Encouraged by the commodity boom of the mid-1970s, which resulted in a fourfold increase in phosphate prices and sharply increased government revenues, Togo embarked on an overly ambitious program of large investments in infrastructure while pursuing industrialization and development of state enterprises in manufacturing, textiles, and beverages.

As the university population rose during the 1980s the sums paid to universities became linked to their performance and efficiency, and by the mid 1990s funding per student had dropped by 40 % since the mid-1970s, while numbers of full-time students had reached around 2, 000, 000 ( around a third of the age group ), up from around 1, 300, 000.

The portion of Route 55 between Route 47 in Millville and US 40 in Franklin Township was completed in the mid-1970s while the portion between US 40 and Route 42 was completed in October 1989.

By the mid-1970s McCluskey had formed Equinox, as bassist and vocalist, alongside schoolmate Malcolm Holmes on drums, while Humphreys was their roadie.

For a while in the early and mid-1970s, Philips also discussed a compatible audio-only format they called " ALP ", but that was soon dropped as the Compact Disc system became a non-compatible project in the Philips corporation.

Blaikie wrote a 1994 editorial calling for the Bank of Canada to hold a larger portion of the national debt at low interest rates, as it did until the mid-1970s, in order for Canada to reduce its deficit while maintaining its core social programs.

However, by the mid-1970s the Kadett's greatest relative weakness was already painfully apparent, as the cars disappeared rapidly from German roads, while the Beetles endured.

He made a settlement with the State in early 1997 which included an agreement to publish a statement on the settlement, stating, inter alia, that the State had intercepted his telephone conversations for reasons of State security — Browne had written much about the IRA in the early-to mid-1970s — while accepting that Browne had himself never been involved in subversion or crime.

Nelson had a significant role in the development of Tom Watson as a world-class player in the mid-1970s, and had earlier mentored Ken Venturi in the 1950s, while he was a rising star.

Kinsley also served as editor at Harper's ( for a year and a half in the early 1980s ), managing editor of Washington Monthly ( in the mid-1970s, while still in school ), and American Editor of The Economist ( a short-term, honorary position ).

Sega's 1986 video game Out Run is a good example of this technique, though it was predated by the 1982 Namco game Pole Position, while the first contenders date back to mid-1970s: Interceptor released by Taito in 1975, and Moto-Cross ( re-branded as Fonz that same year ) and Road Race released by Sega in 1976.

That work, depending on advanced radar circuit designs and precision sensing of departures from ideal straight flight, along with more sophisticated optical processors using laser light sources and specially designed very large lenses made from remarkably clear glass, allowed the Michigan group to advance system resolution, at about 5-year intervals, first to, then, and, by the mid-1970s, to 1 foot ( the latter only over very short range intervals while processing was still being done optically ).

Many of the show's songs were performed as part of a skit ; while a handful of skits were common throughout the show's run, during a short period in mid-1970s ( about the same time The Semonski Sisters were featured performers on the show ), the show consisted almost entirely of them.

A while later, during the mid-1970s, Jaya Supermarket commenced operations at Section 14.

By the mid-1970s, several surf shops in Santa Cruz, California and the San Fernando Valley were selling a limited number of sheepskin boots purchased by the shops ' owners while visiting surfing events in Australia.

The airport is occasionally criticised as a source of environmental noise and pollution and strict noise abatement procedures have been enforced for departing traffic since the mid-1970s, while arriving traffic is generally routed to approach the field from the east, clear of Sofia.

Mason first became politically active in the mid-1970s while studying political science at the University of Alberta.

Vaccaro's Play-House productions are a connection between Warhol's Factory and the punk culture that developed in New York in the mid-1970s: Patti Smith performed in a play written by Jackie Curtis called Femme Fatale ; according to Jayne County ( aka Wayne County ): "... Actually, it was simulation of shooting up speed while shrieking, ' Brian Jones is dead!

By the mid-1970s, Italy had the most generous welfare provisions in Europe, while average Italian workers were among the best paid, most protected, and best treated on the continent.

In the mid-1970s, Dunn oddly disappeared from the schedules for a while, but he moved to his long running drivetime programme in 1976.

Built in the mid-1970s and opened as the " Wilmington Bypass ", the highway became, between 1978 and 1982, the route of I-95 around Wilmington, while the original highway through the city, redesignated as Interstate 895, was reconstructed at the Wilmington Viaduct.

By the mid-1970s Zappa's output had slowed while he was in dispute with Cohen and Warner Brothers and so Schenkel returned to his home town of Willow Grove hoping to jump-start an art career separate from Zappa and, more importantly, from the record industry.

For a while the family firm continued to manage the block directly but in the mid-1970s, the building was placed in the hands of managing agents.

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

From the mid-1970s to early 1980s he spent the greater part of his time touring Japan, Europe, Cuba and elsewhere.

In the mid-1970s, Hagar started a solo recording and touring career to increasing success.

Richard Gere, in an interview promoting his 2002 film Chicago, also claimed to have picked up his Triumph motorcycle from the factory ( misidentifying its location ), too, albeit in the mid-1970s whilst touring with the Grease stage production.

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.

Due to governmental interference, East Germany did not see much of this influence until the mid-1970s.

Lockheed Corporation | Lockheed's Lockheed L-1011 Tristar | L-1011 Tristar demonstrator on a world tour in Eastern Air Lines Aircraft livery | paint scheme overlaid with BEA # Late 1960s – mid-1970s | " Speedjack " decal s seen landing at Berlin Tempelhof Airport, Germany, in 1972.

:* five of the world's leading economies in mid-1970s — France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States

One major trunk route in the mid-1970s connected Rhein-Main Air Base ( Frankfurt ), Germany to Charleston Air Force Base, South Carolina with a refueling stop at Bradley Air National Guard Base ( co-located with Bradley International Airport ) in Windsor Locks, Connecticut.

Since the mid-1970s the term has come to be identified with neoconservative postmodernism, especially in Germany, Austria, and the United States, with composers such as Wolfgang Rihm and George Rochberg.

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.

Although these photographs caused controversy at the time, they are partly credited with the increased circulation that established the Sun as one of the most popular newspapers in the United Kingdom by the mid-1970s.

They are based in Harlow, Essex where they became established in the 1960s as the town's " quartet in residence ", and by the mid-1970s had become world renowned.

In the mid-1970s, Holden established proposals to replace the long-serving Kingswood nameplate with a smaller, Opel-based model.

In the mid-1970s a hull mould and tubes for 21-foot R-HIBs were sent from Atlantic College to their new sister school being established on the west coast of Canada, the Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific, at Pedder Bay, British Columbia.

In this Hobson's research has built on foundations established by Colwyn Trevarthen from the mid-1970s onwards.

The ABC, as an independent government authority, was not subject to the regulation of the ABCB and instead answered directly to the Postmaster-General and ultimately to the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs ( a situation that provoked bitter complaints from commercial radio in the mid-1970s when the ABC established its controversial youth station Double Jay ).

By the mid-1970s, KCRA established news bureaus throughout the state to broaden its range of reporting, as well as producing its own public affairs programming, and initiating a consumer affairs division to answer the needs of concerned consumers.

A " new village " was established there in the mid-1970s and this has developed into a modern community, based on a traditional village pattern.