Before the 2001 season began there was already question if Las Vegas could support a professional team due to past failed attempts with: Las Vegas Americans ( Soccer 1984-85 ), Las Vegas Dustdevils ( Soccer-CISL-1994-1995 ), Las Vegas Posse ( Football-CFL-1994 ) Las Vegas Quicksilvers ( Soccer-NASL-1976-1978 ), Las Vegas Seagulls ( Soccer-ASL-1979 ), Las Vegas Sting ( Football-Arena Football League-1994-1995 ) and Las Vegas Thunder ( IHL-1993-1999 ) The Outlaws were sponsored by Cox Communications, New York-New York Hotel & Casino, Station Casinos, PacifiCare Health Systems and Findlay Toyota.

Before 1949, it was one of China's " Big Four " national banks, along with the Bank of China, Bank of Communications, and Farmers Bank of China.

In March 2005, the United States Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) made 8-1-1 the universal number for the 71 regional services that coordinate location services for underground public utilities in the U. S. Before that time, each of these " call before you dig " services had its own 800 number, and the FCC and others wanted to make it as easy as possible for everyone planning an excavation to call first.

Before ceasing operations, Nationwide Communications was the 16th largest radio group in the United States and operated 17 stations in 8 different markets.

Before the public meeting, Thigpenn had already contacted the Broadcast Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) to discover that two analog television frequencies ( channels 30 and 47 ) were available for broadcast in Jacksonville.

Before taking the helm of NBC in 1986, Wright was president of GE Financial Services, and before that, president of Cox Cable Communications.

Before the Rogers acquisition, the wireless business was known as Cantel Communications and Cantel AT & T.

Before Apple, Hyatt worked at Netscape Communications from 1997 to 2002 where he contributed to the Mozilla web browser.

The Go-Betweens returned to UK and recorded their second album, Before Hollywood ( May 1983 ), with John Brand producing, at the International Christian Communications studio in Eastbourne.

Before the centre opened, however, Williams sold Cable Atlantic to Rogers Communications in order to pursue politics, but retained the naming rights.

Before joining Citi, Lisa was Vice President of Global Communications and Synergy for Disney Publishing Worldwide from 1998-1999.

Before taking her position at The Spectator in 1996, she was the Communications and Marketing Director for Condé Nast Publications in the UK.

Before the channel's launch, Maclean-Hunter had been purchased by Rogers Communications.

Before then, KLRN had served both cities from the Jesse H. Jones Communications Center on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin.

Before joining Hancock, Mr. Budd was President-New England at Bell Atlantic Corporation ( now Verizon Communications, Inc .), where, among other duties, he was responsible for regulatory and legislative functions for the New England Region.

Before their sale to Community Newspaper Company in 1993, the T & G also owned the Hudson Sun and Marlboro Enterprise daily newspapers and Beacon Communications Corporation weekly newspapers in western Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

Before the Draft Act was passed Baker had confidentially briefed governors, sheriffs, and prospective draft board members on the administration of the measure -- and the confidence was kept so well that only one newspaper learned what was going on.

Before the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act was passed in the wake of the September 11 attacks, the FBI director would directly brief the President of the United States on any issues that arise from within the FBI.

Before the Act was passed, on February 8, 1914 The New York Times published an article entitled " Negro Cocaine ' Fiends ' Are New Southern Menace: Murder and Insanity Increasing Among Lower-Class Blacks " by Edward Huntington Williams which reported that Southern sheriffs had increased the caliber of their weapons from. 32 to. 38 to bring down Negroes under the effect of cocaine.

Before the Dodd-Frank Act made registration mandatory for hedge fund advisers with more than US $ 150 million in assets under management, hedge funds were primarily regulated through their managers or advisers, under the anti-fraud provisions of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.

Before Corea completed a draft of the Nicaragua proposal, Congress was considering the Spooner Act, to authorize the Panama Canal.

Before the Telecommunications Act of 1993, the parastatal, could dictate its own terms, but after 1993, Telia was told to negotiate with companies seeking interconnection.

Before the All-Channel Receiver Act of 1962 required US television receivers to be able to tune the entire VHF and UHF range ( which in North America was NTSC-M channels 2 through 83 on 54 to 890 MHz ), a set-top box known as a UHF converter would be installed at the receiver to shift a portion of the UHF-TV spectrum onto low-VHF channels for viewing.

Before the members of both houses returned home on 30 March, they were required to swear an oath accepting the Act of Succession, and all the King's subjects were now required to swear to the legitimacy of the marriage and, by implication, to acceptance of the King's new powers and the break from Rome.

Before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ( NRC ) was created, nuclear regulation was the responsibility of the AEC, which Congress first established in the Atomic Energy Act of 1946.

Before the 1871 Indian Appropriations Act

Before the Act was implemented he theorized that after a multitude of bankruptcies and mergers there would only be two or three major carriers and a very small number of medium and local service airlines.

Before the signing ceremony of the Sarbanes – Oxley Act, President George W. Bush met with Senator Paul Sarbanes, U. S. Secretary of Labor | Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao and other dignitaries in the Blue Room ( White House ) | Blue Room at the White House on July 30, 2002

Before the passing of the Homosexual Law Reform Act in 1986, the Salvation Army was active throughout the country gathering signatures for a petition seeking to prevent the bill's passing.

Before the unification of the Supreme Court under the Judicature Act 1873, solicitors practised in the Chancery Courts, attorneys practised in the Common law courts and proctors practised in the Ecclesiastical courts.

Before 1754, when Lord Hardwicke's Act came into force, it was possible for eloping couples to be married clandestinely by an ordained clergyman ( a favourite location was the Fleet Prison, a debtors ' prison in London, in which clergymen willing to celebrate irregular marriages might be found ).

Before he became leader of the Conservative Party, Disraeli had announced that, as a result of the Reform Act of 1867 which had enfranchised the male working class, the party needed to pursue social reforms if it was to have electoral success.

Before it was abolished in 1975 by the Local Government ( Scotland ) Act 1973, the county contained six burghs.

Before troops could be raised, the Militia Act of 1792 required a justice of the United States Supreme Court to certify that law enforcement was beyond the control of local authorities.

Before opening night, the third and fourth yeomen's couplets in the Act I finale – in which they remind " Leonard " of his brave deeds – were cut, though they remained in the vocal score until around the 1920s.

Before the Act, the scheme had been known as the Calder Navigation or Upper Calder Navigation, and this was the first use of the Calder and Hebble title.

Before the passing of an Enclosure Act 1817, the freemen of York, who were occupiers of houses within a division or ward of the city, called Monk Ward, were, together with certain other persons, entitled to common of pasture and right of stray or average, and had immemorially used and enjoyed the same, in and over a parcel of ground called Heworth Moor, of which G. A. Thweng, lord of the manor of Heworth, was then seised in fee ; another piece of land, called Heworth Grange, of which the king was then seised in fee ; and certain closes and other parcels of ground, called Hall Fields, of which E. Prest and others were then seised in fee.

Before the Evarts Act, the cases that could reach the Supreme Court were heard as a matter of right, meaning that the Court was required to issue a decision in each of those cases.

Before the 1972 Dolphins, only the Chicago Bears, in 1934

Before his emigration in autumn 1934, Adorno began work on a Singspiel based on Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer entitled The Treasure of Indian Joe, which he would, however, never complete ; by the time he fled Hitler's Germany Adorno had already written over a hundred opera or concert reviews and an additional fifty critiques of music composition.

Before he signed on with Paramount Pictures in 1934, he appeared on Broadway in Three's a Crowd ( 1930 – 31 ) and alongside Sydney Greenstreet and Bob Hope in Roberta ( 1933 – 34 ).

Before the Xi ' an incident, the Chinese Communist Party had established itself in Shaanxi province following being driven from Jiangxi and other regions in southern China in 1934.

Before the highway could be completed, Thomas McQuesten was appointed the new minister of the Department of Highways, with Robert Melville Smith as deputy minister, following the 1934 provincial elections.

Before World War II, the front wheel drive Citroen Traction Avant ( 1934 ) had independent front torsion bar suspension and a flexible trailing dead axle, also sprung by torsion bars.

Before its closing in 1934, it was one of the oldest institutions of higher education for women in the United States.

Before 1934, a front wheel drive version of Ford Model Y had been produced with an 8 hp engine under the marque Tracford.

Before being published as a book, it had been sold to the Saturday Evening Post, in which it appeared in serial form from December 23, 1933 to January 27, 1934, and in England in the Grand Magazine from April to September 1934.

* Before Disaster ( 1934 ) poems

Before 1934, SS personnel received no pay and their work was completely voluntarily.

A pioneer of the modem Urdu short story, Ali's works include collections of short stories: " Angare " ( Flames ), 1934 ; Hamari Gali ( Our Lane ), 1940 ; Qaid Khana ( The Prison-house ), 1942 ; and Maut Se Pehle ( Before Death ), 1945.

Before 1934, Route 107 was on the opposite side of the State.

Before the highway could be completed, Thomas McQuesten was appointed the new minister of the Department of Highways, with Robert Melville Smith as deputy minister, following the 1934 provincial elections.

Before 1934, Route 108 followed present-day Route 246 and Route 146A from Providence to Woonsocket, then along Park Avenue to end at Route 122.

Before beginning his Hollywood film career in 1934, he performed in Broadway theatre in the early-1930s.

Before that, from 1934 until 1942, the highest awards were the Coppa Mussolini ( Mussolini Cups ) for Best Italian Film and Best Foreign Film.

Before the first vehicle was even delivered, it was decided on 26 June 1934, as part of the " Plan 1934 " to improve both quantity and quality of French tank production, to change the specifications for an AMC: its armour had to be immune to anti-tank guns.