A special presentation was made to Mrs. Geraldine Thompson of Red Bank, who is stepping down after 35 years on the committee.

The International Organization for Standardization, ISO, has a special technical committee for cycles, TC149, that has the following scope: " Standardization in the field of cycles, their components and accessories with particular reference to terminology, testing methods and requirements for performance and safety, and interchangeability.

In addition as a member of the Association of Caribbean States ( ACS ), Cuba was re-appointed as the chair-of the special committee on transportation issues for the Caribbean region.

Nonetheless due to such concerns, the Council decided to adjourn and appoint a special committee to investigate the orthodoxy of Leo's Tome, judging it by the standard of Cyril's Twelve Chapters, as some of the bishops present raised concerns about their compatibility.

In 1925 a special committee was inaugurated to build the city ; city expansion plans were designed and city rights were granted in 1926, and tax privileges were granted for investors in 1927.

In 1933 a plan of development providing for a population of 250, 000 was worked out by a special commission appointed by a government committee, in collaboration with the municipal authorities.

The remaining constitutional functions of the Monarch are to open the annual session of the Riksdag, to chair the foreign advisory committee, to preside at the special cabinet council when a new Prime Minister takes office, and to be kept informed by the Prime Minister on matters of state.

* 1973 – Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of the " Nixon tapes " to the special Senate committee investigating the Watergate break in.

International Kendo Federation ( FIK ) grading rules allow national kendo organisations to establish a special committee to consider the award of those grades.

During the second russification period, at the start of the First World War, the Dowager Empress, travelling by her special train through Finland to Saint Petersburg, expressed her continued disapprobation for the russification of Finland by having an orchestra of a welcoming committee to play the March of the Pori Regiment and the Finnish national anthem " Maamme ", which at the time were under the explicit ban from Franz Albert Seyn, the Governor-General of Finland.

Therefore, when a merger with a controlling stockholder was: 1 ) negotiated and approved by a special committee of independent directors ; and 2 ) conditioned on an affirmative vote of a majority of the minority stockholders, the business judgment standard of review should presumptively apply, and any plaintiff ought to have to plead particularized facts that, if true, support an inference that, despite the facially fair process, the merger was tainted because of fiduciary wrongdoing .″

In Iran a special committee receives observations of every new moon to determine the beginning of each month.

Various irregularities have been exposed during the investigation by a special parliamentary committee into the Lew Rywin affair.

This question he referred to the special committee of experts appointed to study the general liturgical reform.

As a special occasion, the MCC committee arranged the 1898 Gentlemen v Players match to coincide with his fiftieth birthday and he celebrated the event by scoring 43 and 31 not out, though handicapped by lameness and an injured hand.

A special Negro league committee selected Satchel Paige in 1971, followed by ( in alphabetical order ) Cool Papa Bell, Oscar Charleston, Martín Dihigo, Josh Gibson, Monte Irvin, Judy Johnson, Buck Leonard and John Henry Lloyd.

In 1979, the Tony Awards committee gave Fonda a special award for his achievements on Broadway.

MacArthur was called to appear before a special Congressional committee in 1901, where he testified against cadets implicated in hazing, but downplayed his own hazing even though the other cadets gave the full story to the committee.

Major decisions during this period were made by the Communist head in Shanghai, Chen Duxiu, the Party's general secretary, with a special committee of eight party officials coordinating Communist actions.

In 2012, a special committee finally inducted the Comets into the hall.

In response, a special committee was appointed, which proceeded to draw up a report called the Concept Plan of Redress.

During the strike a special strike committee was set up to print their own money, control food prices and publish newspapers.

Typically, professional misconduct cases are heard in the first instance by a bar committee or special master, with appeals from rulings made at that level directly to the state supreme court, which has original jurisdiction over the case and can consider new evidence.

Once Republicans regained control of the Senate, Glenn also served as the ranking minority member on a special Senate investigative committee chaired by Tennessee senator Fred Dalton Thompson that looked into illegal foreign donations by China to U. S. political campaigns for the 1996 election.

In the report of the system of Basilides, we are told that our world was made by the angels who occupy the lowest heaven ; but special mention is made of their chief, who is said to have been the God of the Jews, to have led that people out of the land of Egypt, and to have given them their law.

( This observation led to Albert Einstein's development of the theory of special relativity.

The theoretical implications of electromagnetism led to the development of special relativity by Albert Einstein in 1905.

The special popularity of his longer films, which were several minutes long from 1899 onwards ( while most other films were still only a minute long ), led other makers to start producing longer films.

The show's creators, Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez, have said that the Coleman character is a personification of one of Avenue Qs central themes: that as children we are told we are " special ", but upon entering adulthood we discover that life is not nearly as easy as we have been led to believe.

This maturing and growth within the industry has led to technically more advanced special effects and costuming, comparable with that of Hollywood films.

Among the Luo the larger agricultural production unit was the patriarch's extended family, mainly divided into a special assignment team led by the patriarch, and the teams of his wives, who, together with their children, worked their own lots on a regular basis.

These concerns have led to a debate among advocacy groups and governments on whether special regulation of nanotechnology is warranted.

That led to the development of a special form of folk art known as lubok printing, which persisted in Russia well into the 19th century.

This particular deviation is disputed by some if only because E. F. Codd himself eventually advocated the use of special marks and a 4-valued logic, but this was based on his observation that there are two distinct reasons why one might want to use a special mark in place of a value, which led opponents of the use of such logics to discover more distinct reasons and at least as many as 19 have been noted, which would require a 21-valued logic.

) The idea of Minkowski space led to special relativity being viewed in a more geometrical way.

On special teams, defensive back Rodger Bird led the AFL with 612 punt return yards and added another 148 yards returning kickoffs.

On special teams, multi-talented wide receiver Rick Upchurch led the NFL with 653 punt return yards, while also catching 12 passes for 245 yards and recording 456 yards returning kickoffs.

On special teams, newly acquired kicker Norm Johnson led the NFL in both field goals made ( 34 ) and field goals attempted ( 41 ), while also successfully making all 39 of his extra point attempts.

Critics of the Seventeenth Amendment claim that by altering the way senators are elected, the states lost any representation they had in the federal government and that this led to the gradual " slide into ignominy " of state legislatures, as well as an overextension of federal power and the rise of special interest groups to fill the power vacuum previously occupied by state legislatures.

Most important was the populist argument ; that there was a need to " Awaken, in the senators ... a more acute sense of responsibility to the people ," which it was felt they lacked ; election through state legislatures was seen as an anachronism that was out of step with the wishes of the American people, and one that had led to the Senate becoming " a sort of aristocratic body-too far removed from the people, beyond their reach, and with no special interest in their welfare ".

** In a special election for the U. S. Senate, Harris Wofford scores an electoral upset against Dick Thornburgh, who had led him by 44 points in an August opinion poll.

This crucial discovery led him to completely redesign his furnace so that it would force high-pressure air through the molten iron using special air pumps.

The success of the show led to both a live album and an Emmy-winning TV special.

The RMS was centred around Seram, Ambon, and Buru and led by Chris Soumokil ( former Supreme Prosecutor of the Eastern Indonesia state ) and supported by the Moluccan members of the Netherlands special troops.

One of the principles of the government's prices and incomes policy was that low-paid workers would be given special consideration, and between 1965 and 1969 the earnings of the lowest paid workers increased slightly faster than the average ( the increase in inflation in 1969 – 70 caused by devaluation, however, led to a deterioration in the position of low-paid workers ).

* The amount of criminal activities that take place on Saturday nights has led to the expression, " Saturday night special " a pejorative slang term used in the United States and Canada for any inexpensive handgun.

While the Constitution was still being drafted, there was a popular outcry in Andalusia for its own right to autonomy, with over a million and a half people demonstrating in the streets on 4 December 1977, which led the creation of a special quicker process for autonomy for that region, although it was not originally considered a historical nationality.

Livy informs us that the rapid spread of the cult, which he claims indulged in all kinds of crimes and political conspiracies at its nocturnal meetings, led in 186 BC to a decree of the Senate – the so-called Senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus, inscribed on a bronze tablet discovered in Apulia in Southern Italy ( 1640 ), now at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna – by which the Bacchanalia were prohibited throughout all Italy except in certain special cases which must be approved specifically by the Senate.