Pertec XL-40, introduced in about 1978, was a more successful successor of Pertec PCC-2100.

* 1978 – U. S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal due to toxic waste that had been negligently disposed of.

" My mother and father had been brought to this country from Russia when they were infants ," wrote Capp in 1978.

Also in 1998, Juanita Broaddrick alleged Clinton had raped her though she did not remember the exact date, which may have been 1978.

The Orioles have had their games broadcast on WBAL for much of the team's history in Baltimore over three separate stints ( the other two were from 1957 to 1978, and 1988 to 2006 ).

Bartók's music reflects two trends that dramatically changed the sound of music in the 20th century: the breakdown of the diatonic system of harmony that had served composers for the previous two hundred years ( Griffiths 1978, 7 ); and the revival of nationalism as a source for musical inspiration, a trend that began with Mikhail Glinka and Antonín Dvořák in the last half of the 19th century ( Einstein 1947, 332 ).

It was composed of Khmer Communists who had remained in Vietnam after 1975 and officials from the eastern sector — like Heng Samrin and Hun Sen — who had fled to Vietnam from Cambodia in 1978.

The ELN guerrilla had been seriously crippled by military operations in the region of Anorí by 1974, but it managed to reconstitute itself and escape destruction, in part due to the administration of Alfonso López Michelsen ( 1974 – 1978 ) allowing it to escape encirclement, hoping to initiate a peace process with the group.

By 1982, the perceived passivity of the FARC, together with the relative success of the government's efforts against the M-19 and ELN, enabled the administration of the Liberal Party's Julio César Turbay ( 1978 – 1982 ) to lift a state-of-siege decree that had been in effect, on and off, for most of the previous 30 years.

In 1978, president Ali Soilih, who had a firm anti-French line, was killed and Ahmed Abdallah came to power.

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.

It was not until 1997, however, that a direct experiment, by S. Lamoreaux, described above, quantitatively measured the force ( to within 15 % of the value predicted by the theory ), although previous work van Blockland and Overbeek ( 1978 ) had observed the force qualitatively, and indirect validation of the predicted Casimir energy had been made by measuring the thickness of liquid Helium films by Sabisky and Anderson in 1972.

The humiliation of this episode led to civil unrest in Zaire in early 1978, which the FAZ had to put down.

Subsequent multi-user versions were tested by customers in 1978 and 1979, by which time a standardized query language – SQL – had been added.

Boney M had a number one hit in the UK with a similar song in 1978 under the title Rivers of Babylon, which was not based on this one, although using the same text from Psalm 137.

Although it had been funding British experimental films as early as 1952, the British Film Institute's foundation of a production board in 1964 — and a substantial increase in public funding from 1971 onwards — enabled it to become a dominant force in developing British art cinema in the 1970s and 80s: from the first of Bill Douglas's Trilogy My Childhood ( 1972 ), and of Terence Davies ' Trilogy Childhood ( 1978 ), via Peter Greenaway's earliest films ( including the surprising commercial success of The Draughtsman's Contract ( 1982 )) and Derek Jarman's championing of the New Queer Cinema.

", as he became popularly known, was first elected to the House of Assembly in 1969 as the member for Vereeniging, and entered the cabinet in 1978. de Klerk had been offered a professorship of administrative law at Potchefstroom in 1972 but he declined the post because he was serving in Parliament.

In 1978 he wrote to The Times that he had ' not been able to find a single person even in much maligned Chile who did not agree that personal freedom was much greater under Pinochet than it had been under Allende.

In 1978, Chapman co-wrote ( with Bernard McKenna ) and starred in The Odd Job alongside David Jason who had previously appeared on Do Not Adjust Your Set with Idle, Jones, and Palin.

However, activists remembered the messy crash of the Soviet Union's nuclear-powered Cosmos 954 satellite in Canada in 1978, and the 1986 Challenger accident had raised public awareness of the possibility of explosive spacecraft failures.

Chalker was married in 1978 and had two sons.

A sales brochure from 1978 listed ' Keyboard Videocarts ' for sale.

Hello Kitty sold well immediately after the 1974 launch, and Sanrio's sales increased seven times up until 1978 when they slumped temporarily.

In 1978, FERC was given additional responsibilities for harmonizing the regulation of wellhead gas sales in both the intrastate and interstate markets.

However, this performance did not prove enough to offset a backlash against the state's high sales and property tax rates, which turned out to be the predominant issue in the 1978 gubernatorial campaign.

* The first generally agreed example of a " killer app " in gaming is Space Invaders, released for arcades in 1978 and ported to the Atari VCS ( Atari 2600 ) console in 1980, quadrupling sales of the then three year old Atari 2600 platform.

Impact remained the only wholly wet municipality in Taylor County until 1978, when Abilene voters narrowly legalized ( by a 131-vote margin ) liquor sales in the city.

* UK singles sales this year are the second highest ever, after 1978.

American Motors lost an estimated $ 65 million on its conventional ( non-Jeep ) cars for the fiscal year ended September 30, 1978, but strong Jeep sales helped the company to an overall $ 36. 7 million profit on sales of $ 2. 6 billion.

A strong northwest regional retailer with sales already approaching $ 250 million ( making it the third-largest specialty retailer in the U. S .), it opened its first Southern California store at Costa Mesa in 1978.

In 1978, Mercury sales peaked at an all-time high of 580, 000.

Mercury sales rebounded in 1993 to over 480, 000, their highest level since the 1978 all-time high.

Bandai America Inc. was established as local US sales / marketing operation in 1978.

Thomas Whiteside's 1978 book, Computer Capers, documents how a programmer at a mail-order company diverted money from rounded-down sales commissions into a phony account for three years before he was caught.

In 1978, Houston-area voters created METRO and approved a one-cent sales tax to support its operations.

In 1978, both Loblaw and George Weston Limited returned to profitability and in 1980 Weston ’ s showed record earnings of $ 76 million on sales of $ 6 billion.

The book, originally published in 1978, received an unexpected boost in popular sales when its author, Herman Tarnower, was murdered on March 10, 1980, by his long-time lover Jean Harris, the headmistress of The Madeira School, a fashionable boarding school for high school girls in McLean, Virginia.

On 7 March 1978, he went public with his idea and achieved such an unexpected degree of success, that he had realised more than 100, 000 DM ( around 50, 000 EUR ) in sales profits.

In 1978, " Action Office II " was renamed simply " Action Office ", and by 2005 had attained sales totaling $ 5 Billion.

The total sales of arcade video game machines in North America increased significantly during this period, from $ 50 million in 1978 to $ 900 million by 1981, with the arcade video game industry's revenue in North America tripling to $ 2. 8 billion in 1980.

It climbed to eighth place the following year with more than 41, 000 sales, peaking at seventh place in 1978 with over 55, 000 sales.

By 1978 sales exceeded one million dollars a year.

* a former name for the sales and customer service division of the German automaker Volkswagen Group, used from 1978 to 1992.

In April 1978 Toyota began production of the Mark I Supra in Japan, as the Toyota Celica XX, and sold alongside the Celica at Japanese dealership sales channels called Toyota Corolla Store.