Sony executive Norio Ohga, who later became the CEO and chairman of Sony, was convinced of the format's commercial potential and pushed further development despite widespread skepticism.

Finally, trucking-company executive Jerry McMorris became head of the ownership group and served as the initial public face of management.

Eastman also became executive director of the American Union Against Militarism, which lobbied against America's entrance into the European war and more successfully against war with Mexico in 1916, sought to remove profiteering from arms manufacturing, and campaigned against conscription and imperial adventures.

In the 1970s, Atkins became increasingly stressed by his executive duties.

He first became executive officer to General Conner in the Panama Canal Zone, where, joined by Mamie, he served until 1924.

They are legislative and executive powers and functions conferred on the Governor-General, not by Royal authority, but by statutory authority ," a view held also by Andrew Inglis Clark, who assisted Sir Samuel Griffith with drafts of the constitution and later became Senior Judge of the Supreme Court of Tasmania.

In 1949 the Soviets turned control of East Germany over to the Socialist Unity Party, headed by Wilhelm Pieck ( 1876 – 1960 ), who became president of the GDR and remained officially ' Number One ' until his death in 1960, while most executive authority was assumed by SED General Secretary Walter Ulbricht.

Ulbricht became deputy prime minister in 1949 and secretary ( chief executive ) of the Socialist Unity ( Communist ) party in 1950.

On October 16, 1997, Engdahl became a member of the Swedish Academy, elected to seat number 17 vacated by the death of Johannes Edfelt ; on June 1, 1999, he succeeded Sture Allén as the Academy's permanent secretary, i. e. its executive member and spokesperson.

From June 1848 until December 1848 General Cavaignac became head of the executive of the Provisional Government.

Hoxha became the chairman of the council's executive committee and the National Liberation Army's supreme commander.

Spader planned to stay only through the eighth season, and while the original plan was just to do the guest appearance, executive producer Paul Lieberstein said, " those two scenes became a season.

On his return to Russia Radek became the Secretary of the Comintern, taking the main responsibility for German issues, however, he was removed from this position after he supported the KPD in opposing inviting representatives of the Communist Workers ' Party of Germany to attend the 2nd Congress of the Comintern, pitting him against the Comintern's executive and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

In 1951 he became a member of the CDU executive board.

On December 13, 1974, the constitution was revised, and Malta became a republic within the Commonwealth, with executive authority vested in the President of Malta which can be exercised directly or through officers subordinate to him.

Paul Marino, executive director of the AMAS, stated that deathmatches, a type of multiplayer game, became more " cinematic ".

He became the first youth representative on the Labour Party executive and was Vice-president of the International Union of Socialist Youth for two consecutive terms.

In March 1919, he became a member of the Comintern's executive committee and a candidate member of Politburo.

He emerged as the leader of the Party's right wing, which included two other Politburo members Alexei Rykov, Lenin's successor as Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars and Mikhail Tomsky, head of trade unions, and he became chairman of Comintern's executive committee in 1926.

In 1937, he was appointed chief executive of what later became the University of Nice.

In 1973, he was named Chief of the Narcotics Unit and became executive U. S. attorney.

The first chief executive officer of RCA was Owen D. Young ; David Sarnoff became its general manager.

In 1989, upon Wolfe Kelman's retirement, Joel H. Meyers became executive director of the RA.

He then became Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council for National Salvation ( a newly established body with legislative and executive powers for what was described as a transitional period ), and assumed the posts of chief of state, prime minister, chief of the armed forces, and minister of defense.

She was originally the wife of an Iraqi Airways executive, but later became the mistress of Saddam.

Isfahan became more of a legend than a place, and now it is for many people simply a name to which they attach their notions of old Persia and sometimes of the East.

This schedule became too strenuous, even for the energetic and conscientious Mr. Steinberg.

The need for monitoring became greater when radio was adopted for military signaling.

It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

The more Adoniram looked at the Greek word for baptism, the more unhappy he became over its true meaning.

Relieved of the major part of his responsibility for the safety of the ship, the pilot's oaths became fewer.

In the face of a clear judgment from archaeology, therefore, it became impossible for a time for scholars to re-adopt the `` shore settled by '' theory.

But as the more concrete plans for the work of the Council gradually became known, there was a rather sharp and abrupt disappointment on all sides.

At the age of 17 he became an apprentice machinist at the shop of Walcott & Harris in Valley Falls, Rhode Island, and following two or three other jobs in quick succession after graduation, he went into business for himself in 1831, making lathes and small tools.

Here, Prokofieff became a workman in the vineyards of Socialism -- producing music for the masses.

After Gagarin became the Greatest Man in the World, for a nation that does not believe in the cult of personality or in careerism, Moreland wrote me a letter in which he said: `` I am not interested in how long a bee can live in a vacuum, or how far it can fly.

The lower limit was determined by the fact that for smaller flow rates the arc started to strike to the anode holder instead of to the porous graphite plug and that it became highly unstable.

Serum potassium at this time was 3.8 mEq. per liter, and the hemoglobin was 13.9 gm. By Dec. 1, 1958, the weakness in the pelvic and quadriceps muscle groups was appreciably worse, and it became difficult for the patient to rise unaided from a sitting or reclining position.

The pain became thus the symbol for food and elicited salivary secretion ( conditioned reflex ).

Law became a conscious process, something more than simply doing justice and looking to local customs and a common morality for applicable norms.

When the power of the latter was made both limited and explicit -- when norms were clarified and made more precise and the creation of new norms was placed exclusively in parliamentary hands -- two purposes were served: Government was made subservient to an institutionalized popular will, and law became a rational system for implementing that will, for serving conscious goals, for embodying the `` public policy ''.

During the summer of 1960, it became the setting for a bitter and basic labor-management struggle.

This meant, concretely, that the patient could not read at all without making writing-like movements of the head or body, became easily confused by `` hasher marks '' inserted between hand-written words and thus confused the mark for one of the letters, and could recognize a simple straight line or a curved one only by tracing it.

In 1846 Matthew B. Goodwin, jeweler and watchmaker, became the town's first telegrapher in a dwelling he built for himself and his business `` two doors north of the Equinox House '' or `` one door north of the Bank, Manchester, Vermont ''.

Although slab stock appeared first, it soon became apparent that for the production of cushions with irregular shapes, crowned contours, or rounded edges, the cutting of slab stock is a wasteful and uneconomical process.

Still more jealous bitterness was engendered by the O'Banion gang's seizure from a West Side marshalling yard of a freight-car load of Canadian whisky worth $100,000 and by one of the biggest coups of the Prohibition era -- the Sibley warehouse robbery, which became famous for the cool brazenness of the operation.