Between 1977 and 1990, following Clean Air Act amendments for assessing and protecting visibility in national parks and wilderness areas, the EPA, Salt River Project and other entities cooperated in visibility studies to assess possible effects that NGS emissions might have on those areas.

A smaller, lighter seventh generation engine was produced in the early 1970s, when the company received a grant from the United States Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) for further development, and a special bodied turbine Chrysler LeBaron was built in 1977 as a prelude to a production run.

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In 1977, the Bank set up a wholly owned subsidiary called Bank of England Nominees Limited ( BOEN ), a private limited company, with two of its hundred £ 1 shares issued.

The book publisher Berkley in 1977 issued three volumes using the earliest published form of the texts from Weird Tales, but these failed to displace the edited versions.

* Electronic music synthesizer, issued September 1977

Following the March 1977 meeting between Rabin and U. S. President Jimmy Carter, Rabin publicly announced that the U. S. supported the Israeli idea of defensible borders ; Carter then issued a clarification.

* IRONMAN issued in January 1977 ( revised in July 1977 )

* In 1977, the Italian singer and composer Roberto Vecchioni issued an LP titled Samarcanda.

) A half-century later, a 13-Cent commemorative stamp ( Scott # 1710 ) depicting the Spirit flying low over the Atlantic Ocean was issued on May 20, 1977, the 50th anniversary of the flight from Roosevelt Field.

The first professional certification program for forensic scientists was established in 1977, the IAI's Certified Latent Print Examiner program, which issued certificates to those meeting stringent criteria and had the power to revoke certification where an individual's performance warranted it.

The Nascom 1 and 2 were single-board computer kits issued in 1977 and 1979, respectively, based on the Zilog Z80 and including a keyboard and video interface, a serial port that could be used to store data on a tape cassette using the Kansas City standard, and two 8-bit parallel ports.

In 1977, silver 100 pesos were issued for circulation.

In 1977, Zündel founded a small press publishing house called Samisdat Publishers which issued such pamphlets as " The Hitler We Loved and Why " and " Did Six Million Really Die?

In March 2009, VH1 Classic Records issued the band-authorised Still Dangerous: Live At The Tower Theatre Philadelphia, 1977, a live CD recorded on the Bad Reputation tour.

" During a parliamentary debate in Britain on 6 December 1977, Foreign Secretary David Owen replied in the negative when asked " whether Her Majesty's Government intend to recognise travel documents issued by the authorities of [...] Bophuthatswana for the purpose of admitting visitors to the United Kingdom.

* " Distributed data processing system ", filed June 20, 1977, issued March 20, 1979.

Wings ' 1977 single " Mull of Kintyre "/" Girls School " is still the biggest-selling non-charity single in the United Kingdom ( although Queen's " Bohemian Rhapsody " sold more, its sales include a reissue in aid of the Terrence Higgins Trust ), and it ranked fourth in the official list of all-time best selling singles in the United Kingdom issued in 2002.

In 1977 the Unification Church issued a rebuttal to the report, stating that it was neither comprehensive nor reconciliatory, but was rather had a " hateful tone " and was filled with " sweeping denunciations.

Patent 4063048 was issued to Adam M. Kissiah, Jr. on December 13, 1977 ; Reissue 31031, which further improved design, was issued in September 1982.

This non-reprocessing policy was started in March 1977 because of concerns about nuclear proliferation. President Jimmy Carter issued a Presidential directive which indefinitely suspended the commercial reprocessing and recycling of plutonium in the United States.

The 1977 issue was to celebrate Queen Elizabeth's silver Jubilee, the 1980 issue for the 80th birthday of Elizabeth, the Queen Mother and, in 1981, the coin was issued to celebrate the marriage of Lady Diana Spencer and Prince Charles.

* 1949: The Miles Davis and Dameron Quartet in Paris-Festival International du Jazz, May 1949 ( Columbia ; issued on LP, 1977 )

Operations specifications issued by the Federal Aviation Administration under the Federal Aviation Regulations, part 121 issued on March 2, 1977, specialized in inter-island flights to and from St. Thomas Harry S Truman Airport, Alexander Hamilton Airport on Saint Croix and Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

* Meteo ( TAUM-METEO, often abridged as METEO ) is a machine translation system developed by the TAUM research group led by Kittredge in Université de Montréal between 1975 and 1977, using Colmerauer's Q-language ; TAUM-METEO was developed for the translation of weather bulletins ( not weather reports nor weather warnings, which have other characteristics ) from English to French issued by the meteorological institutes in Canada

The Pike Anglers Club has campaigned to preserve pike since 1977, arguing that the removal of pike from waters can lead to an explosion of smaller fish and to ensure pike removal stops, which is damaging to both the sport fishery and the environment.

Shoreline retreat continued as man-made structures such as fish pens occupied the coastal areas, with progradation dominant from 1977 to 1991.

The name " Chilean sea bass " was invented by a fish wholesaler named Lee Lantz in 1977.

In 1977 an aid programe was introduced to improve the fish processing industries.

The International Game Fish Association ( IGFA ) record for this species stands at for a fish caught in 1977 near San Benedicto Island in the Pacific waters of Mexico.

* Leggett WC ( 1977 ) " The ecology of fish migrations " Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 8: 285 – 308.

Further surveys in 1972 and 1977 returned no examples of the fish.

The fish was caught on October 23, 1977, in the Apalachicola River, Florida.

The first fish canning plant was established on the island of Felivaru, as a joint venture with a Japanese firm, in 1977.

Starting from Julian Date 2443144. 5 ( 1 January 1977 00: 00: 00 ), corrections were applied to the output of all participating clocks, so that TAI would correspond to proper time at mean sea level ( the geoid ).

( Algorithm derived from Scott 2009: 13 ; symbols and drawing style from Tausworthe 1977 ).

It is organised since 1977 by the Junge Union, the youth branch of Germany's two main conservative political parties, the CDU and CSU, and attracts all age groups from Abensberg and surrounding areas.

* 1977 – The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space ; the event is named the " Wow!

AZ were undefeated in all 32 of their home matches in European competitions, a sequence which ran from 1977 until 20 December 2007, when they finally lost to Everton of England by a score of 3 – 2.

After graduating as valedictorian from Morris High School, Hill enrolled at Oklahoma State University, receiving a bachelor's degree with honors, in psychology 1977.

Between 1977 and 1987, the Australian Football Council ( AFC ) in conjunction with the VFL ran a night series, which invited clubs and representative sides from around the country to participate in the " National Football League " for the Wills Cup, however Victorian sides still dominated.

A common criticism of the 7800 regards its use of the TIA to provide 2-channel sound effects and music, resulting in sound quality that is virtually identical to the Atari 2600 VCS from 1977.

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.

It was only in the subsequent period, from 1977 through 1988, that the three firms began to export arms on a large scale.

By far the largest regional market was the Middle East, to which Brazil sold approximately 50 % of its arms from 1977 through 1988.

In August 1977 the British Lions made a stopover in Fiji on the way home from their tour of New Zealand.

In the BWF World Championships, first held in 1977, currently only the highest ranked 64 players in the world, and a maximum of four from each country, can participate in any category.

A recent prominent example of this was Archbishop Makarios III of Cyprus, who served as President of the Republic of Cyprus from 1960 to 1977.

Herald photographer Stanley Forman received two Pulitzer Prizes consecutively in 1976 and 1977, the first being a dramatic shot of a young child falling in mid-air from her mother's arms on the upper stories of a burning apartment building to the waiting arms of firefighters below, and the latter ( known as " The soiling of Old Glory ") being of Ted Landsmark, an African American city official, being beaten with an American flag during Boston's school busing crisis.

The agreement lasted from 1977 to 1978, but proved mostly fruitless, for two reasons: the Liberals ' key demand of proportional representation was rejected by most Labour MPs, whilst the contacts between Liberal spokespersons and Labour ministers often proved detrimental, such as between finance spokesperson John Pardoe and Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey, who were mutually antagonistic.

Plug was a comic based on the eponymous character from The Bash Street Kids that began with issue dated 24 September 1977, and is notable for being the first comic to make use of rotogravure printing.

In the spring, a similar competition sponsored by the American Association of Christian Schools, and hosted by BJU since 1977, brings thousands of national finalists to the university from around the country.

Chaplin died in his sleep from the complications of a stroke in the early morning of 25 December 1977 at his home in Switzerland.

This taxon was traditionally thought to be a primitive stem lineage, from which all the larger bodied platyrrhines evolved ( see Hershkovitz, 1977 ).

In 1977 Maore expelled peasants from Ngazidja and Nzwani who had recently settled in large numbers on the island.

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.

" In 1977 the Commodores scored a ballad hit with " Easy ", which became the group's biggest hit yet, reaching No. 4 in the U. S., followed by the funky favorite " Brick House ", also Top 5, both from their landmark album " The Commodores ", as was the utopian album favorite " Zoom ".