ASUAG had been founded in 1931.

During all those years of crisis, and restructuring, since 1978, Dr. Ernst Thomke had been at the helm of ETA SA, and also had become CEO of Ebauches SA and appointed on the Board of Directors of ASUAG.

* General Watch Co Watch Sub-Holding Company of ASUAG, now integrated into the Swatch Group

* ASUAG, formed in 1931, was the world's largest producer of watch movements and the parts thereof ( Balance wheels, Balance Springs ( Spiral ), Assortments, Watch Stones (" rubis ").

ASUAG expanded through the purchase of companies that made movement-blanks and a number of finished watch manufacturers that were subsequently brought together under the subsidiary General Watch Co ( GWC ).

Lebanese entrepreneur, Nicolas G. Hayek, who, with a group of Swiss investors, took over a majority shareholding of Swatch during 1985 in the then, between ASUAG and SSIH, newly consolidated group under the name Societe Suisse de Microelectronique et d ' Horlogerie, or SMH, became Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO in 1986 ( who later significantly changed its name to Swatch Group ), further masterminded its development to reach its now major worldwide Swiss watch brand status within the lower end of watch prices.

Both groups were reorganized and merged into SSIH / ASUAG Holding Company in 1983.

In the 1930s, both ASUAG and SSIH entered into complementary research and development programs to combat a severe economic crisis.

In 1983, critical steps including the merger of ASUAG and SSIH into SMH and the launching of a low-cost, high-tech, artistic and emotional “ second watch ”-the Swatch.

ASUAG failed similarly in 1982.

After drastic financial restructuring, the R & D departments of ASUAG and SSIH merged production operations at the ETA complex in Granges.

At the time, both SSIH and ASUAG held a number of well-established Swiss watch brands.

Following repeated crises in the Swiss watch industry, by the 1970s both ASUAG and SSIH were again in trouble.

Eventually, both ASUAG and SSIH faced bankruptcy.

In 1998, Swiss Corporation for Microelectronics and Watchmaking Industries Ltd ( Société de Microélectronique et d ' Horlogerie or SMH ), founded in 1983 through the merger Swiss watchmakers ASUAG and SSIH, was renamed the Swatch Group.

The mudwagon had caught fire also.

This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.

Foster had brought extra clothing also.

Dill had come up also.

He was asking had it been she who left the love note in his sheets ( she also served as maid ) when he saw the Grafin followed by a stately blond girl approaching his table.

She began to watch a blonde-haired man, also in shorts, standing right at the rear of the wrecked car in the one spot that most of the crowd had detoured slightly.

His superiors had also preached this, saying it was the way for eternal honor.

Wet also were the marine's fatigues and the face had an oily film.

Yet, after Rousseau had given the social contract a new twist with his notion of the General Will, the same philosophy, it may be said, became the idea source of the French Revolution also.

Helion, however, clung to the belief that `` in escaping from the Stalag I had also escaped from Abstraction ''.

And just as `` Laurie '' Lawrence was first attracted to bright Jo March, who found him immature by her high standards, and then had to content himself with her younger sister Amy, so Joe Jastrow, who had also been writing Henrietta before he came to Johns Hopkins, had to content himself with her younger sister, pretty Rachel.

It also implied that Paul Bang-Jensen had been irresponsible.

The Indians who came aboard ship to collect the mail also interested her greatly, even if she was suitably shocked, according to the customs of the society in which she had been reared, to find them `` naked, except a piece of cotton cloth wrapped around their middle ''.

From his playmates in Savannah, Mercer had picked up, along with a soft Southern dialect, traces also of the Gullah dialects of Africa.

This 1930 edition also had songs in it by Vernon Duke and Ira Gershwin, by E. Y. Harburg and Duke, and by Harry Myers.

He had also mastered the Cossack tongue.

It had been whispered privately that she had smiled in the congregation, and the Governor Prence sent to knoe her business, and command, after punishment as the bench see fit, her departure and also anyone who brought her to the place from which she came ' ''.

That fall he submitted to Professor Baker the first acts and outlines of the following acts of several plays, six of them, according to some of his associates, and he also worked on a play that he first called Niggertown, the material for which he had collected during the summer at home.

The younger men, Vere, and Pembroke, who was also Edward's cousin and whose Lusignan blood gave him the swarthy complexion that caused Edward of Carnarvon's irreverent friend, Piers Gaveston, to nickname him `` Joseph the Jew '', were relatively new to the game of diplomacy, but Pontissara had been on missions to Rome before, and Hotham, a man of great learning, `` jocund in speech, agreeable to meet, of honest religion, and pleasing in the eyes of all '', and an archbishop to boot, was as reliable and experienced as Othon himself.

Mr. Burlingham, -- `` C.C.B. '' -- wrote to me once about an old friend of mine, S. K. Ratcliffe, whom I had first met in London in 1914 and who also came out for a week-end in Weston.

He had also sampled various special fields of learning, being unable to miss some study of divinity, Justinian ( law ), and Galen ( medicine ).

He had also learned to dispute extempore remarkably well, the main evidence for which of course is the presence of his name in the honors list of 1628/29.

At least two private colleges in the Atlanta area now or in the past have had integrated student bodies, but their tax-exempt status never has been challenged by the state.

He appended rather than integrated the laws of Ine into his code, and although he included, as had Æthelbert, a scale of payments in compensation for injuries to various body parts, the two injury tariffs are not aligned.

Many CPU accelerator cards also had integrated SCSI controllers.

Engesa had been dismembered ; some of its companies were sold to private interests, and its ordnance-related companies were taken over by the state and integrated with Imbel.

Bulgaria's economy contracted dramatically after 1987 with the dissolution of the Comecon, with which the Bulgarian economy had integrated closely.

This involved concentrating investment on major integrated plants, placed near the coast for ease of access by sea, and closing older, smaller plants, especially those that had been located inland for proximity to coal supplies.

Although BJU admitted Asians and other ethnic groups from its inception, it did not enroll black students until 1971, eight years after the University of South Carolina and Clemson University had been integrated by court order.

Interestingly, the android character Data is transformed into a cyborg in the film too by having organic components integrated into him ( the reverse of the Borg, who were organic beings who had synthetic components made part of them ).

The F8 is very complex compared to the typical integrated circuits of the day, and had more inputs and outputs than other contemporary chips.

All of the logic functions of a calculator had been squeezed into the first " Calculator on a chip " integrated circuits in 1971, but this was leading edge technology of the time and yields were low and costs were high.

For about a decade, every student taking the 6. 004 class at MIT was part of a team — each team had one semester to design and build a simple 8 bit CPU out of 7400 series integrated circuits.

The later C128D had a 1571-compatible drive integrated in the system unit.

At the same time, the Grundlegung systematically integrated previous specialized work done at Free University of Berlin in the ' 70s by critical psychologists who also had been influenced by Marx, Leontyev and Seve.

In June 2011, IBM announced that it had successfully used graphene-based FETs in an integrated circuit.

The Senate took up his slate of amendments, condensed them into eleven, and removed the language which Madison had included so that they would be integrated into the body of the constitution.

Adenauer ensured a truly free and democratic society, which had been almost unknown to the German people before — notwithstanding the attempt between 1919 and 1933 ( the Weimar Republic ) — and which is today not just normal but also deeply integrated into modern German society.

The crusaders were neither totally integrated with the native population, nor did they segregate themselves in the cities away from the rural natives, but rather that they settled in both urban and rural areas ; specifically, they settled in areas that had traditionally been inhabited by the eastern Christians.

A disadvantage was that it split apart the integrated military command structure which before had balanced the importance of the navy within overall defence considerations.

Microprocessors integrated into one or a few large-scale ICs the architectures that had previously been implemented using many medium-and small-scale integrated circuits.

The shift of authority from the presence and intuition of knowers-from the good-faith of Reason to seek diverse knowledge integrated for human benefit or truth fidelity-to the automated database and the market had, in Lyotard's view, the power to unravel the very idea of ' justification ' or ' legitimation ' and, with it, the rationale for research altogether-esp.

It was their only 18-bit machine constructed from TTL integrated circuits rather than discrete transistors, and had an optional integrated vector graphics terminal.

In 2007, the US Navy renovated and restored to full use the only ramp at the coast guard base in São Tomé, which had been out of service. São Tomé and Príncipe has the Automatic Identification System ( AIS ) receivers and in January 2008 became the first African country to have Regional Maritime Awareness Capability ( RMAC ) installed and integrated into

The number of Serbs in Kosovo dropped drastically as Serbs fled Kosovo, fearing persecution by the KLA which had integrated into the Kosovo security force called KFOR.