Represented by high profile lawyer, John M. Dowd, Whitacre pleaded guilty, without a trial, to tax evasion and fraud and was sent to prison on March 4, 1998.

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 ).

Dowd had been a member of the Seattle Seven, liked to drink White Russians, and was known as " The Dude.

In the original script, the Dude's car was a Chrysler LeBaron, as Dowd once owned, but that car was not big enough to fit John Goodman so the Coens changed it to a Ford Torino.

Michael Dowd was arrested in 1992 for his part in assaulting citizens and other corruption, testified about his and his colleagues activities to the Mollen Commission in 1993, was convicted in 1994 and sentenced to 14 years but paroled in 2004 after serving ten.

Much more publicity was given to the " discovery " by Augustus T. Dowd of the Calaveras Grove in 1852, and this is commonly cited as the species ' discovery.

The tree found by Dowd, christened the ' Discovery Tree ', was felled in 1853.

However, three days after Giamatti became Commissioner, lawyer John M. Dowd was retained to investigate these charges against Rose.

According to the Dowd Report itself, " no evidence was discovered that Rose bet against the Reds ", but in a December 2002 interview, investigator Dowd stated that he believed that Rose may have bet against the Reds while managing them.

Produced by Felix Pappalardi ( who later co-founded the Cream-influenced quartet Mountain ) and engineer Tom Dowd, it was recorded at Atlantic Studios in New York.

In 2009, United States Representative Michele Bachmann ( R-MN ) was mocked by commentator Keith Olbermann and Maureen Dowd for incorrectly referring to the act as " Hoot Smalley ", and for incorrectly blaming president Franklin Roosevelt for the passage of the act.

Chambers Chapel ’ s Gothic architecture was specifically chosen to complement Dowd Chapel.

James was a critic of the Dowd Report, which was an investigation ( commissioned by baseball commissioner Bart Giamatti ) on the gambling activities of Pete Rose.

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

James remained steadfast, continuing to insist that the evidence available to Dowd at the time was insufficient to reach the conclusion which it did.

The screenplay by Nancy Dowd was a parody loosely based on the real-life Johnstown Jets hockey team and its North American Hockey League championship in 1976.

Nancy Dowd would revive the fake town of " Charlestown " in her screenplay for the 1981 punk rock satire Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains, but the film itself was shot in Canada.

" The first was a leftover Hayes-Porter recording from Stax ; the second was produced by Wexler and Dowd in New York, and was written by Stax executive Al Bell and Allen Jones.

Fishbone was assembled by John Norwood Fisher ( bass, vocals ), with his brother Phillip " Fish " Fisher ( drums ); Angelo Moore, who sometimes uses the stage name " Dr. Madd Vibe " ( vocals, saxophones ranging from sopranino to bass, and theremin ); Kendall Jones ( guitar ); " Dirty " Walter A. Kibby II ( vocals, trumpet ); and Christopher Dowd, who sometimes uses the pseudonym " Charlie Down " ( keyboards, trombone, vocals ).

A month later, the Rockies named Dan O ' Dowd as his replacement.

Elwood P. Dowd ( Stewart ) is a middle-aged, amiable ( and somewhat eccentric ) individual whose best friend is an invisible 6 ' 3. 5 " tall rabbit named Harvey.

On December 7, 2011 Tom Dowd was named as an inductee into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2012.

There are at least three families named Dowd ( or O ' Dowd ), whose descendants are currently living in Argentina.

For people named Dowd please see Dowd

Bishop O ' Dowd High School is a Catholic, co-educational, college preparatory school in Oakland, California, administered by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland and named for the late auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, James T. O ' Dowd ( 1907 – 1950 ).

Bishop O ’ Dowd High School is named in memory of the former Superintendent of Schools of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, Bishop James T. O ’ Dowd, who died of an automobile accident at the age of 43.

His " replacement " is a fictional player named Jon Dowd.

The next European to visit the area, in 1887 and later in 1891, was a gold prospector named Henry Dowd, who thought that the rocks in the area were of no value.

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.

* Just for the Love of it: The First Woman to Climb Mount Everest from Both Sides ( 2000 ), Free to Decide Publishing, ISBN 978-0-620-24782-5, ( by Cathy O ' Dowd, foreword by Ranulph Fiennes )

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd wrote, " It was a huge relief, after our long national slide into untruth and no consequences, into Swift boating and swift bucks, into W .' s delusion and denial, to see the Empress of Empathy icily hold someone accountable for lying ," and the Washington Posts Richard Cohen was so impressed by the confrontation that he crowned Winfrey " Mensch of the Year.

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.

The Dude is mostly inspired by Jeff Dowd, a man the Coen brothers met while they were trying to find distribution for the feature film, Blood Simple.

In a column assessing Caroline Kennedy's candidacy for the US Senate seat being vacated by Hillary Clinton in early 2009, Maureen Dowd likened the Kennedy family role in US politics, from grandfather Joe Kennedy to father John Kennedy and uncles Robert Kennedy and Ted Kennedy, to the House of Atreus, and Caroline and her brother John F. Kennedy, Jr .' s place in it as " heartbreaking.

* Broken Promises Of America: At Home And Abroad, Past And Present: An Encyclopedia For Our Times by ( Douglas F. Dowd ( 2004 ) ISBN 1-56751-313-1.

The screenplay, written by Robert C. Jones, Waldo Salt, Nancy Dowd and Rudy Wurlitzer ( uncredited ), is based loosely on the novel of the same name by George Davis.

According to U. S. Army analyst Edward C. O ' Dowd, the technical definition of a human wave attack tactic is a frontal assault by densely concentrated infantry formations against an enemy line, without any attempts to shield or to mask the attacker's movement.

Produced by Tom Dowd it featured the upbeat " Revival " and the moody-but-resolute " Midnight Rider ".

As described by Dowd, Harvey is a pooka, a benign but mischievous creature from Celtic mythology who is especially fond of social outcasts ( like Elwood ).

Dowd represented former Arizona governor Fife Symington during the latter's trial for extortion and bank fraud in 1996 and 1997, of which he was convicted for bank fraud.

On September 30, 1996, the New York Islanders claimed Dowd in the NHL Waiver Draft.