The Modicon brand was sold in 1977 to Gould Electronics, and later acquired by German Company AEG and then by French Schneider Electric, the current owner.

* Catherine Schneider, 1975 – 1977 ( divorced ); 1 son ( Vania )

A list of past honorary degree recipients, include: Beverly Sills ( 1975 ), Roy Lichtenstein ( 1977 ), Twyla Tharp ( 1978 ), Gordon Davidson ( 1980 ) Haskell Wexler ( 1981 ) Mischa Schneider ( 1981 ), Bella Lewitzky ( 1981 ), Henry Mancini ( 1983 ), Jan de Gaetani ( 1983 ), Ravi Shankar ( 1985 ), John Cage ( 1986 ), Frank O. Gehry ( 1987 ), Trisha Brown ( 1988 ), Donn B. Tatum ( 1989 ), Luis Valdez ( 1989 ), Paul Taylor ( 1989 ), Ornette Coleman ( 1990 ), Beatrice Manley ( 1990 ), Lulu May Von Hagen ( 1990 ), Ustad Ali Akbar Khan ( 1991 ), Pearl Primus ( 1991 ), Adrian Piper ( 1992 ), Ray Bradbury ( 1992 ), Yvonne Rainer ( 1993 ), Steven Bochco ( 1993 ), Stan Brakhage ( 1994 ), Vija Celmins ( 1994 ), Betye Saar ( 1995 ), Carolyn Forche ( 1995 ), Laurie Anderson ( 1996 ), Elvin Jones ( 1996 ), Chantal Akerman ( 1997 ), Lee Breuer ( 1998 ), Ed Ruscha ( 1999 ), Bill Viola ( 2000 ), Steve Reich ( 2000 ), Ry Cooder ( 2001 ), Faith Hubley ( 2001 ), Bruce Nauman ( 2001 ), Alice Coltrane ( 2002 ), Roy E. Disney ( 2003 ), Anna Halprin ( 2003 ), Carolee Schneemann ( 2003 ), Christian Wolff ( 2004 ), Daniel Nagrin ( 2004 ), James Newton ( 2005 ), Harrison “ Buzz ” Price ( 2005 ), Julius Shulman ( 2005 ), Rudy VanderLans ( 2006 ), Rudy Perez ( 2006 ), Alonzo King ( 2007 ), Harry Belafonte ( 2008 ), Herbert Blau ( 2008 ), Terry Riley ( 2008 ), Elizabeth LeCompte ( 2009 ), Morton Subotnick ( 2009 ), William M. Lowman ( 2010 ), Trimpin ( 2010 ), Annette Bening ( 2011 ), Donald McKayle ( 2011 ), and Peter Sellars ( 2012 ).

* Schneider, Carl D. ( 1977 ) Shame, Exposure, and Privacy.

* V-2 Schneider, a largely instrumental piece written by David Bowie in 1977 for the album Heroes

The most important of the three films she directed was the 1977 Sois belle et tais-toi ( Be Pretty and Shut up ) that included actresses Shirley MacLaine, Maria Schneider, and Jane Fonda, speaking frankly about the level of sexism they had to deal with in film industry.

He originally joined the B-52's in 1977, when he, his sister Cindy, Kate Pierson, Keith Strickland and Fred Schneider shared a tropical Flaming Volcano drink at a Chinese restaurant and, after an impromptu music session at the home of their friend Owen Scott III, played for the first time at a Valentine's Day party for friends.

From 1977 to the mid 1980s the company owned the Modicon brand of programmable logic controller that is now owned by Schneider Electric.

After initially being largely ignored by most scientists, ( from 1969 until 1977 ), thereafter for a period, the initial Gaia hypothesis was criticized by a number of scientists, such as Ford Doolittle, Richard Dawkins and Stephen Jay Gould.

* A late reply ( 1994 Edition ) to Ronald Dworkin, who criticized legal positivism in general and especially Hart's account of law in Taking Rights Seriously ( 1977 ), A Matter of Principle ( 1985 ) and Law's Empire ( 1986 ).

* A late reply ( published as a postscript to the second edition ) to Ronald Dworkin, who criticized legal positivism in Taking Rights Seriously ( 1977 ), A Matter of Principle ( 1985 ) and Law's Empire ( 1986 ).

( It was also later criticized as being not physically possible in exact accordance with its original definition: among other things the 1976 definition excluded a necessary small offset for the initial epoch of 1977.

Several Soviet professionals criticized the project of the Constitution of 1977, but such critiques were not taken into account and were not published in time ; during the Brezhnev stagnation, only publications in favor were allowed.

From 1969 to 1977, Kellogg's acquired various small businesses including Salad Foods, Fearn International, Mrs. Smith's Pies, Eggo, and Pure Packed Foods ; however, it was later criticized for not diversifying further like General Mills and Quaker Oats were.

During December 1977 public hearings, this route was criticized as disserving poorer landowners in the area, but Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority ( WMATA ) approved the western route in 1980, scheduled to open in 1986.

In 1977, British playwright Tom Stoppard wrote the play Every Good Boy Deserves Favour that criticized the Soviet practice of treating political dissidence as a form of mental illness.

Some criticized the film for being a copycat of the 1977 horror film, The Hills Have Eyes.

* A late reply ( 1994 Edition ) to Ronald Dworkin, who criticized legal positivism in general and especially Hart's account of law in Taking Rights Seriously ( 1977 ), A Matter of Principle ( 1985 ) and Law's Empire ( 1986 ).

Journalist Gary Indiana criticized a young Otterness for an independent work done in 1977 called " Shot Dog Film " a looped video piece, in which, Otterness shot a stray dog as a form of war protest.

Bateman's decision in 1977 to produce reproductions of his paintings through Mill Pond Press has been criticized by some who feel that the reproductions are " overpriced posters that cheapen the legitimate art market ".

Before the 1977 season, Ellis publicly criticized Yankees owner George Steinbrenner for giving him a raise that was not substantial enough for him, given his 1976 performance, and for interfering with manager Billy Martin.

When American President Jimmy Carter criticized the military rule in Chile in 1977, Leigh said, " He is a hypocrite.

In an article first published in the Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte journal in 1977, later translated into English as " Hitler and the Genesis of the ‘ Final Solution ’: An Assessment of David Irving ’ s Theses ", Broszat criticized David Irving's argument in his book Hitler's War that Hitler was unaware of the Holocaust but did accept Irving's argument that there was no written order from Hitler for the " Final Solution to the Jewish Question ".

On his 1977 album Wildledermantelmann he criticized many of his former comrades from that era for what he saw as their betrayal of socialist ideals and shift towards a social-liberal orientation.

The most popular single earthquake in fiction is the hypothetical " Big One " expected of California's San Andreas Fault someday, as depicted in the novels Richter 10 ( 1996 ) and Goodbye California ( 1977 ) among other works.

In 1977 they upgraded and extended their Artist range and introduced a number of other top quality original designs made to match or surpass famous American brands ; the Performer and short-lived Concert ranges which competed with the Les Paul ; through neck Musicians ; Studios in fixed and through neck construction ; the radically shaped Iceman and the Roadster which morphed into the Roadstar range, precursor to the popular superstrat era in the mid-1980s.

Inspired by Adventure, a group of students at MIT wrote a game called Zork in the summer of 1977 for the PDP-10 minicomputer which became quite popular on the ARPANET.

From 1977 on, punk rock crossed lines with many other popular music genres.

Optical cards were produced by Landis + Gyr and Sodeco from Switzerland and were popular early phonecards in many countries with first optical phonecards successfully introduced in 1977 in Belgium.

The 4000 was followed by the very popular 4001 ( in 1961 ), the 4002 ( limited edition bass introduced in 1977 ), the 4008 ( an eight-string model introduced in the mid-1970s ), the 4003 ( in 1979, replacing the 4001 entirely in 1986 and still in production in 2012 ), and most recently the 4004 series.

He began publishing his Baseball Abstracts in 1977 to study some questions about baseball he found interesting, and their eclectic mix of essays based on new kinds of statistics soon became popular with a generation of thinking baseball fans.

It was soon derided, largely in the mainstream media, as " Star Wars ," after the popular 1977 film by George Lucas.

It became Sondheim's most popular song after Frank Sinatra recorded it in 1973 and Judy Collins's version charted in 1975 and 1977.

* 1977: Jazz vocalist Lorez Alexandria recorded an uptempo version for her album From Broadway To Hollywood which subsequently became popular on the UK jazz dance and soul scenes, eventually being rereleased as a 7 inch single on Jazzman Records in 2000.

Avalon Hill's PanzerBlitz ( 1970 ), Panzer Leader ( 1974 ), and Squad Leader ( 1977 ) were particularly popular during this time, with their innovative geomorphic mapboard system.

The most popular sport today is football, thanks to Śląsk Wrocław-Polish Champion in 1977 and 2012.

While the Constitution was still being drafted, there was a popular outcry in Andalusia for its own right to autonomy, with over a million and a half people demonstrating in the streets on 4 December 1977, which led the creation of a special quicker process for autonomy for that region, although it was not originally considered a historical nationality.

Among their most popular songs are I'll Be Good to You ( Billboard Hot 100 # 3 in 1976 ), Strawberry Letter 23 ( Hot 100 # 5 in 1977, originally recorded by Shuggie Otis ), Ain't We Funkin ' Now ( 1978 ), and Stomp!

In 1977, Burr starred in the short-lived TV series Kingston: Confidential, a critical failure that was scheduled opposite the extraordinarily popular Charlie's Angels.

Additionally, he made guest appearances on many popular shows, including Dragnet in 1967, Bewitched and McMillan & Wife in 1971, Adam-12 in 1972 ( as " George Strothers "), Ironside in 1973, Kolchak: The Night Stalker and Sanford and Son in 1974, Starsky and Hutch in 1977, Charlie's Angels in 1978 and Magnum, P. I.

The show has remained popular since the final episode was broadcast in 1977.

The use of CB radios in 1970s films such as Smokey and the Bandit ( 1977 ) and Convoy ( 1978 ), popular novelty songs such as C. W.

Morecambe and Wise became so popular that their annual BBC Christmas shows were almost mandatory viewing in the United Kingdom from 1968 to 1977.

( 1977 ) itself spun off from the hugely popular British TV show The Sweeney, and the first episode of Minder, Gunfight at the O. K.

He went on to play piano for a Broadway show called The Magic Show in 1974, then became a member of the house band on NBC's popular Saturday Night Live ( SNL ) television program from 1975 to 1980 ( except for a brief departure in 1977 ).

The region was the setting of the popular 1977 film Storm Boy.

The town enjoyed some notoriety as the location of the popular John McPhee book Coming into the Country, which was first published in 1977.

In the United States, dirty, simple clothes-ranging from the T-shirt / jeans / leather jacket Ramones look to the low-class, second-hand " dress " clothes of acts like Television or Patti Smith-were preferred over the expensive or colorful clothing popular in the disco scene. The Ramones | Ramones playing for an audiences at CBGB's circa 1977