In 1901, Napoleon " Nap " Lajoie, the Philadelphia Phillies ' star second baseman, jumped to the A's after his contract was capped at $ 2, 400 per year — one of the highest-profile players to jump to the upstart AL.

During this time Abdul Qadir of Pakistan was the highest-profile leg spinner in the world and is sometimes credited with " keeping the art alive ".

Among the highest-profile of these objections were the criticisms levelled by the family of prominent anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko, who was killed by the security police, and whose story was later featured in the film Cry Freedom.

The Court lacked a home of its own and had little prestige, a situation not helped by the highest-profile case of the era, Chisholm v. Georgia, which was immediately repudiated by the Eleventh Amendment.

* In 1995, one of the highest-profile cases to make use of the gay panic defense was the Michigan trial of Jonathan Schmitz, who killed his friend Scott Amedure after learning, during a taping of The Jenny Jones Show, that Amedure was sexually attracted to him.

Déjà Vu was also the first release on the Atlantic Records SD-7200 " superstar " line, created by the label for its highest-profile artists ; the subsequent solo albums by Crosby, Stills, and Nash would also be the next releases in this series.

In January 2007, the club made international headlines by signing English superstar David Beckham from Real Madrid in a deal potentially worth $ 250 million, which was the highest-profile signing in the history of MLS.

Two of his highest-profile campaigns have involved Muslim victims of injustice — Mohamed S, who was framed by men who tried to kill him and jailed for eight years, and Sid Saeed, who brought a racist and homophobic harassment case against Deutsche Bank.

The highest-profile addition to the handset was Bing ( then called " Live Search "), was added and integrated with the new GPS functionality ; the mapping software previously relied on cell-tower triangulation ( a far less accurate process ).

His highest-profile accomplishment was negotiating a historic deal between the United States and the UN's then 188-Member States to settle the bulk of arrears owed by the United States to the United Nations.

In 2010 the case was described as being " one of the highest-profile unsolved racially-motivated murders ".

Another feud, this time between Piper and Hulk Hogan erupted soon after and became what was at the time the highest-profile feud in wrestling history, thanks to the involvement of pop singer Cyndi Lauper, where Piper kicked Lauper in the head — and even attacked Captain Lou Albano — with Hogan seeking revenge as a result.

However, in many regards, Cole was the highest-profile recess appointee, and Senate Republicans had blocked a vote on his nomination over his activities as an independent consultant at American International Group during its near-collapse and over previous comments about terrorism.

In 2003, he was one of the highest-profile Canadian journalists covering the 2003 invasion of Iraq, producing a documentary film for the CTV program W5, Embedded in Baghdad.

She was the key witness in District Attorney Vincent Bugliosi's prosecution of Manson and his followers for the Tate-LaBianca murders, one of the highest-profile murder trials in history.

) Because its three highest-profile MPs were Māori, Mauri Pacific was considered by many to be a Māori party.

He was one of the three commissioners sent to Washington, D. C. to negotiate the transfer of federal property to the State of South Carolina ; the failure of these negotiations led directly to the bombardment of one of the highest-profile federal assets within South Carolina, Fort Sumter.

Following the 2006 local elections, he was promoted to Minister of State for policing, security and community safety at the Home Office, replacing Hazel Blears, one of the highest-profile roles in the government outside the cabinet.

The 2005 trial resulted in the conviction of all three defendants and was one of the highest-profile trials ever in Orange County.

Veitch's highest-profile title was DC's Swamp Thing.

In 2002, he starred in The Project, a BBC drama charting New Labour's rise to power, and he took his highest-profile role to date, when he was picked to star in Spooks, which went on to become a huge popular and critical success when screened on BBC One.

In the mid 1980s, however, new laws meant that the days of pirate stations were numbered, and as one of the highest-profile stations Radio Jackie was an early target.

The foundation's highest-profile fundraiser is Camp Day, which is held annually on the Wednesday of the first full week in June.

Wicked Wisdom landed a slot on Britney Spears ' Onyx Hotel Tour in 2004, one of the year's highest-profile tours.

As the highest-profile player on the Ducks, he drew matchups against opposing teams top defencemen during the post-season, such as Willie Mitchell against the Wild and Stevens against the Devils.

Two of her highest-profile roles were on Six Feet Under where she played Melissa, a prostitute, and on Star Trek: Enterprise where she played Crewman Elizabeth Cutler.

The highest-profile instance of vehicle crime in Toxteth came on 30 October 1991, when two children ( nine-year-old Daniel Davies and 12-year-old Adele Thompson ) were killed by a speeding sports car driven by 18-year-old joyrider Christopher Lewin on Granby Street.

In the 1990s, his highest-profile team-up came again with Quincy Jones, on the song " The Secret Garden ".

The highest-profile executions took place on the grève, including the gruesome deaths of the assassins François Ravaillac, and Robert – François Damiens, as well as the bandit-rebel Guy Éder de La Fontenelle.

Lazard has also advised on some of the largest and highest-profile corporate restructurings around the world.

In late December, 2004, Prime announced it had acquired New Zealand broadcast rights for the new series of Doctor Who, one of its highest-profile imported shows, which went on to screen in June 2005 to generally good ratings.

Attracted by the idea of owning what at the time was one of Scotland's highest-profile football clubs, on 23 November 1988 Murray secured the purchase of Rangers from the club's then owner, the Nevada-based Lawrence Marlborough, for a sum of £ 6, 000, 000.

Shortly following Maskhadov's death on 8 March 2005, the Chechen rebel council announced that Sadulayev had assumed Maskhadov's position, a move that was quickly endorsed by Shamil Basayev, the Chechens ' highest-profile guerrilla commander.

It ended in 1982, to allow the presenters to move on to other projects-notably Edmonds, who became one of the highest-profile TV presenters in the UK.

Wicked Wisdom landed a slot on Britney Spears ' Onyx Hotel Tour in 2004, one of the year's highest-profile tours.

The highest-profile miengu ceremony today is the annual Ngondo celebration in Douala, first held in 1949.

At the time of Dobson's sentencing, The Independent described the Lawrence killing – despite having happened more than 17 years previously – as " one of the highest-profile unsolved racially-motivated murders ".

His highest-profile television roles have included hospital radio DJ Eddie McKenna in BBC Scotland's Takin ' Over The Asylum the leading character, DCI Red Metcalfe, in the BBC crime drama series Messiah ( BBC One, 2001 – 05 ); DI Chappell in ITV police drama The Vice ( 1999 – 2003 ); as a drunk who fantasises about finding redemption by joining the Salvation Army in Promoted to Glory ( ITV, 2003 ); as Adolf Hitler in Uncle Adolf ( ITV, 2005 ) and as a fictional Chancellor of the Exchequer in Richard Curtis's The Girl in the Café ( BBC One, 2005 ).

The highest-profile PIRGs are MPIRG ( Minnesota PIRG ), CALPIRG ( California PIRG ), MASSPIRG ( Massachusetts PIRG ), NYPIRG ( New York PIRG ), and OSPIRG ( Oregon State PIRG ).

Grapes — table, raisin, and to a lesser extent wine — are perhaps the valley's highest-profile product, but equally ( if not more ) important are cotton, nuts ( especially almonds and pistachios ), citrus, and vegetables.

The channel's other highest-profile sports coverage was its exclusive UK rights to Ultimate Fighting Championship archives as well as recent events ( live rights are now held by ESPN ), as well as related reality TV show The Ultimate Fighter.

Nathan-Turner was arguably the highest-profile producer during the original run of the series ( 1963-1989 ), and his reign was at times controversial.

Under the leadership of news director Irv Weinstein, who had developed his own similar format under the name Eyewitness News ( and before that, Pulse Beat News and Rock and Roll Radio News ), WKBW developed much of the talent that WPVI would later hire to boost them to # 1 in the market ; anchor Jim Gardner ( replacing Larry Kane when he moved to WABC in New York ), weatherman Dave Roberts, and iconic voice-over artist Jeff Kaye are the three highest-profile WPVI personalities to have come from WKBW.