Following the fall of the Shah of Iran and the Iran Hostage Crisis in 1979 – 1980, the West became concerned with ensuring the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz, and the US received permission for a $ 400 million expansion of the military facilities on Diego Garcia consisting of two parallel runways, expansive parking aprons for heavy bombers, 20 new anchorages in the lagoon, a deep water pier, port facilities for the largest naval vessels in the US or British fleet, aircraft hangars, maintenance buildings and an air terminal, a fuel storage area, and billeting and messing facilities for thousands of sailors and support personnel.

Following the war, the company revitalized its fur-trade and real-estate activities ; and diversified its operations by venturing into the oil business.

Following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, Carl Sagan and other scientists predicted that burning oil wells could cause environmental damage comparable to nuclear winter.

Following recent discoveries and oil fields currently under development, Congo's oil production is expected to continue to rise significantly in the next few years.

Following high school, he enrolled at North Texas State College, planning to study geology so that he could secure work in the oil fields if music did not pay.

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union and economic liberalization, Sakhalin has experienced an oil boom with extensive petroleum exploration and mining by most large oil multinational corporations.

Following the discovery of oil in 1928, crude oil and natural gas joined timber as leading natural resources until about 1934 when oil experienced a natural decline.

Image :' The Robe Following Her-4 ', oil on canvas painting by Jim Dine, 1984-5. jpg | Jim Dine, 1984 – 1985 The Robe Following Her

Following the discovery of oil nearby, the population of Baytown and the Tri-cities boomed.

Following renewed controversy over the financial support Milloy received from tobacco and oil companies while writing editorial pieces favorable to them, Milloy's name was removed from the list of Cato adjunct scholars.

Following the desalter, the crude oil is further heated by exchanging heat with some of the hot, distilled fractions and other streams.

Following the First World War, as the United States Navy converted its ships from coal to oil, the importance of securing a stable supply of oil became important to the U. S. government.

Following this he attended the Open University in his mid-twenties to study a Foundation Course and then later attended the University of Stirling, gaining a BA in history and a Ph. D. in economic history, with a thesis on the slave trade written as a critique of the Marxist model of historical change, entitled Warrior Aristocrats In Crisis: the political effects of the transition from the slave trade to palm oil commerce in the nineteenth century Kingdom of Dahomey.

Following the embargo, higher oil prices instigated new avenues for energy exploration or expansion including Alaska, the North Sea, the Caspian Sea, and Caucasus.

Following the fall of Rostov, Hitler split German forces operating in the southern extremity of the southern Russian SFSR in an effort to simultaneously capture the city of Stalingrad and the Caucasus oil fields.

" Following their divorce in 1994, his only worldly possessions were listed as a 1989 GMC Truck with camper shell, a 1984 Honda Shadow Motorcycle and a 1983 Starwind 22-foot boat named Dorothy ; he also retained sole ownership of his family inheritance of " ownership in oil lease and mineral rights.

Oil on canvas, Brooklyn Museum. jpg | Following the Moose, oil on canvas painting by Cornelius Krieghoff, ca.

Following a relatively calm 1958, Perón's agreement with Frondizi soured when the latter opened oil exploration contracts to foreign bidders, and particularly during Alsogaray's " winter " of 1959.

Following the law of demand, the demand curve is almost always represented as downward-sloping, meaning that as price decreases, consumers will buy more of the good.

Following the 1988 Beidaihe meeting, the party leadership under Deng Xiaoping agreed to a transition to a market-based price system.

Following their relegation, the club was put up for sale in June 2009, with an asking price of £ 100 million.

Following the dramatic OPEC ( Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries ) price increases of the mid-nineteen seventies, operations were constrained by rising fuel costs.

Following protracted negotiations, the city purchased the Chavez Ravine property back from the Federal Housing Authority at a drastically reduced price, with the stipulation that the land be used for a public purpose.

Following fears that cost overruns on the project would push the final price tag to £ 13bn, the plans were scaled down, bringing the cost down to between £ 8bn and £ 10bn, to be ready by 2008, with a maximum speed for tilting trains of a more modest-equalling the speeds available on the East Coast route, but some way short of the original target, and even further behind BR's original vision of speeds planned and achieved with the APT.

Following the successful IPO, CN has recorded impressive gains in its stock price, largely through an aggressive network rationalization and purchase of newer more fuel-efficient locomotives.

Following his misadventures, Tim decides that the price is too high ... only to find that everything he has learnt from his supposed mentors has made it impossible for him to turn away from magic.

Following release, Nintendo announced Mario Party 5 as a " Player's Choice " title, which is a label for Nintendo titles that had sold more than one million copies to be sold at a bargain price.

Following a series of rights issues and a strongly rising share price, Eidos plc undertook a series of acquisitions in the games sector, starting with the acquisition of the PC games companies Domark Group Limited ( Domark ), Simis and Big Red Software in 1995 through a reverse takeover.

Following the expiry of the patent, the price of achromatic doublets in England dropped in half.

Following the collapse of Bear Stearns, one famous photo surfaced of a two-dollar note taped above the corporate logo at the bank's headquarters in New York, in reference to the per-share price offered as a takeover bid by JPMorgan ( down from $ 93 a share just a month before ).

Following the broadcast of the actual crop report, showing that the orange crop will be normal, the price of orange-juice futures plummets.

Following the sub-prime-induced global market falls and amongst increasing difficulties in the airlines trading conditions such as higher oil prices, increased competition and a loss of monopoly control over key international routes, market views Qantas ' value has fallen sharply from the pre-bid price.

Following the French Revolution in 1789 the law of 14 – 17 June 1791 declared agreements by members of the same trade that fixed the price of an industry or labour as void, unconstitutional, and hostile to liberty.

Following the debut of the car Lee Noble decided that the car was insufficiently different from the M12 / M400 to justify the price increase despite having taken a number of deposits.

Following the announcement, the group's share price rose, but were now widely seen as vulnerable to a takeover.

Following the award of the first £ 10, 000 instalment, Duncan was given the unique honour of permission to buy shares on the London Stock Exchange at ⅞ market price.

Following these announcements, the price of the company ’ s stock lost 37. 80 % of its value, to close at $ 0. 51 on March 10, 2011.

Following experimentation on him by MODOK, Rick's human persona became dominant, but at the price of trapping him in A-Bomb form Although Bruce speculates in a later storyline that this is actually a deliberate, albeit subconscious, action on Rick's part, Rick wanting to prevent anything else being hurt while saving him like Bruce was when he was originally transformed into the Hulk by ensuring that he is always ready if he is attacked.

Following the public offering, Cosmos's share price skyrocketed, and the individuals involved in the scheme saw average profits of ¥ 66 million each.

Following the October 1987 stock market crash, he capitalized on the lower quoted price and soon owned 43 % of LVMH.

Following the announcement of the Apple iPad on January 27, 2010 — a product that comes with access to the iBookstore — Macmillan gave Amazon. com two options: continue to sell e-books based on a price of the retailer's choice ( the " wholesale model "), with the e-book edition released several months after the hardcover edition is released, or switch to the agency model introduced to the industry by Apple, in which both are released simultaneously and the price is set by the publisher.