In the early 1970s, however, the New York Convention and Visitors Bureau ( now NYC & Company, the official marketing and tourism organization for New York City ), under the leadership of its president, Charles Gillett, began promoting " the Big Apple " for the city.

A major reason for the motorway construction " mania " of the 2000s is a previous political halt of the major Croatian highway project, today's A1, in the 1970s and 1980s under former Yugoslavia.

During the 1960s and 1970s, the CPC experienced a significant ideological breakdown with the Communist Party of the Soviet Union under Nikita Khrushchev, and later, Leonid Brezhnev.

In the late 1970s, Kerry Packer established the rival World Series Cricket ( WSC ) competition, and it introduced many of the features of One Day International cricket that are now commonplace, including coloured uniforms, matches played at night under floodlights with a white ball and dark sight screens, and, for television broadcasts, multiple camera angles, effects microphones to capture sounds from the players on the pitch, and on-screen graphics.

Among the many political documentaries produced in the early 1970s was " Chile: A Special Report ," public television's first in-depth expository look of the September 1973 overthrow of the Salvador Allende government in Chile by military leaders under Augusto Pinochet, produced by documentarians Ari Martinez and José Garcia.

The method of serving beer under pressure then spread to the rest of the world ; by the early 1970s, draught beer was almost exclusively beer served under pressure.

This unofficial mascot and team name was used until the early 1970s, when its use came under criticism.

Developed in the 1960s, tourism declined greatly during the later 1970s and the 1980s under the military government.

Having developed from a loose confederation of national political parties in the 1970s, the ELDR is now a recognised European political party incorporated as a non-profit association under Belgian law.

While the Rising and its leaders continued to be venerated by Irish republicans — including members and supporters of the Provisional IRA and the modern Sinn Féin — with murals in republican areas of Belfast and other towns celebrating the actions of Pearse and his comrades, and a number of parades held annually in remembrance of the Rising, the Irish government discontinued its annual parade in Dublin in the early 1970s, and in 1976 it took the unprecedented step of proscribing ( under the Offences against the State Act ) a 1916 commemoration ceremony at the GPO organised by Sinn Féin and the Republican commemoration Committee.

In the early 1970s, Oakland won three World Series titles from 1972 – 1974, and after the A's left Kansas City under less than honorable terms, a strong rivalry existed between the two teams during this period.

In the 1970s under president Tolbert, Liberia strove for a more non-aligned and independent posture, and established diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, China, Cuba and Eastern bloc countries.

The ongoing commercial success of the original Land Rover series models, and latterly the Range Rover in the 1970s in the midst of BL ’ s well documented business troubles prompted the establishment of a separate Land Rover company but still under the BL umbrella, remaining part of the subsequent Rover Group in 1988 under the ownership of British Aerospace after the remains of British Leyland were broken up and privatised.

Naseem's disaffection only increased when the parliament began investigating financial irregularities under Nasir as well as the murder of inmates and torture in Villingili Prison in the early 1970s, which implicated his brother-in-law, the erstwhile strongman Abdul Hannan Haleem who was Nasir's Minister for Public Safety.

In the 1970s he worked as an animator on the World Masterpiece Theater television animation series under Isao Takahata.

Since the 1970s, the city has experienced tremendous growth, particularly during the economic boom of the 1990s under the leadership of then-Mayor and later-Tennessee Governor, Phil Bredesen, who made urban renewal a priority, and fostered the construction or renovation of several city landmarks, including the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, the downtown Nashville Public Library, the Bridgestone Arena, and LP Field.

The regime also increasingly came under international fire in the 1970s for human rights abuses, including allegations of torture and murder.

In the 1980s, under the leadership of Chief Naval Commander Liu Huaqing, the navy developed into a regional naval power, though naval construction continued at a level somewhat below the 1970s rate.

While under his leadership Naval construction yards produced fewer ships than the 1970s, greater emphasis was placed on technology and qualitative improvement.

The current most regularly used rule set — the one that is used on the international tournament stage — originated in Mito, Ibaraki, Japan in the 1970s: the Japanese game company Tsukuda Original registered the game under the trademark name Othello.

While in the 1940s Khomeini accepted the idea of a limited monarchy under the Iranian Constitution of 1906 – 1907 — as evidenced by his book Kashf al-Asrar – by the 1970s he rejected the idea.

A variety of calculator models was sold in the 1970s under the Prinztronic brand, all made for them by other companies.

The double digit inflation of the 1970s was brought under control.

Cleve Moler, the chairman of the computer-science department at the University of New Mexico, started developing MATLAB in the late 1970s.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, as vice chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council, formally the al-Bakr's second-in-command, Saddam built a reputation as a progressive, effective politician.

He served as chairman of the FMSF Confederation of Swedish Conservative and Liberal Students, a centre-right student organisation, in the early 1970s.

Pequot numbers grew appreciably — the Mashantucket Pequot especially — during the 1970s and 1980s when tribal chairman Richard A. Hayward persuaded Pequot to return to their tribal homeland.

As one of its favourite sons he was dismayed to be banned from Stamford Bridge, along with many of his 1970s colleagues, by chairman Ken Bates for perceived criticism of the club in the 1990s.

In the 1970s, it was taken over by former Heinz chairman Tony O ' Reilly.

George Henry Lesch was president, CEO, and chairman of the board of Colgate-Palmolive in the 1960s and 1970s, during that time transformed it into a modern company with major restructuring.

In 2009, he portrayed Sam Longson, chairman of Derby County football club in the 1960s and 1970s, in the film The Damned United ; the starring character in the film was football manager Brian Clough, played by Michael Sheen.

Götting, himself a Volkskammer chairman in the 1970s, carried on and elaborated the pro-government line.

This was as Stålsett had been the chairman of the Centre Party in the 1970s, and got his bid for bishop supported by Centre Party MPs in 1998, with Simonsen thinking the choice to have been too politicized.

Simonsen was during the 1970s active in the nonpartisan youth organisation Moderate Youth ( Moderat Ungdom ), and was the chairman of its Rogaland chapter from 1975 to 1977.

The tower was originally conceived in the late 1970s by the late Frank E. McKinney, Jr., chairman of American Fletcher Corporation ( the holding company for American Fletcher National Bank and Trust Company ( AFNB ), which at the time was Indiana's largest financial institution ) to allow for consolidation and expansion of his company's headquarters.

During most of the 1970s, he served as the chairman of the American Indian Movement, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

A former student radical, he became involved in left wing politics in the 1970s and emerged as founder and chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party.

In the 1970s, using the pseudonym Frank Richards, Furedi served as the co-founder and chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party ( RCP ).

Since the 1970s, she has served as a director or chairman of a variety of public and private sector organisations.

By the 1970s, writers who were willing to score games for MLB were required to have attended 100 or more games per year in the prior three years and to be chosen by the local chapter chairman of the Baseball Writers Association of America ( BBWAA ).

Now known as " Lawton's ", 10 Brook Street was purchased during the early 1970s using funds provided by the Kent Education Committee, after whose chairman the building is now named.

In the 1970s and 1980s he was an activist for the Federation of Socialist Unions of Polish Youth and the Socialist Union of Polish Youth, serving as its chairman from 1986 – 1989.

As a part of financial restructuring in the late 1970s, the freehold was separated from the club and when new Chelsea chairman Ken Bates bought the club for £ 1 in 1982, he did not buy the ground.

In 1950, she married French politician André Bettencourt, who served as a cabinet minister in French governments of the 1960s and 1970s and rose to become deputy chairman of L ’ Oréal.

In the 1970s, he became the co-founder and chairman of The National Committee on the Presidency, a grassroots organization which called for the impeachment of Richard Nixon.

The majority of combat artists of the 1970s were selected by George Gray, chairman of NACAL, Navy Air Cooperation and Liaison committee.

Previously, he had served as the deputy chairman of the Planning Commission in a military government of President General Zia-ul-Haq where he played an influential role in Islamization of country's national economy in 1970s.