In fact, according to Carducci, Unicorn Records was so poorly managed and so deeply in debt that MCA would lose money in distributing Damaged, regardless of its content, and was eager to sever its relationship with Unicorn by any possible pretext.

Ironically, Seagram had purchased Motown ’ s former parent MCA in 1995, as such Motown was in effect reunited with many of its MCA corporate siblings ( Seagram had, in fact, hoped to build a media empire around Universal, and started by purchasing PolyGram ).

The fact remained that the other female singers on MCA were selling millions of records, while Loveless, with a gold record for Honky Tonk Angel, sold less than half of that with her two follow-up albums.

The fact that Wills made his professional debut in blackface was commented on by Wills ' daughter, Rosetta: " He had a lot of respect for the musicians and music of his black friends ," Rosetta is quoted as saying on the Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys Web site.

This similarity in fact led to legal action being taken by the rival Seven Network who at the time was set to debut an Australian version of Ground Force.

Catatonia, in fact, only ever released 5 Welsh tracks-International Velvet being the only one to appear on a UK album ( As well as Gyda Gwen, which was a hidden track on their debut album " Way Beyond Blue ".

* The 2006 title of R & B / Hip Hop singer Stacy " Fergie " Ferguson's debut album, The Dutchess ( dutchess is a Middle English spelling of duchess ) was a reference to the fact that the two are associated with the same surname.

Vanilla Fudge, the debut album by Vanilla Fudge, also contains a cover of " Strawberry Fields Forever " titled " ELDS "; the album in fact spelt out an acrostic of the song as an homage, with preceding tracks titled " STRA ", " WBER " and " RYFI.

Although nearly all of the plot is embellished, the events surrounding the sudden and unexpected conducting debut are based on fact.

Perhaps more noteworthy, however, is the fact that every member of the group has contributed at least two songs per album, with only the following exceptions: On 1992's debut LP, Smeared, Scott and Pentland are credited with just one song each, while on 2003's Action Pact, Scott has no songs, for according to Eye Weekly, that album's producer, Tom Rothrock, essentially randomly selected tracks out of the band's submissions in the interest of creating a more streamlined sound.

In fact, ESPN would eventually devote additional coverage of the UFC and other MMA news with the television debut of " MMA Live " on ESPN2 in May 2010.

Another issue with print-on-demand titles is the fact that they are often debut works.

In fact, only about a dozen of them wore Steam Roller colors for the team's debut in the NFL.

In fact, between September 1971 ( her Grand Slam debut at the U. S. Open ) and June 1983 ( her twelfth visit to The Championships Wimbledon ), Evert never failed to reach at least the semi-finals of the 34 Grand Slam singles events she entered.

Regardless, the fact that Hampshire College was founded a year after Scooby Doo's debut calls this folklore's veracity into question.

The show follows the exploits of Anna Nicole Smith and her entourage ; much of the focus of the series was on the fact that Smith had become obese after falling out of the public eye, no longer received regular modeling or acting work, and, at the time of the series ' debut, was in a precarious financial state after lavish spending sprees and the battle against her stepson for her deceased husband's fortune.

While RoboCop is often credited as his English language debut, he had in fact previously made Flesh & Blood during 1985, starring Rutger Hauer and Jennifer Jason Leigh.

The show's overall weekly average throughout its run was only 71, 600 viewers, a very disappointing number, especially considering the fact that Bullard averaged 129, 000 viewers back when he hosted Open Mike and that The Daily Show on CTV had consistently beaten Bullard in the ratings since the show's debut.

Trinidad and Tobago returned to the Games for the first time since 1988. Andorra make a début in the Summer Paralympics, despite the fact wich has send a team three times for the Winter Paralympics. Malawi, which would have been making its debut at the Games, and Botswana, were both due to send delegations but withdrew hours before the opening ceremony citing a lack of government funds.

Although her first appearance as ' Saavik ' in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock ( Kirstie Alley had played the role first in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan ) was promoted as being her film debut, in fact Curtis had already made several film and made-for-television movie appearances.

In 1996, Vegas made his TV debut as a contestant on Win, Lose or Draw in the UK under his real name of Michael, but made references to the fact he wanted to be a comedian and that his stage name was " Johnny Vegas ".

The raids are the combat debut of the Gee navigation aid, raising British hopes that precision bombing of the Krupp armaments factory will be achieved, but it is not hit, and bombs in fact do far more damage to neighboring towns than to Essen itself.

As the 1981-82 season ranked No. 68 out of 105 shows, NBC executives planned a daytime version of the primetime series to debut in September 1982, but that never occurred despite the fact a bible for a third season had been drafted by Jeff Freilich.

In fact, Robbins was one of only six directors who won the Academy Award for Best Director for a film debut.

It is a little known fact that there have been several unreleased tracks recorded by the band before their eponymous debut ; these tracks have entered the fan community and, although sometimes difficult to find, can be obtained freely.

In fact, no writer who made their Doctor Who debut on the BBC Books line has written for the new series.

Since the debut of the United Football League in 2009, the UFL has acted as an unofficial feeder league to the NFL, benefiting from the fact that the UFL ends its season a month ( two months beginning in 2011 ) before the end of the NFL regular season.

" It concluded by saying, " in the years to come, in the view of the hundreds of thousands of people who are devoted to baseball, and the millions who will be, Abner Doubleday's fame will rest evenly, if not quite as much, upon the fact that he was its inventor ... as upon his brilliant and distinguished career as an officer in the Federal Army.

The RAND Corporation's Memorandum 5446-ISA / ARPA states: " the fact that the VC obtain most of their food from the neutral rural population dictates the destruction of civilian crops ... if they ( the VC ) are to be hampered by the crop destruction program, it will be necessary to destroy large portions of the rural economy – probably 50 % or more ".

If he himself philosopher did not exist, he would not be there to ask questions about the nature of reality ... on the other hand, this fundamental fact, which we call existence, soon proves a rather barren topic for philosophic speculation ...

Writing in 1933, Charles Fenner suggested that it was likely that the " actual origin of the bunyip myth lies in the fact that from time to time seals have made their way up the ... Murray and Darling ( Rivers )".

Lynn Montross, writing on that topic in War Through the Ages ( 1960 ), said ; " This outcome ... may be explained by the fact that Jomini produced a system of war, Clausewitz a philosophy.

As George Gamow put in his science-popularizing book, One, Two, Three ... Infinity ( 1947 ), " The metallic substances differ from all other materials by the fact that the outer shells of their atoms are bound rather loosely, and often let one of their electrons go free.

:" This heuristic fact recursive functions are effectively calculable ... led Church to state the following thesis (< sup > 22 </ sup >).

Surrounded by Crito, his grieving friends and students, he is teaching, philosophizing, and in fact, thanking the God of Health, Asclepius, for the hemlock brew which will ensure a peaceful death ...

:“ The exact meaning of the prepositional phrases is perplexing ... the obscurity is due to … the fact that vss.

'" Martin Gottfried wrote: " The concept behind ' Follies ' is theater nostalgia, representing the rose-colored glasses through which we face the fact of age ... the show is conceived in ghostliness.

This was the unconscious force within the individual that contributed to illness, Freud in fact coming to consider " the obstacle of an unconscious sense of guilt ... as the most powerful of all obstacles to recovery.

This particular fact was reinforced when TV Guide ranked the series number 10 on its 50 Worst Shows of All Time List in 2002 ... a full 10 years after the last first-run episode aired on May 30, 1992 ( although the entry specifically refers to the Hee Haw Honeys spinoff, not the main show itself ).

For example, the economist Irving Fisher said in a 1912 address to the Eugenics Research Association: " The Nordic race will ... vanish or lose its dominance if, in fact, the whole human race does not sink so low as to become the prey, as H. G. Wells images, of some less degenerate animal!

However, about once a week some character spots the fact that HAL is one letter ahead of IBM, and promptly assumes that Stanley and I were taking a crack at the estimable institution ... As it happened, IBM had given us a good deal of help, so we were quite embarrassed by this, and would have changed the name had we spotted the coincidence.

Composer Walter Niemann declared " The fact that Brahms began his creative activity with the German folk song and closed with the Bible reveals ... the true religious creed of this great man of the people.

:" The tragedy of Dokdokwas is deepened by the fact that most scholars now agree that Frémont and Carson, in their blind vindictiveness, probably chose the wrong tribe to lash out against: In all likelihood the band of native Americans that had killed three men were from the neighboring Modoc ...

Based on his accurate description of towns, cities and islands, as well as correctly naming various official titles, archaeologist Sir William Ramsay wrote that " Luke is a historian of the first rank ; not merely are his statements of fact trustworthy ... should be placed along with the very greatest of historians.

Olusegun Obasanjo, who by 1999 had become President, bemoaned the fact in his inaugural address that year: ‘... Professionalism has been lost ... my heart bleeds to see the degradation in the proficiency of the military .’

Biblical scholar F. F. Bruce has said " the evidence for our New Testament writings is ever so much greater than the evidence for many writings of classical authors, the authenticity of which no one dreams of questioning ... It is a curious fact that historians have often been much readier to trust the New Testament records than have many theologians.

Sobran also believes " scholars have largely ignored one of the chief themes of the Sonnets: the poet's sense of disgrace .... here can be no doubt that the poet is referring to something real that he expects his friends to know about ; in fact, he makes clear that a wide public knows about it ... Once again the poet's situation matches Oxford's ....

In fact, there is little published evidence that OBE actually works ...

Opponents do argue that the simple fact of producing a communication is not by itself leading to a direct result on the public opinion, unless this one is considered as a merely passive mass in front of an irresistible communication ...

In 1927 the Court appointed a committee to look at this issue, and it reported that " where there are in fact contending parties, the difference between contentious cases and advisory cases is only nominal ... so the view that advisory opinions are not binding is more theoretical than real ".

Although Orbison recorded and wrote standard structure songs before " Only the Lonely ", he claimed never to have learned how to write them: " I'm sure we had to study composition or something like that at school, and they'd say ' This is the way you do it ,' and that's the way I would have done it, so being blessed again with not knowing what was wrong or what was right, I went on my own way .... So the structure sometimes has the chorus at the end of the song, and sometimes there is no chorus, it just goes ... But that's always after the fact — as I'm writing, it all sounds natural and in sequence to me.