* " Ladies And Gentlemen, This Is Your Crisis " ( 1976 ) was a short story by science fiction author Kate Wilhelm about a television show in which contestants ( including a B-list actress who is hoping to revitalize her career ) attempt to make their way to a checkpoint after being dropped off in the Alaskan wilderness, while being filmed and broadcast around the clock through an entire weekend.

Production in the 16-year " CBS period " reached as high as 50 units per day around 1978-79, but sales declined as 1980 approached, and the Mark II Stage Piano was introduced in an attempt to revitalize the product.

Since the 1980s, there has been an attempt by city officials to revitalize the downtown area.

Shooter returned to Valiant ( now called Acclaim Comics ) for a brief stint in 1999 to write Unity 2000 ( an attempt to combine and revitalize the older and newer Valiant universes ) but Acclaim folded after the completion of only three of the planned six issues.

" The program was a failed attempt to revitalize the economy and entrepreneurial spirit throughout the city, specifically the downtown area.

While Kernersville went through a growth spurt in the early part of this decade it has leveled off and farms are doing well for the most part in an attempt to revitalize the agriculture community.

Several commercial complexes have opened in recent years in an attempt to revitalize the most affected areas.

A group called Hancock Partners is heading up an effort to revitalize the town and village by spurring new growth in an attempt to attract new residents, retain the younger demographic, increase tourism, and generally improve the quality of life in the area.

The current president of the college is Weymouth Spence, who has announced plans for structural changes to attempt to revitalize the school.

The attempt to revitalize the Ahom culture has encouraged linguists to take interest again in translating Ahom texts.

An attempt to revitalize the character by bringing back the writer who wrote the original Robin-to-Nightwing story, Marv Wolfman, had mixed response.

The language of the Comprehensive Program may thus also be regarded as an attempt to revitalize the image of Comecon in order to make association with it an attractive alternative to associated status with the EEC.

In 1990 in an attempt to revitalize the shopping centre Christchurch road between Palmerston road and Ashley road was pedestrianized and the Sovereign shopping centre opened.

In 1999, Williams made one last attempt to revitalize pinball sales with its Pinball 2000 machines that integrated pinball with computer graphics on embedded raster-scan displays.

The song popularized the phrase " shake it like a Polaroid picture ," and the Polaroid Corporation used the song in an attempt to revitalize the public's perception of its products.

He appeared on VH1's 2008 reality TV series, Confessions of a Teen Idol, in which former teen idols attempt to revitalize their entertainment careers.

Along with Baio, he co-hosts VH1's Confessions of a Teen Idol, a reality show in which former teen idols attempt to revitalize their entertainment careers.

Prior to the campaign, Barend was best known for her congressional staff work in bringing a major interstate highway, Interstate 86, to the " Southern Tier " area of New York state, in an attempt to revitalize the lagging economy of the region.

After the split the party seems to have declined, with an attempt to revitalize it in Warsaw in 1935.

Tsuburaya Productions started the " Ultra N Project " in 2004, in an attempt to revitalize the Ultra franchise.

is the end result of Geldring's attempt to revitalize his ranks.

On 28 November 2003, Kash hosted his first episode of the show which coincided with one of its most radical overhauls in what was reported as a make-or-break attempt to revitalize the long-running series.

First owned and published by Alexander Macmillan, Nature was similar to its predecessors in its attempt to “ provide cultivated readers with an accessible forum for reading about advances in scientific knowledge .” Janet Browne has proposed that “ far more than any other science journal of the period, Nature was conceived, born, and raised to serve polemic purpose .” Many of the early editions of Nature consisted of articles written by members of a group that called itself the X Club, a group of scientists known for having liberal, progressive, and somewhat controversial scientific beliefs relative to the time period.

Iterative methods attempt to improve on the heavy dependence on the accuracy of the initial pairwise alignments, which is the weak point of the progressive methods.

Unlike in Europe scientists did not attempt to reduce observations of nature to mathematical laws and they did not form a scholarly community with criticisms and progressive research.

They argued that welfare programs, regulation and progressive taxation were policies initiated by capitalist states ( as opposed to being won from the capitalists as a result of the pressure of the working class ) in an attempt to " patch up " the ineffective capitalist market economy, and were therefore attempts to treat the symptoms but not the cause of the issues.

The band's music has been labelled “ doomy blues ”, and has been called difficult to define ; they attempt to combine elements of widely varying genres, including alternative, doom metal, and progressive rock.

La Opinión was permeated with progressive politics, and soon there was an attempt to squash the left-wing influence within the paper.

He takes a long term historical view on these matters: just as one can identify progressive and democratic advances achieved by e. g. religion-driven farmers ' rebellions in the European Middle Ages, such as the Jan Huss or Engelbrekt uprisings, so one should attempt to support authentic popular forces and anti-Imperialist movements today, without attempting to impose one's own time-and-place-specific political agenda on their struggles.

The Rassemblement pour l ' alternative progressiste or RAP originated as the Rassemblement pour l ' alternative politique, a social movement founded in 1996 as an attempt to unite the progressive and leftist forces in Quebec, Canada.

In 1978, having received a substantial royalty payment for his work with The Yardbirds, Russian music entrepreneur Giorgio Gomelsky relocated to New York in an attempt to open up the American market to the European progressive jazz-rock bands he was working with, such as Gong, Henry Cow and Magma.

Shortly after the station announced the pending format change, a small group of people formed Ohio Majority Radio, an eventually unsuccessful grassroots attempt to save the progressive radio format on 1230 AM.

In true progressive disclosure, one would attempt to trigger a Snowball effect.

Its odd mixture of hard rock, progressive rock, and ' 80s power ballads ( forced on the band by MCA Records, which selected outside songwriters in an attempt to generate hit singles ) failed to catch on with a mass audience but it remains a cult favorite among Kansas fans.

Known as the Progressive Circle, this government sponsored dowreh (" Persian for a gathering held at regular intervals ") was a deliberate attempt by the shah to thin out the older generation of politicians with a new ‘ progressive ’ crop.

But in 1971 the United States government announced that it was suspending the convertibility of the dollar, and there followed a progressive transition to the current regime of floating exchange rates in which most governments no longer attempt to control their exchange rates or to impose controls upon access to foreign currencies or upon access to international financial markets.

" However, the band also chose to commission the artwork for Eat Me in St. Louis and its early single releases from the infamous progressive rock sleeve artist Roger Dean, in what Dunnery admitted was a calculated attempt to play on their own " progressive rock " reputation and to " annoy people.

" Halo of Flies " was, according to Cooper's liner notes in the compilation The Definitive Alice Cooper, an attempt by the band to prove that they could perform King Crimson-like progressive rock suites, and was supposedly about a SMERSH-like organisation.

French drummer and composer Christian Vander formed progressive rock band Magma in late 1969 in an attempt to fill the void left by the death of American jazz musician and composer John Coltrane.

The game design is noteworthy for its attempt to implement a ' progressive ' artificial intelligence, meaning that the pace of the game changes in response to how quickly players act.

It also reflects the belief that those changes, implemented as they were during the Single-Party period, were more in keeping with the attitudes of the country's progressive elite than with a general populace accustomed to centuries of Ottoman stability – an attempt to convince a people so-conditioned of the merits of such far-reaching changes would test the political courage of any government subject to multi-party conditions.

The theory represents an attempt to provide a more empirically progressive account of complex human behavior while preserving the naturalistic approach of behavior analysis.