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wake and resignation
Later that summer, as donations sharply declined in the wake of Bakker's resignation and the end of the Bakkers ' popular PTL Club TV show, Falwell raised $ 20 million to help keep the Heritage USA Theme Park solvent, including a well-publicized waterslide plunge there.
In the wake of Zanuck's resignation, Harry Warner agreed to again raise the salary for studio employees.
He became Chancellor of West Germany on 16 May 1974, after Brandt's resignation in the wake of an espionage scandal.
In the wake of this disclosure, Rabin handed in his resignation from the party leadership and candidacy for prime minister, an act that earned him praise as a man of integrity.
In the wake of Rothstein's resignation prior to the 1991 – 92 season, the Heat hired Kevin Loughery, who had 29 years of experience in the NBA both as a coach and a player, to be their new head coach.
In the wake of a succession of issues — the pushing of a highly unpopular consumer tax through the Diet in late 1988, the Recruit insider trading scandal, which tainted virtually all top LDP leaders and forced the resignation of Prime Minister Takeshita Noboru in April ( a successor did not appear until June ), the resignation in July of his successor, Uno Sosuke, because of a sex scandal, and the poor showing in the upper house election — the media provided the Japanese with a detailed and embarrassing dissection of the political system.
On the 1957 printing of the list, Stewart and Harry Allen were both promoted to the role of executioner in the wake of the resignation of Albert Pierrepoint and the death of Wade, both in 1956.
The resignation was a blow to his public " can-do " image, but he has recovered from that to some extent in the wake of increasing public opposition to a number of new policies of the federal government, like the Hartz reforms lowering unemployment benefits to the levels of mere subsistence welfare, which he strongly opposes.
On 26 October 1989, Hurd moved to the Foreign Office, succeeding John Major, whose rapid rise through the Cabinet saw him become Chancellor of the Exchequer in the wake of Nigel Lawson's resignation.
Blocher had called for Hildebrand's resignation in 2011 in the wake of SNB's foreign exchange-related losses and continued strong calls after the FX-trades story grew, before Hildebrand ultimately resigned.
She has served as the acting head of state of Georgia twice ; the first time from 23 November 2003 to 25 January 2004 in the wake of Eduard Shevardnadze's resignation during the Rose Revolution, and again from 25 November 2007 to 20 January 2008, when Mikheil Saakashvili stepped down to rerun in the early presidential elections.
However, after the resignation of Shivraj Patil, in the wake of the Mumbai terror attacks in November, 2008, Chidambaram was made the Home Affairs Minister.
On June 19, 2009, Mr. Rao submitted his resignation to the party General Secretary Mr. Sirikonda MadhuSudhana Chary and was away from party for a short period of time after personal attacks made against him by dissident TRS leaders in wake of the party's electoral defeat.
In the wake of accusations that he made unwanted sexual advances on the teenage daughter of a campaign donor and friend, Wu announced that he would resign from office following resolution of the debt ceiling crisis ; he submitted his resignation on August 3, 2011 .< ref >
Siddon proved to be a hard working and competent MP, and was promoted to the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans position on November 21, 1985, in the wake of the tunagate scandal that had forced the resignation of previous minister, John Fraser.
In the wake of his second election defeat, he announced his resignation as leader of the National Party on 14 September 2006.
One was the general unpopularity of Republicans in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Nixon's resignation earlier that year, which was played out in many usually competitive and marginally Republican districts throughout the country.
The U. S. Senate elections of 1974 were held in the wake of the Watergate scandal, Richard M. Nixon's resignation from the presidency, and Gerald Ford's subsequent pardon of Nixon.
In the wake of the resignation of Alberto Gonzales as United States Attorney General in 2007, Silberman was mentioned as a possible successor.
There were several calls for his resignation in the wake of these comments, and the right-wing Toronto Sun tabloid suggested that he should be removed.
In 1984, in the wake of the Zentatsu Richard Baker controversy resulting in Baker's resignation as abbot of San Francisco Zen Center, Katagiri came at the request of SFZC and served as abbot there on an interim basis until 1985 ( returning to Minnesota afterward ).
In the wake of Baker's resignation, SFZC transitioned to a democratically-elected leadership model until in 2010 there was a new introduction of a predesignated slated of board members.
Following the resignation of Iain Gray as leader of the Labour Group in the wake of the 2011 Scottish general election, and as a consequence of the Murphy-Boyack review, she was elected as the first overall leader of the Scottish Labour Party in December 2011.

wake and Alfred
Critic Christopher Sharrett argues that since Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho ( 1960 ) and The Birds ( 1963 ), the American horror film has been defined by the questions it poses " about the fundamental validity of the American civilizing process ", concerns amplified during the 1970s by the " delegitimation of authority in the wake of Vietnam and Watergate ".
He also introduced Alfred Schütz's ... distinctions among predecessors, consociates, contemporaries and successors, distinctions that have become commonplace in anthropology ' in his wake.
In the wake of the stock market crash in October, Thomas put his educational plans on hold, and, through a friend, in February 1930 secured a job as surgical research technician with Dr. Alfred Blalock at Vanderbilt University.
A traveler called Wulfstan reported to the king Alfred the Great ( 871-899 ) about Estonians ' burial customs that included keeping the dead unburied in the house of their relatives and friends, who would hold a wake of drinking until the day of the cremation.

wake and provided
By supplying + 5V DC to the pin-3 wake signal with + 5V DC the computer will be triggered to power up provided WOL is enabled in the BIOS configuration.
Contributing factors include the following: First, the first officer's predisposition to overreact to wake turbulence ; second, the training provided by American Airlines that could have encouraged pilots to make large flight control inputs ; third, the first officer likely did not understand an airplane's response to large rudder inputs at high airspeeds or the mechanism by which the rudder rolls a transport-category airplane ; finally, light rudder pedal forces and small pedal displacement of the A300-600 rudder pedal system increased the airplane's susceptibility to a rudder misuse.
Gallia's work did not stop after the 1944 landings in Normandy and Provence ; it provided information to the Allies that allowed for the bombing of military targets in the wake of the retreat of the German armies.
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Burlington, Vermont became the sister city of Moss Point and provided much-needed aid to the city.
The Red Cross provided food and shelter to 63, 000 people in the hurricane's wake, costing about $ 166 million ( 1983 USD ; $ USD ).
Since 2006, she has provided relief presenting duties for BBC Radio 2, fronting specialist documentaries, sitting in for Dermot O ' Leary for three weeks in February 2006 and co-presenting, along with Danny Baker, the hastily-conceived replacement for Jonathan Ross ' Saturday morning show, in the wake of Ross ' suspension due to Sachsgate in 2008.
The ordinary official givers of the church-ale were two wardens who, after collecting subscriptions in money or kind from every one of their fairly well-to-do parishioners, provided a revel that not infrequently passed the wake in costliness and diversity of amusements.
* When millions of Jews in Eastern Europe and Palestine faced starvation in the wake of the First World War, JDC fed the hungry, provided medical care to the ailing, and supported programs to help stabilize the region ’ s fragile economy.
In the wake of the war, the public became extremely dependent on Shinra for its Materia and the Mako energy they provided for electricity for nearly all of Gaia.
An optional tire inflation monitoring system provided readings of tire pressure and warned if out of the specified range was a clever feature in the wake of the Ford Explorer / Firestone debacle that was in large part attributable to underinflated tires.
In the wake of disaster, volunteers have provided trauma relief support to the victims of the Iran Earthquake, Rebuilding Iraq and Afghanistan, 9 / 11 attacks in New York, Gujarat Earthquake, and Indonesia Floods.
Germans were targeted to colonise the hitherto very sparsely inhabited southern part of Chile in the wake of the 1848 revolutions which provided an impetus for emigration from the European perspective.
The project provided immediate employment for thousands left jobless in the wake of the Great Depression.
In 1958, he co-authored the National Defense Education Act, which, in the wake of the U. S. S. R .' s early post-Sputnik lead in the Space Race, improved science, foreign language, and technology education nationwide and provided low-interest loans for college and graduate school for needy students.
In the wake of the September 11 attacks, O ' Brien provided viewers radar tracks of the hijacked flights while the twin towers were still standing.

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