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In 1977 a similar organization was formed in the USA.

Apart from this, when no party has had a majority, minority governments normally have been formed with one or more opposition parties agreeing to vote for the legislation governments need to function, as the Labour government of James Callaghan formed a coalition with the Liberals in 1977 when it lost its narrow majority gained at the October 1974 election.

It was also the first full coalition in Britain since 1945, having been formed 70 years virtually to the day after the establishment of Winston Churchill's wartime coalition, although there had been the " Lib-Lab pact ", an agreement stopping short of a full coalition between the Labour and Liberal parties, from March 1977 until July 1978, when a series of by-election defeats had eroded Labour's majority of three seats which had been gained at the October 1974 election.

After Alston's death in 1977 a committee was formed, unable to raise funds for conservation on the original murals.

The party's youth wing, Young Fine Gael, was formed in 1977, and has approximately four thousand members.

Relations between the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) and Liberia have been broken and reestablished several times since February 17, 1977, when diplomatic relations between the PRC and Liberia were first formed.

In 1977, Lesbos, the first lesbian organization for Mexicans, was formed.

After working as a session musician with Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi in 1977, the trio formed the internationally successful electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra ( YMO ) in 1978.

Under the constitution adopted in 1936 and modified along the way until October 1977, the political foundation of the Soviet Union was formed by the Soviets ( Councils ) of People's Deputies.

The roots of The Pogues were formed when MacGowan ( vocals ), Peter " Spider " Stacy ( tin whistle ), and Jem Finer ( banjo ) were together in an occasional band called The Millwall Chainsaws in the late 1970s after MacGowan and Stacy met in the toilets at a Ramones gig at The Roundhouse in 1977.

X is an American punk rock band, formed in Los Angeles in 1977.

The Faculty of Social Sciences was formed from Chairs in the Faculty of Arts in 1977, and merged to form the Faculty of Law, Business and Social Sciences in 2005, the two having operated as a single ' resource unit ' since 2002.

The position was formed on October 1, 1977 with the creation of the Department of Energy when President Jimmy Carter signed the Department of Energy Organization Act.

The company was formed in the United Kingdom as a statutory corporation on 29 April 1977 as a result of the Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act.

The Police were an English rock band formed in London in 1977.

In 1977, the Western Contact Group ( WCG ) was formed including Canada, France, West Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

* The Motors, a British pub rock / punk band, formed in 1977 by Nick Garvey, Andy McMaster, Ricky Slaughter and Rob Hendry, who was replaced by Bram Tchaikovsky the same year

In 1977 this faction was expelled and formed the Nava Sama Samaja Party, led by Vasudeva Nanayakkara.

* The Kings, a Canadian rock band formed in 1977.

Branca formed two bands in the late 1970s: Theoretical Girls in 1977 with composer / guitarist Jeffrey Lohn and photographer / musician Barbara Ess, and The Static.

On 22 December 1977, the band split up, Clarke, Griffiths and Wylie formed The Nova Mob ( along Julian Cope ), and Paul Rutherford formed The Opium Eaters, while Littler moved to London in January 1978, where joined The Photons, alongside Steve Strange ( later Visage ).

With the introduction of UHF CB radios in 1977, many operators used both UHF and HF radios and formed groups to own and operate local FM repeaters.

The Subcommittee on International Organizations of the Committee on International Relations ( also known as the Fraser Committee ) was a committee of the United States House of Representatives which met in 1976 and 1977 and conducted an investigation into South Korea – United States relations.

In 1977 a committee reviewed all colleges of naturopathy in Australia and found that, although the syllabuses of many colleges were reasonable in their coverage of basic biomedical sciences on paper, the actual instruction bore little relationship to the documented course.

In 1977, both the Abourezk-Hatfield National Voter Initiative and the Jagt Resolutions never got out of committee.

Since then, Morrison has experimented with lyric fantasy, as in her two best-known later works, Song of Solomon ( 1977 ) and Beloved ( 1987 ), for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction ; along these lines, critic Harold Bloom has drawn favorable comparisons to Virginia Woolf, and the Nobel committee to " Faulkner and to the Latin American tradition magical realism.

In its first period, 1977 – 1982, the Anti-Nazi League was supposedly run by an elected committee nationally and similar committees throughout the country, although in practice many local and National ANL initiatives were launched directly by the SWP.

In 1972 he launched his career in community and union settings, as moderator for the citizen's committee of Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, then in 1977 as a representative for the Royal Victoria Hospital employees.

In 1975 a working committee was created that in 1977 agreed on a list of specifications.

Dissatisfied members separated from the Holiness Baptist Association on January 7, 1977 for what they termed " broken confidence and lack of trust in the trustee committee ".

In the 1977 Report of the committee of inquiry on industrial democracy the Government proposed, in line with the new German Codetermination Act 1976, and mirroring an EU Draft Fifth Company Law Directive, that the board of directors should have an equal number of representatives elected by employees as there were for shareholders.

Also in 1977, the NCAA infractions committee recommended that Pitino and O ' Neil be disassociated from Hawaii athletics.

On 15 July 1977 the New Communist Party was established at an emergency meeting in London called by French and other members of the Surrey district committee.

From 1977 to 1989, Skinner practiced law as a senior partner in the Chicago law firm Sidley & Austin, where he served on the firm's executive committee.

In its inception year, the CEIRPP urged the SC to promote action for a fair solution-recommending “ a two-phase plan for the return of Palestinian to their homes and property, a timetable for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the occupied territories by 1 June 1977, with the provision, if necessary, of temporary peacekeeping forces to facilitate the process .” The committee oversees " a programme of implementation to enable the Palestinian people to exercise their inalienable right to self-determination without external interference, national independence and sovereignty ; and to return to their homes and property.

While related sections of the law made references to sex, a State Assembly committee that was debating adding sex-specific terms to this section in 1977 noted: " Under existing law it is not clear whether partners of the same sex can get married ".

In response to complaints from industry about a shortage of qualified engineers, the government in 1977 invited Finniston to set up a committee of enquiry into British engineering.

Mr. Cairns was appointed to a steering committee to organize the first Olympiad in Delaware which took place at Delaware State University in the Spring of 1977.

During 1977 the Pulitzer Prize committee for fiction ( aka " fiction jury ") recommended A River Runs Through It be awarded the prize for that year.

German joined the International Socialists, forerunner of the Socialist Workers Party ( SWP ) in the early 1970s, later becoming part of its elected central committee and therefore a full timer for the group by 1977.

In 1977, it became the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, and Indian Affairs were removed from its jurisdiction into its own committee.

A new Indian Affairs Committee was created in 1977, initially as a select committee, as a result of the detachment of indigenous affairs from the new Committee on Energy and National Resources, which had succeeded the old Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.

In 1977, the Senate approved which re-established the Committee on Indian Affairs as a temporary select committee.

The number of members serving on the committee has expanded since its formation in 1977.

The United States Senate Special Committee on Aging was initially established in 1961 as a temporary committee ; it became a permanent Senate committee in 1977.