" A Quiet Opening: North Koreans in a Changing Media Environment " a study commissioned by the U. S. State Department and conducted by Intermedia and released May 10, 2012 shows that despite extremely strict regulations and draconian penalties North Koreans, particularly elite elements, have increasing access to news and other media outside the state-controlled media authorized by the government.

Karmal was forced to resign from his post as PDPA General Secretary in May, 1985, due to increasing pressure from the Soviet leadership.

The House passed a version of the act in May 1929, increasing tariffs on agricultural and industrial goods alike.

Mary's power was increasing: in May 1553, the imperial ambassador in London, Jean Scheyfve, heard she had challenged Arran's regency and proposed James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, her illegitimate step-son, as a replacement.

: combination of factors, including litigations against the record company and increasing animosity between Wilson and the rest of the band, meant that in May 1967 Wilson pulled the plug on the record ... Love had already dismissed " Good Vibrations " as " avant-garde shit " and objected to the way Wilson, Parks and a group of highly skilled session musicians were creating music way beyond his understanding ... By March 1967, the bad feeling got too much for Parks and, having no desire to break up The Beach Boys, he walked out.

With increasing growth and improvement, Dodge County was officially placed in the Fifth Judicial District by the State Constitution on May 11, 1858.

This had been accomplished due to the results of elections in May that had brought a right-wing government to power in Laos, its increasing dependence on U. S. military and economic aid, and an increasingly antagonistic attitude toward North Vietnam.

If went bimonthly in May 1970, as Abramson attempted to juggle the frequency of publication of several of his titles to maximize profits ; the page count and price were also adjusted more than once over the next year, again increasing profitability.

In May 1948 the variety of aircraft was reduced despite increasing demand for operations.

In May 2011, Carrefour reviewed its situation under conditions of stagnant growth and increasing competition in France from rivals including Casino Guichard-Perrachon SA, and planned to invest € 1. 5 billion ($ 2. 1 billion ) to change the supermarket with the new concept of Carrefour Planet in Western Europe.

The rise of Protestantism in the 16th century led to increasing disapproval of maypoles and other May Day practices from various Protestants who viewed them as idolatry and therefore immoral.

Subsequently, due to increasing difficulty in speaking over the course of several weeks, Arias went to the Philadelphia Ears, Nose and Throat Associates medical center in the United States on 20 May 2008, where it was determined that he had a nonmalignant cyst on his vocal cords.

In May 1974 Souphanouvong put forward an 18-point plan for " National Reconstruction ," which was unanimously adopted – a sign of his increasing dominance.

Now residing in a cheap motel, her whole life had been affected, from her increasing difficulties in finding a new job as an actress to her being an easy target and prey, along with Aunt May, for the superpowered foes of Spider-Man.

BCRFC historical records ( from 1960 to 1989 ) report that Mount Seymour's average snow base has been on January 1, increasing through winter and spring to on May 1.

With the rise of Erich Honecker in May 1971 and the increasing international recognition of the GDR, the regime attempted to abandon the concept that the GDR was part of a larger German nation ; instead, the policy of Abgrenzung ( demarcation ) was instituted, with the desired effect of creating a separate GDR national identity.

In May 2005, under duress from protesters, the Bolivian congress enacted a new hydrocarbons law, increasing the state's royalties from natural gas exploitation.

Relations continued to deteriorate, and the final break came in May 1965 amid increasing indications of airspace violations by South Vietnamese and by United States aircraft and of ground fighting between Army of the Republic of Vietnam ( ARVN ) troops and Viet Cong insurgents in the Cambodian border areas.

The Sanation government invalidated the May 1930 election results by disbanding the parliament in August and with increasing pressure on the opposition started a new campaign, the new elections being scheduled to November.

In May 2002, James Hogan became President and CEO of Gulf Air and instigated a three-year restructuring and turnaround programme, which was launched in response to a drastic fall in profits at the company and increasing debt.

Since it replaced The Big Game in May 2002 ( see below ), Mega Millions ' advertised jackpots have started at $ 12 million, paid in 26 yearly installments ( unless the cash option is chosen ), increasing when there is no jackpot winner.

Moshé Pinchas Feldenkrais ( Russian: Моше Пинхас Фельденкрайз, Hebrew: משה פנחס פלדנקרייז, May 6, 1904 – July 1, 1984 ) was an Israeli physicist and the founder of the Feldenkrais Method, designed to improve human functioning by increasing self-awareness through movement.

In May 2011, the company announced plans to build a second locomotive factory in Fort Worth, Texas in order to meet increasing demand.

It had been pointed out previously by J. J. Thomson in his series of lectures at Yale University in May 1903 that the dynamic equilibrium between the velocity generated by a concentration gradient given by Fick's law and the velocity due to the variation of the partial pressure caused when ions are set in motion " gives us a method of determining Avogadro's Constant which is independent of any hypothesis as to the shape or size of molecules, or of the way in which they act upon each other ".

On May 5, Abashidze was forced to flee Georgia as mass demonstrations in Batumi called for his resignation and Russia increased their pressure by deploying Security Council secretary Igor Ivanov.

By 25 May 1993, the international community had tried to pressure the leaders of the former Yugoslavian republics diplomatically, militarily, politically, economically, and – with Resolution 827 – through juridical means.

Lenihan denied he had pressured the President but then a tape was produced of an ' on the record ' interview he had given to a postgraduate student the previous May in which he frankly discussed attempting to apply pressure.

The high temperatures coupled with an increase in insolation causes a region of low pressure to develop over west Africa and Nigeria ( between March to May ).

The service began operating in Palm Springs, California on November 27, 1953, but due to pressure from the FCC, the service ended on May 15, 1954.

Under pressure from Prince Jordan I of Capua, to whom he had also rendered important service, he was elected on 24 May 1086, taking the throne name of Victor III, but his consecration did not take place until 9 May 1087 owing to the presence of the Antipope Clement III in Rome.

* May 17 – Venera program: Soviet probe Venera 6 begins to descend into Venus ' atmosphere, sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure.

* May 8 – Otto von Guericke demonstrates the power of atmospheric pressure and the effectiveness of his vacuum pump using the Magdeburg hemispheres before Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, and the Imperial Diet in Regensburg.

Breaking decisively with its Communist and Socialist coalition partners under pressure from Harry Truman in May 1947, the party went on to win a decisive victory in 1948 general election with the support of the Catholic Church and the United States.

May alleged in a civil suit that she was fired because she refused to halt her investigation despite pressure to do so from Governor Bush.

The mounting pressure from repeated defeat on the southern frontline against Sun Jian's forces drove Emperor Xian and later Dong Zhuo himself west to Chang ' an in May 191.

In the aftermath of East Timorese independence on 20 May 2002, the pressure of events and the ongoing stress he endured began to show their effects on Bishop Belo's health.

His political activities led to his arrest on 19 May 1790, but he was released in July before the Fête de la Fédération, thanks to pressure exerted nationally by the revolutionary and journalist Jean-Paul Marat.

At a meeting of the 19-member Rio group in May 2003, Toledo proposed developing a joint strategy to deal with drug trafficking, but pressure from Washington, which preferred bilateral efforts, helped kill the notion.

Following his January 2008 retirement as a religious leader and pressure from party insiders, on 4 March 2008, Paisley announced that he would stand down as DUP leader and First Minister of Northern Ireland in May 2008.

Historian Claudia Orange claims that the Colonial Office had initially planned a " Māori New Zealand " in which European settlers would be accommodated, but by 1839 had shifted to " a settler New Zealand in which a place had to be kept for Māori " due to pressure from the New Zealand Company which hurriedly dispatched the Tory to New Zealand on 12 May 1839 ( arriving in Port Nicholson ( Wellington ) on 20 September 1839 to purchase land ) and plans by French Captain Jean François L ' Anglois for a French colony in Akaroa.

Claims later leaked in May 2003 that the dossier was " sexed up " under pressure from Downing Street will lead to a media furore, and the apparent suicide of weapons inspector David Kelly.

Raising the pressure further, Clark assigned U. S. II Corps which, fighting its way along the coast from the Gustav Line, had joined up with VI Corps on May 25 to attack around the right hand side of the Alban Hills and advance along the line of Route 6 to Rome.

Winston Churchill, the British Prime Minister, saw Iraq as vital to Britain's strategic interests and in early May, under heavy pressure from London, Wavell agreed to send a division-sized force across the desert from Palestine to relieve the besieged British air base at Habbaniya and to assume overall control of troops in Iraq.

Nevertheless, the pressure from the Japanese Armies was unstoppable and a withdrawal to India was ordered which was completed by the end of May before the start of the monsoon season which brought Japanese progress to a halt.