It expanded to 195 in 1966, 141 in 1971, 287 in 1976 and 319 in 1981 ; of these, new membership consisted of 37, 30 and 28 percent respectively.

As the Community expanded into the Union, the centre-right in the new member states were not necessarily Christian Democrat and the EPP ( European People's Party, the transnational political party founded in 1976 which all group members are now affiliated to ) feared being sidelined.

The game was significantly expanded in 1976 by Don Woods.

Since Seychelles ' independence in 1976, per capita output in this Indian Ocean archipelago has expanded to roughly seven times the old near-subsistence level.

The soundtrack for the film, re-released in 1998 on CD, includes an expanded version of the score as well as the re-recorded tracks from the original 1976 LP.

The second Wilson government implemented a wide-ranging programme of social reform during its two years in office, with spending on education, health, price controls, and housing rents expanded from 1974 to 1976, amongst other reforms.

Concerned that Christians overwhelmingly voted in favor of President Jimmy Carter in 1976, Grant expanded his movement and founded Christian Voice to mobilize Christian voters in favor of candidates who share their socially conservative values.

Although the NFL expanded by two teams in 1976, that expansion had been planned before the WFL's first season.

Overall, BCCI expanded from 19 branches in five countries in 1973 to 27 branches in 1974, to 108 branches in 1976, with assets growing from $ 200 million to $ 1. 6 billion.

Parliament-Funkadelic stage shows ( particularly the P-Funk Earth Tour of 1976 ) were expanded to include imagery from science fiction and a stage prop known as the Mothership.

The complete Standard Rules for the game were originally developed in 1976 by Andrew Bartmess ( with encouragement from Joseph ) and were subsequently expanded by him into a commercially-available booklet.

Bicentennial Park opened in 1976 and expanded in the 1990s.

For their 1976 tour, the group expanded their stage line-up to include Jim Calire on keyboards and sax and Tom Walsh on percussion.

To add new words, they created an Addenda Section in 1966, included in the front matter, which was expanded in 1971, 1976, 1981, 1986, 1993, and 2002.

Although production was initially expanded at Barnsley, the brewery was closed down in 1976 with the loss of 200 jobs.

In 1976, the air terminal was again expanded.

Then Professor Marvin Zelen, a statistician and associate of the recently founded Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal ( CSICOP, now known as the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry ( CSI )), proposed in a 1976 article in the same periodical that, in order to eliminate any demographic anomaly, Gauquelin randomly pick 100 athletes from his data-set of 2, 088 and check the birth / planet correlations of a sample of babies born at the same times and places in order to establish a control group, giving the base-rate ( chance ) expectation for comparison ( The 100 random athletes later expanded into a subsample of 303 athletes ).

* W. Ray Scott, another NSU graduate, served as mayor of Natchitoches from 1960 – 1976 and worked to procure university status and expanded facilities for the institution.

Opening in 1976, the building was later expanded with the south wing, designed by former Ellwood associate James Tyler, and constructed between 1989-91.

In fact, oil companies in the U. S. perceive obtaining a permit to build a modern refinery to be so difficult and costly that no new refineries have been built ( though many have been expanded ) in the U. S. since 1976.

The two storey Neoclassical building was expanded and damaged by a fire in 1976.

In 1969, Bob Gore independently discovered expanded polytetrafluoroethylene ( ePTFE ) and introduced it to the public under the trademark Gore-Tex, for which he promptly applied for and obtained, issued April 27, 1976 and, issued February 5, 1980.

Additional acts of the legislature passed in 1974, 1976, and 1994 expanded the role and powers of the Met Council, merging it with transit and waste control commissions to become a unified regional authority.

It debuted in 1976 as a compact hatchback, though this style only lasted through 1981, as the line-up was expanded to include a sedan, coupé, and wagon.

By 1976, it had expanded from 2, 000 to more than 10, 000 students.

Established by the passing of Family Law Act 1975, under Chapter 3 of the Australian Constitution, it commenced operations on 5 January 1976.

In 1976, Volkswagen ceased Australian assembly operations, their factory in Clayton, Victoria was sold to Nissan Australia ( which is now occupied by Holden Special Vehicles ), and all Volkswagens were once again fully imported.

ConRail began operations in 1976.

The DC-130s and U-2s remained at the Davis-Monthan until 1976, when the 100 SRW was inactivated, its DC-130s transferred to Tactical Air Command's 432d Tactical Drone Group, and its U-2s transferred to SAC's 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing ( 9 SRW ) at Beale Air Force Base, California, where U-2 Dragon Lady operations were consolidated with SR-71 Blackbird operations.

1976 – 80 was spent in Mirage III-C training and operations.

The group began its operations in 1976, however it can trace its origins back to the Armed Forces of National Liberation ( FALN ).

In 1976, Erik Philip-Sörensen sold the Securitas group to his sons Jörgen Philip-Sörensen and Sven Philip-Sörensen, and in 1981, the group was divided between the sons, with the international operations developing into Group 4 and the Swedish operations retaining the Securitas brand.

The properties were notorious at the time for their extensive skimming operations ; according to the FBI, anywhere from $ 7 million to $ 15 million in funds from the Stardust were diverted to organized crime figures between 1974 and 1976 alone.

In 1976, shares of Royal Oak Dairy were purchased by Silverwood Dairies Limited, including operations of convenience stores under the Bantam and Astro names.

The Government in the Sunshine Act (, ) is a U. S. law passed in 1976 that affects the operations of the federal government, Congress, federal commissions, and other legally constituted federal bodies.

In order to maintain operations, a base rebuilding programme began in 1976.

Conrail, officially the Consolidated Rail Corporation, was created by the U. S. Government to salvage Penn Central, and the other bankrupt railroads freight business, beginning its operations on April 1, 1976.

Freight operations on former New Haven lines passed to Conrail with its government-overseen creation on April 1, 1976.

In 1976, he authored the Clark Amendment, which barred aid from the U. S. government to private groups engaged in military or paramilitary operations in Angola.

Syrianair started its Boeing 747SP operations on June 1, 1976, using the jumbo jet on the Damascus-Munich-London sector.

The agency also acquired through lease the New York State commuter trackage of Penn Central Transportation's Hudson, Harlem and New Haven lines, contracting their subsidized operation to Penn Central, until that company's operations were folded into Conrail in 1976.

In September 1976, the U. S. U-2 operations were turned over to the 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, but the U-2 operation at RAF Akrotiri continued to be called Operating Location OH until September 1980.

It started its operations on 1 January 1976.

When Air Force operations were phased out of Ellington AFB, Central Region Headquarters moved to Bergstrom AFB, in Austin, TX, on 10 March 1976.

In 1976 MDOT entered into a similar agreement with Conrail, which had ended up with responsibility for local passenger train operations in the Northeast Corridor after the bankruptcy of Penn Central and other Northeast railroads.

During the 1976 Teton Dam flood, Ricks College was used as a center for disaster relief operations.

Service on the Red Line ( and the Metro as a whole ) began on March 29, 1976, with operations between Farragut North and Rhode Island Avenue.

The U. S. Air Force and the U. S. Space and Missile Systems Organization continued to use the island for missile-tracking operations through 1976.