After losing a dismal 103 games in 1966, the Cubs brought home consecutive winning records in ' 67 and ' 68, marking the first time a Cub team had accomplished that feat in over two decades.

After a season-long series of dismal results under John Wyer in 1964, the program was handed over to Carroll Shelby after the 1964 Nassau race.

After dismal ratings in a Sunday night and a Thursday night time slot, CBS placed it on hiatus and was ready to cancel the show, but a viewer campaign saved the show and returned it to its Monday night slot.

After a dismal ' 85 campaign, the Stars returned to their winning ways posting an 80 – 62 record and winning the second half of the Southern Division.

After this dismal first season, Parcells made Simms the starter again.

After several dismal failures in tragic parts, some of them in support of Mrs Siddons, he discovered accidentally that his forte was comedy, especially in the personation of old men and country boys, in which he displayed a fund of drollery and broad humour.

After a dismal result for Meretz in 2009 elections, Meretz leader Haim Oron announced, " Based on the energies which I saw today as well, and the forces existing within us, we must overcome the difficult feeling we are experiencing this evening.

After leading Seattle to a dismal 20-38 mark to end the 1980 season, Wills was fired on May 6, 1981 with the M's deep in last place at 6-18 ( giving him a career mark of 26-56, one of the worst records ever for a non-interim big-league manager ).

After the Nova Scotia Liberal Party's dismal performance in the 2006 election ( and failing to win his own seat ), leader Francis MacKenzie announced his resignation.

After the 1985-1986 season proved to be a disappointment with critics, in the ratings, and with Brandon Tartikoff ( who was planning to have SNL canceled by the last episode of season 11 due to its sliding ratings ), Michaels fired most of the cast and writers, retained the cast and writers who were standouts during the otherwise dismal season ( Smigel being one of them ), and hired new ones for the 1986-1987 season.

After leading the Jets to a dismal 1 – 7 start, coach Eric Mangini decided to bench Pennington for second year quarterback Kellen Clemens.

After the lockout, Sullivan and the Bruins struggled to win in the new NHL, as they ended the 2005-2006 seaon with a dismal 29-37-16 record, missing the playoffs and finishing last in the Northeast Division.

After a dismal season with an 11-29 record and less than a thousand fans per game, Schoenstadt moved the franchise again, this time to Kemper Arena, where the team flourished as the Kansas City Comets.

After a dismal season, the Canadiens fired him.

After a season off from coaching, he again became coach of the SuperSonics when he replaced Bob Hopkins who was fired 22 games into the 1977 – 1978 season after a dismal 5-17 start.

After that time, its electoral performances were dismal, as it was reduced to a rump of two seats in the 1951 election, three seats in the 1955 election, and five seats in the 1959 election.

After yet another dismal offensive performance, Mariucci declared that Garcia would remain the starter.

" After much controversy and dismal ratings he resigned in July 1989, two months before the end of his contract, and was replaced by the Mike and the Mad Dog program.

After dismal results with the GT40's in their first two years, mainly dealing with reliability due to mechanical failure, the Ford GT40 program was handed over to Holman Moody and Carroll Shelby to compete against Ferrari, with the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans victory being the most famous, as well as 1967.

After getting off to a dismal 2007 campaign, Víctor Fernández was sacked after a 2-2 draw with Real Mallorca.

After dismal stock performance following the 1987 Stock Market Crash, Johnson decided to put the company in play.

After five dismal weeks in the Nielsens, ABC had a rapid loss of faith in I Love Saturday Night ; on Saturday, February 29th, the branding concept was used for the last time.

The band continued touring until the end of 2005, and Jorge González had relocated to Mexico, D. F .. After a dismal tour in early 2006 ( of dates which the band were in contract to perform ) the band announced on their official website that the band would be over in March 2006.

After two seasons of dismal attendance in San Jose, the team was sold and moved to Ogden, Utah, for the 1979 season.

After a brief spell of Burgundian rule, Luxembourg fell into the hands of the Habsburgs in 1477.

After winning the division again in 1970, the team entered an eight-year dry spell, finishing around the. 500 mark.

After a brief spell as Budapesterstraße in the late 1920s ( although this name was not widely recognised ), on 6 February 1930 it was renamed Ebertstraße after Friedrich Ebert ( 1871 – 1925 ), first President of Weimar Germany.

After serving a short spell in 1478 as Archdeacon of Leicester he was appointed Bishop of Ely by King Edward on 8 August 1479 and he was consecrated on 31 January 1479.

After a short spell with Bruce Hughes, Lowery and Hickman added Bob Rupe, formerly of The Silos, as bass guiatrist and Charlie Quintana ( Bob Dylan, The JuJu Hounds ) on drums.

After a spell in Dublin he returned to London in 1702 for a revival of The Island Princess and a new production of Macbeth billed as " with music Vocal and Instrumental, all new Composed by Mr Leveridge ".

After a further spell of working in Fife ( during which time he had access to a library of botanical and zoological books ) he moved to the Botanical Gardens of Glasgow University and attended botany lectures at the University of Glasgow.

After a spell at a private school at Sunbury, he followed his father and two older brothers to Winchester College, where he remained for three years.

" After a demon's spell makes them express their emotions in song, and Buffy sings " I want the fire back ", Buffy and Spike begin a physical relationship, consummated two episodes later.

After a spell as an apprentice mason, Jacobsen was admitted to the Architecture School at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts where from 1924 to 1927 he studied under Kay Fisker and Kaj Gottlob, both leading architects and designers.

After teenage years spent in flowery shirts and a short spell at Westminster School while living in Hampstead, he graduated from Exeter College, Oxford with a " Congratulatory " First in English — " the sort where you are called in for a viva and the examiners tell you how much they enjoyed reading your papers.

After a disastrous spell at stockbroking with Buckmaster and Moore, in 1931, 25-year-old Pakenham joined the Conservative Research Department where he developed Education policy for the Conservative Party.

After a short spell working in Leeds ( 1844-5 ) he was for four years one of the Resident Engineers on the Stockton and Darlington, leaving in 1849 to become manager and engineer of the Edinburgh and Northern Railway, one of the precursors of the North British Railway.

After a spell living elsewhere, he returned to the village in the early 1990s.

After a short spell of military service in Quebec, he returned to England and devoted the remainder of his long life to the more peaceful pursuits of astronomy, terrestrial magnetism and physical geography.

After retiring from playing, he spent some time as a coach, including a spell as manager of East Stirlingshire, but later left the game completely.

After she apologizes to Kenny, the spell is instantly broken and she becomes regular size again.

After a long spell in the country's second tier of league football, ADO Den Haag played four seasons in the Eredivisie then were relegated again in the 2006 – 07 season.

After a quiet spell, the group's 12th studio album ( and first without Tim Hart ) Back in Line was released on the Flutterby label in 1986.

After gaining his MD from Cambridge in 1569, and a short spell as bursar of St John's College, he left to practice medicine in London and travelled on the continent.

After a spell without a contract, the band released a new EP titled Tip of The Iceberg ( 2008 ), which paid homage to their melodic hardcore influences.

After a spell with Radio Luxembourg, Young joined the BBC as one of the first disc jockeys on BBC Radio 1, presenting the weekday mid-morning show from 1967 to 1973 and because of his popularity soon became known as the ' Housewives ' Choice '.

After a brief spell under Gaulish rule, it was taken over by Romans in the 3rd century BC.

After a brief spell touring with Paul Young's Q Tips they began performing on a regular basis with Elvis Costello.

After being hand-picked for the first post-war staff course at Camberley, and a spell at Sandhurst, he returned to his own regiment.