** In Britain, Jim Callaghan's minority Labour government loses a motion of confidence by 1 vote, forcing a general election which is to be held on 3 May.

Dick loses the weight, but later learns that Jim McCann had not been so lucky, as seen from the fact that his wife is missing a finger.

"( George ) Mira, straight back to pass ... looking, now stops, throws ... completes it to ( Billy ) Kilmer up at the 30-yard line, Kilmer driving for the first down, loses the football ... it is picked up by Jim Marshall who's is running the wrong way!

Reports Jim Lendrum: `` By studying men on the job, we found that two men -- a carpenter and a helper -- can lay a floor faster than three.

" Jim McKay, who was covering the Olympics that year for ABC, had taken on the job of reporting the events as Roone Arledge fed them into his earpiece.

When Jim realizes the toll his job has taken on his wife, he gives it up.

One-time Marvel editor-in-chief Jim Shooter recalled Miller going to DC Comics after having broken in with " a small job from Western Publishing, I think.

The job was then passed on to Jim Meddick, who created the family setting and the other characters.

His father, Jimmie Lee " Big Jim " Vaughan, was an asbestos worker whose job often forced the family to move to different cities, while his mother, Martha Jean Vaughan, worked as a secretary.

Adams left the club in December 2010, with Vale second in the table, and it was left to Jim Gannon to finish the promotion job.

In the South, CORE's nonviolent direct action campaigns opposed " Jim Crow " segregation and job discrimination, and fought for voting rights.

The progressive governor Erica Davidson, whose approach to the job was to the right of warm-hearted warder Meg Jackson, but to the left of the acidic Vera Bennett, with firm but fair Deputy governor Jim Fletcher often switching sides between Vera and Meg.

In 1989 Mike Patton became the lead vocalist for San Francisco's Faith No More, getting the job after Jim Martin of Faith No More heard him on a Mr. Bungle demo.

* Burma Jones is the porter / janitor for the " Night Of Joy " who resentfully holds on to his job only because the police will arrest him for vagrancy if he does not ( an indignity not uncommon for African Americans in the U. S. South in the Jim Crow era ).

Although several of the top vocalists of the day applied for the job ( e. g. Sammy Hagar, Doug Pinnick, Jim Stafford ), Elefante received the part.

Jim Leishman was promoted to the manager's job for a second spell and during the last 3 games of the season, guided the team to safety avoiding relegation.

Jim moved to Western Australia and after going back on the job as a labourer again became an official of the Builders Labourers Federation, which later sent him to Tasmania as an organiser.

In October 2005 Hershiser was a finalist to replace Jim Tracy as manager of the Dodgers, but instead opted to resign from his job as the Rangers pitching coach and join their front office as Executive Director.

He took an interest in Northern Ireland, and when Jim Prior announced his policy of ' Rolling Devolution ', resigned an unpaid job as assistant to Douglas Hurd.

Muller accepted a job offer by Evergreen Media President Jim de Castro at more than double his salary if he would be willing to move to Chicago to work at WWBZ-FM, " The Blaze ".

Sangster's first acting job was in a BBC television film, Station Jim.

She marries Jim Bancroft ( McRaney ), and the family moves from Florida to Reno, Nevada, where Laura has landed a job as head of fundraising for the Children's Chronic Illness Association.

Only a last day win saw them avoid the humiliation of another bottom-place finish, but this did not save Jim McInally's job, and he was sacked on 16 May 2011.

Jim O ' Neill, Mauer's baseball coach at Cretin-Derham Hall, said his former student " has been groomed for this job since he was a little boy.

Midway through the eighth season, the job of operating and voicing Gypsy was handed over to Patrick Brantseg, who also performed most of the puppetry during filming of Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie so as to allow Jim Mallon to focus on directing rather than working the puppet.

For a single season, Jim Laing was the announcer for Bruins games and brought unprecedented candor to the job.

Pualani and Randy Avon, Dave Searles, George ( Papa ) Gill, Al Bandish, Jim Morgart, Bob Neil at the Mouse Trap.

Bea Morley, Jimmy Fazio, Jim O'Hare, Ralph Michaels, Bill and Evelyn Perry at the Escape.

More than 300 teenagers last Sunday proved there is and as many more are expected to prove it again for Jim Kern and his wife Lynn from 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday at First Presbyterian Church.

Jim turned back from the stairway and looked at her.

* 1990 – Jim Gary's " Twentieth Century Dinosaurs " exhibition opens at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D. C.

A dramatic series in 1956 saw a record that will probably never be beaten: off-spinner Jim Laker's monumental effort at Old Trafford when he bowled 68 of 191 overs to take 19 out of 20 possible Australian wickets in the Fourth Test.

Legal scholar Jim Drennan, an expert on the court system at the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, told the Winston-Salem Journal in a 2007 interview that the ability to use this form of guilty plea as an option in courts had a far-reaching effect throughout the United States.

The idea of this name was proposed by Jim Kardach who developed a system that would allow cell phones to communicate with computers ( at the time he was reading Frans Gunnar Bengtsson's historical novel The Long Ships about Vikings and king Harald Bluetooth ).

The film ends with Bart killing Lamarr by shooting him in the groin at the " premiere " of Blazing Saddles outside Grauman's Chinese Theatre, saving the town, and then joining Jim inside the theatre to view the end of the movie, persuading people of all colors and creeds to live in harmony, before they hand in their horses and ride off ( in a limousine ) into the sunset.

The first world heavyweight champion under the Queensberry Rules was " Gentleman Jim " Corbett, who defeated John L. Sullivan in 1892 at the Pelican Athletic Club in New Orleans.

* The role of Jim Gordon in Batman Year One being one of the few who doubts that Batman is a threat and is replaced at first by Ethan Bennett.

" Jim Rob ", as he became known, drifted for several years, traveling from town to town to try to earn a living, at one point almost losing his life when he nearly fell from a moving train, and later being chased by railroad police.

These lightshows were for groups including The Gun and Quintessence at underground venues including The Roundhouse, Jim Haynes's Drury Lane Arts Lab, the Electric Cinema and Middle Earth.

Other roles include: starring opposite Jim Carrey in the Andy Kaufman biopic Man on the Moon ( 1999 ); as Joan Vollmer in Beat ( 2000 ) alongside Kiefer Sutherland ; and a leading role in Julie Johnson ( 2001 ) as Lili Taylor's lesbian lover, for which she won an Outstanding Actress award at L. A .' s Outfest.

In August 2009, Finn travelled to Los Angeles to record some overdubs at Jim Scott's Los Angeles studio before they began mixing tracks.

Jazz pianist Jim Martinez, who organized her birthday celebration at the Cypress Inn at Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, claims that according to Doris Day's current assistant, when Day was a teenager, she added two years to her age so she would be old enough to sing with big bands.

While at Villanova he became friends with singer / songwriter Jim Croce.

Devo returned to perform in the Student Governance Center ( featured prominently in the film ) at the 1974 Creative Arts Festival with a line-up including the Casale brothers, Bob Lewis, Mark Mothersbaugh, and Jim Mothersbaugh on drums.

After obtaining his bachelor's degree from Hofstra University, Coppola enrolled in the University of California at Los Angeles, where he met Jim Morrison.

Canadian contestants are generally allowed to participate on American game shows, and there have been at least two Canadian game show hosts, Jim Perry and Alex Trebek, that have gone on to long careers hosting American series.

During his time at Gwalia, Hoover first met FJ ( Jim ) Lyster, a pioneering metallurgist.

Pitcher Jim Umbricht died of cancer at the age of 33 just before Opening Day.