Japan follows a similar system to the US Army for its Self Defence Force personnel, and the appearance of the tags is similar, although laser etched.

The band toured in support in the US only from October 1976 to April 1977 with a break in December, then an American Music Award show appearance on 31 January 1977, plus a one-off gig in San Diego in August 1977.

" Foreign " style hearses are mostly similar in appearance to their US counterparts, although their exterior dimensions and interiors reflect the Japanese preference for smaller, less ornate caskets ( this in light of the national preference for cremation ).

During The Who's 1967 appearance on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour US television show, Moon hid explosives into one of his bass drums.

For example, during the Aceh War the Acehnese Klewangs, a sword similar to the machete, proved very effective in close quarters combat with Dutch troops, leading the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army to adopt a heavy cutlass, also called klewang ( very similar in appearance to the US Navy Model 1917 Cutlass ) to counter it.

** The comic strip FoxTrot makes its first appearance in US newspapers.

In the early days of US automobile use, people wanted to see the gasoline they were about to buy in a big glass pitcher, a direct measure of volume and quality via appearance.

Afterward, he attended the Actors Studio, until making his first television appearance in 1948 on an episode of Studio One, alongside Charlton Heston, for which he was paid US $ 75.

Besides a brief appearance of the brothers in Japan around 1994, and George making a guest-appearance in the 1990s on a concert in Japan ( including a released double-CD ) of the Graham Central Station, the duo launched an expanded US tour in 2002 which got positive, wide exposure.

The film was a worldwide critical hit and raised Montand's profile in the US, where he made an appearance on Late Night with David Letterman.

Except for a brief appearance by Colin Powell, who hurriedly addressed the closing stages of the conference while his airplane taxied on the runway of Johannesburg International, the US government did not send a delegation, earning Bush praise in a letter from conservative organizations such as Americans for Tax Reform, American Enterprise Institute, and Competitive Enterprise Institute.

** In season 11 ( Raja Ampat ), two new rules were introduced: the hidden immunity idol, known in its appearance in the US version, and a new rule called the " vote noir " ( black vote ).

In the 1960s Anka began acting in motion pictures as well as writing songs for them, most notably the theme for the hit movie The Longest Day, in which he made a cameo appearance as a US Army Ranger.

The US leg of the tour was highlighted by a headline appearance at NEARfest, the world's most prestigious progressive rock festival.

The band then earned a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records for the highest-paid single appearance of a band: $ 1. 5 million for a 90-minute set at the 1983 US Festival.

In her first US network television appearance, O ' Connor sang " Mandinka " on Late Night with David Letterman in 1988.

In the quarterfinals, she defeated her second top 10 oppenent in a row Samantha Stosur in three sets which advanced her to her first semifinals appearance since the 2010 US Open.

Herman's Hermits reunited in 1973 to headline a successful British invasion tour of the US culminating with a standing-room-only performance at Madison Square Garden and an appearance on The Midnight Special ( without Hopwood ).

Ten Years After, with guitarist Alvin Lee, formed in 1967, but achieved their breakthrough in 1968 with their live album Undead and in the US with their appearance at Woodstock the next year.

Several US Navy destroyers were stationed offshore near Guantánamo Bay to give the appearance of an impending invasion fleet.

In the US and in Australian English, a sleeveless sweater may also be called a sweater vest, especially if it has a V-neck and somewhat formal appearance resembling a formal vest, a garment known as a waistcoat in the UK.

Due to its appearance, it was unofficially nicknamed " Dolly Parton " armour by the US Army.

The most used mine roller type used by the US forces in World War II, with the M4 Sherman medium tank, was the T1E3 Mine Exploder unit, nicknamed " Aunt Jemima ", from the pancake-like appearance of its two sets of five disc rollers, of 10 foot ( 3 meter ) diameter each.

The show did make a brief appearance on US television years after it was originally intended to air and was also briefly aired in Europe.

In 2009, Mabus made a cameo appearance on the US drama NCIS as an NCIS Agent named " Ray ".

In 2011, this means surviving on the equivalent to US $ 1. 50, A $ 2 or £ 1 per day.

In December 2011, Aon Corporation paid a $ 16. 26 million penalty to the US Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) and the US Department of Justice ( DOJ ) for violations of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ( FCPA ).

The US Library of Congress Federal Research Division reported it in 2006 as having generally good freedom of speech and human rights records, while Freedom House listed it as " free " in 2011, giving it scores of 2 for political rights and 2 for civil liberties.

It was released on DVD in the US in 2001 and on BluRay in 2011.

riels ( KHR ) per US dollar-4, 097 ( 2012 ), 4, 395. 62 ( 2011 ), 4, 145 ( 2010 ), 4, 139. 33 ( 2009 ), 4, 070. 94 ( 2008 ), 4, 006 ( 2007 ), 4, 103 ( 2006 )

In September 2011 the Federal Aviation Administration proposed a US $ 2. 4M fine against the company for its failure to follow quality assurance requirements while producing fiberglass components at its plant in Chihuahua, Mexico.

In 2011, it was estimated that a single Tomahawk cruise missile costs US $ 830, 000 (£ 500, 000 ).

Further soundings made by the US Center for Coastal & Ocean Mapping in 2011 are in agreement with this figure, placing the deepest part of the Challenger Deep at, with a vertical precision of approximately.

The PDP-1 sold in basic form for $ 120, 000, or about $ 900, 000 in 2011 US dollars.

According to the Bank for International Settlements, the total outstanding notional amount is US $ 708 trillion ( as of June 2011 ).

* Department of State, Academics see the military in decline, but retaining strong influence, 23 September 2009 ( US Embassy Cables, The Guardian, 2011 )

* 2012: US eCommerce and Online Retail sales projected to reach $ 226 billion, an increase of 12 percent over 2011.

Another US Geological Survey estimate from September 2011 shows that the Khanashin carbonatites in the Helmand Province of the country have an estimated 1 million metric tonnes of rare earth elements.

The US and Australian releases will share one design while the rest of the world will feature the other for a new 2 CD October 2011 release.

In 2011 Japan produced 411 feature films that earned 54. 9 % of a box office total of US $ 2. 338 billion.

Eppig, Fincher, and Thornhill ( 2011 ) in a similar study instead looking at different US states found that in states with higher prevalence of infectious diseases had lower average IQ.

The graph shows nominal price in US dollars, the price in 1971 and 2011 US dollars

A full-length stage musical, titled " Garfield Live ", was planned to kick off its US tour in September 2010, but got moved to January 18, 2011, where it premiered in Muncie, IN.

* Government debt HK $ 11, 227. 5 million ( US $ 1. 44 billion ; June 30, 2011 )

As of June 30, 2011, the largest hedge funds by worldwide assets were Bridgewater Associates ( US $ 58. 9 billion ), Man Group ( US $ 39. 2 billion ), Paulson & Co. ( US $ 35. 1 billion ), Brevan Howard ( US $ 31 billion ), and Och-Ziff ( US $ 29. 4 billion ).