Paws, Inc. was founded in 1981 by Jim Davis to support the Garfield comic strip and its licensing.

In 1982, Wheeler and Ridlon established the Jim Thorpe Foundation and gained support from the U. S. Congress.

In spite of a GM unwritten edict against engines larger than 330 ci in intermediate cars, DeLorean ( with support from Jim Wangers from Pontiac's ad agency ), came up with the idea to offer the GTO as a dealer option package that included a 389 ci engine rated at 325 or.

After touring to support Angel Dust in the summer of 1993, long-time guitarist Jim Martin exited the band due to internal conflicts.

Across the nation, black churches raised money to support the boycott and collected new and slightly used shoes to replace the tattered footwear of Montgomery's black citizens, many of whom walked everywhere rather than ride the buses and submit to Jim Crow laws.

Jim Henson, Brian Henson, Brian Froud, Jennifer Connelly and the animatronic creature Ludo were all present to support the film.

On June 7, 2005, with support from her new campaign advisors of Ed Rollins and Jim Dornan, Harris announced her candidacy for the 2006 Florida United States Senate election, challenging incumbent Democrat Bill Nelson.

Angered and stunned, Jim asks him to leave, and all the others, including Cadence, support Jim's decision.

Jim Fairchild of Grandaddy and All Smiles replaced Marr as guitarist, when Marr left the band after joining The Cribs, beginning with the support of No One's First and You're Next, which was released on August 4, 2009, composed of unreleased tracks from the recording sessions of Good News for People Who Love Bad News and We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank.

Leskiw left the band before the Paramount show in 1972 to be replaced by Don McDougall, and bassist Jim Kale left after his lifestyle could no longer support touring.

The Scottish Socialist Party also has some support ; Jim Bollan, currently the only SSP councillor in Scotland, sits for the Leven ward on West Dunbartonshire Council.

Previous leader Jim Harris was first elected to the office with over 80 % of the vote and the support of the leaders of all of the provincial level Green parties.

While there are some claims that Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka had been dunked a year earlier, NFL Films president Steve Sabol has stated that he can find no evidence to support it in any footage he has reviewed and that he believes the tradition started with Parcells and Jim Burt.

Despite gaining votes on the second ballot, Brison was eliminated by a mere three votes and threw his support to Jim Prentice.

Orchard decided to support Peter MacKay over Jim Prentice due to the latter's implicit support for a United Alternative ( merger of the party with the Canadian Alliance ( CA ) party ).

Jim Parish, Senior Campaigns Officer for the Labour Party 1985-93 and an organiser of the rally wrote, " the catastrophic 6-7 per cent drop in Labour support occurred before the rally and was-I am reliably informed-known in Sheffield that night.

* In 1975 the Whitlam government refused to support Speaker Jim Cope when he named government minister Clyde Cameron for disrespect to the Chair: normally this would have resulted in the minister's suspension from the House.

He received the lowest voting support in history as an individual who was elected on the first ballot due to the fact that Nolan Ryan and George Brett, elected in their 1st year of eligibility, along with future Hall of Fame inductees Carlton Fisk, Gary Carter, Jim Rice, Bert Blyleven, Bruce Sutter and Tony Perez, shared the same ballot.

After the election, however, Labour and their coalition partner, the Jim Anderton-led Progressive Coalition, opted to rely on support from United Future, a party with conservative Christian overtones, shutting the Greens out of power.

Inhofe, an initial sponsor of Senator Jim Webb's Post-9 / 11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008, subsequently withdrew support for this bill to support S 2938, a competing bill that would have provided benefits beyond those offered in Webb's bill .< ref >

On 17 October 2005 Dunne gave his support to a new Labour-led Government, with the support of Winston Peters ’ New Zealand First Party and Jim Anderton ’ s Progressive Party.

In 2010, Lewis announced his support for Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson in the race to fill the United States Senate seat of retiring Republican Senator Jim Bunning.

Wally Ingram, drummer for support act Sheryl Crow, temporarily filled in until a replacement, Peter Jones ( ex-Harem Scarem, Vince Jones, Kate Ceberano's Septet ) was found.

Robeson specifically made a transformation from someone who was primarily a singer into a political persona with a vocal support for what was at the time considered " Communist " causes including the decolonization of Africa, anti-Jim Crow legislation and peace with the USSR.

It also campaigned for a separate black nation in the South, one of the CPUSA's principal tenets in the early 1930s, and against police brutality, the Italian occupation of Ethiopia and Jim Crow laws, while also advocating a more general policy of opposition to fascism and support for the Soviet Union.

Pallot has toured the UK many times as support act to more established singer-songwriters such as Sheryl Crow, James Blunt, Suzanne Vega, Joseph Arthur, Ray LaMontagne and Missy Higgins.

It also campaigned for a separate black nation in the South and against police brutality and Jim Crow laws, while also advocating a more general policy of opposition to fascism and support for the Soviet Union.

However, the government reneged on its promises to provide food and annuities to the tribe, and Little Crow was forced to support the decision of a Dakota war council in 1862 to pursue war to drive out the whites from Minnesota.

Prior to their 1999 tour, the Rolling Stones put in a performance, with Sheryl Crow as support.

There was also a liberal element in the South — in support of Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt — but they rarely opposed Jim Crow.

Early tribal leaders worked to start the process of reorganizing tribal government and gaining recognition, but in the post-Reconstruction era with the rise of Jim Crow laws, they found little support.

Apparently still sensitive about the idea with which General Gates had approached him at Saratoga, namely, that George Washington be replaced, Morgan was vehement in his support of the commander-in-chief during the campaign around Philadelphia.

Unfortunately the cafes might not make enough money to support themselves during the off season.

Throughout the period and during the movement operation, the Museum continued its functional support of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.

Two entries in The Early Life support the assumption that during this period Hardy had virtually suspended the writing of poetry.

The RABDF has responsibility for several different roles: internal security, prevention of drug smuggling, the protection and support of fishing rights, prevention of marine pollution, search and rescue, ceremonial duties, assistance to government programs, provision of relief during natural disasters, assistance in the maintenance of essential services and support of the police in maintaining law and order.

Two other reasons for this title are that he would support his aged father-in-law with his hand at Senate meetings, and that he had saved those men that Hadrian, during his period of ill-health, had condemned to death.

The rise of TCP / IP during the 1990s led to a re-implementation of most of these types of support on that protocol, and AppleTalk became unsupported as of the release of Mac OS X v10. 6 in 2009.

Modern IFVs are well-armed infantry carriers, differencing from earlier APCs by their heavier armament allowing them to give direct-fire support during an assault.

The initiative went beyond leasing notebook computers to students during the academic year, and included training, user support and the use of course-specific applications at Acadia that arguably revolutionized learning at the Wolfville, N. S.

About 26 were sold to Siam and saw action as Infantry support guns and AA guns during the Franco-Thai war ( 1940-1941 ) along with 30 Vickers Mk. E Type B 6-ton tanks.

Clinton and his running mate, Al Gore, toured the country during the final weeks of the campaign, shoring up support and pledging a " new beginning ".

In support of animal protection, she condemned seal hunting in Canada during a visit to that country with Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.

Blake further argued that Disraeli's imperialism " decisively orientated the Conservative party for many years to come, and the tradition which he started was probably a bigger electoral asset in winning working-class support during the last quarter of the century than anything else ".

Because the P-array is 576 bits long, and the key bytes are XORed through all these 576 bits during the initialization, many implementations support key sizes up to 576 bits.

Graduate students in turn compete for acceptance into a BTP ; if accepted then stipend, tuition and health insurance support is provided for two or three years during the course of their Ph. D. thesis work.

Selig enjoys a high level of support from baseball owners, but has been widely decried by both the MLB Players ' Union for his policies and by the general public for presiding over the game during one of its most contentious periods.

Villeneuve came under scathing attack on his return to France for his failure to support Brueys during the battle.

In late 1905 Balfour had requested of Charles Dreyfus, his Jewish constituency representative, that he arrange a meeting with Weizmann, during which Weizmann asked for official British support for Zionism ; they were to meet again on this issue in 1914.

France was however the first country to recognise Bozizé's government and during his time in power France has given logistic and intelligence support to the peace missions in the country.

Problems with collapses of banks during downturns, however, was leading to wider support for central banks in those nations which did not as yet possess them, most notably in Australia.

He expanded his repertoire to include songs written in traditional genres of the Mexican music, and during the farmworkers ' rights campaign, wrote music in support of César Chávez and the United Farm Workers.

As Moism lost support by the time of the Han, the main philosophical contenders were Legalism, which Confucian thought somewhat absorbed, the teachings of Lao-tzu, whose focus on more mystic ideas kept it from direct conflict with Confucianism, and the new Buddhist religion, which gained acceptance during the Southern and Northern Dynasties era.

They developed in the socio-economic and political cleavages that existed during the first three decades of the 19th century, and had the support of the business, professional and established Church ( Anglican ) elites in Ontario and to a lesser extent in Quebec.

First the ramps are lowered and fully extended before the treadways are forward with the full load of the bridge resting on the forward support plate during launch.