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Chandler and decided
Chandler had been commissioned in the Medical Service Corps and was serving as a personnel officer for the Kansas City Medical Depot when he decided that if he was going to make the Army his career, he wanted to be in the fighting part of it.
( They had originally thought that there were two boys and one girl, but decided to keep the name Chandler, despite the baby turning out a girl.
In 2000, when Daniel Amos was recording its Mr. Buechner's Dream album, Chandler and a few friends decided to make a documentary of the making of the album.
Chandler decided not to renew the band's contract with Polydor Records, instead signing them to his own record label Barn Records.
Baseball owners who had been afraid that their players would be made eligible for the draft during the war had decided that their new commissioner needed to have the skills and influence to represent baseball's interests in Washington, D. C. As a senator, Chandler had advocated on behalf of baseball during the war, endearing him to the owners.
Originally IJE licensed these titles to ShareData of Chandler, Arizona ; however, when IJE saw ShareData's success with the titles, IJE decided to publish the titles themselves, resulting in the founding of GameTek.
Writers like Dashiell Hammett ( 1894 – 1961 ), Raymond Chandler ( 1888 – 1959 ), Jonathan Latimer ( 1906 – 1983 ), Mickey Spillane ( 1918 – 2006 ), and many others decided on an altogether different, innovative approach to crime fiction.
Her character simply decided to take her daughter to live out of reach from her controlling ex-husband Adam Chandler, played by David Canary.
After finishing 15-67 during the 2000-2001 season, Krause decided to gamble and trade away his best player in Brand for high schooler Tyson Chandler who was hyped as " the next Kevin Garnett ", and draft another high schooler in Eddy Curry who, similarly, was hyped as a slightly smaller version of Shaquille O ' Neal, with the fourth overall pick in the draft.
After a number of years on the road, Chandler decided to become more involved with production of music.
During the brief offseason owner Mark Cuban decided to maintain financial flexibility by letting key contributors Tyson Chandler, DeShawn Stevenson, J. J. Barea and Caron Butler go.

Chandler and test
The season ends during Monica and Chandler ’ s wedding where Phoebe and Rachel find a positive pregnancy test in the bathroom.
Chandler drove Bigfoot over a pair of cars in a field as a test of the truck's ability, and filmed it to use as a promotional tool in his four wheel drive performance shop.
He first drew attention in 1995, when he and teammate Dean Chandler failed a drugs test for cannabis use.
According to Daniel Chandler, the commutation test may involve any of four basic transformations which, to a greater or lesser extent, involve modification of the syntagm:
In order to obtain the blade, Chandler has to pass a test: an obstacle course in a bottomless cavern whilst carrying a glass of water without spilling a drop.
On this date, Chandler gave the first test run of " Bigfoot " at a field near St. Louis, Missouri, and rolled it over abandoned cars.

Chandler and theory
" In management theory, the Chandler definition is typical: "... the determination of the basic long-term goals and objectives of an enterprise, and the adoption of courses of action and the allocation of resources necessary for carrying out these goals ".
Hugh Storer Chandler has challenged the theory based on modal ideas of what might exist in different worlds.
Chandler argues, " different genres — even different programmes — contribute to the shaping of different realities, but cultivation analysis assumes too much homogeneity in television programmes " This point is addressed by Horace Newcomb ( 1978 ) who argues that violence is not presented as uniformly on television as the theory assumes ; therefore, television cannot be responsible for cultivating the same sense of reality for all viewers.
Chandler maintains, “ Cultivation theory focuses on the amount of television viewing or ' exposure ', and does not allow for differences in the ways in which viewers interpret television realities .” This interpretation can vary from innocent viewing to getting ideas for carrying out an act of violence.

Chandler and on
It didn't take Captain Chandler long to realize that he had to carry a heavy load of tradition on his shoulders as commander of Troop Aj.
So Mel Chandler set out to sell him on the spirit of Garryowen, just as he himself had been sold a short time before.
One night on the Naktong River, Mel Chandler called on that fabled esprit de corps.
So filled was Mel Chandler with the spirit of Garryowen that after Korea was over, he took on the job of writing the complete history of the regiment.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Bolker will give a dinner on Friday at their home in Beverly Hills to honor Mrs. Norman Chandler, chairman of the Music Center Building Fund Committee, and Mr. Chandler.
Whenever New England liberalism is reminded of the dramatic confrontation of Parker and the fraternity on January 23, 1843 -- while it may defend the privilege of Chandler Robbins to demand that Parker leave the Association, while it may plead that Dr. N. L. Frothingham had every warrant for stating, `` The difference between Trinitarians and Unitarians is a difference in Christianity ; ;
The success of his children's books was to become a source of considerable annoyance to Milne, whose self-avowed aim was to write whatever he pleased and who had, until then, found a ready audience for each change of direction: he had freed pre-war Punch from its ponderous facetiousness ; he had made a considerable reputation as a playwright ( like his idol J. M. Barrie ) on both sides of the Atlantic ; he had produced a witty piece of detective writing in The Red House Mystery ( although this was severely criticised by Raymond Chandler for the implausibility of its plot ).
His PI, Dan Fortune, was consistently involved in the same sort of David-and-Goliath stories that Hammett, Chandler, and Macdonald wrote, but Collins took a sociological bent, exploring the meaning of his characters ' places in society and the impact society had on people.
Arden's character clashed with the school's principal, Osgood Conklin ( played by Gale Gordon ), and nursed an unrequited crush on fellow teacher Philip Boynton ( played originally by future film star Jeff Chandler and, on television, by Robert Rockwell ).
Except for Chandler, the entire radio cast of Arden, Gordon, Richard Crenna ( Walter Denton ), Gloria McMillan ( Harriet Conklin ), and Jane Morgan ( landlady Margaret Davis ) played the same roles on television.
Where Chandler, like Hammett, centered most of his novels and stories on the character of the private eye, Cain featured less heroic protagonists and focused more on psychological exposition than on crime solving ; the Cain approach has come to be identified with a subset of the hardboiled genre dubbed " noir fiction ".
Joey dates Kathy ( Paget Brewster ) a girl that Chandler has a crush on.
Hawks re-teamed with the newlyweds in 1946 with The Big Sleep, based on the Philip Marlowe detective novel by Raymond Chandler.
Just months after wrapping the film, Bogart and Bacall were reunited for their second movie together, the film noir The Big Sleep, based on the novel by Raymond Chandler, again with script help from William Faulkner.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton, in The Attache: Second Series, published in 1844, reminisced about boys from King's College School in Windsor, Nova Scotia, playing " hurly on the long pond on the ice " when he was a student there, no later than 1810.
According to the historian David P. Chandler, the leftist Issarak groups, aided by the Viet Minh, occupied a sixth of Cambodia's territory by 1952 ; and, on the eve of the Geneva Conference, they controlled as much as one half of the country.
The Packers increased their lead to 26 – 7 on their next drive after Chandler kicked his fourth field goal.
But Denver linebacker Bill Romanowski sacked quarterback Chris Chandler for a 7-yard loss on third down, forcing Atlanta to settle for Morten Andersen's 32-yard field goal to give them a 3-0 lead.
Chandler responded on the next 2 plays with a 29-yard completion to receiver Tony Martin and a 12-yard scramble to advance the ball to the Denver 41-yard line.

Chandler and truck
* Director Hal Needham appears uncredited as a Porsche 928 driver in a cowboy hat, whose car is crushed flat in the movie by the monster truck, Bigfoot ( Driven by owner / creator Bob Chandler )
Chandler had been using the truck for off-roading on weekends and would find that automotive shops in the Midwest generally did not carry the parts needed to repair his frequently-wrecked 4 × 4.
The truck was used as a rolling billboard for the shop, adorned with the various accessories Chandler sold in his new shop.
In 1979, Chandler started making appearances at truck and tractor pulls, as well as car shows, with his newly christened " Bigfoot " to show off the truck's capabilities as well as to promote his shop.
By this point, Chandler had already built an entire fleet of " Bigfoot " trucks to accommodate the vast demand for his vehicle, which remained as the most popular and marketable monster truck despite the large number of imitators.
In 1987, Chandler added to his innovations by founding the Monster Truck Racing Association, which remains today as the chief voice in monster truck safety.
Many truck owners had taken to calling their vehicles the " World's Largest Monster Truck ," so Chandler outfitted his " Bigfoot 4 " vehicle with 10-foot-tall tires he had purchased from a junkyard owner in Seattle, Washington for only $ 1000.
In 1986, Chandler built a new truck, " Bigfoot 5 ", specifically for the tires.
During this time, Chandler began working with computer-aided design ( CAD ) programs, and using technology he had learned from professional off-road racing, designed a tubular frame for his next Bigfoot truck, along with a suspension system sporting two feet of travel.
Always seeking to further innovate the sport, Chandler created monster truck racing's first open-invitation point series, ProMT, in 2000, which still in existence today, albeit only in Europe.
* Bigfoot got its name when Bob Chandler asked friend Ron Magruder why he was breaking so many parts on his truck.
In April 1981, Bob Chandler drove over cars in Bigfoot in what is often believed to be the first monster truck to crush cars.
However, the earliest, widely-available and verified video footage showing a monster truck crushing cars that exists shows Bob Chandler driving Bigfoot while crushing two mid-seventies automobiles in April 1981.
In 1988, to standardize rules for truck construction and safety, Bob Chandler, Braden, and George Carpenter formed the Monster Truck Racing Association ( MTRA ).
*" Bigfoot ", the first " monster truck " was created by Bob Chandler, who had envisioned a vehicle with tires so large that it could crush anything in its path.

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