From a base of 90 % of trains arriving on time in 1998, the measure dipped to 75 % in mid 2001 and, by the end of the 2002 – 3 period, had recovered to only 80 %.

Others believe it was a corrupted term of " Chilango ", meaning an inhabitant from Mexico City or Central Mexico ( i. e. the highland states of Mexico ( state ), Jalisco, Puebla ( state ) and Michoacán ); and even from the term " Chileno " by the Chilean presence in mid 19th-century California, when miners from Chile arrived in the California Gold Rush ( 1848 – 51 ).

The Persians may have experimented initially with ruling Yehud as a Dividic client-kingdom under descendants of Jehoiachin, but by the mid – 5th century BCE Yehud had become in practice a theocracy, ruled by hereditary High Priests and a Persian-appointed governor, frequently Jewish, charged with keeping order and seeing that tribute was paid.

* Gustave Caillebotte ( who, younger than the others, joined forces with them in the mid 1870s ) ( 1848 – 1894 )

* 1980 – Italian Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870 mysteriously explodes in mid air while in route from Bologna to Palermo, killing all 81 on board.

* ETA – Basque Fatherland and Liberty, a left-wing Basque separatist group fighting for the independence of the Basques from Spain with ties to the Provisional Irish Republican Army also received training support from Libya in the 1960s and mid -' 70s.

With players such as Tittle and Gifford approaching their mid 30s, the team declined rapidly, finishing 2 – 10 – 2 in 1964.

Heaviside's uncle Sir Charles Wheatstone ( 1802 – 1875 ) was the original co-inventor of the telegraph in the mid 1830s, and was an internationally celebrated expert in telegraphy and electromagnetism.

The RGB color model is based on the Young – Helmholtz theory of trichromatic color vision, developed by Thomas Young and Hermann Helmholtz, in the early to mid nineteenth century, and on James Clerk Maxwell's color triangle that elaborated that theory ( circa 1860 ).

The earliest athletic shoes date back to the mid 19th century were track spikes – leather shoes with metal cleats on the soles to provide increased friction during running.

From the mid to late 14th, through early 18th centuries, the Ottoman devşirme – janissary system enslaved and forcibly converted to Islam an estimated 500, 000 to one million non – Muslim ( primarily Balkan Christian ) adolescent males.

After this, in the mid to late 19th century, only in autonomous Galicia ( 1861 – 1914 ) was there a unicameral, functioning National Sejm ; it is recognised today as having played a major, and overwhelming positive role in the development of Polish national institutions.

* Helman Tor, mid – Cornwall

* 755 – 763: The An Shi Rebellion devastates China during the mid Tang Dynasty.

The Three Stooges were an American vaudeville and comedy act of the early to mid – 20th century best known for their numerous short subject films.

* The First and Second Opium Wars in the mid 19th century ( 1840 – 1843 and 1856-1860 respectively ).

* Southern Scots – mid and east Dumfriesshire and the Scottish Borders counties Selkirkshire and Roxburghshire, in particular the valleys of the Annan, the Esk, the Liddel Water, the Teviot and the Yarrow Water.

In mid 1999, Jennings assembled what he referred to as his " hand-picked dream team " – and formed Waylon & The Waymore Blues Band.

There are also some Sudovian language phrases in " Warhafftige Beschreibung der Sudawen auff Samland sambt ihren Bock heyligen und Ceremonien " – True Description of the Sudovians in Samland together with their goat sanctifications and ceremonies – written in the mid 16th century by Hieronymus Meletius.

Since the mid – 20th century, heavy water consumption of farms and cities along the river has left only 20 % of its natural discharge to flow to the Gulf.

Such was the influence that Carey had on games in which he played, and so much did the Kangaroos struggle in his absence that, in mid 1994, the phenomenon was given a name – ' No Carey, no North '.

Even though many Danish nationalists, such as the National Liberal ideologue and agitator Orla Lehmann, used the name " Schleswig ", it began to assume a clear German nationalist character in the mid 19th century – especially when included in the combined term " Schleswig-Holstein ".

The team commonly wore light blue pants on the road with the white jerseys from 1972 through 1994, with the exception of the 1980 season, and selected games in the mid 80s, when the team wore an all-white road combination.

Meetings were first held with residents of Stockertown in the mid 1960s, and the Stockertown portion of the highway was constructed in 1971, opening in 1972.

Although formally on ceasefire ( except for " defensive actions ") since 1972 ( see above ), the Official IRA continued some attacks on British forces up until mid 1973, killing seven British soldiers in what it termed " retaliatory attacks ".

From 1972 to 1986, the centrist party with which COPE competed was The Electors ' Action Movement, which governed the city under prominent federal Liberal Mayor Art Phillips in the mid 1970s.

Another top five hit came with the next single, " Circles " in mid 1972.

In 1972 the RFU sanctioned a national knock-out cup — the R. F. U. Club Competition, the predecessor to today's Anglo-Welsh Cup — followed first by regional merit tables and then, in the mid 1980s, by national merit tables.

Cleveland V8s were imported initially, until the Geelong Foundry began to produce these motors for automatic Falcons in mid 1972.

In the mid 1960s he dated British actress Janette Scott, between her marriages to songwriter Jackie Rae and singer Mel Tormé ; in the early 1970s he was engaged to American actress Diahann Carroll ; between 1972 and 1977 he had a relationship with British socialite Caroline Cushing ; and in 1981 he married Lynne Frederick, widow of Peter Sellers, but they divorced the following year.

* JCPenney ( 260, 000 ft² ) Opened 1972 ; Major Renovation done from early 2010 to mid 2011-3 Floors ( 2 above, 1 below )

( Roberts ' four-year commitment to the Air Force would be over in mid 1972.

Stephen Giles ( born July 4, 1972 in Saint Stephen, New Brunswick ) is a Canadian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the mid 2000s.

Events were held at Calder Park Raceway in Melbourne till the mid 1970s and at the Catalina Park circuit at Katoomba in New South Wales from 1972 until the early 1980s.

Borgudd began racing on and off in the mid 1960s with a Lotus Formula Ford car, but his racing career only became more serious in 1972, after taking five wins in five sports car racing club events.

As follow-up singles they released " Suzanne Suzanne " ( early 1972 ) and " Hideaway " ( mid 1972 ), which were only minor hits in some European countries.

From the mid 1950s onwards, she appeared in several opera houses in Italy, the Vienna State Opera, the Salzburg Festival, and the Bolshoi in Moscow, in 1972.

During this time the major proposals dealt with by the committee included extensions of china clay workings and coniferous plantations ( which did not take place ); the erection of a television transmitting mast at North Hessary Tor in 1953 ( passed by the casting vote of the chairman ); and proposals to construct three reservoirs, of which the Avon Dam Reservoir ( mid 1950s ) and the Meldon Reservoir ( 1972 ) were built, but one planned for the Swincombe Valley was rejected, by Parliamentary Committee in 1970 " on the grounds of the technical unsuitability of the scheme, not because it was sited in a national park ".

But by mid 1972 Marc Bolan had left Fly Records to set up his own label imprint and Essex / Fly producer Tony Visconti had also left with Bolan, setting up his own Good Earth Productions.

Air cooled versions ( with a baffle on the torque converter and air intakes cast into the bellhousing ) of the THM350 appeared mid 1972 in Chevrolet Vega and Nova 6.

* Robert Campbell ( art gallery director ) ( 1902 – 1972 ), Australian painter and director of State art Galleries in the mid twentieth century

Most notably, the Grateful Dead employed the space as one of their principal Metropolitan New York venues in the mid 1970s after the demise of the Fillmore East, performing at the stadium six times between 1972 and 1976.

It follows the intertwining lives of the three Chicano relatives, Miklo ( Damian Chapa ), Cruz ( Jesse Borrego ) and Paco ( Benjamin Bratt ) from 1972 to the mid 1980s.

In 1972, the Mander family sold the site of the former RAF station to a private developer for £ 5. 5million, with the first houses being occupied within a couple of years and Perton being firmly established as a major residential area by the mid 1980s, by which time some 11, 500 people were living there.

In the Fall of 1972, WEZE changed formats to a rock ' n roll oldies sound with live personality DJ's, which was tweaked by mid 1973 by Program Director Steve Hunter and Consultant Kent Burkhardt to include include current pop / rock hits as well.