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In 1979, Avon replaced Virginia Slims as the sponsor of the winter circuit, and in its first year offered the largest prize fund for a single tournament, $ 100, 000 for the Avon Championships, in the WTA Tour's history.
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1979 and Avon
* Avon Cobourne ( born 1979 ), American football player
* Christopher Robbins, Air America, Avon, New York 1979.
Having been High Sheriff of Somerset from 1978 to 1979, he was made a life peer in 1988 as Baron Rees-Mogg of Hinton Blewett in the County of Avon, and sits in the House of Lords as a cross-bencher.
New York: Avon Books, 1979.
New York: Avon Books, 1979.
New York: Avon, 1979.
When Avon took over as the tour sponsor from 1979 – 1982, the event was known as the Avon Championships.
The first release by TV Brakes was the track " Nothing ", which was included on the 1979 compilation Avon Calling.
* Rosen, R. D., Psychobabble, Avon Books, 1979 ISBN 0-380-42291-3
* The Wolves of Paris, ( hardcover ) 1978 ; Avon ( paperback ), 1979, 1983
* Rosen, R. D., Psychobabble, Avon Books, 1979 ISBN 0-380-42291-3
It was first published in 1979 by Crown Publishers, with subsequent paperback editions released by Ace Books in 1982, Avon Books in 1987, Pulpless. com in 1999, and Amazon Kindle in 2009.
1979 and replaced
The ECU itself replaced the European Unit of Account, also at parity, on 13 March 1979.
* 1979 – Iraqi President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein.
After the Royals finished in second place in 1979, Herzog was fired and replaced by Jim Frey.
After four years of rule, the Khmer Rouge regime was removed from power in 1979 as a result of an invasion by the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and was replaced by moderate, pro-Vietnamese Communists.
Sneddon soon left, to be replaced in late 1979 by saxophonist / flautist / keyboardist Greg Ham.
The logo replaced the striping pattern that had been on the uniforms since the team's inception ; save for color variations, the striping pattern was similar to that used by the Washington Redskins ( until 1979 ), Green Bay Packers ( until 1997 ), and Cleveland Browns ( still in use ), which is likely why the change was made.
By December 1979, Muzerowa had replaced Smith as Prime Minister and secured a a fresh agreement with the more militant African factions, allowing Rhodesia to briefly revert to her colonial status pending popular elections.
This band recorded the album Rock ' N ' Roll with the Modern Lovers ( 1977 ) and toured until Keranen left to go to college and was replaced by Asa Brebner, who played on the albums Modern Lovers Live ( 1978 ) and Back in Your Life ( 1979 ).
By 1979 the Kleinschmidt division was branching off into Electronic Data Interchange, a business in which they became very successful, and replaced the mechanical products, including teleprinters.
This ran until 1979, when Andy Rooney, whose commentaries were already alternating with the debate segment since late 1978, replaced it.
Meanwhile, the huge Monaco ( Royal Monaco beginning in 1977 when the mid-sized Coronet was renamed " Monaco ") models hung around through 1977, losing sales every year, until finally being replaced by the St. Regis for 1979 following a one-year absence from the big car market.
The format of the 1981 episodes as aired on CJOH was similar to that of the inaugural 1979 season, with the differences being that each show featured skits revolving around a certain topic ( something that carried over from Whatever Turns You On ) and that the disco dancers were replaced by video game competitions.
In June 1979, following a dispute over the extent of presidential powers, the NCC replaced Lule with Godfrey Binaisa.
In the late 1970s, this style was replaced with more surreal works such as Pow Wow ( 1979, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen ).
An attachment designating the year was simply taken off the end of the revamped Match Game 78 sign and replaced with a new one numbered 79 on New Year's Eve 1978 ( aired January 2, 1979 ) becoming Match Game 79.
The concept of reunification replaced the concept of liberation by the PRC in 1979 as it embarked, after the death of Mao, on economic reforms and pursued a more pragmatic and less ideological foreign policy.
Congress rejected the State Department's proposed draft and replaced it with language that has remained in effect since 1979.
* 1979 – President Nur Muhammad Taraki, leader of PDPA, is assassinated and replaced by Hafizullah Amin.
John Bentley replaced Harry Kakoulli on bass in 1979 following the release of the LP.
Kurt Dahlke was replaced by Chrislo Haas ( electronic instruments, bass-guitar, saxophone ) in 1979.
This casino was demolished and replaced by the new Palace in 1979.
In 1979 it was replaced by " Ealing District General Hospital ", on the other side of the River Brent.
In the Labour Government of 1974 – 1979 he returned to the Cabinet, initially as Secretary of State for Industry, before being made Secretary of State for Energy, retaining his post when James Callaghan replaced Wilson as Prime Minister.
When the 1979 ordinance was repealed by Cotati voters in 1998, it was replaced with a more limited ordinance aimed at mobile home parks.
1979 and Virginia
Coleman graduated from Wilbert Tucker Woodson High School, Fairfax, Virginia, in 1978 ; in 1978 – 1979 she was an exchange student at Røyken upper secondary school in Norway with the AFS Intercultural Programs.
In March 1979 the Virginia General Assembly authorized the establishment of the George Mason University School of Law ( GMUSL ) – contingent on the transfer of the Kann's building to George Mason University.
The Arlington campus was established in 1979 by the Virginia General Assembly for the newly founded law school.
SWIFT's first United States Operating Centre was inaugurated by Governor John N. Dalton of Virginia in 1979.
Edwards moved back to the U. S. in 1979, to New Hampshire, and then two years later back to the northern Virginia area where he grew up.
) Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U. S. 307, 319 ( 1979 ); accord People v. Cox, 195 Ill. 2d 378, 387 ( 2001 ).
* 1979: Anne Jenks, Virginia Bergstrom, Philip Cadwallader, Ronald Bivens, John Adams, Jay Howell, Patrick McGrady
Since 1979 Clarksburg has hosted the annual West Virginia Italian Heritage Festival held during Labor Day weekend.
The town would eventually become incorporated in 1979 and become a jewel of southern West Virginia towns.
The town would eventually become incorporated in 1979 and become a jewel of southern West Virginia towns.
The West Virginia community got its name around 1860 “ from the great numbers of beavers abounding in the creeks during the early days of settlement ,” according to “ A History of Shady Spring District ” compiled by the Shady Spring District Woman ’ s Club in 1979.
This was the last Ryder Cup to feature a side exclusively from the British Isles ; the U. S. opponents in the next Ryder Cup, held in 1979 at White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, would be drawn from all of Europe.
The novel ' Freedom Road ' is based on a true story and was made into a 1979 film starring Muhammad Ali, who, in a very rare acting role, plays Gideon Jackson, an ex-slave in 1870's Virginia who gets elected to the US Senate in Washington DC and battles other former slaves and white sharecroppers to keep the land they tended all their lives.
A sample of Anderson's tissue, part of her intestine removed during her operation in 1979, had been stored at Martha Jefferson Hospital, Charlottesville, Virginia.
* Virginia Churchill Bath, Needlework in America, Viking Press, 1979 ISBN 0-670-50575-7
The institution did not begin collecting American art until 1979, when it received a gift of 50 paintings from Virginia Steele Scott.
After dropping out of Harvard, Kennedy alternated his time between the Kennedy family home " Hickory Hill " in McLean, Virginia, and New York until February 1979, when he moved to New York City full time.
Syracuse also played two home games at Giants Stadium during the 1979 season, against West Virginia and Penn State, while the Carrier Dome was under construction.
John William Warner ( born February 18, 1927 ) is an American Republican politician who served as Secretary of the Navy from 1972 to 1974 and as a five-term United States Senator from Virginia from January 2, 1979, to January 3, 2009.
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In 1979, Moran was elected to the Alexandria, Virginia, City Council.
By 1979 most U. S. operations were ceased, and by 1980 the last Marx plant closed in West Virginia ( Vitello 2006 ).
* Ocean View Park, Norfolk, Virginia ( 1879 – 1979 )
Mann has three children: Emmett, born in 1979, who for a time joined the Peace Corps, Jessie ( herself an artist, photographer and model ), born in 1981, and Virginia ( now a lawyer ), born in 1985.
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