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It continued to be the most-watched satellite channel in Britain and Ireland, a position it held for most of the 1990s, with many first-run US imports such as The Simpsons ( which traditionally has been the channel's main selling-point, remaining a satellite exclusive until it finally made its terrestrial television appearance on BBC2 in 1996 ), Friends, Frasier, Seinfeld, ER and The X-Files, as well as some older programmes such as the various Star Trek series, Hill Street Blues, M * A * S * H *, and Lucille Ball's various comedy series.
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Visibility continued to be limited, and Greg was never able to get above a thousand feet.
The lives so many of them gave, to forestall what they believed would be a fatal encroachment by the Union on the powers reserved to their states have continued ever since to safeguard all Americans against freedom's other foe.
It would be profitable, I believe, to read these realistic humorists alongside Faulkner's works, the thought being not that he necessarily read them and owed anything to them directly, but rather that they dealt a hundred years ago with a class of people and a type of life which have continued down to our time, to Faulkner's time.
He had been a friend of the Hardings, and continued to be invited by the Coolidges.
At no time does he seem to have proposed marriage, and Mrs. King was evidently torn between a concern for her daughter's emotions and the desire to believe that the friendship might be continued without harm to her reputation.
`` As Mrs. Morris may be in some want before that time '', Lafayette continued, `` I am going to trouble you with a commission which I beg you will execute with the greatest secrecy.
Geneva, instead of becoming the City of God, as John had dreamed, had in the two years since he had been there, continued to be a godless place where all manner of vice flourished.
This can be accomplished substantially by a continued trend toward better facilities and techniques for fire control and more resources to cope with critical fire periods, and a more intensive application of a program of prevention, detection, and control of insect and disease infestations.
However, I am recommending that development work on the B-70 air-frame and engines be continued.
It seems reasonable that if general nuclear war is not to be one cataclysmic act of burning each other's citizens to cinders, we must have a manned strategic force of long-endurance aircraft capable of going into China or Russia to find and destroy their strategic forces which continued to threaten us.
The fact that such threat is potent in the beginning reading lessons is thought to be a vital factor in the continued pattern of failure or under-achievement these children exhibit.
With the expansion of family formation in the Sixties, a continued substantial rise in expenditures by state and local government units seems to be indicated.
The change was not quite so dramatic as it sounds because in fact common norms continued to be invoked by municipal courts and were only gradually changed by legislation, and then largely in marginal situations.
Thus, when specifically permitted, the operand of a given line on the Autocoder coding sheet may be continued in the operand of from one to four additional lines which immediately follow.
much of it has continued to be used over the years and the heart of it -- good guys and bad guys in the old West -- pretty well dominated television toward the end of the 1950's.
Two millions were added to what had been set aside for it in Mrs. Meeker's lifetime, and the proviso made that as long as Brian Thayer continued to discharge his duties as administrator of the fund to the satisfaction of the board of trustees ( hereinafter appointed by the bank administering the estate ) he was to be retained in his present capacity at a salary commensurate with the increased responsibilities enlargement of the fund would entail.
The international theme will be continued with the Balkan strings playing for a dinner the Byron Harveys will give in the Racquet club after the tea.
Acting Administrator Andrew F. Juras said that because of Field's unique position and knowledge in the program, the agency now would be seriously handicapped if he was not continued for a period.
Juras said he insisted Field be continued on a consultant basis only and be answerable directly to the administrator of the agency and not to other agencies of the government.
Poor John's rise continued to be meteoric.
`` Of course ( George's letter continued ), there are practical problems to be considered.
Since independence from Portugal in 1975, a number of Angolan students continued to be admitted every year at high schools, polytechnical institutes, and universities in Portugal, Brazil and Cuba through bilateral agreements ; in general, these students belong to the Angolan elites.
Two hundred years later western and central Anatolia came under Roman control, but it continued to be strongly influenced by Hellenistic culture.
Areas of the south east such as Harran and the Hakkari mountains continued to be inhabited by remnants of the Assyrians, but these regions remained under Parthian and then Sassanid Persian rule.
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The Brilliantly British series has continued to grow KQED Plus's audience and it is now frequently the most-watched public television station on Friday evenings.
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The Explorer program was transferred to NASA, which continued to use the name for an ongoing series of relatively small space missions, typically an artificial satellite with a science focus.
Throughout rapid developments in undersea cable networks, global satellite systems and burgeoning digital technologies, the OTC maintained a keen watch over its services to ensure continued quality.
Fearful of the possible consequences of this continued outflow of refugees, and aware of the dangers an East German collapse would present to the Soviet Union ’ s Communist satellite empire, Ulbricht pressured Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in early 1961 to stop the outflow and resolve the status of Berlin.
The Vanguard 1 radio continued to transmit until 1964, and tracking data obtained with this satellite revealed that Earth is not quite a perfect sphere: it is slightly pear-shaped, elevated at the North Pole and flattened at the South Pole.
Regardless of Stalin's death in 1952, the USSR and its satellite countries continued to encourage workers to exceed production targets and to publicise those who did so. In September 1959 near Neustrelitz, East Germany, a forester on his Simson ( company )# 250cc road models | AWO 425T motorcycle congratulates a team of women who achieved 184 % of work target by planting 25, 000 saplings in the time that they were set a quota of 16, 000.
In 1999, Multichoice Hellas also formed Nova, Greece's first satellite television subscription service, which initially featured most ( but not all ) of Greece's major networks, as well as many international networks, and other music and interactive services, which it has continued to expand since then.
In July 2007, owing to updated satellite imagery, Canadian authorities realized that the line constructed as a basis for the maritime boundary ( but not for land ) would have run roughly across the middle of the island, but the boundary did not " move " as that required a bi-lateral agreement by the two states for which negotiations continued.
Construction continued until Antenna began operations of satellite.
While construction continued on the permanent campus, classes continued to be held at the former SDSU satellite location on Los Vallecitos Boulevard.
Flights into or out of the airfield apparently continued to at least 1989, but the runways existed into the 2000s ( decade ) ( see the Google maps link for an excellent satellite image of one of the runways apparently being torn up ).
As exponential growth continued, reaching 700, 000 by 1992, the need for satellite churches became more pressing.
This continued until 31 August 2004, upon which the service moved to a dedicated channel on the Hotbird 4 satellite at 13. 0 ° East.
He was an investigator in several satellite experiments and continued research in this area while fulfilling his astronaut assignments.
Even after the shut down of WorldSpace services in India in December 2008, Sai Global Harmony continued to be broadcast over the satellite radio system, and gradually began to expand its services via internet streaming.
By September 19, an upper-level anticyclone was well established over Georges and satellite pictures suggested that the hurricane was beginning to strengthen rapidly, as indicated by the cooling cloud tops, increased symmetry of the deep convection, and the warming and contracting of the well-defined 40 mi ( 63 km ) wide eye as rapid intensification continued, and Georges peaked at a very dangerous Category 4 storm with 155 mph ( 250 km / h ) wind and a 937 minimal pressure late on September 19 and early September 20.
The satellite operations continued to be under PanAmSat with Hughes being the majority shareholder.
Operations resumed in 1932 and continued until 1982 when advances in computer technology and satellite observations rendered it obsolete, although data collected by the observatory over the years still has use to scientists, and has been applied to studies of polar motion, the physical properties of the Earth, climatology and satellite tracking and navigation.
The various stations continued to function until advances in computer technology and satellite observations rendered them obsolete in 1982.
His wife, Afentra, host of morning show " Afentra's Big Fat Morning Buzz ," worked her last day from the studios in Kansas City on August 4, 2006, but continued hosting mornings at KRBZ via satellite from her home in Seattle until November.
* 1948: The party continued as a communist satellite party under the name Czechoslavak Socialist Party ( Československá strana socialistická ).
With the end of the Cold War and continued development of satellite and electronics technology, attention was focused on space as a supporting theatre for conventional warfare.
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