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Despite WTIC's various format changes over the years, Steele's show ( which featured musical standards, farm news and prices early in the morning, novelty songs, silly jokes, horrible puns ("... and the weather for Mexico City is chili today, hot tamale ") and a regular " Word of the Day " segment-even long after WTIC itself had abandoned music for a focus on news / talk ) remained virtually unchanged throughout its entire run, making it perhaps the longest-running radio program in history to have never undergone a significant format change.
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Despite the study of model plants and increasing use of DNA evidence, there is ongoing work and discussion among taxonomists about how best to classify plants into various taxa.
Despite the failure of this derivation, the equilibrium constant for a reaction is indeed a constant, independent of the activities of the various species involved, though it does depend on temperature as observed by the van't Hoff equation.
Despite such diversity, it is possible to classify the indigenous people into three major cultural groups: the northern people, who developed rich handicrafts and were influenced by pre-Incan cultures ; the Araucanian culture, who inhabited the area between the river Choapa and the island of Chiloé, and lived primarily off agriculture ; and the Patagonian culture Patagonia composed of various nomadic tribes, who supported themselves through fishing and hunting ( and who in Pacific / Pacific Coast immigration scenario would be descended partly from the most ancient settlers ).
Despite these relationships, the various membranes are not identical in structure and function.
Despite the revivalists ' various political views and different opinions regarding the nature of authentic folk music, they all shared an understanding of Americanism that grounded the nation's identity in cultural pluralism and political democracy " By the end of the 1930s they along with the musicians and others had turned American folk music into a social movement.
Despite this, arms smuggling is rampant and black-market small arms, usually Russian-made, are bought and sold by various non-government organizations ranging from paramilitary groups to terrorist organizations.
Despite this, " there is ample evidence that the medieval clergy were the main practitioners of magic and therefore the owners, transcribers, and circulators of grimoires " while several grimoires were actually attributed to various Popes.
Despite his light letter-writing in youth, in later life his correspondence was so voluminous that it has been estimated that he may have written around 30, 000 letters to various correspondents, a figure which places him second only to Voltaire as an epistolarian.
Despite successes such as the revival of economic growth and the beginnings of the Northern Ireland Peace Process, by the mid-1990s the Conservatives were embroiled in ongoing " sleaze " scandals involving various MPs and even Cabinet Ministers.
Despite his reputation as a serious composer of large, complex musical structures, some of Brahms's most widely known and most commercially successful compositions during his life were small-scale works of popular intent aimed at the thriving contemporary market for domestic music-making ; indeed, during the 20th century, the influential American critic B. H. Haggin, rejecting more mainstream views, argued in his various guides to recorded music that Brahms was at his best in such works and much less successful in larger forms.
Despite the many celebrated films he directed, many of which won Academy Awards in various categories, Frankenheimer was never nominated for a Best Director Oscar.
Despite various contradictions, the term, dimension is sometimes interchangeable with universe or reality.
Despite various characters having appeared within company publications for decades, few if any have aged to any appreciable degree.
Despite a hostile Legislative Council, an extended drought and various industrial disputes, Askin and his Government passed several reforms.
Despite the large number of mainlanders who consume Spam, and the various recipes that have been made from it, Spam, along with most canned food, is often stigmatized on the mainland as " poor people food ".
Despite gaining a significant though minroty share of the vote in various constituencies, the COP failed to capture a single seat.
Despite the efforts of Kealty, various members of his administration and Pavel Laska, Kealty's kingmaker and a devout enemy of Ryan who sought to bring Ryan's administration down by connecting him to a then-fugitive John Clark, Ryan wins the election by a narrow margin ; overcoming all of Kealty's efforts to harm him.
Despite their appearance of being slow, crocodiles are top predators in their environment, and various species have been observed attacking and killing sharks.
Despite various attempts to get her out, such as the Carnation Plot in September, Marie Antoinette refused when the plots for her escape were brought to her attention.
Despite being regarded as one of the most popular members of the royal family in recent times who helped to stabilise the popularity of the monarchy as a whole, Elizabeth was subject to various degrees of criticism during her life.
Despite the observation by Alfred Wallace that Mars's atmosphere was too thin to support an Earth-like ecology, various depictions of a Martian civilization were popular throughout the 20th century.
Despite various cutbacks after 1966, expenditure on services such as education and health was still much higher as a proportion of national wealth than in 1964.
Despite this, the water quality has still improved, with several historians having called it at various times in the past as an " open sewer ".
Despite the economic recession of the late 2000s, the Tri-Cities area continued to maintain steady growth and a stable economic climate due in large part to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 which directed funding and jobs to the Hanford site and its various cleanup efforts.
" Despite being the only nationalist candidate, he failed to gain the support of a united far-right, as the various groups either rallied behind other candidates or called for voter abstention.
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Despite this comparison, a fragment of a non-Christian parchment Codex of Demosthenes, De Falsa Legatione from Oxyrhynchus in Egypt demonstrates that the surviving evidence is insufficient to conclude whether Christians played a major, if not central, role in the development of early codices, or if they simply adopted the format to distinguish themselves from Jews.
Despite the success of his masterwork Dido and Aeneas ( 1689 ), in which the action is furthered by the use of Italian-style recitative, much of Purcell's best work was not involved in the composing of typical opera, but instead he usually worked within the constraints of the semi-opera format, where isolated scenes and masques are contained within the structure of a spoken play, such as Shakespeare in Purcell's The Fairy-Queen ( 1692 ) and Beaumont and Fletcher in The Prophetess ( 1690 ) and Bonduca ( 1696 ).
Despite the format proving to be popular with its readers, the newspaper remains broadsheet on weekdays.
Despite differences in the content, the format is usually the same: first the show introduces the subjects in their current, less-than-ideal environment.
Despite being a persistent portion of teaching from at least the renaissance, the format and the amount of information being taught has evolved and changed along with the demands of the profession.
Despite its problems, the format gained steady popularity because of its convenience and portability.
Despite this record though, Merton is one of only three people to have played all three roles of the show's format at various points: he is usually captain of his team, but along with being the first post-Deayton presenter ( series 24, episode 3 ), he has also been a guest on Hislop's team ( in series 11, episode 1 ).
Despite their higher cost, this was a popular format due to its reliability and ease of use.
Despite his previous affinity with politically and socially-charged lyrical themes, Gaye helped popularize sexual and romance-themed music and funk, while his 1970s recordings, including Let's Get It On ( 1973 ) and I Want You ( 1976 ) helped develop the quiet storm sound and format.
Despite an increase in transmission power, WHLD found that Air America with local morning talk format unsustainable and dropped the format for the Totally Gospel Radio Network programming in December 2006.
Despite the high quality and lower difficulty of the questions, only sixteen teams attended ACF Nationals in 2001, and the future of the format seemed tenuous.
Despite the fact that some broadcasters, such as the BBC, consider Super16 a " non-HD " format, John Inwood believed that footage from his camera was not only sufficient to air in high definition, it " looked terrific.
Despite Boyd's efforts to reinvigorate the format it became dominated by a small coterie of callers.
( Despite the network's politically-driven format, the guest stint followed his normal format of novelty music, specifically Halloween music, since the show aired on October 30, 2009, the day before Halloween.
Despite the advantages over competing technology at the time ( namely VHS and Betamax ), the format does have drawbacks.
Despite simplistic plotting required by the 30-minute format, the writing was both professional in its handling of situations, and pointed in its dialog.
Despite rumours ( see below ), no broadcaster has since acquired the rights to the format in the UK.
Despite running for only two series, Pop Idols impact was immense and led 19 Entertainment and Fremantle Media to roll the format out globally ; currently there are over 50 versions in 110 countries, including, notably, American Idol, on which Cowell as a judge until 2010, before launching The X Factor USA in 2011.
Despite its confusing name, DSD-CD is actually the same format as Compact Disc Digital Audio.
Despite being mostly available in the UK, the Count Duckula disks from Fremantle Media are in Region 0, PAL format.
Despite more elaborate credits and yet another title — now simply, Walt Disney — the format remained unchanged.
Despite good reviews, the show failed to attract large audiences — perhaps due to its controversial subject matter and its minstrel show format — and closed on December 12, 2010.
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