In the mid-1970s, Sive represented plaintiffs in an unsuccessful environmental lawsuit challenging the Navy's Trident Submarine.

In the mid-1970s the first calculators appeared with field-effect, Twisted Nematic TN LCDs with dark numerals against a grey background, though the early ones often had a yellow filter over them to cut out damaging ultraviolet rays.

In the mid-1970s some Greenpeace members started an independent campaign, Project Ahab, against commercial whaling, since Irving Stowe was against Greenpeace focusing on other issues than nuclear weapons.

In the mid-1970s John Banks, a Briton, recruited mercenaries to fight for the National Front for the Liberation of Angola ( FNLA ) against the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola ( MPLA ) in the civil war that broke out when Angola gained independence from Portugal in 1975.

Connors had shining moments against John McEnroe and Ivan Lendl, both of whom rose to prominence after Connors peaked in the mid-1970s.

The Israeli lira, followed by the old sheqel, both experienced frequent devaluations against the US dollar and other foreign currencies starting in the early 1960s and accelerating from the mid-1970s onwards.

In the mid-1970s, against tremendous opposition of the rump of the old guard on the Poetry Society General Council, Cobbing and others opened a public print shop on the society's premises.

The Tampa Bay Bandits ' majority owner were Canadian businessman John F. Bassett ( who was still in litigation against the NFL over his previous Memphis Southmen franchise from the World Football League in the mid-1970s ) and Miami attorney Steve Arky.

This was a reaction against the complexities and hyperbole of the new music scene in Germany in the mid-1970s, and it proved to be highly influential.

Steve Garvey at bat in the mid-1970s against Cincinnati, in Dodger Stadium

Kissinger's history included the secret 1969 – 1975 bombing campaign against North Vietnamese Army troops infiltrating the South via Cambodia, the alleged U. S. involvement in Operation Condor — a mid-1970s campaign of kidnapping and murder coordinated among the intelligence and security services of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile ( see details ), Paraguay, and Uruguay — as well as the death of French nationals under the Chilean junta.

And, in the mid-1970s Westinghouse's second Chicago station, WIND, carried the format part-time while competing against CBS-owned, all-news WBBM.

According to Oren Yiftachel, public protest against state policies and practices from among the Palestinian Arabs in Israel was rare prior to the mid-1970s, owing to a combination of factors including military rule over their localities, poverty, isolation, fragmentation, and their periphal position in the new Israeli state.

In the mid-1970s Cherwell survived one of its periodic financial crises, and politically the paper campaigned against Oxford University's investments in apartheid-era South Africa.

In the mid-1970s, researchers ( particularly John Cocke ) at IBM ( and similar projects elsewhere ) demonstrated that the majority of combinations of these orthogonal addressing modes and instructions were not used by most programs generated by compilers available at the time.

In the book, she describes learning about Ono's control over John ( who referred to Ono as " mother ") in the period in the mid-1970s when Ono chose May Pang to be John's companion.

* John Swainson, the 42nd Governor of the State of Michigan ( 1961 – 1963 ) as well as Justice of the Michigan State Supreme Court ( 1971 – 1975 ), resided in Manchester from the mid-1970s until his death in 1994.

In the mid-1970s her work was extensively studied by the co-founders of Neuro-linguistic programming ( NLP ), Richard Bandler and John Grinder, who used it as one of the three fundamental models of NLP.

In the mid-1970s, there was a brief resurgence of talent, energized by Cuti, artist Joe Staton and the " CPL Gang " — a group of writer / artist comics fans including John Byrne, Roger Stern, Bob Layton, and Roger Slifer, who had all worked on the fanzine CPL ( Contemporary Pictorial Literature ).

Christopher John Boyce was a TRW employee convicted of selling security secrets to the Soviet Union via the Soviet embassy in Mexico City in the mid-1970s.

At New Trier, Romanek studied first with Kevin Dole, a local filmmaker who was already creating a form of music video on his own in the mid-1970s ; and then with Peter Kingsbury, a filmmaker who had studied with experimentalists Owen Land, John Luther Schofill and Stan Brakhage at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

The distinction was originally made by Roger Schank in the mid-1970s to characterize the difference between his work on natural language processing ( which represented commonsense knowledge in the form of large amorphous semantic networks ) from the work of John McCarthy, Allen Newell, Herbert A. Simon, Robert Kowalski and others whose work was based on logic and formal extensions of logic.

Performed in the mid-1970s, John Elmo and Jim Davidson made a number of phone calls to the Tube Bar in Jersey City, asking the proprietor if they could speak to a named customer.

In the mid-1970s, two young men, John Elmo and Jim Davidson ( later known collectively as The Bum Bar Bastards, or BBB ), began calling a bar named the Tube Bar, which was located in Jersey City, New Jersey, in Journal Square.

The present mayor is John W. Meaney, who has been a member of the Kirkland City Council since the mid-1970s.

* John Joseph " Jack " Byrne, Jr., Chairman and GEO of GEICO which he pulled from the brink of insolvency in the mid-1970s, later served as Chairman and CEO of White Mountains Insurance Group, formerly ( Fund American Enterprises, Inc .), Chairman of the Board of Overstock. com 2005-06

Danny Rumour ( aka Daniel John Atkins ) was a member of punk rock bands Blackrunner, Urban Guerrillas, Friction, Ugly Mirrors and Bedhogs in Sydney from the mid-1970s to 1980.

Ernie Ball had started producing a modern acoustic bass guitar in 1972 under the name Earthwood but, despite endorsement by players of the stature of John Entwistle, the bass was only moderately successful in terms of sales and production stopped around the mid-1970s.

Founded by Gunnar and John Griffin, it was launched during the mid-1970s and ceased publication by the early 1980s.

European artists in Malaysia encouraged him to try this luck in Europe, so he went there in the mid-1970s and London, England was his first stop, where he studied for a year with classical vocal coach John Dolby.

John Miller, a household name in Cornwall since the mid-1970s, is an artist whose work continues to have an extremely high public profile, both in the UK and internationally.

By far the most significant works on defeasibility by the mid-1970s were in epistemology, where John Pollock's 1974 Knowledge and Justification popularized his terminology of undercutting and rebutting ( which mirrored the analysis of Toulmin ).

A prime research tool for film historians, the catalog consists of entries on more than 50, 000 films, from 1893 to the mid-1970s, documenting casts, crews, synopses and production notes.

In the mid-1970s, while touring Germany, Korner established an intensive working relationship with bassist Colin Hodgkinson who played for the support act Back Door.

The introduction of the first microcomputers in the mid-1970s was the start of explosive growth for BASIC.

An accomplished amateur magician himself, he hosted several TV specials in the mid-1970s which featured other amateur magicians, and was a respected member of the Hollywood magic community, belonging to The Magic Castle, an exclusive club for magicians.

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The film was believed lost until the mid-1970s and was screened for the first time in the US at a Hawks retrospective in 1974.

In the mid-1970s, he started working with Rob Reiner on a pilot for ABC.

After originally rising to power through a military coup d ' etat in 1969, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's governance of Libya became increasingly centric on the teachings of his Green Book, which he published in the mid-1970s chapter by chapter as a foundation for a new form of government.

Object database management systems grew out of research during the early to mid-1970s into having intrinsic database management support for graph-structured objects.

In the mid-1970s, Heinlein wrote two articles for the Britannica Compton Yearbook.

This situation went unchanged until the mid-1970s, when contracts for new shows extended residual payments for the performers, regardless of the number of reruns.

Increasing emphasis on economic development placed a growing strain on the system, and beginning in the mid-1970s a substantial proportion of public investment funds was allocated for transport sector development.

In the mid-1970s, IDA and the Saudi Development Fund agreed to make funds available for construction of new airports at Port Sudan and Wau, reconstruction and improvement of the airport at Malakal, and substantial upgrading of the Juba airport ; these four airports accounted for almost half of domestic traffic.

A detailed study for the proposed port was made by a West German firm in the mid-1970s, and plans were drawn up for three general cargo berths, including roll-on-roll-off container facilities, and an oil terminal.

* Several students at the Society of St. Pius X seminary at Econe in the early or mid-1970s — Daniel Dolan, Anthony Cekada and Donald Sanborn — who were reportedly sedevacantists in that period and were expelled together with three others from the SSPX by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre for holding the error.

Banana board is a term used to describe skateboards made of polypropylene that were skinny, flexible, with ribs on the underside for structural support and very popular during the mid-1970s.

( The idea of a major breakthrough with FS technology was dropped in the mid-1970s for cost-effectiveness and continuity reasons.

The festival lasts for 11 days, is made up of 11 stages with performances from over 700 bands, and since the mid-1970s has run from late June through early July, usually including the 4th of July holiday.

The mid-1970s were a time of extreme recession for East Germany, and as a result of the country's higher debts, consumer goods became more and more scarce.

In Long Kesh in the mid-1970s, and writing under the pseudonym " Brownie " in Republican News, Adams called on Republicans for increased political activity, especially at a local level.

Beginning in the mid-1970s, balloon envelopes have been made in all kinds of shapes, such as hot dogs, rocket ships, and the shapes of commercial products, though the traditional shape remains popular for most non-commercial, and many commercial, applications.

Tork returned to Southern California in the mid-1970s, where he married and had a son and took a job teaching at Pacific Hills School in Santa Monica for a year and a half.