However, given the right problem, the use of an appropriate 4GL can be spectacularly successful as was seen with MARK-IV and MAPPER ( see History Section, Santa Fe real-time tracking of their freight cars – the productivity gains were estimated to be 8 times over COBOL ).

He created a spectacularly successful publicity campaign for Whifflet cigarettes while working for Pym's Publicity Ltd and at aged 40 was able to turn three cartwheels in the office corridor, stopping just short of the boss's open office door ( Murder Must Advertise ).

The reforms proved spectacularly successful in terms of increased output, variety, quality, price and demand.

Her distinctive colours of blue with buff stripes were carried by horses such as Special Cargo, the winner of the 1984 Whitbread Gold Cup, and Devon Loch, which spectacularly halted just short of the winning post at the 1956 Grand National and whose jockey Dick Francis later had a successful career as the writer of racing-themed detective stories.

That evening Themistocles now attempted what appears to have been a spectacularly successful use of misinformation.

Thrasybulus was a capable general, particularly successful in naval warfare, and a competent speaker, but was frequently overshadowed or pushed aside by more charismatic or spectacularly successful leaders.

Leonard Bernstein, who had made his historic, unrehearsed and spectacularly successful debut with the Philharmonic in 1943, was Music Director for 11 seasons, a time of significant change and growth.

Instead Labour's Mary Robinson, who already had had a spectacularly successful campaign, became the seventh president of Ireland, the first elected president from outside Fianna Fáil, and the first woman to hold the office.

The deal was spectacularly successful, and SCP later claimed in court that Microsoft had concealed its relationship with IBM in order to purchase the operating system cheaply.

Vagabond was spectacularly successful in that race, winning by four minutes.

Whether Irving's long, spectacularly successful relationship with his leading lady Ellen Terry was romantic as well as professional has been the subject of much historical speculation.

Grapple X was spectacularly successful, exceeding its predicted yield of one megaton by about 80 percent.

Little of Moray's spectacularly successful campaign is recorded.

The poem was spectacularly successful on both sides of the Atlantic, selling eventually approaching a million copies-an unheard of number for a book of verse.

A test pilot selected to wear the bands proves spectacularly successful at wielding them, but he perishes when the energy output reaches a critical mass beyond his control.

The store becomes wildly successful under the management of the two boys, only to lose much of its newfound prosperity after Milhouse goes overboard in ordering a shipment of two thousand comics depicting " Biclops ", a superhero with thick glasses, which flops spectacularly.

On the other hand, James Cameron's spectacularly successful Titanic ( 1997 ) was just as lengthy as The Right Stuff ( three hours and fifteen minutes ), but was not shown in a roadshow format or with an intermission.

Williams ' Spirit Feel recordings can be heard on the sound-tracks of movies such as Fried Green Tomatoes, and Mississippi Marsala, and even in the spectacularly successful video game Scene It.

Although Rio de Janeiro had itself grown spectacularly during this period, São Paulo trailed it by only 460, 000 inhabitants and would leapfrog ahead within two decades.

FCK spectacularly crashed to the end of the table, he lost his position as a starting playmaker, was benched for a longer period of time, and even had periods when he even failed to be nominated as a bench player at all.

The decision to retain the wharf, a Grade II listed structure, to sympathetically restore its tea and produce warehouses surrounding it, to provide office accommodation and shops, was done by permanently closing the dock gates, covering the ' impounded ' area of the dock with a floor to the sill of the wharf-sides and, most spectacularly, enclosing the entire space with a roof, reminiscent of the Victorian railway termini of the same period, to create the galleria.

Often these exercises work well for some bodybuilders but less spectacularly for others.

" " He had nothing whatsoever to do with Goth ," and further commented " I realise that like many Neos this idiot may even have believed he somehow was a Goth, because they're only really noted for spectacularly missing the point.

The publicity Hall received was due to unintended consequences ; the novel was tried for obscenity in London, a spectacularly scandalous event described as " the crystallizing moment in the construction of a visible modern English lesbian subculture " by professor Laura Doan.

The " Joh for Canberra " campaign backfired spectacularly when a large number of three-cornered contests allowed Labor to win a third term under Bob Hawke.

The most famous of these was the opening of the original Tacoma Narrows Suspension Bridge in mid 1940, which failed spectacularly 4 months later during a sustained 67 km / h crosswind and became known as Galloping Gertie for its flutter movement.

Such events would seem to be spectacularly obvious, but they generally go unnoticed for a number of reasons: the majority of the Earth's surface is covered by water ; a good portion of the land surface is uninhabited ; and the explosions generally occur at relatively high altitude, resulting in a huge flash and thunderclap but no real damage.

A spectacularly beautiful area looking south toward the Pacific and the Channel Islands and having sunrise to sunset views, Santa Barbara became the winter destination for the titans of post-Civil War America.

Dozens of homes built in the 19th century and early 20th century remain much as they existed at their construction ; homes with porches suitable for carriage ingress and egress are spectacularly preserved.

Dieudonné regularly and spectacularly threatened to resign unless topics were treated in their logical order, and after a while others played on this for a joke.

Next he moved to Rome, where he worked for Cosimo I de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, who maintained a household there ; and in 1553, he became maestro di cappella of the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, the ecumenical mother church of Rome and a spectacularly prestigious post indeed for a man only twenty-one years old.

Throughout the " seduction " tug-of-war between Rich and Betterton in 1695 – 96, Powell remained at Drury Lane, where he was in fact not used for Love's Last Shift, but would instead spectacularly demonstrate his drinking problem at the première of The Relapse.

In her review for The New York Times, Janet Maslin wrote, " But when that group sing-along arrives, Magnolia begins to self-destruct spectacularly.

Before the wall was named it also claimed victims such as 1992 World Sportscar Champion and long time F1 driver Derek Warwick who spectacularly crashed his Arrows-Megatron during qualifying for the 1988 Canadian Grand Prix.

After the war he built his system for retaining peace around the alliance with Austria, only for it to collapse spectacularly in 1756.

Ironically, the Palace burned down spectacularly during an arson attack, and fears were held for the Palais.

His electoral reorganisation effort, which came to be called a Tullymander, backfired spectacularly and helped engineer a landslide for the opposition, Fianna Fáil.

Tourists are catered for by a campsite spectacularly sited on the cliffs above the beach ( with easy access down to the beach ), an SYHA hostel, housed by some converted army buildings, bed and breakfast accommodation, and two hotels and restaurants, Mackay's and the Smoo Cave Hotel.

However, the market for AI spectacularly collapsed in the late 1980s and the goals of the fifth generation computer project were never fulfilled.

At club level, Banks came up with his second most famous save when spectacularly palming a vicious penalty from his England team-mate Hurst over the crossbar as Stoke defeated West Ham United in the semi final of the 1972 League Cup.

After a long spell in Segunda División B the club was finally promoted in 2003, spectacularly returning to the top level in 2005, after taking the championship with a last-day victory at neighbours Xerez CD.

After a decade in the top division, 1860 spectacularly burnt out in the 2003 – 04 season with a 17th place finish that returned the club to the 2.

The 1985 – 86 season started spectacularly for United, who won all of their first 10 league games ( a club record start to a season ) and were ten points clear at the top of the table as early as October.