The three cup anemometer developed by the Canadian John Patterson in 1926 and subsequent cup improvements by Brevoort & Joiner of the USA in 1935 led to a cupwheel design which was linear and had an error of less than 3 % up to.

Dr Sudhir Shah, who led the previous study, acted as an advisor and consultant to the USA team.

Don ’ s number 1 successes in Europe and Australia led to a new deal in the USA with Millennium Records.

Widespread public outcry in the USA, partly communicated to Congress by postage-paid postcards supplied in the packaging of sweetened soft drinks, led to the retention of saccharin despite its violation of the Delaney clause.

The German Navy's U-boats were also instrumental in the sinking of the civilian passenger liner the Lusitania on 7 May 1915, which was one of the main events that led to the USA joining the war two years later in 1917.

To them, their society must have seemed radically different from the USA because it rejected the ubiquitous Western belief in immutable racial hierarchy, which had led the colonists to despair of life in the USA.

In 1853, inspired by the Maine law in the USA, the United Kingdom Alliance led by John Bartholomew Gough was formed aimed at promoting a similar law prohibiting the sale of alcohol in the UK.

The Book of Confessions outlines the beliefs of the PC ( USA ) by declaring the creeds by which the Church's leaders are instructed and led.

For example, in the United States the New Communist Movement led to a plethora of formations, among them the Progressive Labour Party, the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, and the October League, amongst others.

* December 25 – The Methodist Episcopal Church, USA is officially formed at the " Christmas Conference " led by Thomas Coke and Francis Asbury.

Famous historic slave rebellions have been led by the Roman slave Spartacus ; the thrall Tunni who rebelled against the Swedish monarch Ongentheow, a rebellion that needed Danish assistance to be quelled ; the poet-prophet Ali bin Muhammad, who led imported east African slaves in Iraq during the Zanj Rebellion against the Abbasid Caliphate in the ninth century ; Granny Nanny of the Maroons who rebelled against the British in Jamaica ; the Haitian Revolution, the only slave revolt which led to the founding of a country ; Denmark Vesey in South Carolina, USA ; and Madison Washington during the Creole case in 19th century America.

After the 1973 military coup led by Augusto Pinochet, Varela and his family spent 7 years in exile in the USA before returning to Chile to become a Professor of biology.

In 2000, USA Networks bought Canada's North American Television, Inc. ( a joint partnership between the CBC and Power Corporation of Canada ), owner of cable TV channels Trio and Newsworld International ( the CBC continued to program NWI until 2005, when eventual USA owner Vivendi sold the channel to a group led by Al Gore, who relaunched it as Current TV ).

His frequent false starting eventually led to his disqualification from the 1996 Summer Olympics 100 m final in Atlanta, Georgia, USA due to a second false start by Christie.

The Tragedy and the Triumph of Phenix City, Alabama by Margaret Ann Barnes chronicles these events, which led to the small town to be known as " Sin City, USA ".

The opening of the mines and the lumber works in the area led to a rapid influx of immigrants both from other parts of the USA and directly from Europe ( mainly Sweden, Germany, England, Italy, Poland, Finland ).

A longtime member of the Communist Party USA, Hay's Marxist history led to his resignation from the Mattachine leadership in 1953.

* Finale at JFK Stadium: a ) Bob Dylan, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood – " Ballad of Hollis Brown ", " When the Ship Comes In ", Blowin ' In The Wind " ( JFK 03: 39 ), b ) USA for Africa ( led by Lionel Richie ) – " We Are the World " ( JFK 3: 55 )

For example, the USA promoted the Federal National Mortgage Administration ( FNMA ) as a cure for widespread home ownership ; however, coercion of banks to lend to multitudes of unqualified buyers, accentuated with unintended trading of the financial derivatives of these mortgages, led to a dramatic collapse of the housing market in the USA in the period 2008 to 2012.

Vacuum brakes also enjoyed a brief period of adoption in the USA, primarily on narrow gauge railroads.

Reed was heavily responsible for pushing for the adoption of the ATM around the USA, and led Citicorp through a perilous period in the early 1990s.

The International Free and Open Source Software Foundation ( iFOSSF ) is a nonprofit organization based in Michigan, USA dedicated to accelerating and promoting the adoption of FOSS worldwide through research and civil society partnership networks.

* USA: Ivan Albright, Milton Avery, George Biddle, Hyman Bloom, Peter Blume, Charles Burchfield, David Burliuk, Stuart Davis, Elaine de Kooning, Willem de Kooning, Beauford Delaney, Arthur G. Dove, Norris Embry, Philip Evergood, Kahlil Gibran, William Gropper, Philip Guston, Marsden Hartley, Albert Kotin, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Rico Lebrun, Jack Levine, Alfred Henry Maurer, Alice Neel, Abraham Rattner, Ben Shahn, Harry Shoulberg, Joseph Stella, Harry Sternberg, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Dorothea Tanning, Max Weber, Hale Woodruff, Karl Zerbe

In the USA, this type of restriction is covered under the Delaney clause.

Even these substances are covered by the Delaney clause, so that, for example, safrole may not be added to root beer in the USA.

Aware that TV coverage of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in the USA had been interrupted by advertisements one of which featured a celebrity chimpanzee J. Fred Muggs, a clause was included in the Act banning advertising breaks during broadcasts featuring the Royal Family.

In the 1970s he enrolled himself to the efforts of the Bucharest regime to get for Romania the Most favoured nation clause in the trade relations with USA.

The USA did not sign because a stronger amendment, protecting all private property from capture at sea, was not accepted.

* Equal Rights Amendment, a proposed, but unratified, USA constitutional amendment

On August 3, 2007, Landrieu broke ranks with Democrats when she and Louisiana Rep. Charlie Melancon sided with Republicans and the Bush Administration in voting for the Protect America Act, an amendment to the USA Patriot Act further expanding wiretap powers.

After 1991, the airworthiness certification requirements in the USA specify the one-engine-inoperative climb requirement as a gradient independent of stalling speed, so there is less opportunity for vortex generators to increase the maximum takeoff weight of multi-engine airplanes whose certification basis is FAR 23 at amendment 23-42 or later.

A USA Today / Gallup Poll in June 2006 found that 54 % of Americans opposed a flag desecration amendment.

A USA Today / Gallup Poll in June 2006 reached a different conclusion, with 56 % supporting a constitutional amendment, but down from 63 % favoring a flag burning amendment in Gallup's 1999 poll.

Several of the Convention's provisions are prefaced with the words, " Subject to its constitutional principles and the basic concepts of its legal system, each Party shall ..." According to Fazey, " This has been used by the USA not to implement part of article 3 of the 1988 Convention, which prevents inciting others to use narcotic or psychotropic drugs, on the basis that this would be in contravention of their constitutional amendment guaranteeing freedom of speech.

Among many roles in his career, Arau has played " Captain Herrera ", a lieutenant of Federal general " Mapache ", in Sam Peckinpah's 1969 western, The Wild Bunch, chief bandit " El Guapo " in Three Amigos ( USA, 1986 ), a comedy with Martin Short, Steve Martin, and Chevy Chase, and the smuggler " Juan " in Romancing the Stone which starred Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner.

* 1995 – Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, is bombed, killing 168.

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* The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act ( FERPA ) ( g ; 34 CFR Part 99 ) is a USA Federal law that protects the privacy of student education records.

NIST is also the custodian of the USA Federal Information Processing Standard publications ( FIPS ).

* 1963 – 1966 John F. Kennedy Federal Office Building, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

* April 25 – The Federal Security Agency ( FSA ) is founded in the USA, along with the Civilian Conservation Corps and Public Health Service.

In 1972, PCB production plants existed in Austria, the then Federal Republic of Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Spain, USSR, and USA.

In the USA The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1921 ( Phipps Act ) enacted a fund to create an extensive highway system.

USA Federal Reserve Board.

* 2008 United States Federal Courthouse, District of Massachusetts, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA

* Federal architecture 1780-1830 USA

The US Federal Trade Commission estimates that 9 million cases of identity theft take place per year in the USA alone and recommends that individuals defend themselves against identity theft by shredding financial documents before disposal.

In 2008, USA Network ( owned by NBC ) launched In Plain Sight, a drama showcasing the United States Federal Witness Protection Program ( WITSEC ).

* Federal Communications Commission ( USA )

The management and operating contractor as of April 1, 2009 for the project is USA Repository Services ( USA-RS ) ( a consortium of government contractors, URS Corporation, Shaw Corporation and Areva Federal Services LLC ).

Moffett Federal Airfield, also known as Moffett Field, is a joint civil-military airport located between northern Mountain View and northern Sunnyvale, California, USA.

In the USA, numerous complaints were sent to the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ).

The emergence of the USA as an economic superpower ( and, importantly, the establishment of the U. S. Federal Reserve System in 1913 ), U. S. economic dominance from the second half of the 20th century onward, as well as economic weakness in the UK at various intervals during the second half of the 20th century resulted in Sterling losing its status as the world's most reserved currency.

Sanitation within the food industry means the adequate treatment of food-contact surfaces by a process that is effective in destroying vegetative cells of microorganisms of public health significance, and in substantially reducing numbers of other undesirable microorganisms, but without adversely affecting the food or its safety for the consumer ( U. S. Food and Drug Administration, Code of Federal Regulations, 21CFR110, USA ).

The frequencies of the radio spectrum that are available for use for communication are treated as a public resource and are regulated by national organizations such as the Federal Communications Commission in the USA, or Ofcom in the United Kingdom.

In the USA, highway engineering became an important discipline with the passing of the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1944, which aimed to connect 90 % of cities with a population of 50, 000 or more.