According to Bill Libby's Book, Charlie O and the Angry A's, owner Charlie O. Finley banned the word " Athletics " from the club's name because he felt that name was too closely associated with former Philadelphia Athletics owner Connie Mack, and he wanted the name " Oakland A's " to become just as closely associated with him.

According to the November 2002 Kommersant report, the gay club housed the commandos ' and special services ' " headquarters " and had been equipped with " its own ventilation system ( the club's special pride )".

According to Triangle's official history, Tarkington made his first acting appearance in the club's Shakespearean spoof Katherine.

According to Richard Robinson, who wrote the club's official 50th anniversary history, Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays were fixed upon as the nights for play … Whoever selected the teams on practising nights had the power to place their men on the field, or appoint substitutes, and the players shall be bound to adhere to their instructions. Robinson also explains the means by which the passing game was developed, The club ... never neglected practice, and this practice was indulged in systematically.

According to the club's former busboy and witness, David Brock of Northern Kentucky, the slides were intentionally kept privately stored and away from the public since they were taken and prove arson.

According to Black and White Magic, a 1984 book about the club by Jim Paterson and Douglas Scott, there are numerous theories as to the origin of the club's nickname, the Pars.

According to Michael Parkinson, a British talk show host, " at the age of nine he was opening the bowling and the batting for his club's junior team ".

According to additional reports in the Spanish press, Maniche was told to be surplus to requirements in Madrid after he rejected the club's offer of a new deal, as his contract was going to expire on 30 June 2009.

“ I got a $ 25, 000 advance on ( the book ) but could never complete it .” According to the L. A. Weekly, Paul Kulak claims that Stryker has made threats to him and the club's customers: “ He constantly reminds me he ’ s a firearms expert and will hide behind his back door when I dump the trash.

According to Irish Abroad, " His departure from the Glasgow giants, after only 26 appearances for the Bhoys, led to outrage among the club's supporters who perceived Miller to be showing a distinct lack of loyalty considering the Celts ' support of him through long-term injury.

According to the club's records, it has played at The Grove since its formation in 1873.

According to Björn Wesström, the club's director of football, the agreement was not technically not a loan deal, as the player had no contractual obligations with Villareal until 1 July 2010 ; however, he was due to return to the Spanish side, since he still had 12 months left of his contract.

According to Friends, the unit was organized by John Snook, a former World War 2, commando who is vice president and general manager of the telephone company.

According to Article 91 of the constitution, the CDN is " the consultative body of the president of the republic in matters related to national sovereignty and the defense of the democratic state.

According to Dan Krutz, former president of CUIC, " Overcoming racism has been a focal point of CUIC since its beginning ... Racism may be the biggest sin that divides churches.

According to Orthodox teaching the position of “ First Among Equals ” gives no additional power or authority to the bishop that holds it, but rather that this person sits as organizational head of a council of equals ( like a president ).

According to the president of Nauru, the Marshall Islands are the nation ranked as the most endangered due to flooding from climate change.

According to Article II, Section 3, Clause 2 of the Constitution, the president may convene either or both houses of Congress.

According to article 7 of the Constitution, if the presidency becomes vacant for any reason, or if the president becomes incapacitated, upon the request of the gouvernement, the Constitutional Council may rule, by a majority vote, that the presidency is to be temporarily assumed by the President of the Senate.

According to legend, Scrabble's big break came in 1952 when Jack Straus, president of Macy's, played the game on vacation.

According to article 11 of the constitution of Iceland the president is not accountable and cannot be prosecuted without parliament's consent.

" According to the National Security Archive, Oliver North had been in contact with Manuel Noriega, the US-backed president of Panama.

According to historian Thomas Woods, " Ever since the Korean War, Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution — which refers to the president as the ' Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States ' — has been interpreted to mean that the president may act with an essentially free hand in foreign affairs, or at the very least that he may send men into battle without consulting Congress.

According to Dern, who ran twice as a Natural Law candidate for U. S. Senate and once for the Hartland Township Board of Trustees, the party will appear on the 2012 presidential ballot ticket In August 2012, the party nominated former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson for president.

According to William Bacon Stevens, the first president of the board of trustees, Asa Packer's founding gift of $ 500, 000 was the largest single endowment for a literary institution at that time.

According to the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, the president cannot appoint persons of the same political party to more than five of the nine CPB board seats.

According to a June 2, 1999, article in The Virginian-Pilot, Robertson had extensive business dealings with Liberian president Charles Taylor.

* According to the 11th article, if 3 / 4 of the parliament votes to dismiss the president then that decision must be put to a binding referendum.

* According to the 26th article, should the president veto a bill from the parliament then it must be put to a binding referendum.

According to Thomas J. Johnson, a professor of journalism at Southern Illinois University, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger predicted during Nixon's final days that history would remember Nixon as a great president and that Watergate would be relegated to a " minor footnote.

According to returns announced on June 17, Yeltsin won 35 % of the vote ; Zyuganov won 32 %; Aleksandr Lebed, a populist ex-general, a surprisingly high 14. 5 %; liberal candidate Grigory Yavlinsky 7. 4 %; far-right nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky 5. 8 %; and former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev 0. 5 %.

According to TVS president Eddie Einhorn, the games actually got decent ratings at first, but affiliates started bailing out after the Philadelphia and Jacksonville free-ticket scandals, a trickle that became a flood after two teams moved in the middle of the season and two more folded altogether.

According to historian Glenn W. LaFantasie of Western Kentucky University, " ever since 1985, when Ronald Reagan was serving in his second term as president, there have been repeated attempts to repeal the 22nd Amendment ; this proposal has failed repeatedly in Congress, although it is still introduced over and over again.

According to former NHL president Gil Stein, another factor was that the Karmanos / Rutherford group wanted to pay only $ 29 million before starting play, while the Esposito group was one of the few willing to pay the entire $ 50 million expansion fee up front.

According to the Cuban Constitution Article 94, the First Vice President of the Council of State assumes presidential duties upon the illness or death of the president.

According to a 1933 letter that Jack wrote to Will H. Hays, then president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Zanuck requested a higher salary and " indicated his desire to raise the salaries of the actors and personnel in the motion pictures we were producing ".

According to Aldo Musacchio, a professor at Harvard Business School, it is a system in which governments, whether democratic or autocratic, exercise a widespread influence on the economy, through either direct ownership or various subsidies.

According to a 16th century French poem, Dionysus, the god of intoxication, and of wine, was pursuing a maiden named Amethystos, who refused his affections.

According to Hill, during her two years of employment as Thomas's assistant, Thomas had asked her out socially many times, and after she refused, he used work situations to discuss sexual subjects.

" According to Yevgenii Pasternak, however, author Konstantin Paustovsky refused to attend the meeting.

According to a report in the British Medical Journal, use of DDT in Mozambique " was stopped several decades ago, because 80 % of the country's health budget came from donor funds, and donors refused to allow the use of DDT.

According to Pearson, the dry cleaners lost his pants ( which he brought in for a $ 10. 50 alteration ) and refused his demands for a large refund.

According to Moodysson, the problem with the original title started when the film was Sweden's candidate for the Academy Awards, though it was eventually not chosen as a nominee: the Hollywood industry magazine Variety refused to run an advertisement for a film with that title, and thus American distributor Strand Releasing asked for a new title to be chosen.

According to Lobo, the organisation was expected to adopt a co-ordinated position on the issue, but El Salvador, the nation presiding over the summit, refused to include the matter on the official agenda, insisting that discussion should retain a regional focus.

According to a very different account by an ancient grammarian, Herodotus refused to begin reading his work at the festival of Olympia until some clouds offered him a bit of shade, by which time however the assembly had dispersed-thus the proverbial expression " Herodotus and his shade " to describe any man who misses his opportunity through delay.

According to William of Tyre, writing in the later 12th century when Godfrey had become a legendary hero, he refused to wear " a crown of gold " where Christ had worn " a crown of thorns ".

According to his " Secretum ", she refused him for the very proper reason that she was already married to another man.

According to the legend, the Gauls offered to deliver Rome back to its people for a thousand pounds of gold, but the Romans refused, preferring to take back their city by force of arms rather than ever admitting defeat, after which the Romans recovered the city in the same year.

According to Foster " when he duly asked Maud to marry him, and was duly refused, his thoughts shifted with surprising speed to her daughter.

According to a Bushmen story ; when the Creator assigned each animal their place in nature, the hippos wanted to live in the water, but were refused out of fear that they might eat all the fish.

According to legend, when required to kiss the foot of King Charles, as a condition of the treaty, he refused to perform so great a humiliation, and when Charles extended his foot to Rollo, Rollo ordered one of his warriors to do so in his place.

According to the Haarlem archives, a militia piece that Hals started in Amsterdam was finished by another painter because Hals refused to paint in Amsterdam, insisting that the militiamen come to Haarlem to sit for their portraits.

According to historian Eric Foner, Andrew Johnson's conservative view of Reconstruction did not include blacks or former slaves involvement in government and he refused to heed Northern concerns when southern state legislatures implemented Black Codes that lowered the status of the freedmen similar to slavery.

According to Schechter, the qigong society under which Li and other qigong masters belonged asked Li to hike his tuition, but again Li refused, and emphasised the need for the teachings to be free of charge.

According to Rep. Maxine Waters D-California, Mildred Aristide called her at her home at 6: 30 am to inform her " the coup d ' etat has been completed ", and Jean-Bertrand Aristide said the US Embassy in Haiti's chief of staff came to his house to say he would be killed " and a lot of Haitians would be killed " if he refused to resign immediately and said he " has to go now.

According to early Buddhist scripture, the Buddha refused to answer certain questions regarding metaphysical propositions, known as the fourteen unanswerable questions ( the Pali Canon only gives ten ).

According to Kramer, he and Rose intentionally structured the film to debunk ethnic stereotypes ; the young doctor, a typical role for the young Sidney Poitier, was purposely created idealistically perfect, so that the only possible objection to his marrying Joanna would be his race, or the fact she had only known him for ten days: the character has thus graduated from a top school, begun innovative medical initiatives in Africa, refused to have premarital sex with his fiancée despite her willingness, and leaves money in an open container on his future father-in-law's desk in payment for a long distance phone call he has made.

According to a family story, Boone purchased land near Pensacola, but Rebecca refused to move so far away from her friends and family.

According to tradition, he discovered icons concealed among Irene's possessions and refused to share the marriage bed with her thereafter.

According to Brooks, after the film was completed, Embassy executives refused to release it as being in " bad taste "; however, Peter Sellers saw the film privately and placed an advertisement in Variety in support of the film's wider release.

According to another story, he was taken prisoner in a war between the Spartans and Cnossians, and put to death by his captors, because he refused to prophesy favourably for them.

According to James Henry Reynolds only four defenders were killed in the hospital: one was a member of the Natal Native Contingent with a broken leg ; Sgt Maxfield and Private Jenkins who were ill with fever and refused to be moved ; and a Private Adams who also refused to move.