On 5 March 2008 the deferred prosecution agreement against Monsanto was dismissed with prejudice ( unopposed by the Department of Justice ) by the U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia, thereby indicating that Monsanto had complied fully with the terms of the agreement.

The usually combative Cohn quickly complied without opposition, mainly because Cohn had obtained control of Columbia through mob funds and influence provided by both Accardo and Roselli.

This year's Senate measure would provide each state and the District of Columbia with $1,000,000 to be used in support of private, state, or municipal ETV efforts.

If this seems arbitrary, its effect was to treat citizens of the District of Columbia equally with citizens of the states -- at the expense of expanding a troublesome jurisdiction.

Lincoln, in collaboration with abolitionist Congressman Joshua R. Giddings, wrote a bill to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia with compensation for the owners, enforcement to capture fugitive slaves, and a popular vote on the matter.

Another place popular with children is the Parque Papagayo which is a large family park which has life-sized replicas of a Spanish galleon and the space shuttle Columbia, three artificial lakes, aviary, skating rink, rides, go-karts and more.

Located on the south shore of the Columbia, the city is served by the Port of Astoria with a deep-water port.

The earliest known personification of what would become the United States was " Columbia " who first appeared in 1738 and sometimes was associated with Liberty.

She was admitted to the District of Columbia Bar in 1980 and began her law career as an associate with the Washington, D. C. firm of Wald, Harkrader & Ross.

Like Cole Porter at Yale and Richard Rodgers at Columbia, his career in musical theater began with his collegiate contributions, in Lerner's case to the annual Harvard Hasty Pudding musicals.

Flatt and Scruggs subsequently cut their own version of the theme ( with Flatt singing ) for Columbia Records ; released as a single, it reached # 44 on Billboard Hot 100 pop music chart and # 1 on the Billboard Hot Country chart ( the lone country chart-topper for the duo ).

As well as being the westernmost province of Western Canada, British Columbia is also a component of the Pacific Northwest, along with the US states of Oregon and Washington.

The significant presence of visible minorities from British Columbia in both the provincial and federal spheres of government also reflects the high degree of multiculturalism that has come to be associated with Canada.

The current southern border of British Columbia was established by the 1846 Oregon Treaty, although its history is tied with lands as far south as California.

Enrolled at Columbia as a physics student, De Palma became enraptured with the filmmaking process after viewing Citizen Kane and Vertigo.

Bartók, who had made some recordings in Hungary, also recorded for Columbia Records after he came to the US ; many of these recordings ( some with Bartók's own spoken introductions ) were later issued on LP and CD ( Bartók 1994, 1995a, 1995b, 2003, 2007, 2008 ).

Wills and the Texas Playboys recorded with several publishers and companies, including Vocalion, Okeh, Columbia, and MGM, frequently moving.

* Cinder Cone ( British Columbia ), a cinder cone with a small crater on the west side of the Helm Glacier in Garibaldi Provincial Park

The Columbia Glaciated ecoregion, making up about a third of the total watershed, lies in the north and was covered with ice sheets during the Pleistocene.

Several major North American drainage basins and many minor ones share a common border with the Columbia River's drainage basin.

Great Basin watersheds that share a border with the Columbia watershed include Harney Basin, Humboldt River, and Great Salt Lake.

Deschutes River ( Oregon ) | Deschutes River at its confluence with the Columbia

China: A New Cultural History ( Columbia University Press ; 2012 ) 612 pages ; stress on China's encounters with successive waves of globalization.

China: A New Cultural History ( Columbia University Press ; 2012 ) 612 pages ; stress on China's encounters with successive waves of globalization.

His imposing contemporaries William James and Josiah Royce admired him, and Cassius Jackson Keyser at Columbia and C. K. Ogden wrote about Peirce with respect, but to no immediate effect.

The Band tends to close their Orgo Night performances before Furnald Hall, known among students as the more studious and reportedly " anti-social " residence hall, where the underclassmen in the Band serenade the graduating seniors with an entertaining, though vulgar, mock-hymn to Columbia, composed of quips that poke fun at the various stereotypes about the Columbia student body.

In the District of Columbia any police officer, physician, or mental health professional can request to have an individual evaluated at St. Elizabeths Hospital, where they may be detained for up to 48 hours at the direction of the physician on duty.

At the request of his father, Adolf Lorenz, he began a premedical curriculum in 1922 at Columbia University, but he returned to Vienna in 1923 to continue his studies at the University of Vienna.

The District of Columbia Board of Education also declined a request to use the auditorium of a white public high school.

Columbia Heights turned down their request, so Johnson circulated a petition to have the residents vote on incorporation.

The investigation was reportedly initiated by complaints from the Swiss Anti-Piracy-Federation ( SAFE ) at the request of several large corporations, one of them presumably being Columbia Tri-Star Inc.

In 1940, on the request of Enrico Fermi, he and a few students, including Edward Ney, prepared a pure sample of uranium-235 using an early mass spectrograph designed by Nier, for John R. Dunning's team at Columbia University.

Nonetheless, most provinces have rejected the request outright-although the British Columbia Lottery Corporation agreed to licence the Vancouver Canucks ' name and logo for a fee while the Albertan government agreed to allow the Calgary Flames and Edmonton Oilers to conduct a separate, joint lottery.

During the hearing at the British Columbia Court of Appeal, the Court invited Mrs. Edwards to apply to be admitted as a party and to request joint custody of Elijah with her husband.

This request was not seriously considered by the War Department, and the participation of colored soldiers from the District of Columbia was similarly disregarded.

* Easter Sunday – Marian Anderson performs on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C. at the instigation of Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes after the Daughters of the American Revolution ( DAR ) refused permission for Anderson to sing to an integrated audience in Constitution Hall and the federally controlled District of Columbia Board of Education declined a request to use the auditorium of a white public high school.

In early March 1950, the Subcommittee on District Appropriations of the House Committee on Appropriations turned down a request to fund a study of the Massachusetts Avenue site, and the Subcommittee on the District of Columbia of the House Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments held hearings which supported the D. C.

From 1791 to 1792, at the request of Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, Ellicott worked under the direction of three Commissioners that President George Washington had appointed, surveying the boundaries of the federal Territory of Columbia, which would become the District of Columbia in 1801.

This single was written at the request of crewmembers of the Space Shuttle Discovery for their STS-114 Return to Flight mission in 2005, the first mission after the Columbia disaster.

The band should play the Rogues' March as a processional, switching to `` Hail Columbia, Happy Land ''!!

Although Parsons was an equal contributor to the band, he was not regarded as a full member of The Byrds by the band's record label, Columbia Records.

Also during the 1920s, an old-time music band known as the Hill Billies featuring Al Hopkins and Fiddlin ' Charlie Bowman, achieved acclaim as recording artists for Columbia Records.

Columbia Records signed the band shortly thereafter and re-released the album in late July 1995.

His most enduring relationship, however, was with the music of Thelonious Monk: he recorded the first album to feature only Monk compositions ( Reflections, Prestige, 1958 ) and briefly played in Monk's band in 1960 and later on Monk's Big Band / Quartet album ( Columbia, 1963 ).

The Doors were initially signed to Columbia Records under a six month contract, but the band agreed to a release after being unable to secure a producer for the album from Columbia.

The Bangles ' full-length debut album on Columbia, All Over the Place ( 1984 ), captured their power-pop roots, featuring the singles " Hero Takes a Fall " and the Kimberley Rew-penned Beatlesque " Going Down to Liverpool " ( originally recorded by Rew's band Katrina and the Waves ).

There was friction among band members after music industry media began singling out Hoffs as the lead singer of the group, a result of Columbia Records releasing mostly singles on which Hoffs sang lead vocal.

Columbia Pictures cashed in on the new craze by hiring Haley and his band to star in two quickie movies, Rock Around the Clock ( 1956 ) and Don't Knock the Rock ( 1957 ).

Shortly after arriving in New York, a letter dated January 29, 1917, offered the band an audition for the Columbia Graphophone Company.

In the wake of the group's success for the Victor release, in May the band returned to Columbia, recording two selections of popular tunes of the day chosen for them by the record company ( possibly hoping to avoid the copyright problems which arose after Victor recorded two of the band's supposedly original compositions ) " Darktown Strutter's Ball " and "( Back Home Again in ) Indiana " as catalogue # A-2297.

The seminal 78 releases by the band include the following Victor, Columbia, and Aeolian Vocalion recordings:

Following a series of tours, including several versions of the Unlimited Sunshine Tour, the band released Pressure Chief in 2004, its second and last album on Columbia.

For their fourth album, Comfort Eagle, the band signed a deal with Columbia Records.

A second tour, in 2005, saw the band headline the 20-city Virgin College Mega Tour, playing alongside Gomez ; while the Tour was in California, the band announced that it had been dropped from Columbia Records.

In 1975, Williams put together a band he called " The New Tony Williams Lifetime ," featuring bassist Tony Newton, pianist Alan Pasqua, and English guitarist Allan Holdsworth, which recorded two albums for Columbia Records, Believe It and Million Dollar Legs.

Clooney continued working with the Pastor band until 1949, making her last recording with the band in May of that year and her first as a solo artist a month later, still for Columbia.

After the departure of Ore and Dunlop, the remainder of the rhythm section in Monk's quartet during the bulk of his Columbia period was Larry Gales on bass and Ben Riley on drums, both of whom joined in 1964, Along with Rouse, they remained with Monk for over four years, his longest-serving band.

Their major label debut, The Beautiful Letdown, under Columbia Records / Red Ink, represented the band's evolution from the predominantly lo-fi, indie rock sound of their early albums, toward a more layered, synth-influenced sound that helped launch the band to mainstream popularity.

The band signed with Columbia Records and released their debut album, Ultra Payloaded in 2007.

Around this time they also made a number of recordings that became known as the Detroit Rehearsal Tapes, including a number of new songs that might have been included on a fourth studio album had the band not been dropped by Columbia shortly after the release of Raw Power.

After Diddley failed to get the group signed to his label, Chess Records, he assigned the band to OKeh Records, a subsidiary for Columbia, releasing only two singles, including " Wyatt Earp ".