-day strike.

After the 57-day strike, the NFL extended the regular season one weekend ( pushing the end of the regular season back from December 26 to January 2 ), moving back the start of the playoffs and eliminating the week off for the first time since Super Bowl IV.

As long as the machines were synchronized, the mix would sound more-or-less normal, but if the operator placed his finger on the flange of one of the players ( hence " flanger "), that machine would slow down and its signal would fall out-of-phase with its partner, producing a phasing effect.

The other two players may stand wherever they wish, so long as they do not block the vision of the server or receiver.

It is allowed for players to take a running start as long as they are supported by the tee pad at the time of release.

This is why it is better for players to begin with fairway drivers, long drivers, or even mid-ranges, and incorporate maximum distance drivers as their strength and disc control increases.

It wasn't long before the larger media players got involved.

Offside players will not be penalised as long as they remain inactive but if the ball is thrown to them then they become active and thus a scrum or penalty is awarded to the opposition.

The downside of this strategy is that a bluffer may have to wait a long time before he or she can successfully trap other players with this strategy.

Most of these games are designed to keep all players in the game as long as possible, so it is rare to be certain of victory or defeat until relatively late in the game.

Such long forcing sequences are typical in gomoku, and expert players can read out forcing sequences of 20 to 40 moves rapidly and accurately.

However, the court players may catch and touch the ball in the air within it as long as the player starts their jump outside the zone and releases the ball before they land ( landing inside the perimeter is allowed in this case as long as the ball has been released ).

When down to the last two players the chair may be moved as long as the music has stopped before the chair has been touched.

Rollout games are frequently played high-low split, and players choose which cards to reveal in order to delay as long as possible revealing which half of the pot they intend to win.

Players strike the ball with the long side of the stick ( not the end as in croquet ; players are also permitted to carry the ball, though doing so allows opponents to physically tackle them when they are doing so.

Most MMORPGs do not actively promote in-character role-playing, however players can use the games ' communication functions to role-play so long as other players cooperate.

Yankee teammate Jason Giambi spoke for such players when he said, " I'd carry his bags for him, just as long as he is on the mound.

Most recently lap style slide has been re-born via artists like Jack White, Sean Kirkwood and Xavier Rudd-both players of weissenborns, the former using original early 1900s instruments long with modern day variations such as his own co-designed Asher signature model, the latter using modern reproductions of weissenborn.

It can be calculated that over a sufficiently long period, such as 1, 000, 000 spins, that the machine will return an average of $ 950, 000 to its players, who have inserted $ 1, 000, 000 during that time.

These clubs require that players use cards that are inserted into the slot machines, to allow the casinos to track the players ' " action " ( how much each player bets and for how long ), which is often used to establish levels of play that may make players eligible for additional comps.

Additional clear space around the court is needed in order for players to reach overrun balls for a total of 18. 3 meters ( 60 feet ) wide and 36. 7 meters ( 120 feet ) long.

If our SAC bombers were, today, capable of surviving a surprise missile attack and because of infinite dispersion or long endurance had the capability to strike at Russia again, and again, and again, those bombers would unquestionably assure our military dominance.

In 1229 the King had to struggle with a long lasting strike at the University of Paris.

The DF-5, with range of 10, 000 to 12, 000 km long enough to strike the western US and the USSR, was silo deployed with the first pair in service by 1981 with possibly twenty missiles in service by the late 1990s.

All management to some degree embraces democratic principles in that in the long term workers must give majority support to management ; otherwise they leave to find other work, or go on strike.

Problems with his life long friend, chief of air staff air chief marshal Pervez Mehdi also risen when air chief refrained to participate or authorise any air strike to support the elements of army operations in the Kargil region.

In 1956, he edited an important book on the subject, La grève de l ' amiante, which argued that the strike was a seminal event in Quebec's history, marking the beginning of resistance to the conservative, Francophone clerical establishment and Anglophone business class that had long ruled the province.

New York abandoned their long drive strategy and employed a quick strike attack of their own, as Hostetler led the Giants 87 yards and scored on a 14-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Stephen Baker with just 25 seconds left in the half to cut New York's deficit to 12-10.

In 1938, the IWW voted to allow contracts with employers, so long as they would not undermine any strike.

:* The long roll is a group of three slurred notes of equal pitch and duration, the first sounded without a cut or strike, the second sounded with a cut, and the third sounded with a strike.

This provoked a long and crippling strike by the tramways union in January 1990, resulting in a back-down by the government and the retention of conductors.

Given their long range, high survivability and ability to carry many medium-and long-range nuclear missiles, submarines were credible and effective means for full-scale retaliation even after a massive first strike.

The Stealth Bomber has the capacity to carry a large number of stealthy cruise missiles, which could be nuclear tipped, and due to its low probability of detection and long range would be an excellent weapon with which to deliver a first strike.

The umpires demonstrated limited compliance for a time, but before long the de facto strike zone had returned to the conventional definition.

A typical cloud to ground lightning strike can be over 5 km ( 3 mi ) long.

He was a slow and methodical artist ; as he wrote, “ It takes a long time for an idea to strike.

Before a long lull in activity which ended in the 1990s, the last one to strike was Hurricane David in September 1979.

Pike are typical ambush predators ; they lie in wait for prey, holding perfectly still for long periods and then exhibit remarkable acceleration as they strike.

He ate so much of it that Loki became angry, grabbed his long staff and attempted to strike him, but the weapon stuck fast to Þjazi's body and he took flight, carrying Loki up with him.

Liu was briefly arrested in Changsha and then returned to Guangzhou to help organize the 16-month long Canton-Hong Kong strike.

Other episode plots in this season included: a prominent citizen being murdered due to sexual abuse in his family ; Virgil ’ s ex-partner and Althea ’ s ex-lover coming back to Sparta and being exposed as a murderer ; Chief Gillespie having to confront the legacy of his own bigoted past when he's duty-bound to arrest a close, lifelong friend — who is also the sheriff of the neighboring county — for committing a racially-motivated murder in his jail ; Bubba getting caught up in a love triangle ; Althea ’ s niece visiting from Philadelphia ; Virgil and Althea going to an all-White church ; Joanne being stalked by a murderous ex-con, which eventually exposes that she had been a prostitute out of necessity in a different city, long ago ; the arrest of councilwoman White ’ s son ; Chief Gillespie witnessing, and being deeply affected by, an execution ; a plant strike that leads to murder ; Bubba being accused of rape ; and, a manhunt for a drunk driver who killed three of Sparta's most popular high school cheerleaders, and crippled a fourth.

This strike was significant in the long campaign of civil resistance for political change in Poland, and was an important mobilized effort that contributed to the fall of the Iron Curtain and the end of communist party rule in eastern Europe.