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 the EPLF was poised to drive the Ethiopians out of Eritrea.

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 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 then, the Texas Playboys were virtually two bands: one a fiddle-guitar-steel band with rhythm section and the second a first-rate big band able to play the day's swing and pop hits as well as Dixieland.

By running DNA through an EtBr-treated gel and visualizing it with UV light, any band containing more than ~ 20 ng DNA becomes distinctly visible.

By 1968 Parsons had come to the attention of The Byrds ' bassist, Chris Hillman, via Larry Spector ( The Byrds ' business manager ), as a possible replacement band member following the departures of David Crosby and Michael Clarke from the group in late 1967.

* In 2003, Danish rock band Blindstone recorded a song titled " By Grabthar's Hammer " for their album Manifesto.

He released Come By Me, his first album of big band music in eight years in 1999, and embarked on a world tour visiting the United States, Europe, Japan and Australia.

In the early 1980s, Jarmusch was part of a revolving lineup of musicians in Robin Crutchfield's Dark Day project, and later became the keyboardist and one of two vocalists for The Del-Byzanteens, a No Wave band whose sole LP Lies to Live By was a minor underground hit in the United States and Britain in 1982.

By 1971, Friedman had formed his second band, Kinky Friedman and The Texas Jewboys, which many took to be a play on the name of the famous band Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys.

By 1890 most of the Coyote band rejoined the Quakers on their reservation.

By early 1986, the band was defunct and Hay was working on his first solo album, Looking for Jack, which would feature participation from Alsop and Wackerman.

By the 1930s, talkies brought in a range of powerful new draws: Miriam Hopkins, Marlene Dietrich, Mae West, Gary Cooper, Claudette Colbert, the Marx Brothers, Dorothy Lamour, Carole Lombard, Bing Crosby, the band leader Shep Fields and the famous Argentine tango singer Carlos Gardel among them.

By Bossanova, the band had developed a severe aversion to recording music videos, and Francis refused to lip-sync to them.

Following quickly on the heels of Fly By Night, the band released Caress of Steel ( 1975 ), a five-track hard rock / heavy metal album featuring two extended multi-chapter songs, " The Necromancer " and " The Fountain of Lamneth.

By the early 15th century at the latest, Robin Hood had become associated with May Day celebrations, with revellers dressing as Robin or as members of his band for the festivities.

By the late 1950s, the contest exchange was expanded to include band used.

By 1931, the band theory of conduction had been established by Alan Wilson and the concept of band gaps had been developed.

By 2001, the flat band slingshot had disappeared from commercial production in favour of the tubular band.

By 1965, while attending Hilltop High School within the Sweetwater Union High School District, Chula Vista, Waits was playing in an R & B / soul band called The Systems and had begun his first job at Napoleone Pizza House in National City ( about which he would later sing on " I Can't Wait to Get Off Work ( And See My Baby on Montgomery Avenue )" from Small Change and " The Ghosts of Saturday Night ( After Hours at Napoleone's Pizza House )" on The Heart of Saturday Night ).

By the time the band broke up, all of us had had enough.

By this stage in their career, the band were acutely aware of the pressure they were under from EMI, who were unhappy with the lack of chart success of much of the material the band had released since their Positive Touch LP in 1981.