Among other things, it printed mass paperback books under contract, was the primary manufacturer and distributor of the board games Trivial Pursuit and Pictionary, plus other table-top games.

Although the term ' blockbuster ' was originally defined by audience response, after a while the term came to mean a high-budget production aimed at mass markets, with associated merchandising, on which the financial fortunes of film studio or distributor depended.

The reviewers at the Washington Post were unimpressed: Rita Kempley called the film " dumber-than-a-bowling-ball " and questioned its mass appeal ; Desson Howe noted that distributor Warner Bros. had made it a " pre-processed legend " regardless of merit.

After the February revolution, real political power shifted to the street level in the form of mass meetings, strike organizations, and the street councils formed by workers and soldiers, and to active organizations of the employers, all of which served to undermine the authority of the state.

With Conté as president, the CMRN set about dismantling Touré's oppressive regime, abolishing the authoritarian constitution, dissolving the sole political party and its mass youth and women's organizations, and announcing the establishment of the Second Republic.

It has been criticized numerous times by religious organizations for its diabolic undertones and was dubbed a " mass murder simulator " by critic and Killology Research Group founder David Grossman.

* Active participation in the work of international organizations, UN and its specialized agencies, WTO – and at the regional level – OSCE, Council of Europe against global threats: terrorism, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, global warming, organized crime, damages to the environment, economic and social issues, disrespect for human rights etc.

The organizations that control these technologies, such as television stations or publishing companies, are also known as the mass media.

All parties and mass organizations joined the Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland, ostensibly a popular front but in reality dominated by the Communists.

Opposition groups, however, said that the FSLN domination of government organs, mass organizations groups, and much of the media created a climate of intimidation that precluded a truly open election .".

Film was the first universal mass medium in that it could simultaneously influence viewers as individuals and members of a crowd, which led to it quickly becoming a tool for governments and non-state organizations to project a desired ideological message.

The preponderance of power also remained with the Sandinistas through their mass organizations, including the Sandinista Workers ' Federation (), the Luisa Amanda Espinoza Nicaraguan Women's Association (), the National Union of Farmers and Ranchers (), and most importantly the Sandinista Defense Committees ( CDS ).

The Sandinista controlled mass organizations were extremely influential over civil society and saw their power and popularity peak in the mid-1980s.

The inclusion of the mass organizations in the Council of State clearly manifested this conception.

As the membership of a communist party was to be limited to active cadres, there was a need for networks of separate organizations to mobilize mass support for the party.

Traditionally these mass organizations were politically subordinated to the political leadership of the party.

However, in many contemporary cases mass organizations founded by communists have acquired a certain degree of independence.

In some cases mass organizations have outlived the communist parties in question.

At the international level, the Communist International organized various international front organizations ( linking national mass organizations with each other ), such as the Young Communist International, Profintern, Krestintern, International Red Aid, Sportintern, etc ..

The Daughters of Bilitis was the counterpart lesbian organization to the Mattachine Society, and the two organizations worked together on some campaigns, although their approaches to visibility in the mass media differed considerably.

The CDRs, which were formed as popular mass organizations, deteriorated in some areas into gangs of armed thugs and clashed with several trade unions.

There were delegates from the NLF, the Alliance of National, Democratic and Peace Forces, the People's Revolutionary Party ( South Vietnamese communist party ), and " the usual assortment of mass organizations, ethnic groups, and geopolitical regions.

However, this was never achieved and his main intention was to create the broad-based political alliances necessary for the PRI's long-term survival, splitting the party into mass organizations representing different interest groups and acting as the political consciousness of the country in a more realistic level ( for example, the Confidential National, the farmer's group ).

Elsewhere, the Constitution provides for a renewed and vital role for the groups that make up that basic alliance — the CPPCC, democratic parties, and mass organizations.

Through organizations like New York State's American Labor Party, they helped move the mass vote held by the Socialist Party in places like New York City, Bridgeport, Connecticut, and Reading, Pennsylvania into the Democratic Party.

After a black hole has formed it can continue to grow by absorbing mass from its surroundings.

The exodus generated demands within East Germany for political change, and mass demonstrations in several cities continued to grow.

This is how characters like the Hulk can grow and shrink with no visible absorption of mass.

In selling the product, Metcalfe argued that customers needed Ethernet cards to grow above a certain critical mass if they were to reap the benefits of their network.

This happens because the ocean primary producers are tiny phytoplankton which grow and reproduce rapidly, so a small mass can have a fast rate of primary production.

The seed would allow Chinese peasants to grow consumer products right out of the ground, which would put an end to the increasing material hardship ( one character reports that the interior water table has emptied out, forcing the mass abandonment of Han girls that later form the Mouse Army ) that cripples Chinese society.

Hitler, with an eye always to helping the party to grow through propaganda, convinced the leadership committee to invest in an advertisement in the Münchener Beobachter ( later renamed the Völkischer Beobachter ) for a mass meeting in the Hofbräuhaus, to be held on 16 October 1919.

Condensation of mass causes the mode of an aerosol number / size distribution to grow to larger diameters.

The fig is a false fruit or multiple fruit, in which the flowers and seeds grow together to form a single mass.

Throughout the 19th century, the country's climate continued to grow worse, resulting in mass emigration to the New World, particularly Manitoba in Canada.

If there are enough immediate decays to carry on the chain reaction, the mass is said to be prompt critical, and the energy release will grow rapidly and uncontrollably, usually leading to an explosion.

The soils were selected to have enough carbon to provide for the plants of the ecosystems to grow from infancy to maturity, a plant mass increase of perhaps 20 tons ( 18, 000 kg ).

The exodus generated demands within East Germany for political change, and mass demonstrations ( Monday demonstrations ) with eventually hundreds of thousands of people in several cities — particularly in Leipzig — continued to grow.

For two thousand years, Sant Antoni was a small fishing village that rose from the roman natural harbor Portus Magnus, but it began to grow in the late 1950s when many hotels and tourist resorts were built as part of a mass tourism initiative which took place across Spain.

This is possible because small yeast cells grow slower, that is, their added total mass per unit time is smaller than that of normal cells.

The subhymenium consists of the supportive hyphae from which the cells of the hymenium grow, beneath which is the hymenophoral trama, the hyphae that make up the mass of the hymenophore.

The notion of " large " amounts of data is of course highly dependent on the time frame and the market segment, as mass storage device capacity has increased by many orders of magnitude since the beginnings of computer technology in the late 1940s and continues to grow ; however, in any time frame, common mass storage devices have tended to be much larger and at the same time much slower than common realizations of the contemporaneous primary storage technology.

Lythrum salicaria is a herbaceous perennial plant, that can grow 1-1. 5 m tall, forming clonal colonies 1. 5 m or more in width with numerous erect stems growing from a single woody root mass.

A cell is unable to grow to an abnormally large size because at a certain cell size or cell mass, the S phase is initiated.

Also the " imaginary mass " really means that the system is unstable and that solutions will grow exponentially, but not superluminally ( there is no violation of causality ).

It may grow to a length of and a mass of, and bears a conspicuous pair of claws.

Silver carp can grow to 45 kg ( 100 lb ) in mass.

Able to grow or shrink his size and mass at will.