Initially the White House reaction was that the bitter exchanges with Moscow over Cuba and the conflict in Laos had dampened prospects for a meeting.

Initially intimidated, he asks for time to reflect before answering and is given a stay of one day.

Initially, Raimi invited Scott Spiegel to co-write Army of Darkness because he had done a good job on Evil Dead II, but he was busy on rewrites for the Clint Eastwood film The Rookie.

Initially he was counting the tempo with a metronome and looking for records with the same tempo.

Initially, it was relatively unsuccessful, staying at the charts for only one week, but Haley soon scored a major worldwide hit with a cover version of Big Joe Turner's " Shake, Rattle and Roll ", which went on to sell a million copies and became the first ever rock ' n ' roll song to enter British singles charts in December 1954 and became a Gold Record.

Initially the frigate squadron was mistaken for French warships and chased away by Swiftsure, returning the following day once the error had been realised.

Initially designed to run on AT & T Hobbit-based hardware, BeOS was later modified to run on PowerPC-based processors: first Be's own systems, later Apple Inc .' s PowerPC Reference Platform and Common Hardware Reference Platform, with the hope that Apple would purchase or license BeOS as a replacement for its then aging Mac OS.

Initially a synonym for " Satanic metal ", black metal has often been met with hostility from mainstream culture, mainly due to the misanthropic and anti-Christian views of many artists.

Initially Barringer's ideas were not widely accepted, and even when the origin of Meteor Crater was finally acknowledged, the wider implications for impact cratering as a significant geological process on Earth were not.

Initially it was a supporting material publication for White Bear and Red Moon but for its 11th issue, in 1981, it had become the official RuneQuest magazine.

Initially they used and re-used wooden tablets with prepared ground for these drawings.

Initially, Brick and Click companies were skeptical whether or not to add an online e-commerce channel for fear that selling their products might produce channel conflict with their off-line retailers, agents, or their own stores.

Initially developed ( though not publicly released ) on the Atari ST, the first commercial release was for the 16-bit Microsoft MS-DOS platform and was proprietary.

Initially he trained for a career in music and became so proficient on the tuba that he won a musical scholarship to the New York Military Academy.

Initially, their proof was not accepted by all mathematicians because the computer-assisted proof was infeasible for a human to check by hand.

Initially in medieval Latin European documents, a land grant in exchange for service was called a beneficium ( Latin ).

Initially, the highest quality signal was reserved for military use, and the signal available for civilian use was intentionally degraded ( Selective Availability ).

Initially at, the Great Pyramid was the tallest man-made structure in the world for over 3, 800 years.

Initially, he was criticized for having failed to activate his aircraft ’ s self-destruct charge to destroy the camera, photographic film, and related classified parts of his aircraft before his capture.

Initially, however, Telemann encountered a number of problems: some church officials found opera and collegium musicum performances to be objectionable ( for " inciting lasciviousness "), and the city printer was displeased with Telemann publishing printed texts for his yearly Passions.

Initially the components required for kernel and development were written: editors, shell, compiler and all the others.

Initially used mainly for war services, this new class of people would form the basis for the later knights, another basis of imperial power.

Initially, McElwee thought the film would be a " synthesis of Backyard and Space Coast ," but the day after filming the Scottish games, his sister " said — somewhat seriously, somewhat joking —' You should use the camera as a way to meet women.

Initially, the plan was also to include a rail connection between Boston's two major train terminals.

Initially, multiprocessing was built using multiple discrete CPUs and boards to implement the interconnect between the processors.

Initially, half of Connecticut was a part of the Dutch colony, New Netherland, which included much of the land between the Connecticut and Delaware rivers.

Initially in the United States, there was a market separation between " music " CD-Rs and " data " CD-Rs, the former being several times more expensive than the latter due to industry copyright arrangements with the RIAA.

Initially, power swapped between the People's National Party and the Jamaican Labour Party regularly.

Initially the development was fairly piecemeal, but in 1828 this area just to the west of Potsdamer Platz, sandwiched between the Tiergarten and the north bank of the future Landwehrkanal, received Royal approval for a more orderly and purposeful metamorphosis into a residential colony of the affluent, and gradually filled with houses and villas of a particularly palatial nature.

Initially, it was fought largely as a religious war between Protestants and Catholics in the Holy Roman Empire, although disputes over internal politics and the balance of power within the Empire played a significant part.

Initially unaware of Gibbs's contributions in that field, Albert Einstein wrote three papers on statistical mechanics, published between 1902 and 1904.

Initially the Kingdom of England was divided between the two half-brothers.

*; Polikarpov Po-2: Initially Po-2s were used for training ( between 1 and 18 December 1942 ), later were used for liaison and courier duties.

Initially, the fjord flows to the northwest, to then turn southwest at, splitting into three arms in its lower run, with three big islands in between the arms: Sermitsiaq Island, Qeqertarsuaq Island, and Qoornuup Qeqertarsua.

Initially, the operation was marginally successful and several bridges between Eindhoven and Nijmegen were captured.

Initially, there was tension between the people of the Mission and those in the nearby Pueblo de San Jose over disputed ownership rights of land and water.

Initially only airing a single game weekly, the modern incarnation airs a weekly double-header, various segments during the intermissions and between games ( such as Don Cherry's Coach's Corner ), and pre and post-game coverage of the night's games.

Initially a dispute between formerly Spanish Guatemala and the United Kingdom's colony of British Honduras, Guatemala continued its claim after Belizean independence in 1981 ; it recognized its neighbour's independence one decade later, in 1991.

Initially dismissing Luther's theses as " an argument between monks ", he later outlawed Luther and his followers in that same year but was tied up with other concerns and unable to take action against Protestantism.

Initially, they believe the planet is uninhabited, due to the difference in scale between them and human beings.

Initially, the Tokugawa regarded them as potentially rebellious, but for most of the Edo period, marriages between the Tokugawa and the tozama, as well as control policies such as sankin kōtai, resulted in peaceful relations.

Initially it operated between Sheringham and Weybourne ; later it was extended to the eastern edge of Holt.

Initially, the similarities between their voices made it difficult for listeners ( as opposed to stage audiences ) to tell them apart due to their rapid-fire repartee.

Initially trains had to be ferried across the river between Marquette and Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, in order to continue their journey, but this system came to an end when Prairie du Chien businessman John Lawler had a permanent pontoon bridge built to connect the two cities ' rail lines.

Initially, they met in private homes ; between 1683 and 1687, Francis Collings constructed a hexagonal meeting house of brick.

Initially it had sold between 40, 000 to 60, 000 copies.

Initially it was divided between the parishes of Strensall and Driffield.