Although previous big-name pitchers, including Bill Swift, Bret Saberhagen, and Darryl Kile, had struggled in Colorado, following the 2000 season O ' Dowd made two very splashy signings in the free-agent market, signing Denny Neagle to a five-year contract worth $ 51 million, followed five days later by signing Mike Hampton to an eight-year, $ 121 million contract.

In 2004, Rose admitted publicly that he had bet on baseball and confirmed the Dowd Report was correct.

Due to the needs of the state parties to collect signatures, the party fielded several different vice presidential nominees, including Chicago activist Peggy Terry, activist Rodolfo " Corky " Gonzales, radical economist Doug Dowd, and Judith Mage, who had been nominated at the national convention.

Dowd said of their guitar-playing chemistry: " There had to be some sort of telepathy going on because I've never seen spontaneous inspiration happen at that rate and level.

" Dowd was already famous for a variety of work and had worked with Clapton in his Cream days ( Clapton once called him " the ideal recording man "); his work on the album would be another achievement.

The performances were seen as a tribute not only to Allman, but also to producer Tom Dowd, who had died the previous year.

These issues had only further complicated the conduct of the defence on the first night, with the co-ordination of the forward battle falling to O ' Dowd.

He told O ' Dowd that the unit no longer existed and that it had been wiped out the night before.

Planning for the withdrawal had begun as the Chinese renewed their assault on D Company around 11: 30, while Ferguson and O ' Dowd discussed the withdrawal by radio at 12: 30.

Ferguson saw his role as ensuring that O ' Dowd received the support he need to achieve a clean break, and had as such decided not to move forward to lead the withdrawal himself.

In 1870 Charles F. Dowd had proposed four time zones based on the meridian through Washington, DC for North American railroads.

He also complained that Dowd ordered him into a section of the stadium containing Barnsley fans and feared that his safety had been put at risk.

They also tried a new producer, this time Tom Dowd, who had worked with Aretha Franklin, Cream, Eric Clapton, and Toto.

New York Times opinion columnist Maureen Dowd quoted a Democratic insider who claimed that 2004 Presidential candidate John Kerry had " turned into a girlie man.

In 1851, the 13 and 14 year old O ' Dowd sisters were imprisoned because they had nowhere else to go.

The Atlantic Records studio had just purchased an 8-track recorder, and recording engineer Tom Dowd was familiarizing himself with how it worked.

Dowd, however, had two problems during the recording.

In 1978 the band brought in producer Tom Dowd, who had worked with the Allman Brothers Band and Eric Clapton among many others, to produce their third album Elan, recording some at Criteria and some at L. A .' s Record Plant.

The band and Dowd got along well personally but they had conflicting musical visions.

Although stereo had been invented in the 1930s, Dowd was the first to use it on a record.

Dowd had made a deal with the previous Remover to replace a human baby with a fairy baby in the mortal realm, giving the human baby to the Remover in exchange for the ability to return to the Fairy world.

However, it was subsequently confirmed by the fourth official, Phil Dowd, that Styles had only booked Terry and not Essien.

A Provisional IRA volunteer, he had replaced Brendan Dowd as a member of the IRA's active service unit operating in London at the time.

This gang had been involved in the Reavey – O ' Dowd killings and it included members of the RUC's Special Patrol Group and the British Army's Ulster Defence Regiment.

Gladstone is located within the federal electoral division of Flynn, a marginal seat currently held by the Liberal National Party of Queensland's Ken O ' Dowd in Federal elections, and the state electoral district of Gladstone, held by independent Liz Cunningham, a mayor of the former Calliope Shire Council ( which has subsequently been incorporated into Gladstone Regional Council ).

Stylistically, Mallick has been compared to writers such as the American commentators Maureen Dowd and Molly Ivins and the British commentator Julie Burchill.

However because his work was top secret the university did not recognize it, and Dowd decided not to continue, since the university's curriculum would not have been able to further his physics education.

The prefix has been widely retained, O ' Dowd being more usual than Dowd.

The third family descends from another Michael Dowd who is said to have been born in Ireland in 1804.

James Patrick Dowd ( born 5 March 1951 ) is a British Labour Party politician, who has been a Member of Parliament ( MP ) since 1992, first for Lewisham West and since 2010 for Lewisham West and Penge.

However, the post has been held by a number of distinguished lawyers, for example Bernard O ' Dowd in Australia, John Ferguson McLennan specialising in Scottish law ( which though enacted entirely in the UK parliament from 1707 until 1999, is distinct from English law ), and William Philip Schreiner in South Africa.

The Dude is mostly inspired by Jeff Dowd, a member of the anti-war radical group the Seattle Liberation Front ( The Dude tells Maude Lebowski during the film that he was one of the Seattle Seven, who were members of the SLF ).

Jeff Dowd in 2009. Jeff Dowd ( born November 20, 1949 ) is an American film producer and political activist best known as a member of the " Seattle Seven ," who went to jail ( briefly, for contempt of court ) following a violent protest against the Vietnam war.

Dowd was living in Los Angeles when she got a call from her brother Ned, a member of the Johnstown Jets hockey team.

Dowd is a member of the Unite trade union.

Christopher O ' Dowd MM, an original member of the S. A. S., was a native of Shrule.

The members of the Seattle Seven were Lerner himself, as well as Jeff Dowd, Joe Kelly, Susan Stern, Michael Abeles, Charles Marshall III, and Roger Lippman.

In the movie The Big Lebowski, the main character The Dude ( who is based on Jeff Dowd ) says, " Did you ever hear of the Seattle Seven?

The New York Times columnist, Maureen Dowd, quoted two young, professional women saying they liked shows with female characters like themselves, single, even obsessed.

The road is featured briefly in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows when Harry and his friends were escaping from Death Eaters, by J. K. Rowling ; The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins ; Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf ; Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw and its musical adaptation, My Fair Lady ; Saturday and Atonement by Ian McEwan ; several Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ; the Saki story Reginald on Christmas Presents ; several stories by John Collier ; A Room with a View by E. M. Forster ; The London Eye Mystery, The Late Mr Elvesham by Herbert G. Wells by Siobhan Dowd ; The Wish House by Celia Rees ; a The Matrix-based story, Goliath by Neil Gaiman ; features often in novels by Mark Billingham and The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon.

A four-part adaptation of The Crimson Petal and the White was shown by the BBC in 2011, which starred Romola Garai, Chris O ' Dowd, Richard E. Grant and Gillian Anderson.