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The effect of radiation is cumulative over the years -- and on to succeeding generations.
Blank spent 19 years as the company's president before succeeding Marcus as CEO.
Unsuccessful attempts at Cnossus were made by both W. J. Stillman and H. Schliemann, and A. J. Evans, coming on the scene in 1893, travelled in succeeding years about the island picking up trifles of unconsidered evidence, which gradually convinced him that greater things would eventually be found.
John Flamsteed, from measurements made in 1689 and succeeding years with his mural quadrant, similarly concluded that the declination of the Pole Star was 40 ″ less in July than in September.
Disraeli's efforts over the past two years had dispelled, for the time being, any doubts about him succeeding Derby as leader of the Conservative Party and therefore Prime Minister.
Funan and its succeeding societies which occupied this section of Southeast Asia would remain mainly Hindu in religion for about 900 years.
Show set the standard for all succeeding music film and video work, including many of the early videos shown by Music Television 17 years later.
Other accounts claim he actually served on the Tokugawa side, but such a claim is unproven, although Musashi had a close relationship with some Tokugawa vassals through his duel with Sasaki Kojirō, and in the succeeding years, he did not drop out of sight as might be expected if he were being persecuted for being on the losing side.
The publication in 1983 of Nostradamus's private correspondence and, during succeeding years, of the original editions of 1555 and 1557 discovered by Chomarat and Benazra, together with the unearthing of much original archival material revealed that much that was claimed about Nostradamus did not fit the documented facts.
Conservative commentator Dinesh D ' Souza, for example, published the letters of gay fellow students at Dartmouth College in the campus newspaper he edited ( The Dartmouth Review ) in 1981 ; a few years later, succeeding Review editor Laura Ingraham had a meeting of a campus gay organization secretly tape-recorded, then published a transcript as part of an editorial denouncing the group as " cheerleaders for latent campus sodomites.
In the succeeding years, Polybius resided in Rome, completing his historical work while occasionally undertaking long journeys through the Mediterranean countries in the furtherance of his history, in particular with the aim of obtaining firsthand knowledge of historical sites.
" At independence in 1956, Sudan's 5, 000-man army was regarded as a highly trained, competent, and apolitical force, but its character changed in succeeding years.
Over the succeeding years, Uzbekistan replaced Russian officers with ethnic Uzbeks and restructured the military to focus on targets like civil unrest, drug trafficking, and Hizb-ut-Tahrir.
* Nicolas Sarkozy is elected President of France in 2007 succeeding Jacques Chirac, who had held the position for 12 years.
* June 28 A new government is formed in Turkey, with Necmettin Erbakan of Refah Partisi becoming prime minister of the coalition government, and deputy and foreign minister Tansu Çiller of the True Path Party succeeding him after two years.
In 1519 the Kingdom of Hungary concluded a three years ' truce with Selim I, but the succeeding sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent, renewed the war in June 1521 and on 28 August captured the citadel of Belgrade.
" Garfield continued to stress the importance of these ties in succeeding years and advocated that the Panama Canal be constructed by the U. S. and solely under U. S. jurisdiction.
For example, if salary is averaged over five years, and retirement is in 2009, then salary in 2004 dollars is averaged with salary in 2005 dollars, etc., with 2004 dollars being worth more than the dollars of succeeding years.
During his years in Kendal, Dalton contributed solutions of problems and questions on various subjects to the Gentlemen's and Ladies ' Diaries, and in 1787 he began to keep a meteorological diary in which, during the succeeding 57 years, he entered more than 200, 000 observations.
" In succeeding years, however, further attempts to grow the peas were unsuccessful.
Possibly the worst episode occurred in 1888 and succeeding years, as the epizootic rinderpest, introduced into Eritrea by infected cattle, spread southwards reaching ultimately as far as South Africa.
Tariq Modood argues that in the early years of the 21st Century, multiculturalism " is most timely and necessary, and [...] we need more not less ", since it is " the form of integration " that ( 1 ) best fits the ideal of egalitarianism, ( 2 ) has " the best chance of succeeding " in the " post-9 / 11, post 7 / 7 " world, and ( 3 ) has remained " moderate pragmatic ".

succeeding and gave
When Kamprad was 17, his father gave him a cash reward for succeeding in his studies.
In his analysis, German critic Paul Bekker states that " The opening sonata-allegro movement gave the work a definite character from the beginning ... which succeeding movements could supplement but not change.
Since the character's first appearance in Casino Royale, neither Fleming nor any succeeding Bond novelist or screenwriter gave Moneypenny a first name.
This gave him some prospect of succeeding to the British throne.
Rosier, in A Design for Treachery: The Unferth Intrigue, puts forth the contention that Unferth deliberately gave Beowulf a sword that he knew would fail, possibly for the purpose of preventing Beowulf from succeeding where Unferth himself failed.
Queen Jamadevi gave birth to twins, the older succeeding her as the ruler of Lamphun, and the younger becoming ruler of neighboring Lampang.
Even if such repackaged non-relational products eventually gave way to SQL DBMSs, no popular " relational " DBMSs are actually relational, be it by Codd ’ s twelve rules or by the more formal definitions in his papers, in his books or in succeeding works in the academia or by its coworkers and successors, Christopher J.
Baer gave purses from succeeding bouts to Campbell's family, but lost four of his next six fights.
In succeeding issues ( and in its later London version ) Oz gave pioneering coverage to contentious issues such as censorship, homosexuality, police brutality, the Australian government's racist White Australia Policy and Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War, as well as regularly satirising public figures, up to and including Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies.
Rhea's growing popularity as a guest host gave her the green light to host her own daytime talk show the following year, supposedly succeeding O ' Donnell.
Dent was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 2004, succeeding Pat Toomey, who gave up his seat to challenge Arlen Specter for the U. S. Senate.
Starting with the original six stations, Fox Television Stations gained the bulk of its group through two large transactions: the 1997 purchase of New World Communications, succeeding a 1993 business deal between the two companies which led to all of New World's stations switching from other networks to Fox during 1994-95 ; and the 2001 acquisition of the Chris-Craft / United group, which gave Fox ownership of several stations then affiliated with the UPN network, and also created several duopolies ( two stations in the same market owned by the same company ).
On Tuesday, March 1, 2011, Pope Benedict XVI, gave his consent to the canonical election ( made by the Synod of Bishops of the Patriarchal Syriac Catholic Church ) of Father Bouros Moshe, until now the Protosyncellus ( Vicar General ) of the Archeparchy of Mosul, as the new Archbishop-elect of the Archeparchy of Mosul, succeeding Casmoussa.

succeeding and series
A drastic increase of taxes by the new emir Anbasa ibn Suhaym Al-Kalbi had provoked several rebellions in Al-Andalus, which a series of succeeding weak emirs were unable to suppress.
Upon succeeding his father, Suleiman began a series of military conquests, eventually suppressing a revolt led by the Ottoman-appointed governor of Damascus in 1521.
* The 1632 series, though set during the succeeding decade, features many characters, such as Louis XIII and Prime Minister Cardinal Richelieu of France, Gustavus II of Sweden, and Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II, who were active during the 1620s and uses events from the 1620s and Early 1630s as a backdrop, most notably the Thirty Year's War.
Her most famous role is that of communications officer Lieutenant Uhura aboard the USS Enterprise in the popular Star Trek television series, as well as the succeeding motion pictures, where her character was eventually promoted in Starfleet to the rank of commander.
Ohana is a key theme in Disney's 2002 film, Lilo and Stitch and the succeeding television series based on the film.
The is the third and final release in Bandai's WonderSwan handheld game console series, succeeding the WonderSwan and WonderSwan Color.
Lewis won New York-area Emmy Awards for her work on Shariland and on a succeeding series on WRCA-TV, Hi Mom ( 1957 1959 ).
* In Colonization: Aftershocks by Harry Turtledove, part of an alternate history series, Stassen is successful with his ambitions, first elected Vice President under Earl Warren, then succeeding him as president upon Warren's suicide in 1965.
The succeeding ABC 800 series was introduced in 1981 with new releases in 1983 being produced until the ABC line was terminated in 1986.
The succeeding volumes in the nine book series also appeared prominently on the List.
West often reprised his role as Batman / Bruce Wayne, first in the short-lived animated series, The New Adventures of Batman, and in other shows such as Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show and The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians ( succeeding Olan Soule in the role ).
At the end of the series, Raimundo, who willingly attempted to turn evil for his comrades as well as succeeding the final Xiaolin Showdown, is revealed as the team leader, also known as Shoku Warrior.
The Bistro series was popular, causing Subaru to release multiple succeeding versions of the Bistro, called the " Bistro B-Custom ", the " Bistro Chiffon ", the " Bistro White Edition ", the " L Bistro ", the " Sports Bistro " with BBS wheels, the " Bistro SS " using the engine package from the Vivio RX-SS, and the " Club Bistro " with a British black cab appearance.
The Earth Minbari War launched several movements which would become prominent in the succeeding decades, and which would feature prominently in the storyline of the Babylon 5 TV series.
It is the second installation of the Saber Marionette line of series, preceding Saber Marionette J Again and succeeding Saber Marionette R. The show was localized in North America by Ocean Productions and into six other languages by various companies.
Teletoon is rather unusual in its production schedule as it always has seasons of 26 28 episodes and will postpone the production of the succeeding season between a year: such as if a series premieres during the 2008 2009 season it will air another set of episodes during the 2010 2011 skipping an entire season between.
* In the comic series Assassin's Creed: The Fall, the main character Daniel Cross was an sleeper agent of the Templar Order ( Abstergo Industries ) assigned to kill the Mentor of the Assassin Order, succeeding in the year 2000 in Dubai.
Bamboo Dong of Anime News Network finds that the series " tries hard to please everyone, and comes daringly close to succeeding.
It is the third game in the series, succeeding Star Fox 64.
The Mega Man Zero series, known as in Japan, is the series succeeding the Mega Man X story-line, and the fifth series in Capcom's Mega Man video game franchise, co-produced by Keiji Inafune, and directed by Mega Man Legends series director Yoshinori Kawano.
Similar to the succeeding Code Lyoko, Garage Kids was intended to be a 26-episode series detailing the lives of four French boarding school students who have discovered the secret of Xanadu, a virtual world created by a research group headed by the Professor.

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