By the mid-1970s, they had become one of the biggest-selling acts in music.

By the mid-1970s, she slowed her musical activity and ceased acting to concentrate on being a wife and mother.

" By the mid-1970s ," according to The Continuum Political Encyclopedia of the Middle East, " the idea of Arab unity became less and less apparent in Arab politics, though it remained a wishful goal among the masses.

By the mid-1970s, stepped up economic development had raised traffic to capacity levels.

By the mid-1970s, however, the debate had moved on to other issues as monetarists began presenting a fundamental challenge to Keynesianism.

By the mid-1970s anti-nuclear activism had moved beyond local protests and politics to gain a wider appeal and influence.

By the mid-1970s, commercial television abandoned their experiments with creating better children's programming.

By 1971, the CTW hired Hispanic actors, production staff, and researchers, and by the mid-1970s, Morrow reported that " the show included Chicano and Puerto Rican cast members, films about Mexican holidays and foods, and cartoons that taught Spanish words ".

By the mid-1970s, auto manufacturers modified the system so that a warning buzzer would sound for several seconds before turning off ( with the warning light ), regardless of whether the car was started.

By the mid-1970s, the only people allowed to administer caning were the Head Master and the Lower Master.

By the mid-1970s, free improvisation was truly a worldwide phenomenon.

By the mid-1970s, the ABC owned AM and FM stations, and the ABC Radio Network were the most successful radio operations in America in terms of audience and profits.

By the mid-1970s, hobbyists were experimenting with handheld radios and unauthorized American CB radios.

By the mid-1970s several European countries were in the process of introducing videotex and teletext services.

By the mid-1970s, the city had approximately 170 residents.

By the mid-1970s, WLS became conservative about introducing new songs, and many record promoters referred to the station as the " World's Last Station " to add new releases for airplay, usually only after the songs had reached the top 10 on Billboard's Hot 100.

By the mid-1970s McIlwaine's songs " Sliding ", " We the People " and " Losing You " were included on the compilation album, The Guitar Album.

By the mid-1970s, Watt and Boon formed a band called The Reactionaries with drummer George Hurley and vocalist Martin Tamburovich.

By the mid-1970s, the only stations broadcasting in black-and-white were a few high-numbered UHF stations in small markets, and a handful of low-power repeater stations in even smaller markets such as vacation spots.

By the mid-1970s, practically every large electronics company had teams working on bubble memory.

By January 1990, talk of the waning of conservative power and a possible socialist government had given way to the realization that, like the Lockheed affair of the mid-1970s, the Recruit scandal did not signal a significant change in who ruled Japan.

By the mid-1970s, Macbride had relocated to Virginia and was no longer practicing law full time.

By the mid-1970s McCluskey had formed Equinox, as bassist and vocalist, alongside schoolmate Malcolm Holmes on drums, while Humphreys was their roadie.

By the mid-1970s, it had become clear that passenger numbers were no longer increasing.

By using fiberglass, the filmmakers made it look as if the Memorial had been reduced to rubble.

By 2003, Hollywood reacted against these unauthorized modifications, as it considered them to be a destruction of the filmmakers work, and a violation of the controls an author has over his or her works.

By the mid 1990s, Miramax had expanded to distribute the films of many notable independent-minded filmmakers like Quentin Tarantino and Woody Allen.

By the late 1960s, the movement represented by these filmmakers had matured, and some began to distance themselves from the countercultural, psychedelic connotations of the word, preferring terms like avant-garde or experimental to describe their work.

From the 1920s to the 1960s, filmmakers had a nostalgic interest in the 1890s, as can be seen in the films The Naughty Nineties, She Done Him Wrong, Belle of the Nineties, The Nifty Nineties, By the Light of the Silvery Moon, and Hello, Dolly!

By using the 2001 uniforms, rather than the period-accurate 1999 uniforms, the filmmakers were able to film second unit footage of an actual game between the Texas Rangers and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and intercut that footage with footage of the actors wearing the same uniforms.

By the late 1960s Héroux had become one of the most successful independent filmmakers with hits like 1968's Valérie and L ' Initiation in 1970.

By now the Production Code had been revised so that it served less as a doctrine of rules and more as a workable set of precautions, including those on sex and nudity, to which filmmakers were advised on the more graphic depictions and given exceptions that could be made.

By this time, the first generation of Dutch filmmakers who graduated from the Dutch Film Academy began to make a name for themselves.

By conceiving a timeless setting — " a vanished age " — and by carefully choosing names that resembled human history, Howard shrewdly avoided the problem of historical anachronisms and the need for lengthy exposition.

By doing so, the multi-billion dollar development cost of a new launch vehicle is avoided.

By demanding that high-frequency light must be emitted by an oscillator of equal frequency, and further requiring that this oscillator occupy higher energy than one of a lesser frequency, Planck avoided any catastrophe ; giving an equal partition to high-frequency oscillators produced successively fewer oscillators and less emitted light.

By remaining on the move, he cleverly avoided battles with large concentrations of heavy Frankish cavalry, while maximizing his advantages of mobility and the general climate of fear of Viking unpredictability.

By doing so he avoided the possibility that the New Zealand batsman, Brian McKechnie, would score a six from the last ball to tie the match, as the bat would not be able to hit the ball high enough to score a six.

By creating an index fund that mirrors the whole market the inefficiencies of stock selection are avoided.

By conforming to Soviet policy, Mao also appeased Stalin and avoided his further interference.

By funding projects under DFI the CPA avoided legal requirements to comply with US Federal Acquisition Regulations ( USFARS ) as required for the administration of IRRF and other US taxpayer provided funding.

By mediation of the Federal Tagsatzung, bloodshed in what was known as the First War of Kappel was barely avoided.

By spreading the load of these tasks across many computers, costs that would otherwise be spent on maintaining large computing clusters are avoided.

By October 1920 the local British commander Sir Aylmer Haldane managed to restore order but on 10 December Wilson minuted his agreement to an appraisal by the Director of Military Operations that “ we ran things too fine and that a great disaster was only narrowly avoided ”.

By the following January, Luton were battling against relegation to the Second Division and Harford was controversially sacked – the relegation battle was won by his successor Jim Ryan who remained in charge until the end of the following season, when he was sacked even though Luton had avoided relegation again.

By the 1st century AD, most elite women avoided breast-feeding their infants themselves, and hired wet-nurses.

By crossing the lake, the new railroad route avoided 43 miles of curvatures and grades.

By starting a cut with a dado and then raising the blade to leave a splitter tab of uncut wood, this type of kickback can be avoided, but raising the blade during a cut cannot be done unless anti-kickback hold downs are used, so it is safe to raise the blade with a free hand.

) By affording individual barristers a discretion to wear the forensic wig in court, the new rule defused what had become an increasingly bitter debate in the profession whether it was appropriate to cleave to anachronistic modes of dress-even as a traditional and undoubtedly recognizable uniform-and avoided a more drastic solution, such as the abandonment of wigs or gowns altogether.

By January 23, Haywood Patterson was convicted of rape but sentenced to 75 years — the first time in Alabama that a black man had avoided the death penalty in the rape of a white woman.

By going west across the Great Salt Lake from Ogden, Utah, to Lucin, Utah, the new railroad line shortened the distance by 43 miles and avoided curves and grades.

By going to the foreign Ministry in the later years of González administration he avoided the political scandals of corruption, and of the dirty war allegedly being fought against ETA, that characterised its last years.

By revealing the information when he did, he avoided a much bloodier war, and he cemented his reputation for prescience and as a man for peace.

By agreeing to settle the claims, the City avoided a trial on the allegations.

By making the mixer self oscillate, the necessity of providing a separate oscillator valve is avoided.

By 1839 he sold most of his property and avoided bankruptcy.

By 1871, though, 700, 000 head of cattle caused a market glut, which King avoided by personal negotiation in Abilene.