In 1978, the George Mason University Foundation purchased the former Kann's department store in Arlington.

In 1994, Davis's company, Paws, Inc., purchased all rights to the strips from 1978 to 1993 from United Feature.

In 1994, the company purchased all rights to the Garfield comic strips from 1978 to 1993 from United Feature Syndicate.

John Atkinson ( editor ), current editor of Stereophile, stated ( in a 2005 July editorial named Blind Tests & Bus Stops ) that he once purchased a solid-state amplifier, the Quad 405, in 1978 after blind tests, but came to realize months later that " the magic was gone " until he replaced it with a tube amp.

Fortune Coin Co. and their video slot machine technology were purchased by IGT ( International Gaming Technology ) in 1978.

In 1978, a stake of the ski area was purchased by Ron Allred and his partner Jim Wells to form the Telluride Company.

In 1978, the North Stars were purchased by the owners of the Cleveland Barons ( formerly the California Golden Seals ), the Gund brothers, George III and Gordon.

Gordon and George Gund III became minority owners of the Seals in 1974, and were instrumental in their move to Cleveland in 1976 and a 1978 merger with the Minnesota North Stars, which they purchased that year.

When the Claretians sold their Claretville property in 1978 to Clare Prophet and her Church Universal and Triumphant ( CUT ) cult, Thomas Aquinas College purchased, moved to, and began construction on a permanent campus in Santa Paula, CA At the present time, the Gillette Estate / Claretville property is now known as the ' King Gillette Ranch ' and this property remains at the intersection of Mulholland Highway and Las Virgenes Road in Calabasas.

In 1978, Chemical Waste Management purchased a landfill permit of near Emelle in Sumter County.

The Mackinaw Historical Society purchased the depot in 1978.

A new GMC rescue truck was purchased in 1978.

After the borough purchased the site in 1978, the station has been restored and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 2004.

However, Smith is quoted in several earlier sources including Ten Imaginary Years, Spiral Scratch and Guitar World as saying that he purchased the Top 20 himself for £ 20, in 1978.

In 1978 Volkswagen of America purchased the plant to supply stampings for its Westmoreland Assembly Plant, subsequently selling the plant when it closed Westmoreland in 1988 to Park Corporation of Cleveland, OH.

The Tussauds Group purchased Warwick Castle in 1978 and opened it as a tourist attraction.

In 1978, the Greater Manchester Council purchased the earliest part of the former Liverpool Road Station from British Rail, which had been closed in 1975.

In 1978, World Book was purchased by the firm of Scott Fetzer, which in turn is a Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary.

Elizabeth Clare Prophet, founder of the Church Universal and Triumphant, purchased the property in 1978, and ran her New Age church at the site until 1986 when Soka University of America bought the land.

Large archives from 1992 to the present, as well as a few select archives from the early 1970s, are available, but the syndicated programs from 1978 to 1992 are not because the broadcast rights are currently in limbo ( Dial Global purchased Westwood One in 2011, but spun off several of its music shows to Compass Media Networks ; it's unknown whether the Dr. Demento syndicated archive was among the programs ).

Later, in 2005, the Jennings Brewery of Cockermouth was also purchased and in 2007 Hampshire based Ringwood Brewery, which was established in 1978, and brews Best Bitter, Fortyniner, and Old Thumper, was acquired.

Daewoo Motor Co., Ltd. was founded when the Daewoo Group purchased Saehan Motor in 1978, but the Daewoo Motor name appeared only in 1983.

The McGibbon Hotel was sold to Isaac Sitzer Investments and in 1967 to Gladbar Hotels Ltd. George and Nick Markou purchased the hotel in 1978 and have run business to the present day under the McGibbon name, returning its connection to the downtown Georgetown business community since 1895.

In 1978, a wide body McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 ( which was chosen over the Boeing 747-200 ) was purchased to succeed the Boeing 707s on the longer-haul routes, although the 707s stayed in service into the 1980s on ad hoc charters and as scheduled-flight replacement aircraft.

W. R. Grace and Company had previously owned and operated locations in Texas with a licensing agreement in 1978, but sold the restaurants to Taco Bell in 1992.

Taco Cabana, which was founded by Mike and Felix Stehling in 1978, opened its first restaurant at the corner of San Pedro and Hildebrand Avenues in Midtown San Antonio.

Advanced Mobile Phone System ( AMPS ) is an analog mobile phone system standard developed by Bell Labs, and officially introduced in the Americas in 1978, Israel in 1986, and Australia in 1987.

* 1978 – Zoë Bell, New Zealand actress and stuntwoman

* Out ( miniseries ), a 1978 British television crime drama starring Tom Bell

* C. Gordon Bell, J. Craig Mudge, John E. McNamara, Computer Engineering: A DEC View of Hardware Systems Design ( Digital, 1978 )

Lions had trouble keeping up with its popularity, and by 1978 it was available only from Bell Labs.

Osvaldo César Ardiles ( born 3 August 1952 in Bell Ville, Córdoba Province ), often referred to in Britain as Ossie Ardiles, is a football coach, pundit and former midfielder who won the 1978 World Cup as part of the Argentine national team.

Notable Presidents of IEEE and its founding organizations include Elihu Thomson ( AIEE, 1889 – 1890 ), Alexander Graham Bell ( AIEE, 1891 – 1892 ), Charles Proteus Steinmetz ( AIEE, 1901 – 1902 ), Lee De Forest ( IRE, 1930 ), Frederick E. Terman ( IRE, 1941 ), William R. Hewlett ( IRE, 1954 ), Ernst Weber ( IRE, 1959 ; IEEE, 1963 ), and Ivan Getting ( IEEE, 1978 ).

* 1965 — Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, astronomers at Bell Labs discover the 2. 7 K microwave background radiation, which earns them the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics.

In 1978, Pickens lent his voice to theme park Silver Dollar City as a character named Rube Dugan, for a ride called " Rube Dugan's Diving Bell ", The diving bell was a simulation ride that took passengers on a journey to the bottom of Lake Silver and back.

* Mic Bell ( Ron replacement ) 1978 – 1979,

" Hazell / Night Flighting " – Maggie Bell: SSK 19412 ( UK, March 1978 ), SSK 19412 P ( UK picture disc, May 1979 ), SS 1859 ( Australia )

* Time ( 1970, Bell 6055, reissued as The Talented Man, 1978, Bulldog 1027 )

In 1978 Pollard rejoined, this time replacing Eric Bell alongside Shiels, Bridgeman, Brady and Joe Staunton ( guitar, ex-Orphanage ).

By 1978 it was in use on 82 UNIX machines inside the Bell system, primarily for software distribution.

* Quentin Bell, ‘ Grant, Duncan James Corrowr ( 1885 – 1978 )’, rev.

* Ricky Bell, Member of R & B group New Edition formed in Boston in 1978

* Group of Thirty-In 1978 the Foundation invited Geoffrey Bell to set up this high-powered and influential advisory group on global financial issues, whose current chairman is a longtime Rockefeller associate Paul Volcker.

In 1978, a concept devised by Max Bell for Dolby Laboratories called " split surround " was tested with the movie " Superman ( film )".

* Tavorris Bell ( born 1978 ), former Harlem Globetrotter

The show's distribution included New York City, Los Angeles, Washington, D. C. and Boston at one point, though most television stations still preferred to continue producing their own versions, with the most popular being Bob Bell and WGN-TV Chicago's Bozo's Circus which went national via cable and satellite in 1978.

* Bob Bell ( 1978 – 1984 ) at Superstation WGN Chicago

In 1989 Castor, who divorced in 1978, married Samuel P. Bell III, an attorney and partner at Pennington, Moore, Wilkinson, Bell & Dunbar ( a Tallahassee law firm ).