By far the largest regional market was the Middle East, to which Brazil sold approximately 50 % of its arms from 1977 through 1988.

By 1977, in its first edition, Disk / Trend, a leading hard disk drive industry marketing consultancy segmented the industry according to MBs ( decimal sense ) of capacity.

By 1977, the Fairchild Channel F had sold 250, 000 units and was second-place behind the VCS.

By the publication of the 1977 game editions, combat was mostly resolved verbally.

By 1977 there were 15 to 20 Greenpeace groups around the world.

By 1977 there were one million unemployed people under age 24.

By 1977, Brown was no longer a dominant force in R & B.

* 1977 – Benjamin Clapp, American drummer ( Baptized By Fire, Skeleton Key, and Amfibian )

By 1977, a second wave of the punk rock movement was breaking in the three countries where it had emerged, as well as in many other places.

By the end of 1977, according to music historian Clinton Heylin, they were " England's arch-exponents of New Musick, and the true heralds of what came next.

By 1977 China had joined Intelsat and, using ground stations in Beijing and Shanghai, had linked up with satellites over the Indian and Pacific oceans.

By most accounts, Coca-Cola was India's leading soft drink until 1977 when it left India after a new government ordered The Coca-Cola Company to turn over its secret formula for Coke and dilute its stake in its Indian unit as required by the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act ( FERA ).

By September 1977, Somalia controlled 90 % of the Ogaden and captured strategic cities such as Jijiga and put heavy pressure on Dire Dawa, threatening the train route from the latter city to Djibouti.

By 1977, it had appeared in an additional 18 languages.

By 1977 the band were performing their own three-chord pop punk material, which was performed alongside cover versions at concerts, primarily at The Casbah, where the band began to perform in February.

By the summer of that year the concerts the Undertones performed would include the song " Teenage Kicks ", which had been written by guitarist John O ' Neill in the summer of 1977.

By 1977, the American Bicycle Association ( ABA ) was organized as a national sanctioning body for the growing sport.

By 1977 their North American tour featured full-scale Laserium effects.

By 1977, the company was selling a heat-resistant duct tape for heating ducts.

By 1977 boron fiber technology had been muscled out by the cheaper material of graphite and was no longer competitive in the market.

By 1977, the introduction of the second generation, known as home computers, made microcomputers considerably easier to use than their predecessors because their predecessors ' operation often demanded thorough familiarity with practical electronics.

By around 1977, most pinball machines in production switched to using solid state electronics for both operation and scoring.

By 1977, ABC had become the nation's highest-rated network.

By May 1977 twenty-seven items of merchandise had been proposed for release by companies including Palitoy, Letraset and Airfix.

By the late 1970s, the EPLF had become the dominant armed Eritrean group fighting against the Ethiopian Government, and Isaias Afewerki had emerged as its leader.

By this time there was a political struggle within the fight for independence between the predominately Christian EPLF and the mainly Muslim ELF.

By failing to do as he was told instantly -- to take out a permit or return the gun to his car -- he had played into Lord's hands.

By now Curt was seeing clearly again.

By her eighteenth birthday her bent for writing was so evident that Papa and Mamma gave her a Life Of Dickens as a spur to her aspiration.

By now she was sure she was going to have a baby, deciding it would be born in India or Burma that November.

By this time she had learned that it was futile to argue with her young husband, yet the uncomfortable fact remained: the American Congregationalists were sending them as missionaries to the Far East and paying their salaries.

By now he was undergoing a fresh torrent of abuse from Tory papers and pamphlets, and action was being taken to effect his punishment by expulsion from Parliament.

By this time word had got around that an American doctor was on the premises.

By our policy the West was -- is -- split.

By the time he was under the covers he had forgotten about seeing Kate.

By the time he was prosperous enough -- his goals were high -- he was bald and afraid of women.

By late afternoon the train inched into the marshaling yards in the railhead at Lublin, which was filled with lines of cars poised to pour the tools of war to the Russian front.

By odd coincidence, on the evening of her return Shelley chose to read Parisina, which was the latest of the titled poet's successes.

By the time the film was released we were three million dollars over-spent, war was imminent and the public apparently had forgotten all about Mother Cabrini.

By this method it was determined that the normal pressure exerted by a sample of polybutene ( molecular weight reported to be 770 ) was over half an atmosphere.

By comparing reaction cells sealed from the same manifold temperature dependency corresponding to activation energies ranging from 11 to 18 Af was observed while dependence on the first power of the light intensity seemed to be indicated in most cases.

By Nov. 8, 1958, weakness, specifically involving the pelvic and thigh musculature, was pronounced, and a common complaint was `` difficulty in stepping up on to curbs ''.

Serum potassium at this time was 3.8 mEq. per liter, and the hemoglobin was 13.9 gm. By Dec. 1, 1958, the weakness in the pelvic and quadriceps muscle groups was appreciably worse, and it became difficult for the patient to rise unaided from a sitting or reclining position.