According to Balousek, Jordan Sr. hired " drunks and bums " from the Madison street to help blast the rock.

`` According to Rose, he arrived here a couple minutes before nine and spotted Thor in the water, got a hooked pole from the pool-equipment locker and started hauling him out.

According to state law a slave had to be at least thirty years old before he could be freed.

According to M. Forrest, the French knights were so encumbered by their armour that they were exhausted even before the start of the battle.

According to the teaching of Arius, the preexistent Logos and thus the incarnate Jesus Christ was a created being ; that only the Son was directly created and begotten by God the Father, before ages, but was of a distinct, though similar, essence or substance from the Creator ; his opponents argued that this would make Jesus less than God, and that this was heretical.

According to legend, Albertus Magnus is said to have discovered the philosopher's stone and passed it to his pupil Thomas Aquinas, shortly before his death.

According to legend, this prompted Ananda to focus his efforts on the attainment of nibbana and he was able to reach the specified level of attainment before the calling of the conclave.

According to the Christian doctrine of Universal Reconciliation, the Greek New Testament scriptures use the word " eon " to mean a long period ( perhaps 1000 years ) and the word " eonian " to mean " during a long period "; Thus there was a time before the eons, and the eonian period is finite.

According to John T. Townsend, " it is not before the last decades of the second century that one finds undisputed traces of the work.

According to Plato, Atlantis was a naval power lying " in front of the Pillars of Hercules " that conquered many parts of Western Europe and Africa 9, 000 years before the time of Solon, or approximately 9600 BC.

According to Critias, 9, 000 years before his lifetime a war took place between those outside the Pillars of Hercules at the Strait of Gibraltar and those who dwelt within them.

According to the 1977 constitution of the Republic of Afghanistan ( 1973 – 78 ), all Afghans are equal in rights and obligations before the law.

According to Robert Longley, " Clinton and Gore were responsible for pressing almost all federal agencies, the U. S. court system and the U. S. military onto the Internet, thus opening up America's government to more of America's citizens than ever before.

According to Cuthbert, Bede fell ill " with frequent attacks of breathlessness but almost without pain ", before Easter.

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, " a comparison of the Masoretic text with the Septuagint throws some light on the last phase in the history of the origin of the Book of Jeremiah, inasmuch as the translation into Greek was already under way before the work on the Hebrew book had come to an end ...

According to Herodotus, an Athenian runner named Pheidippides was sent to run from Athens to Sparta to ask for assistance before the battle.

According to a 2010 interview on Blog Talk Radios, Lessons Learned, Rick Tocquigny, when asked if Mumy was a Jonathan Harris fan, before Mumy's first meeting with Harris on Lost in Space, he said at age 5, he was too young to watch his mentor's show The Third Man which was probably late at night, but was old enough to watch The Bill Dana Show ( which also starred Harris's real-life best friend Don Adams ).

According to Avedon, Chaplin telephoned him at his studio in New York while on a layover before the final leg of his travel to England.

According to activist writer Naomi Klein, ironic enjoyment of the film initially arose among those with the video before MGM, the film's chief marketer, capitalized on the idea.

According to Dante, the prisoners were slowly starved to death and before dying Ugolino's children begged him to eat their bodies.

According to tradition, three generations before Confucius ' time, his ancestors had migrated from the Song state to the Lu state.

According to a group of astronomers at the University of Toronto and elsewhere, the observations of this supernova are best explained by assuming that it arose from a white dwarf which grew to twice the mass of the Sun before exploding.

According to Needham, though there is no way of answering the question of whether the crossbow first arose among the cultures neighboring ancient China before the rise of Chinese culture in their midst, or whether it spread outwards from China to all the environing peoples, the former seems the more probable hypothesis given linguistic evidence, which posits that the Chinese word for ' crossbow ' came from an Austroasiatic language.

According to Christian Tradition and Canon Law, the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria only ordains men to the priesthood and episcopate, and if they wish to be married, they must be married before they are ordained.

According to Hubbard, before Dianetics psychotherapists may have been able to deal with very light and superficial incidents ( e. g. an incident that reminds you of a moment of loss ), but with Dianetic therapy, the patient can actually erase moments of pain and unconsciousness.

According to the United States Department of Energy, the wide range of its current and projected uses, together with the lack of any immediately suitable replacement, makes dysprosium the single most critical element for emerging clean energy technologies-even their most conservative projections predict a shortfall of dysprosium before 2015.

According to an early interview, with the city snowed under during the Great Blizzard of 1978 in Chicago, the two began preliminary work on the Computerized Bulletin Board System, or CBBS.

According to the latter usage, in 1978 the CPC Central Committee denounced as " ultra-left " the line of Mao Zedong from 1956 until his death in 1976.

According to a 1978 article in the American Economic Review, 90 percent of the economists surveyed agreed that the minimum wage increases unemployment among low-skilled workers.

According to CIA officer Duane " Dewey " Claridge, chief of operations of the CIA Near East Division from 1975 to 1978, in mid-1976, Salameh offered Americans assistance and protection with Arafat's blessings during the American embassy pull-out from Beirut during the down-spiraling chaos of the Lebanese Civil War.

The track " Two Sunspots " had been recorded during the Black And White sessions in 1978, but was shelved until 1980 when it was rediscovered and placed on The Gospel According To The Meninblack.

According to the Soviet Politburo they were complying with the 1978 Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Good Neighborliness and Amin had been " executed by a tribunal for his crimes " by the Afghan Revolutionary Central Committee.

According to his theory, the new virus, created between 1977 and 1978, was tested on prison inmates who had volunteered for the experiment in exchange for early release.

According to the Wilmette Life, an explosion occurred on March 24, 1978 at 1221 Cleveland Ave.

* Retired California politician James R. Mills wrote a novel titled Gospel According to Pontius Pilate in 1978.

According to the report, throughout the 1980s political killings rose to a peak of 3, 500 in 1988, averaging some 1, 500 victims per year since then, and " over 1, 500 civilians are also believed to have “ disappeared ” since 1978.

According to one account by Piers Paul Read ( 1978 ), in January 1963, shortly after the furore over the Airport Job had died down, Brian Field called Gordon Goody to a meeting at the Old Bailey and asked him whether he was interested in a large sum of money that only a large gang could steal.

According to the World Meteorological Organization's Commission for Atmospheric Sciences ( Mclnturff, 1978 ): a stratospheric warming can be said to be major if 10 mb or below the latitudinal mean temperature increases poleward from 60 degree latitude and an associated circulation reversal is observed ( that is, the prevailing mean westerly winds poleward of 60 latitude are succeeded by mean easterlies in the same area ).

According to Article 56 of the 1978 Constitution the monarch and the dignity of the Spanish State are one and the same: " The King is Head of State, the symbol of its unity and permanence ".

* According to the 1978 constitution, grandee and nobility titles, and civil and military decorations, are awarded by the King as head of state.

According to a European Commission press release of 2002, " since the EPC came into force in 1978, at least 30, 000 patents for computer-implemented inventions have already been issued the EPO ".

According to Merrill, the spirits ordered him to write and publish the next two installments, Mirabell: Books of Number in 1978 ( which won the National Book Award for Poetry ) and Scripts for the Pageant in 1980.

According to an interview featurette with Jon Voight on the DVD of Coming Home ( 1978 ), Cleland also served during this time as a consultant on the Academy Award-winning drama set in a VA hospital in 1968.

According to a secret cable from DINA ( Chilean secret police ) in Buenos Aires, an estimate by the Argentine 601st Intelligence Battalion in mid-July 1978, which started counting victims in 1975, gave the figure of 22, 000 persons – this document was first published by John Dinges in 2004.

By autumn popular support for the revolution was so powerful that those who still opposed it became reluctant to speak out, According to one source " victory may be dated to mid-November 1978.

According to the Himalayan Index, there have been only three more ascents, in 1978 ( Japanese, West Ridge ), 1979 ( unknown party / route ), and 1988 ( Polish, Southwest Face ).

According to a study by economist David Card, deregulation resulted in the shift of approximately 5, 000 to 7, 000 airline mechanic jobs from the major trunk airlines to smaller carriers between 1978 and 1984.

According to the IUGS classification nomenclature ( International Union of Geological Sciences, Streckeisen, 1978 ), nepheline syenite has 10 %< F /( F + A + P )< 60 % and P /( A + P )< 10 % ( F-feldspathoids ; A-alkali feldspar ; P-plagioclase.

According to the " Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten " ( 1978 ) by Detlev Schwennicke, his mother was Vojača, first wife of his father.

According to Keen ( 1978 ), the concept of decision support has evolved from two main areas of research: The theoretical studies of organizational decision making done at the Carnegie Institute of Technology during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the technical work on interactive computer systems, mainly carried out at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1960s.

According to a 1980 article in Mother Jones magazine, Clark's 1978 vote ran strongest in " wealthy Orange County, a long-time stronghold of right-wing sentiments ; in the back country of the Sierra Nevada, where loggers, miners and developers rail against government restrictions on land use ; in Berkeley and the gay neighborhoods of San Francisco, which share the Libertarians ' antipathy for drug laws and vice squads ; and in the cocaine-and-Perrier precincts of Marin County ..."