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Following the 1968 convention, in which many reformers had been disappointed in the way that Vice President Hubert Humphrey, despite not having competed in a single primary, easily won the nomination over Senators Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern ( who announced after the assassination of another candidate, Senator Robert F. Kennedy ), a commission headed by Senator McGovern reformed the Democratic Party's nominating process to increase the power of primaries in choosing delegates in order to increase the democracy of the process.
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Following and 1968
" Following in 1968, Walter Jackson Bate called the poem " haunting " and said that it was " so unlike anything else in English ".
Following the sale of 50 % of the car division Saab Automobile AB to General Motors, the main reason behind the merger with lorry manufacturer Scania-Vabis in 1968 had disappeared.
Following the 1968 film, Romero released Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Land of the Dead, Diary of the Dead and Survival of the Dead.
Following the 1966 tour, the group moved with Dylan to Saugerties, New York, where they made the informal 1967 recordings that became The Basement Tapes, which forged the basis for their 1968 debut album Music from Big Pink.
Following the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, pressure for neutrality increased.
Following this announcement, Humphrey quickly re-evaluated his position, and announced his presidential candidacy in late April 1968.
Following his retirement from the IDF he became ambassador to the United States beginning in 1968, serving for five years.
Following GEC's acquisition of Marconi as part of English Electric in 1968 the Marconi brand was used for its defence businesses e. g. Marconi Space & Defence Systems ( MSDS ), Marconi Underwater Systems Ltd ( MUSL ).
Following his At Last the 1948 Show, Feldman was given his own series on the BBC called Marty ( 1968 ); it featured Brooke-Taylor, John Junkin and Roland MacLeod, with Cleese as one of the writers.
Following the 1968 election, LeMay returned to private life, including pursuing several charitable projects.
Following the military and political results of the 1968 Tet Offensive and related military offensives in the South, in which the Vietcong suffered serious military losses, the PRG was envisioned as a political counter-force that could influence international public opinion in support of national independence and in opposition to the U. S. and the Republic of Vietnam.
Following the Enabling Act of 1919 control of the buildings passed to a Parochial Church Council ( replaced by the Cathedral Council in 1968 ), who appointed the woodwork specialist John Rogers as Architect and Surveyor of the Fabric.
Following that, he served as President of the World Bank from 1968 to 1981.
Following his retirement in 1957, Jeppesen resided in Italy, enabling him to make several discoveries in Italian libraries culminating in his magnum opus, La frottola ( 1968 – 70 ), a detailed study of frottola.
Following the Texas Sniper shootings, the Tower observation deck was initially closed for a total of two years, before reopening in 1968.
Following Wise's death in 1900, the farm was the home of his daughter and granddaughter, respectively, until 1968.
Following the designation of a conservation area in 1968 ( extended in 1973 and again in 1990 ), the area has seen extensive regeneration.
Following an unsuccessful stint as Port Vale's general manager between 1965 and 1968, he travelled around the world, coaching enthusiastic amateurs.
Following his release end of January 1968, he was banished in August to Zatouna with his wife Myrto and their two children, Margarita and Yorgos.
Following Gray's death in 1968, several artists drew the strip and, for a time, " classic " strips were rerun.
Following the 1968 election, McCarthy returned to the Senate, but announced that he would not be running for reelection in 1970, to the dismay of many Minnesotans.
German music: Following the 1968 student revolution in West Germany, singer-songwriters playing a kind of expressive, melancholy music with traditional influences became popular.
Following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968, he led Polaroid to the forefront of the affirmative action movement.
Following King's assassination, Dr. Abernathy took up the leadership of the SCLC Poor People's Campaign and led the March on Washington, D. C., that had been planned for May 1968.
Following the intervention of the ITA, a temporary service was set up — Independent Television Service for Wales and the West, broadcasting from the old TWW Pontcanna studios in Cardiff, and staffed by former TWW workers, until Harlech ( soon renamed " HTV ") was ready to take over its franchise early, on 20 May 1968.
Following and convention
Following the 1831 Nat Turner slave rebellion, a state convention was called to pass a new constitution, including provisions to disfranchise free people of color.
Following the convention of particle physicists, elementary particles refer to objects such as electrons and photons as it is well known that these types of particles display wave-like properties as well.
Following the election of Joseph Ritner as Governor of Pennsylvania in 1835, a state convention was held in Harrisburg on December 14 – 17, 1835 to choose Presidential Electors for the 1836 election.
Following the decision by party leaders in 1855 not to press the slavery issue, the convention had to decide how to deal with the Ohio Party, which was vocally anti-slavery.
Following the convention, Mulroney turned down the offer of a shadow cabinet portfolio in Clark's caucus.
Following the resignation of PC party leader Robert Stanfield, Clark sought and won the leadership of the PC Party at the 1976 leadership convention.
Following years of negotiations aimed at establishing a permanent international tribunal to prosecute individuals accused of genocide and other serious international crimes, such as crimes against humanity, war crimes and the recently defined crimes of aggression, the United Nations General Assembly convened a five-week diplomatic conference in Rome in June 1998 " to finalize and adopt a convention on the establishment of an international criminal court ".
Following the normal convention for the empty product, The Legendre and Jacobi symbols are indistinguishable exactly when the lower argument is an odd prime, in which case they have the same value.
Following the 2000 convention, all of the party ’ s elected municipal representatives and some other members resigned.
Following a convention established by the PLATO dungeon games Moria, Avatar and Oubliette, it was the first game for home computers to adapt the now-familiar WASD set of keys for moving forward and turning left and right ( the S was not used for movement ; it updated the status display ).
Following this convention, the multiplicative inverse of a residue is a residue, and the inverse of a nonresidue is a nonresidue.
Following this convention, modulo a prime number there are an equal number of residues and nonresidues.
Following the May 1869 American Equal Rights Association convention, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony established the National Woman Suffrage Association ( hereby referred to as " the National ").
Following the convention, eight protesters were charged with conspiracy to incite the riots, and there was a heavily publicized, five-month trial.
Following the 1868 convention, representatives of the Wisconsin and Missouri Synods held a meeting in Milwaukee during October 21 – 22, 1868.
Following the convention of Peskin & Schroeder, the spin operator for spin in the ( a, b, c ) direction is defined as the dot product of ( a, b, c ) with the vector
Following the convention on September 9, 1968 a Federal grand jury was empaneled to consider criminal charges.
Following the election, Wicks, who was party president, called a second leadership convention at which only Social Credit MLAs could vote.
Following Magna Carta this became a convention.
Following the resignation of Gilles Duceppe, the Bloc Québécois, on December 11, 2011 chose former MP Daniel Paillé as their leader at the 2011 Bloc Québécois leadership convention.
Following Doer's retirement Greg Selinger became leader of the party during the leadership convention in October 2009.
Following Mulroney's resignation as PC leader and prime minister in 1993, Edwards was a candidate at the PC leadership convention held to choose a successor.
Following Hanni's resignation, at the November 12-13, 1999 leadership convention, former Social Credit premier Bill Vander Zalm was acclaimed as leader of the party.
Following passage of Arizona's Enabling Act, an election was called to select delegates to a constitutional convention.
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