A successful turn-around strategy led to the recruitment of 360 new employees and, by 1977, a trading profit of £ 750, 000.

The new owners pushed the company into modernising its line, producing the V8 Vantage in 1977, the convertible Volante in 1978, and the one-off William Towns-styled Bulldog in 1980.

After conflict over the 1970 constitution, a new constitution was written and approved in 1977, and Lamizana was reelected by open elections in 1978.

When Riviera left Stiff in late 1977 Bubbles joined him at his new label Radar Records and later at Riviera's F-Beat Records.

In response, a new subgenre of exploitation films suddenly sprang up with titles such as The Cheerleaders ( 1972 ), The Swinging Cheerleaders ( 1974 ), Revenge of the Cheerleaders ( 1975 ), The Pom Pom Girls ( 1976 ), Satan's Cheerleaders ( 1977 ), and Cheerleaders's Wild Weekend ( 1979 ).

The 1977 edition listed the new world record established at the Gingerbreadman Pub by Steven Petrosino, ( age 25 ) of New Cumberland, Pennsylvania on June 22, 1977.

Field trials sponsored by the U. S. National Institute of Mental Health ( NIMH ) were conducted between 1977 and 1979 to test the reliability of the new diagnoses.

* Whigs and Hunters: The Origin of the Black Act, London: Allen Lane, 1975 ; with a new postscript, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977 ; London: Breviary Stuff Publications, 2012.

Nevertheless, new interest in evolution in and around 1977 inspired developmental biologists to look more closely at Haeckel's illustrations.

In 1977, he created the CINEL for " new spaces of freedom " before joining in the 1980s the ecological movement with his " ecosophy ".

Another example is The Sentinel ( 1977 film ), in which a fashion model discovers that her new brownstone residence may actually be a portal to Hell.

His attempts to carry out badly needed economic and social reforms met with little success, and the new constitution promulgated in February 1977 failed to quell chronic political instability.

* 1977 – Bülent Ecevit, of CHP forms the new government of Turkey.

Lieutenant General Ali Sadikin served as Governor from the mid-60's commencement of the " New Order " through to 1977 ; he rehabilitated roads and bridges, encouraged the arts, built several hospitals, and a large number of new schools.

In the south, military exchanges between Israel and the PLO led Israel to support Saad Haddad's South Lebanon Army ( SLA ) in an effort to establish a security belt along Israel's northern border, an effort which intensified in 1977 with the election of new Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin.

* January 1977 — Approved the new constitution of Mohammed Daoud Khan establishing one-party rule in the Republic of Afghanistan.

The West Stand was opened in 1977 and the new East Terrace was completed by March 1980.

In 1977, the new General Olusegun Obasanjo's military regime made a donation of $ 20 million dollars to the Zimbabwean liberation movement.

A new government and constitution went into effect in 1978 after being approved in a 1977 referendum.

Feeling that this arrangement put the Jets at a disadvantage, the team announced in 1977 that they would play two home games a year during the month of September at the Giants ' new home in New Jersey, Giants Stadium.

In 1977, he had remained in the House of Commons, with Dennis Skinner, while other MPs walked to the Lords to hear the Queen's speech opening the new parliament.

By most accounts, Coca-Cola was India's leading soft drink until 1977 when it left India after a new government ordered The Coca-Cola Company to turn over its secret formula for Coke and dilute its stake in its Indian unit as required by the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act ( FERA ).

In the meanwhile he has had time enough for some more animation, so we have Aihnoo degli Icebergs ( 1972 ), The Fourth King ( 1977 ) and a new TV series, The Adventures of Marco and Gina ( Sopra i tetti di Venezia ) ( 2001 ).

The first version of Applesoft was released in 1977 only on cassette tape and lacked proper support for high-resolution graphics.

In 1977, a film version of A Little Night Music was released, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Lesley-Anne Down and Diana Rigg, with Len Cariou, Hermione Gingold and Laurence Guittard reprising their Broadway roles.

In 1977, development of a significantly improved Phoenix version, the AIM-54C, was developed to better counter projected threats from tactical anti-naval aircraft and cruise missiles, and its final upgrade included a re-programmable memory capability to keep pace with emerging ECM.

In 1977 it began to publish and maintain a much-improved, revised version of Bliss ’ s system, the Bliss Bibliographic Classification ( Second Edition ) or BC2.

In 1976, after consultation with the National Security Agency ( NSA ), the NBS eventually selected a slightly modified version, which was published as an official Federal Information Processing Standard ( FIPS ) for the United States in 1977.

Another unreleased recording, " Latitude 88 North ", was released as the third bonus track on the 2007 remastered version of their 1977 album Out of the Blue.

The 1980 version ( éditions 10 / 18 ) contains substantially different essays from the 1977 version.

Foobar was used as a variable name in the Fortran code of Colossal Cave Adventure ( 1977 Crowther and Woods version ).

In 1977, Gygax began work on a more comprehensive version of the game, called Advanced Dungeons & Dragons.

Ronstadt herself covered " Blue Bayou " in 1977, her version reaching number 3 on the Billboard charts and remaining in the charts for 24 weeks.

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.

* 1977: Grace Jones recorded a disco version of the song for her debut album, Portfolio.

* 1977: Mel Tormé recorded an uptempo version for his album The London Sessions, arranged by Christopher Gunning.

The Hobbit, an animated version of the story produced by Rankin / Bass, debuted as a television movie in the United States in 1977.

In 1977, BBC Radio 4 broadcast the first radio adaptation of the four-act version of the play ; directed by Ian Cotterell, it featured Fabia Drake as " Lady Bracknell ", Richard Pasco as " Jack Worthing ", Jeremy Clyde as " Algernon Moncrieff ", Maurice Denham as " Rev.

The first version of Zork was written in 1977 – 1979 using the MDL programming language on a DEC PDP-10 computer.

In 1996, the Santa Cruz Operation finally authorised the release of the twenty-year-old 6th Edition source code ( along with the source code of other versions of " Ancient UNIX "), and the full code plus the 1977 version of the commentary was published by Peer-To-Peer Communications ( ISBN 1-57398-013-7 ).

) His performance as psychiatrist Martin Dysart won him both a special Tony Award for his appearance, but he had to make Exorcist II: The Heretic – a film he hated – before Hollywood producers would allow him to repeat his role in the 1977 film version.

On the band's 1977 tour of the United States, Jones would sing lead vocals on " The Battle of Evermore ," filling in for Sandy Denny who sang on the studio version.

Beginning in 1977 on this version, this was increased to include additional cash ($ 5, 000 or $ 10, 000 ) and a luxury vacation.

Restrained by loyalty to Padovani, both Copeland and Sting initially resisted the idea, and the Police began performing as a four-piece version in July 1977.

Smaug as he appears in the The Hobbit ( 1977 film ) | 1977 animated version of The Hobbit.