* Wall Street Journal ; " The Last Chapter of " Pedro's Story " Is Drawing to a Close " by Eric Morgenthaler ; October 21, 1994, Page 1

The Close Protection Unit within the Kosovo Police was established on 21 January 2002.

Close to two million game birds were harvested on 1,500 commercial and private shooting preserves, and on State Game Commission-controlled upland game areas during the 1960-61 season.

In 2006 Williams entered the Guiness Book of World Records for selling 1. 6 million tickets of his Close Encounters Tour in a single day.

Close Encounters was released in November 1977 to critical and financial success, grossing out $ 337, 700, 000 of the film's $ 20 million budget.

The film was originally to be released in summer 1977, but was pushed back to November because of the various problems during production, Upon its release, Close Encounters became a box office success, grossing $ 116. 39 million in North America and $ 171. 7 million in foreign countries, totaling $ 288 million.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind: The Special Edition was released in August 1980, making a further $ 15. 7 million, accumulating a final $ 303. 7 million box office gross.

Close to 8 % of Americans are unbanked, meaning around 9 million are without any kind of bank account or formal financial services.

Close to a hundred licensed shmoo products from 75 different manufacturers were produced, some of which sold five million units each, ( Sources: Newsweek September 5, 1949 and Editor & Publisher July 16, 1949 ).

Close to a hundred licensed shmoo products from 75 different manufacturers were produced in less than a year, some of which sold five million units each.

The Swordfish public house at Hill Head was demolished in 2004 to make way for a small development of luxury million pound beach-front homes known as Swordfish Close.

Close to a quarter of a million of children in schools facing the most challenging circumstances have benefited from the expertise of National Leaders of Education and their National Support School staff.

Patti LuPone, who initially had been promised the Broadway run, sued Lloyd Webber and received a settlement reported to be $ 1 million ; Faye Dunaway, set to replace Close in L. A., was let go because Lloyd Webber felt her singing voice was not up to the role.

He recorded his first hit record, " Too Close To Heaven " ( 1954 ), billed as Professor Alex Bradford and his singers, sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc, then followed it with a number of other successes in the rest of the decade.

Close to 2 million illegal workprint downloads were tracked the day Hostel 2 opened theatrically in the U. S.

Close to one million Soviet soldiers of the 1st Belorussian Front ( including 78, 556 soldiers of the Polish 1st Army ), commanded by Marshal Georgi Zhukov, attacked the position known as the " Gates of Berlin ".

In 1915, cuts within the duration of a scene were still relatively infrequent in his films, and when they do occur they were frequently from Long Shot or Medium Long Shot ( which were the shots he most used ) to a Big Close Up of an insert detail, which only occupied a small part of the frame in the previous shot.

This in itself introduces a fairly strong visual discontinuity across the cut, but as well as that, the cut-in shot might often have a circular vignette mask if it were a Close Up of a person, so reinforcing the effect.

Mike Nichols, Ted Flicker, and Del Close were her most frequent collaborators in this regard.

In this capacity he began to give lectures at his house in Bartholomew Close, which were so well attended that the governors of the hospital built a theatre ( 1790 – 1791 ), and Abernethy thus became the founder of the medical school of St Bartholomew's.

They were also writing multi-part suites such as " Starship Trooper " on The Yes Album ( 1971 ), " Heart of the Sunrise " on Fragile ( 1971 ), " Close To the Edge " on Close to the Edge ( 1972 ) and " Awaken " on Going For The One ( 1977 ).

Close to 1200 of these trucks were built in the mid 1970s by Oshkosh Corporation of Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

Close reading of the Bible found that several of the most rigid precepts in the sermon were moderated by other parts of the New Testament.

Illustrations, directing, and adaptation were done by Robert Van Nutt ; music by Tim Story ; and the narration by Glenn Close.

Close by it is the former Cathedral of Saint George, begun in 1135, when the Romanesque lower part of the main façade and the side façades were completed.

Close to 15, 000 acres were desired to create a parcel large enough for an envisioned 100, 000 person development.

Close relatives and fellow members of the Ngbandi tribe were awarded with high positions in the military and government, and he groomed his eldest son, Nyiwa, to succeed him as President ; however, this was thwarted by Nyiwa's death from AIDS in 1994.

Close to the refectory, but outside the cloisters, were the domestic offices connected with it: to the north, the kitchen, 47 ft ( 14 m ) square ( 200 m2 ), with a pyramidal roof, and the kitchen court ; to the west, the butteries, pantries, etc.

" Roger Ebert thought the two lead roles were " played to perfection by Close and Malkovich ... their arch dialogues together turn into exhausting conversational games, tennis matches of the soul.

Its four unsuccessful nominations were for Best Actress ( Glenn Close ), Best Supporting Actress ( Michelle Pfeiffer ), Best Original Score ( George Fenton ), and the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Close to 40 Red Sticks were killed, and about 100 women and children were captured.

High-rise estates which were poorly constructed and unpopular ( e. g. the Oliver Close Estate and the Cathall Road estate ) have been completely redeveloped by demolition and rebuilding with the help of the multi-million pound Waltham Forest Housing Action Trust scheme.

Most of his recordings were songs from his publishing house, which explains why he recorded tunes like " Baby Won't You Please Come Home ", " Close Fit Blues " and " Papa De-Da-Da " numerous times.

Portions of the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind were filmed near the town's Louisville and Nashville Railroad depot ( now razed ) and Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood was filmed in rural portions of Baldwin County near Bay Minette.

For the Hammersmith Odeon shows which were filmed, an additional keyboard player, Richie Close ( who died a few years later from Legionnaires ' disease ) was also added, and former members Peter Bardens and Mel Collins made guest appearances.

Wertico played drums on Paul Winter's 1990 Grammy-nominated release, " Earth: Voices Of A Planet "; he has also played on and produced a number of CDs for artists including vocalist Kurt Elling's 1995 Grammy-nominated release " Close Your Eyes ", Elling's 1997 Grammy-nominated release " The Messenger ", Elling's 1998 Grammy-nominated release " This Time It's Love " and Elling's 2003 Grammy-nominated release " Man In The Air.

As a result, the tense short-lived reunion in the studio produced only subdued re-recordings ( using a drum machine ) of " Don't Stand So Close to Me " and " De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da ".

* The Divine Garbo ( 1990 ), TNT, produced by Ellen M. Krass and Susan F. Walker, narrated by Glenn Close

Before the 1990s tapestry upholstery fabrics and reproductions of the famous tapestries of the Middle Ages had been produced using Jacquard techniques but then artists such as Chuck Close adapted the

Their 1982 album produced the singles " Mountain Music ", " Take Me Down ", and " Close Enough to Perfect ".

Close on Rose's heels, the entrepreneur Bonnie Heath soon set up his own thoroughbred horse farm and produced the state's first Kentucky Derby winner.

The laserdisc edition also includes a new 101-minute documentary, The Making of Close Encounters, which was produced in 1997 and features interviews with Spielberg, the main cast, and notable crew members.

Anderson is recognized as the main instigator of a series of epic works produced by Yes at the time ; he played a role in creating such complex pieces as " Close to the Edge ", " Awaken " and especially " The Gates of Delirium ".

Prior to Friends, she appeared in at least two produced network pilots: NBC's Just Temporary ( also known as Temporarily Yours ) in 1989, playing Nicole ; and CBS ' Close Encounters ( also known as Matchmaker ) in 1990, playing a Valley girl.

His television roles have included a recurring role in Joss Whedon ’ s Angel as the lawyer Lindsey MacDonald, the Jerry Bruckheimer produced series Close to Home on CBS, the TNT television film Crossfire Trail in which he appeared alongside Tom Selleck, and he played the role of Abe Wheeler in the Steven Spielberg produced miniseries Into the West.

Close analysis of the changing style of details of the forms of letters allows the manuscript to be placed with some confidence within a chronological sequence of the few other manuscripts thought to have been produced at Wearmouth-Jarrow.

Kay Gee produced Next's " Too Close ", which became a # 1 hit in 1998.

The report concludes that a small percentage of sightings that can not be easily explained are caused by atmospheric plasma phenomenon similar to ball lightning ; Magnetic and other energy fields produced by these " buoyant plasma formations " are responsible for the appearance of so-called " Black Triangles " as well as having hallucinogenic effects on the human mind, inducing experiences of Close Encounters.

She has also directed episodes of Charmed, The O. C., Close to Home ( where she directed fellow Star Trek alum Connor Trinneer ), Lost, Heroes, Hawthorne, The Closer, Cold Case, Caprica ( produced by Star Trek veteran Ronald D. Moore ), The Mentalist, and Treme.

Close to 1889 a railway from Whittlesea to Melbourne was established to transport goods produced in the region to Melbourne.

Her 2001 album, Live Close By, Visit Often was produced by Raul Malo, who also wrote several of the songs.

Titled Tool Box, it produced his second Number One country hit in the ballad " That's as Close as I'll Get to Loving You "; the second single, " Without Your Love ", peaked at No. 22, while the album's last two singles both failed to make Top 40.

In 2002, Cesar Jaime and Jeff Pacocha produced and directed a film composed of interviews with former students, friends, and collaborators of Del Close.

Many plays have been commissioned and produced over the years which are now known nationally and internationally, such as Close The Coalhouse Door, Cooking with Elvis and A Nightingale Sang.

In the interim between the first and second seasons of the Beast Wars animated series, the Beast Wars II anime was produced in Japan to fill the gap, and produced a feature film entitled Beast Wars II: Lio Convoy, Close Call!