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The Aster used 64KB of RAM memory and had the unique feature of supporting two fundamentally different internal architectures: when turned on without a boot floppy or with a TRS-DOS floppy, the Aster would be fully TRS-80 compatible, with 48KB or RAM.
Both Paul Muni and George Raft turned down the lead role, giving Bogart the opportunity to play a character of some depth, although legendary director Walsh initially fought the casting of supporting player Bogart as a leading man, much preferring Raft for the part.
The entire Panama Canal, the area supporting the Canal, and remaining US military bases were turned over to Panama on December 31, 1999.
In many Asian countries bamboo is used both for the supporting structure and the outer layer where split bamboo stems are laid turned alternately and overlapped.
In addition, small numbers of Eastern European mercenaries have also turned up supporting the Gaddafi regime.
The supporting cast included pop singer turned actor Kenny Lynch, Geoffrey Hughes, Norman Rossington, Sam Kydd, Jerrold Wells and Fanny Carby as Arthur and Kevin's landlady.
The solution had already been present since 1911: as the surrounding areas had pastures suitable for supporting dairy cattle, the focus of the community's economy, following the exit of the timber companies, turned to dairy production.
Frustrated, he turned his energies to supporting the war effort.
Although the album hit the Top 15 in the UK, many early fans were turned off by the perception that the band was trying too hard to appeal to American audiences by recording songs like " Hello America " and touring more in the US ( supporting Pat Travers, AC / DC, and Ted Nugent ).
The turning point in the Cristero War was when the Roman Catholic Church reached an agreement with the National Revolutionary Party – the forerunner of the Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) that dominated the country for most of the 20th century – under which it turned a blind eye to the lack of democracy in the country and stopped supporting the Catholic rebels, threatening its members with excommunication if they disobeyed the government.
FONZ incorporated, as a nonprofit organization, turned its attention to developing education and volunteer programs, supporting these efforts from its operations of concessions at the Zoo, and expanding community support for the Zoo through a growing membership.
Not a wealthy man, Brougham turned to journalism as a means of supporting himself financially through these years.
In the 1940s Cunningham turned to documentary street photography, which she executed as a side project while supporting herself with her commercial and studio photography.
It turned out that the label had invested a substantial amount of money in supporting Peter Searcy's Could You Please and Thank You, and the album had performed so poorly that the label was almost completely broke.
Carracci adopted the quadri riportati, which the ceiling is divided into units and turned it into a collection of framed paintings, along with the cast masks among the garlands, and carved putti, and sculptures supporting the central scene.
In 1964, she attempted a comeback in films with a supporting role in the Italian film, Time of Indifference, which turned out to be her last feature film.
At a town meeting hosted by the Dallas Tea Party, Presidential Candidate and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich criticized politicians supporting the Space Launch System, " I think it is disgraceful the way getting into space has been turned into a political pork-barrel.
Stymied, Fleer turned its efforts to supporting an administrative complaint filed by the Federal Trade Commission, alleging that Topps was engaging in unfair competition through its aggregation of exclusive contracts.
The company now turned its efforts to supporting an administrative complaint filed against Topps by the Federal Trade Commission.
A position in which the dancer stands on one leg ( known as the supporting leg ) while the other leg ( working leg ) is lifted and well turned out with the knee bent at approximately 90-degree angle.
The working leg is raised to the side, turned out, with knee sharply bent so the toe is pointed in front of or behind the supporting knee.
Heavy rain, however, had turned the battlefield into a thick, muddy morass and as a result transportation and resupply efforts were hampered as were attempts to reposition the supporting artillery and as a consequence when the attack went in at 5: 25 am on 12 October the 9th and 10th Brigades had only limited fire support.
In the 1970s, he portrayed a murderer on the popular TV series McCloud and played a supporting role in what turned out to be his last film, the 1979 motion picture The Pilot.
The covered verandas lack excess detail, having modest turned balustrade spindles and supporting posts.
Under political pressure to deliver victory, British leaders turned to launching their " southern strategy " for winning the war, that built on the idea that there was strong Loyalist sentiment supporting the southern colonies.

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Blue Throat was slumped with his back against the bar, elbows supporting his massive frame.
A systematic 2003 review of controlled clinical trials related to the Alexander Technique found two reputable studies suggesting the Alexander Technique is effective in reducing the disability of patients suffering from Parkinson ’ s disease and improving pain behaviour and disability in patients with back pain, and concluded that the evidence supporting the effectiveness of the Alexander Technique is encouraging but not convincing.
This would eliminate the need for more ports on the back of the machine, and allowed for the elimination of expansion slots for supporting more complex devices ( the Atari 8-bit family used a similar solution, known as SIO ).
The Conservative Party has for years been split on the issue of Europe, with some arguing for the full withdrawal subject to a referendum but many supporting the Union though powers should be sought back from Brussels and the Union should be less of a political and economic union.
On some types of harnesses there might be supporting rings to carry the reins over the horse's back.
Use of all these techniques has enabled palaeontologists to discover much of the evolutionary history of life, almost all the way back to when Earth became capable of supporting life, about.
The pelvic dip is opposed by the tensor fasciae lataeilio-tibial band of the supporting leg, the hip abductor, and the abdominals and lower back muscles.
While the network and router are capable of supporting multi-mb / s service, the offering is severely throttled back to 256kb down / 64kb up speeds and capped at 1GB of monthly data transfer ( except for a small number of customers grandfathered from a previous service ).
Recycled footage of Shemp, combined with new footage utilizing Columbia supporting player Joe Palma as Shemp's double ( only filmed from the back ), were used to complete the last four films originally planned with Shemp: Rumpus in the Harem, Hot Stuff, Scheming Schemers, and Commotion on the Ocean.
Upon Bingham's return, Ní Mháille realized that the meeting with Elizabeth had been useless, and went back to supporting Irish rebellions.
More recently he was spotted back in Mexico supporting the successful political campaign of the Institutional Revolutionary Party candidate for the 2012 presidential elections, Enrique Peña Nieto, according to Mexican journalists Francisco Cruz Jiménez and Jorge Toribio Montiel.
" It also proposed breaking all institutional ties back to the Treaty of Rome, while it returned to supporting a common European currency to rival the United States dollar.
Hartford City has a history of difficulty supporting two newspapers, and the News Times can trace its lineage back to the Hartford City News and the Hartford City Times.
: All the supporting characters, particularly Una Persson, drive this novel while Jerry is nothing more than a whimpering heap of rags washed up on a beach and carried in the back of a lorry to safety.
The album's first single, " I'm Still Here ", did moderately well, but when it failed to match the popularity of " Everything You Want ", RCA did little to promote the album and as such, no videos were produced and the label didn't back the album's supporting tour.
Most cycle rickshaws, used for carrying passengers for hire, are tricycles with one steering wheel in the front and two wheels in the back supporting a seating area for one or two passengers.
O ' Neill then releases it in Ireland ( for supporting the terrorists ), England ( for oppressing the Irish and giving them a cause ), and Libya ( for training said terrorists ); he demands that the governments of the world send all citizens of those countries back to their countries, and that they quarantine those countries and let the plague run its course, so they will lose what he has lost ; if they do not, he has more plagues to release.
Sinar continues to provide its primary Digital View Camera system while still supporting the HY6 medium format with a new platform independent eSprit 65 LV digital camera back.
During the comeback portion of his career, Phoenix went back to his birth-given name " Joaquin ", and was often cast in supporting roles as conflicted, insecure characters with a dark side.
On the back of the Industrial Revolution, Oldham developed an extensive coal mining sector, correlated to supporting the local cotton industry and the town's inhabitants, though there is evidence of small scale coal mining in the area as early as the 16th century.
When the pins are cycled back to the top, they actually hang from supporting forks positioned such that the next rack of pins is in position.
He picked himself up and got back to the business of making and performing music, recording the album Arachnophobiac and supporting it with two years of touring.
Replying to anti-Boer War MPs including David Lloyd George, Law used his excellent memory to quote sections of Hansard back to the opposition which contained their previous speeches supporting and commending the policies they now denounced.
The campaign was sufficient to bring the noted organiser Lord Milner back into politics to support the Unionists, and he immediately asked L. S. Amery to write a British Covenant saying that the signers would, if the Home Rule Bill passed, " feel justified in taking or supporting any action that may be effective to prevent it being put into operation, and more particularly to prevent the armed forces of the Crown being used to deprive the people of Ulster of their rights as citizens of the United Kingdom ".
Lloyd George, Birkenhead and Winston Churchill ( still distrusted by many Conservatives ) wished to use armed force against Turkey ( the Chanak Crisis ), but had to back down when offered support only by New Zealand, but not Canada, Australia or South Africa ; an anonymous letter appeared in " The Times " supporting the government but stating that Britain could not " act as the policeman for the world ", and it was an open secret that the author, " A Colonial ", was in fact Bonar Law.

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