By 1968, the new, or soon to be, US commander in South Vietnam, General Creighton Abrams had been notified that the 152mm shells were now available for the Sheridan.

When General Abrams mentioned the cavalry's concerns over the new vehicle, Patton recommended that the Sheridans be combat tested by a divisional cavalry squadron and a squadron from his own regiment ; both of which had completely different missions.

Having read Chafee's article, Holmes decided to retroactively reinterpret what he had meant by " clear and present danger " and accepted Chafee's characterization of the new test in his dissent in Abrams v. United States just six months after Schenck.

Significantly unlike Abrams, the cases of Schenck, Frohwerk, and Debs had all produced unanimous decisions.

An AMA member sent a blood sample to an Abrams practitioner, and got back a diagnosis that the patient had malaria, diabetes, cancer and syphilis.

According to Rawcliffe, Abrams and his successors had " founded a good many special clinics in the United States and their number has by no means diminished in the ensuing years ".

Following the announcement, it was announced on June 12, 2006, that Dan Abrams, a nine-year veteran of MSNBC and NBC News, had been named General Manager of the NBC News 24-hour cable news television channel, effective immediately.

Andrew had become the president of prominent New York City publisher, Harry N. Abrams, Inc ..

One specific design requirement was that it should be as fast as the then new M1 Abrams main battle tank so that they could maintain formations while moving, something which the older M113 Armored Personnel Carrier could not do, as it had been designed to complement the older M60 Patton.

New York attorney Floyd Abrams had urged CNN / Time Warner to retract the report, while acknowledging that it may have had truth to it, saying:

" Following in 1998, M. H. Abrams explained, To Autumn ' was the last work of artistic consequence that Keats completed [...] he achieved this celebratory poem, with its calm acquiescence to time, transience and mortality, at a time when he was possessed by a premonition [...] that he had himself less than two years to live ".

His agent, Sheryl Abrams, said Bosley had been battling lung cancer.

Importation of foreign equipment, like the M1 Abrams, the Leopard 2, or the Merkava had been studied and rejected.

The AACM was formed in May 1965 by a group of musicians centered around pianist Muhal Richard Abrams who had organized an Experimental Band since 1962.

Zukor had been quietly buying Paramount stock, and two weeks prior to the merger, became president of Paramount Pictures Corporation and had Hodkinson replaced with Hiram Abrams, a Zukor associate.

Holmes in Abrams had been willing to defend speech on abstract grounds, believing that unpopular ideas should have their opportunity to compete in the " marketplace of ideas.

While Westmoreland had for years run the war using search-and-destroy tactics, these gave way to the clear-and-hold strategies that Abrams was so keen to implement.

Abrams also devoted vastly more time than his predecessor had to expanding, training, and equipping the ARVN.

With this new goal, Abrams had decreased American troop strength from a peak of 543, 000 in early 1969 to 49, 000 in June 1972.

However, while Abrams was changing the way the war was fought, the prolonged efforts and expense of the war had by then exhausted much of the American public and political support.

Abrams disdained most of the politicians with whom he was forced to deal, in particular Robert McNamara and McGeorge Bundy, and had an even lower opinion of defense contractors whom he accused of war profiteering.

The Abrams had three sons and three daughters.

At a January 28, 1969, meeting of the National Security Council, GEN Andrew Goodpaster, deputy to GEN Creighton Abrams, commander of the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, said the Army of the Republic of Viet Nam ( ARVN ) had been steadily improving, and the point at which the war could be " de-Americanized " was close.

Equipment from the Soviet Union is being progressively replaced by more modern U. S., French, and British equipment, a significant portion of which is built under license in Egypt, such as the M1A1 Abrams tank which makes Egypt the owner of the second largest number of latest generation main battle tanks in the region after Israel, and the second after Syria in case of the older generations.

He called this ERA, for Electronic Reactions of Abrams, and introduced a number of different machines which he claimed were based on these principles.

This reduces the total number of rounds that need to be carried for different roles, which is particularly important for modern tanks like the M1 Abrams, due to the sheer size of 120 mm rounds used.

Promotional stickers also appeared in Hostess products, Shedd ’ s Peanut Butter containers, Ralston Purina cereal, and more recently in a number of DC Comics ( to promote ANS1 ) and in the Abrams Books line of products.

In the months that followed, the 24th Division played an important part of Operation Desert Shield by providing heavy firepower with its large number of armored vehicles, including 216 M1A1 Abrams tanks.

The record also sees Gomez accompanied by a number of illustrious guest musicians, including vocalist Amy Millan ( of Stars / Broken Social Scene ), bassist Josh Abrams ( The Roots, Sam Prekop, Godspeed You Black Emperor!

There are a number of interchanges with county-maintained roads between Suamico and Abrams in Oconto County.

It was alleged by Graziosi's family and their attorney, as well as Senator Al D ' Amato, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, State Attorney General Robert Abrams, former Mayor Ed Koch, and a number of advocacy organizations, that Graziosi's resemblance to a Hasidic Jew precipitated his murder.

Recently, president and publisher Michela O ’ Connor Abrams has attempted to capitalize on the magazine ’ s success by introducing a number of branded spin-offs, including a limited edition minimalist athletic sneaker designed by Medium Design Group and a weekly TV series on the Fine Living cable network.

He also did a number of illustrations for the Harry N. Abrams, Inc. edition of The Hobbit, and at least one unrelated print ( a Samurai warrior ) was purchased by Harvard University's Fogg Museum and included in its annual undergraduate-use loan program.

" Trapped " reached the top five and went gold in the UK Singles Chart and topped the U. S. Hot Dance Music / Club Play chart in 1985, followed by the Colonel Abrams album, which spent two weeks at number one the following year.

Like the other Abrams Media properties, the site features a Power Grid " tabulated by using a specially developed algorithm that pools a variety of metrics, including TV ratings ; Web traffic and circulation counts ; attendance ; number of Twitter followers ; on-field performance for players and coaches ; and franchise values.

General Akhtar and General Zia along with a number of other top Pakistani military personnel were earlier in Bahawalpur to witness a US M1 Abrams tank demonstration.

The United States ' XM360, which is planned to equip the Future Combat Systems Mounted Combat System light tank and may be the M1 Abrams ' next gun upgrade, is reportedly based on the XM291 and may include ETC technology, or portions of ETC technology.

* Gunner's Primary Sight, a part of the targeting and fire-control system on the M1 Abrams tank

In commentary on the Blu-ray edition of Star Trek, director J. J. Abrams called Galaxy Quest " one of the best " Star Trek " movies ever made.

In 2012, in celebration of the franchise's 50th anniversary, Topps has partnered with a variety of companies on a merchandising campaign to include comic books ( via IDW Publishing ), bobble heads and vinyl dolls ( Funko ), action figures and plush ( Mezco Toyz ), costumes ( Incogneato ), statues and busts ( Quarantine Studio ), electronics skins ( Gelaskins ) and a hardcover commemorative book ( Abrams Books ).

In affirming the lower courts decision to dismiss, Justice Abrams wrote: " Although Korb has a secured right to speak out on matters of public concern, and he has a right to express views with which Raytheon disagrees, he has no right to do so at Raytheon's expense.

Though far less publicized than the Humvee, it has been extremely important in transporting logistics behind quick-moving forces based on the M1 Abrams tank.

Abrams was born in San Francisco around 1863, giving dates a couple of years either way on occasions.

Between 1910 and 1918, Abrams published several books on a medical technique he called spondylotherapy, a manipulative technique not dissimilar to chiropractic and osteopathy, but involving electricity.

Abrams offered to " cooperate " with the investigators, but always failed to do so on various pretexts.

* Fishbein, M., The Medical Follies: An Analysis of the Foibles of Some Healing Cults, including Osteopathy, Homeopathy, Chiropractic, and the Electronic Reactions of Abrams, with Essays on the Anti-Vivisectionists, Health Legislation, Physical Culture, Birth Control, and Rejuvenation, Boni & Liveright, ( New York ), 1925.

* Hale, A. R., " These Cults ": An Analysis of the Foibles of Dr. Morris Fishbein's " Medical Follies " and an Indictment of Medical Practice in General, with a Non-Partisan Presentation of the Case for the Drugless Schools of Healing, Comprising Essays on Homeopathy, Osteopathy, Chiropractic, The Abrams Method, Vivisection, Physical Culture, Christian Science, Medical Publicity, The Cost of Hospitalization and State Medicine, National Health Foundation, ( New York ), 1926.

It is now a major supplier of armored vehicles of all types, including the M1 Abrams, LAV 25, Stryker, and a wide variety of vehicles based on these chassis.

According to Christopher Finch in The Art of Walt Disney ( Abrams, 1974 ), Disney credited animator Webb Smith with creating the idea of drawing scenes on separate sheets of paper and pinning them up on a bulletin board to tell a story in sequence, thus creating the first storyboard.

The U. S. Army uses reactive armour on its Abrams tanks as part of the TUSK ( Tank Urban Survivability Kit ) package and on Bradley vehicles and the Israelis use it frequently on their American built M-60 tanks.

According to one scholar, this " was not only a dramatic change in the function of art, it was the context in which our present concept of art, what the literary critic M. H. Abrams called " art as such ", first began to take shape ", replacing a " construction model " where art theory concerned itself with how the maker created his work, with a " contemplation model " concerned with the effect of the finished work on a " lone perceiver " or viewer.

It was the home, for nearly seventy years ( 1940-2010 ), of the U. S. Army Armor Center, the U. S. Army Armor School ( now at Fort Benning ), and was used by both the Army and the Marine Corps to train crews on the M1 Abrams main battle tank.

Chobham was such an improvement that it was soon used on the new U. S. M1 Abrams main battle tank ( MBT ) as well.

Chobham-type armour is currently in its third generation and is used on modern western tanks such as the British Challenger 2 and the American M1 Abrams.

The downsides to the Heng Long imitations are that they were standardized to their Type 90 tank which has 6 road wheels, then they produced a Leopard 2 and M1A2 Abrams on the same chassis but both of the tanks have 7 road wheels.

Lost creator and Star Trek director J. J. Abrams claimed the episode as his favorite, saying, " episode is a beautiful demonstration of the burden of adulthood, told in The Twilight Zone, which everyone thinks is a scary show, but it's actually a beautiful show ," and " The Twilight Zone at its best is better than anything else I've ever seen on television.

* Abrams Elementary located on 23rd Street.