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Following an aborted attempt to launch STS-41-D where two main engines were stopped shortly after they started and the third did not start at all, Hawley is reported to have broken the tense atmosphere in the shuttle cabin saying: " I thought we'd be a lot higher at MECO!
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Following the violence at the aborted national elections of 1987, the 1990 elections were approached with caution.
Following the death of the Marquis de Montcalm and the fall of Québec on 18 September-after the colonel's aborted attempt to resupply the besieged city-Bougainville was dispatched to the western front by his new commanding officer, the Chevalier de Lévis and attempted to stop the British advance from his entrenchments at Île-aux-Noix.
Following the release of singles " Way Out " ( 1987 ), " There She Goes " ( 1988 ) and " Timeless Melody " ( 1990 ) and having aborted several recording sessions with different producers, the band released their debut album The La's in 1990 to critical acclaim and modest commercial success.
Following several aborted attempts at various forms of incorporation and association, in 1890 the college began to establish closer links with the University of St Andrews, a process which was completed in 1897 when University College became part of the University of St Andrews.
Following his triumph at Brussels, a scheduled American debut at the 1939 New York World's Fair was aborted because of the outbreak of the Second World War.
Following a last minute aborted coup d ' état plot which fizzled out in the night of 8 December 1970 ( a religious festivity in Italy, known as the Feast of the Immaculate Conception ), referred to as the Golpe Borghese, he was forced to cross the border to avoid arrest and interrogation.
Following several years of aborted startup attempts, during which time the federal government was forced to increase its liability stake in the project by forming the Crown Corporation Canada Hibernia Holding Corporation, the Hibernia megaproject began construction of the production platform and gravity base structure in the early 1990s.
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Following Day was Woodbury who spoke of his disapproval of Brown's attempt at servile insurrection, his admiration of Brown's character, and his opposition to slavery.
Following graduation, he established several experimental schools after an unsuccessful attempt to start a neo-Hassidic community in the Negev desert, and, at the age of 23, became Israel ’ s youngest school principal.
Following the Pittsburgh drug trials, an unsuccessful attempt was made to purchase the Pittsburgh Pirates and relocate them.
Following these early undertakings, the first census to attempt completely covering all citizens ( including women and children who had previously been listed only as numbers ) of Denmark-Norway was taken in 1769.
* Following a touchdown and convert attempt ( successful or not ), play resumes with the scoring team kicking off from its own 35-yard line ( 45-yard line in amateur leagues ).
Following his encounter with Wolverine ( in the " Original Sin " Arc ) Professor Xavier seeks out his step brother, the unstoppable Juggernaut in an attempt to reform him.
Following Allen's failed attempt on St. John, many of his men drifted away, presumably drawn by the needs of home and farm.
Following an unsuccessful attempt to study jazz academically, and having given recitals in the classical and jazz piano programs at Loyola University, Connick moved to the 92nd Street YMHA in New York City to study at Hunter College and the prestigious Manhattan School of Music, where a Columbia Records executive Sr. V. P.
Following this initial success, Boylston began performing inoculations throughout Boston, despite much controversy and at least one attempt upon his life.
Following the Super League war of the 1990s Crowe made an attempt to use his Hollywood connections to convince Ted Turner, rival of Super League's Rupert Murdoch, to save the Rabbitohs before they were forced from the National Rugby League competition for two years.
Following Hagelin's and the Natural Law Party's failed attempt at a coalition with the Reform Party in 2000, the Natural Law Party ran its own ticket of Hagelin and Nat Goldhaber.
* April 1 – Following a failed attempt at a coup, French defense minister Georges Boulanger is forced to flee the country.
Following an unsuccessful attempt to save Gate 2 ( the only portion of the original Yankee Stadium that mostly remained unaltered after the venue's renovation ), demolition of the outer walls of the stadium began on March 29.
Following a successful Vietcong hit and run attack on the US installations at Pleiku on February 7, 1965 ( where 7 Americans were killed and 109 wounded ), Humphrey returned from Georgia to Washington D. C., to attempt to prevent further escalation.
Following a failed attempt to establish a coalition with the Liberals, Heath conceded power to a minority Labour government under Harold Wilson, which won a small majority in a second election in October that year.
Following a suicide attempt involving a handgun that failed to go off, he eventually rallied and returned to filmmaking.
Following the assassination attempt on President Reagan on March 30, 1981, Vice President George H. W. Bush did not assume the role of acting president under Section 4.
Following, the Roman-Germanic forces came to blows with the Hunnic forces at the Battle of Châlons, which resulted in a victory for Aëtius, but he, in an attempt to retain his position allowed Attila and a significant number of his troops to escape.
Following Alexander's victory at Issus, the Persian mercenary commander Memnon of Rhodes ordered a counter-attack into Asia Minor in an attempt to sever Alexander's lines of supply and communication ; however, Antigonus defeated the Persian forces in three separate battles.
Following the failed impeachment attempt in the Senate, Long became ruthless when dealing with his enemies.
Following what he alleged to be an assassination attempt in 1921 ( which supposedly failed because he took a different route home from school ), he left for England where he briefly attended King's College School, Wimbledon, on a foreign exchange.
Following the declaration of World War II, Mitford attempted suicide, although doubts about the attempt were raised in the media following the declassification of MI5 government documentation.
* Following the extradition attempt, Biggs collaborated with Bruce Henry ( an American double-bass player ), Jaime Shields, and Aureo de Souza to record Mailbag Blues, a musical narrative of his life that he intended to use a movie soundtrack.
Following the Wang 1200, Harold Koplow and David Moros made another attempt at designing a word processor.
Following her years at UCLA, after a failed attempt to become a fiction writer in New York City, Starhawk returned to California.
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Following the launch of ADSL in 2003, the importance of ISDN for data transfer began to decrease and is today limited to niche business applications with point-to-point requirements.
Following accusations of forced labour on the large American-owned Firestone rubber plantation and American accusations of slave trading, the Liberian government asked the League to launch an investigation.
Following pressure by the American Rocket Society, the National Science Foundation, and the International Geophysical Year, military interest picked up and in early 1955 the Army and Navy were working on Project Orbiter, two competing programs, the army's which involved using a Jupiter C rocket, and the civilian / Navy Vanguard Rocket, to launch a satellite.
Following the city's launch of the so-called " CleanAir Cabs " program the previous year, in August 2008 the Boston Police Department's Hackney Carriage Unit mandated that the city's entire taxicab fleet must be converted to hybrid vehicles by 2015. web | url = http :// www. cityofboston. gov / police / hackney / drivers. asp >
Following the moment of launch ( i. e., initial loss of contact with the substrate ), a jumper will traverse a parabolic path.
Following the administration in 2002, the three multiplexes that were run by ITV Digital remained blank until a week or so before Freeview's launch.
Following the launch of his film Harry Brown, Caine called for the reintroduction of national service in the UK to give young people " a sense of belonging rather than a sense of violence ".
Following the launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957, the initial Project Orbiter program was revived as the Explorer program to catch up with the Soviet Union.
Following a vertical launch from a simple steel table, the vehicle was programmed so that it was traveling at an angle of 40 degrees from the horizontal at burnout of the first stage, which occurred 157 seconds after launch.
Following a gruelling series of physical and psychological tests, NASA selected Shepard to be one of the original group of seven Mercury astronauts. Shepard in the Freedom 7 capsule before launch
Following the DIY punk ethic, Crass combined the use of song, film, sound collage, and graphics to launch a critical polemic against mainstream culture which is built on foundations of war, religion, and consumerism.
Following the product launch, the General Mills marketing department found that sales performed dramatically better if the composition of the marbits changed periodically.
Following launch using a Titan / Centaur launch vehicle on August 20, 1975 and a 10-month cruise to Mars, the orbiter began returning global images of Mars about 5 days before orbit insertion.
Following launch using a Titan / Centaur launch vehicle and a 333 day cruise to Mars, the Viking 2 Orbiter began returning global images of Mars prior to orbit insertion.
Following this successful launch, Major General David Wade, Commander of the 1st Missile Division, declared the coffin-type launcher to be operational.
Following the launch of the ITV series Agatha Christie's Marple in 2004, the Poirot series was retitled Agatha Christie's Poirot.
Following the prior experiences in London, Las Vegas, Amsterdam and Kazan, the Hermitage foundation decided to create a further branch in Italy with the launch of a national bid.
Following the successful launch of the Rainbow Lodge, several other camps set up on the lake.
Following launch, Genesis cruised to the Earth-Sun then performed a Lissajous orbit insertion maneuver, entering an elliptical orbit about on November 16, 2001.
Following the launch of the Tiki 100 computer, which was designed by Tiki Data from the bottom up, the company started publishing software for the educational sector.
Following the operational failure of the Skynet 1A satellite, the timetable for the launch of the Skynet 2 communications satellite was delayed.
Following first contact with the Founders, the Obsidian Order – a covert Cardassian intelligence force – ally themselves with the Tal Shiar, their Romulan counterpart, and launch a secret, pre-emptive strike to destroy the Founders ' homeworld, hoping that the Founders and the rest of the Dominion will collapse.
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