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A spate of newspaper-driven Hollywood scandals during the early 1920s included Taylor's murder, the Roscoe Arbuckle trial and the drug-related deaths of such stars as Olive Thomas, Wallace Reid, Barbara La Marr, and Jeanne Eagels, which prompted Hollywood studios to begin writing contracts with " morality clauses " or " moral turpitude clauses ", allowing the dismissal of contractees who breached them.
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Following a spate of border incidents, both sides agreed during talks under OAS auspices in November 2000 to confidence-building measures to reduce tensions.
While this was a major factor in the decision, after a coupe version was caught doing during a test run, a then-recent spate of accidents under foggy conditions also helped the introduction of the limit.
Dekker's first spate of pamphleteering began in 1603, perhaps during a period when plague had closed the theaters.
It was also responsible for a spate of tourist shootings ( trains and cruise ships sprayed with bullets ) in middle and upper Egypt during the early 1990s.
In 2002, during a spate of legal threats and challenges to competitors with " geek " in their names, Geek Squad attempted to block the trademark registration of New England area competitor Geek Housecalls claiming that it violated their trademarks.
The most recent eruption of Mount Rinjani was in May 2010 and the most recent significant eruptions occurred during a spate of activity from 1994 to 1995 which resulted in the further development of Gunung Barujari.
During the 1990s, Chamish wrote extensively on Unidentified Flying Objects, investigating a spate of sightings in Israel during that period.
It was one of a spate of monster movies produced during the 1950s in response to cold war fears ; in the film a character speculates that the leeches have been mutated to giant size by atomic radiation from nearby Cape Canaveral.
The group was linked to a spate of bombings and assassinations in Miami during the 1970s, directed at Pro-Castro speakers.
At the time ( 1919 – 1923 ), these vital infrastructure facilities were under threat from sabotage and attack during a period bordering on civil war, which was caused by the collapse of German economy following the end of World War I and exacerbated by a spate of politically motivated wildcat strikes, usually by Left-wing elements.
Wedding ceremonies-nothing to do with religion and not conducted by the Sangha-are not held during the three months of lent, a custom which has resulted in a spate of weddings after Thadingyut or Wa-kyut, awaited impatiently by couples wanting to tie the knot.
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However, by the early 1730s public taste was beginning to change, and the popular success of John Gay and Johann Christoph Pepusch's The Beggar's Opera ( first performed in 1728 ) had heralded a spate of English-language ballad-operas that mocked the pretensions of Italian opera.
Beginning around 1969 in the US, however, there was a brief spate of half-hour shows that purposely alternated between comedy and drama and aired without a laugh track, as well as some hour-long shows such as CHiPs in the late 70s to early 80s.
Other than a spate of strips in the early 1980s, Tharg rarely appears in stories, but instead purports to be the comic's editor.
Still, the club managed to hold onto its cabaret license until early 2001, when a spate of previous allegations re-surfaced in connection with a claim by city authorities that the club's manager had misused private ambulances to hide victims of drug overdoses.
The subsequent spate of translations from English and Sanskrit into Malayalam was an important feature of Malayalam literature in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
In March 2009, the Association aimed to change its structure by having sub-committees for different sectors of the game, this development was one of the factors in the spate of resignations in early 2009.
In the late 1950s and early 1960s there was a spate of mergers in the City and it was natural in this climate for both Benson and Kleinworts to be considering a merger of some sort as a means of survival in an age when London banks were looking to provide a fuller service to their clients.
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With a huge surge of interest in craft subjects having a serious environmental slant and a spate of craft magazines encouraging readers to try it for themselves, permanent sand painting skills have improved dramatically the quality and variety of work available in this medium and has resulted in its being included on the recently created ' Wikicollecting ' site.
" Until February 2009 there was a nightclub with the same name in Melbourne, Australia ; it was closed down due to a spate of violent incidents that included two shootings as well as license breaches and the arrest of a co-owner on drug charges.
A spate of colorful products released in 2006 included Karim Rashid's " shocking " dayglo products and the popular Brick drive designed by Frenchman Ora-Ito.
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The November murder was Kürten's last, although he engaged in a spate of non-fatal hammer attacks from February to March 1930.
The purpose of the committee was to " inquire into the ongoing spate of attacks on farms, which include violent criminal acts such as murder, robbery, rape, etc, to determine the motives and factors behind these attacks and to make recommendations on their findings ".
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Port Lympne's remaining calf, May Tagu, who was born in April 2005, was transferred to Antwerp zoo following the spate of deaths, along with her mother and one other cow.
A spate of superhero deaths ( Freedom Beast ; Gloss and Tasmanian Devil ) and attacks on others ( Barry Allen ; Batwoman and Crimson Avenger ) is revealed to be the work of the true Prometheus.
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A spate of building projects, such as castles, monasteries and churches, led to the improvement of rivers for the transportation of building materials.
( This provision nonetheless incited a spate of new counties ; ten were established in the next decade, although none have been since, and one of those established was subsequently abolished, and the provisions are such that would make the establishment of any further counties beyond those extremely difficult and unlikely.
These well-to-do late-19th-century residents also funded the construction of a spate of churches, such as the Cass Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church ( 1883 ), the First Presbyterian Church ( 1889 ), the Trinity Episcopal Church ( 1890 ) ( built by James E. Scripps ), and the First Unitarian Church ( 1890 ).
He also attacked examples of what he perceives to be racist stereotyping, such as Premier Bob Carr's introduction of racial profiling in 2003, and comments by Carr that he blamed for inciting aggression against ethnic minorities in the wake of the Sydney gang rapes and a spate of other incidents involving gang-related crime.
" The New York Times called it " the most perceptive and convincing among a recent spate of carpe diem films "— a reference to films such as Dead Poets Society ( 1989 ), Field of Dreams ( 1989 ), and Ghost ( 1990 ).
A spate of suicide bombings and attacks, aimed mostly at civilians ( such as the Dolphinarium discotheque suicide bombing ), was launched against Israel and elicited a military response.
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A Chatham House analysis of the June 2009 Iranian presidential election voting figures by Ali Ansari, Daniel Berman and Thomas Rintoul revealed irregularities in the official statistics that contradicted the official government line that a spate of newly participating voters had pushed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to victory.
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Fortunately it spared us from the usual spate of silly resolutions which in the past have made Georgia look like anything but `` the empire state of the South ''.
It was created in order to better deal with a spate of Arab fedayeen attacks against Israelis, which the IDF was unsuccessful in halting.
Since Mattau was the most powerful village in the area, the victory brought a spate of peace offerings from other nearby villages, many of which were outside the Siraya area.
The town's economic decline around this time and subsequently was felt more sharply because of a spate of bad news which tarnished the reputation of Boston.
When it was a bustling port, the distance from the coast was approximately 5 to 10 kilometres, but at that time the access to the sea was deep enough when the river was in full spate which made communication between port and city unreliable.
In the fall of 1768, British soldiers were sent to Boston to help control growing colonial unrest, which had led to a spate of attacks on local officials following the introduction of the Stamp Act and the subsequent Townshend Acts.
For much of the 1870s Burne-Jones did not exhibit, following a spate of bitterly hostile attacks in the press, and a passionate affair ( described as the " emotional climax of his life ") with his Greek model Maria Zambaco which ended with her trying to commit suicide by throwing herself in Regent's Canal.
Byron decided to maintain the siege, but the next day there was a sudden thaw which caused the Weaver to rise in spate.
This occurred amidst great media attention into the apparent spate of carjacking thefts, several of which resulted in homicides.
The spate of murders attributed to Jack the Ripper, which began shortly afterwards, diverted this attention and allowed concern with the East End to take a very different focus, around crime and policing.
His second season saw him suffer a spate of on-and off-field problems, which led him to boycott the club at the season's end.
Shortly before his election as the Yang-Di Pertuan Agong in 1983, a spate of reports alleging Sultan Iskandar's intention to launch a coup d ' état by launching a state of emergency to overthrow the government circulated within political circles, which reached Mahathir himself.
This was due to the pre-secession arrangement that all soldiers should return to their regions to stop the spate of killings, in which Igbo soldiers had been major victims.
Many drowned in the Oglio, which was in spate.
* A spate of toilet paper thefts has been forcing the villagers, including Aunt Meg, to wipe their backsides with the cardboard tubes in the rolls, causing a mass outbreak of haemmorroids, and allowing the local mechanic to make a huge profit off inner tubes which he sells to the afflicted locals.
Following its redevelopment, questions were raised about the standard of the surface, which was soft underfoot and sandy and was blamed for a spate of injuries to rugby league players using it ( temporarily earning the stadium the nickname " Sandcorp Stadium " ).
The Master created an illusion of a river in spate which compelled them to go back.
This film was followed by another spate of magnificent movies, which provided countless hours of pleasure to millions of their fans.
On June 19 a general strike was called in Canton, followed four days later by another incident in which troops fired upon demonstrators in the streets, resulting in a new spate of casualties.
Cohen followed-up It's Alive with the science fiction-serial killer film God Told Me To ( 1976 ), in which a New York detective investigates a spate of killings by apparently random people who say that God told them to commit the crimes.
Even more delay was imposed by torrential rain which fell on 28 April, which turned dusty tracks into mud and caused streams and rivers to rise in spate.
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