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Meanwhile, the effort that he headed broke Japanese naval codes, and began mechanizing its operations with the addition of IBM equipment.

Meanwhile, John Cocke, one of the chief designers of early IBM computers, began a research project to design the first reduced instruction set computer ( RISC ).

Meanwhile, in 1989, IBM had introduced its own TCP / IP offering on MVS.

Meanwhile, the Muslim territories surrounding Jerusalem began to be united under Nur ad-Din and later Saladin.

Meanwhile, Spalding and his brother began a sporting goods store in Chicago.

Meanwhile, with the advent and popularity of the MP3, sales of CDs began dropping in the 2000s.

Meanwhile, a human spaceship that was sent out to space long ago when the planetary winter began crashes in some foreign planet and the local civilization buries all evidence of the accident.

Meanwhile, the rest of Europe slowly began a process of political and economic integration, with its aim to unite Europe and prevent other wars.

Meanwhile the Christian kingdoms in the north began the long and slow recovery of the peninsula, a process called the Reconquista, which was concluded in 1492 with the fall of Granada.

Meanwhile, the PNH, at the president's direction, began a propaganda campaign stressing that only the continuance of Carías in office could give the nation continued peace and order.

Meanwhile, the Scottish leader Robert Bruce began retaking all the territory conquered by Edward I.

Meanwhile, Jews from Arab countries began moving into Palestine overland.

Meanwhile the Muslims for the first time began to organize, setting up the All India Muslim League in 1906.

Meanwhile, religious scholar Max Müller theorized that religion began in hedonism and folklorist Wilhelm Mannhardt suggested that religion began in " naturalism ", by which he meant mythological explanation of natural events.

Meanwhile, one of his legions began the conquest of the tribes in the far north ( directly opposite Britain ).

Meanwhile, the prince Gisulf I of Salerno began using the title Langobardorum gentis princeps around mid-century, but the ideal of a united Lombard principality was realised only in December 977, when Gisulf died and his domains were inherited by Pandulf Ironhead, who temporarily held almost all Italy south of Rome and brought the Lombards into alliance with the Holy Roman Empire.

Meanwhile, Kim began gradually consolidating his power.

Meanwhile, manager Tony La Russa began his first season with the Cardinals in tandem with a new ownership group.

Meanwhile, Bravo began airing the reality television series Hey Paula, which followed Abdul through her day-to-day life.

Meanwhile, in order to compete with television and lure audiences away from their sets, producers of theatrical motion pictures began to use " widescreen " formats such as Cinemascope and Todd-AO in the early-to-mid 1950s, which enable more panoramic vistas and present other compositional opportunities.

Meanwhile, Italian troops began to pour into the sultanate in anticipation of this operation.

Meanwhile, Star Trek fans continued to grow in numbers, and began organizing conventions in the 1970s.

Meanwhile, in 1954, he began working with Tony Hancock in BBC radio's Hancock's Half Hour, playing a character with his own name ( but having the invented middle name Balmoral ), who was a petty criminal who would usually manage to con Hancock.

Meanwhile, the influence of European great powers started to decline, while the decolonisation of Asia and Africa began.

Meanwhile, Nazi-Soviet political rapprochement and economic cooperation gradually stalled, and both states began preparations for war.

Meanwhile, the surviving Eastern Roman Empire began to expand under the emperor Justinian, who eventually recaptured North Africa from the Vandals, and attempted to fully recover Italy as well in the hope of re-establishing Roman control over the lands once ruled by the Western Roman Empire.

Meanwhile, Fly and Stella's parents, Lisa and Bill, arrive home to find Aunt Anna frantic with worry.

Meanwhile, the Toa Inika have their own tests to worry about.

Meanwhile, the legal opposition parties won only 14 seats ; this revived the debate among secularists and Coptics about whether is cause for worry over the rise of the Brotherhood.

Meanwhile, her co-worker, a cook named Helenka, does not hear a thing, and begins to worry about Anna's state of mind.

Meanwhile, Genoa, which possessed several colonies in the Crimea, began to worry about Stephen's growing influence in the region ; and ordered her colonies to do whatever was needed to revenge past mischief from which allegedly, the Genovese had suffered.

Meanwhile I myself was not yet saved.

Meanwhile, in Moscow, Khrushchev was adding his bit to the march of world law by promising to build a bomb with a wallop equal to 100 million tons of TNT, to knock sense into the heads of those backward oafs who can't see the justice of surrendering West Berlin to communism.

Meanwhile, it was learned the State Highway Department is very near being ready to issue the first $30 million worth of highway reconstruction bonds.

Meanwhile, Douglas was selected as the candidate of the Northern Democrats, with Herschel Vespasian Johnson as the vice-presidential candidate.

Meanwhile, with the independence of Brazil in 1822, the slave trade was abolished in 1836, and in 1844 Angola's ports were opened to foreign shipping.

Meanwhile his father died and his mother was cast into poverty in Corsica, still having four children to support.

Meanwhile, Zhelyu Zhelev, a communist-era dissident from the new democratic party-Union of Democratic Forces, was elected President by the Assembly in 1990, and in 1992 won Bulgaria's first presidential elections and served as president until 1997.

Meanwhile it was a disappointing night for the SNP, they failed to gain any seats and lost a seat to the Conservatives by just 79 votes.

Meanwhile, the Dutch assault on Ramillies was gaining pace.

" Meanwhile, Overkirk took the port of Ostend on 4 July thus opening a direct route to the English Channel for communication and supply, but the Allies were making scant progress against Dendermonde whose governor, the Marquis de Valée, was stubbornly resisting.

Meanwhile, on the Upper Rhine, Villars had been forced onto the defensive as battalion after battalion had been sent north to bolster collapsing French forces in Flanders ; there was now no possibility of his undertaking the re-capture of Landau.

Meanwhile, the British MI6 and the American CIA commenced an operation to ensure that Doctor Zhivago was correctly submitted to the Nobel Committee, which requires that nominations for the Nobel Prize for Literature must be submitted in their original language.

Meanwhile, under the direction of Benedict XIV ( pope 1740 – 1758 ), a special congregation collected much material for an official revision, but nothing was published.

Meanwhile, Live Through This was an immense commercial and critical success, receiving rave reviews from major music periodicals and going certified gold.

Meanwhile, individual FARC members initially joined the UP leadership in representation of the guerrilla command, though most of the guerrilla's chiefs and militiamen did not demobilize nor disarm, as that was not a requirement of the process at that point in time.

Meanwhile, Paul Brown Stadium was built for the 2000 season using private and public money.

Meanwhile, Nadir Khan made sure his return to Afghanistan was impossible by engaging in a propaganda war.

Meanwhile in Hungary a small-scale revolt had broken out in May and was fast gaining momentum.

Meanwhile, Newson ’ s malting business expanded and five more children were born, Alice ( 1842 ), Millicent ( 1847 ), who was to become a leader in the constitutional campaign for women's suffrage, Sam ( 1850 ), Josephine ( 1853 ) and George ( 1854 ).

Meanwhile, the king was having trouble sleeping, and had some histories read to him.

Meanwhile, Draper was forced to move to Europe to earn a living.

Meanwhile, Debussy was having one of his first major successes with in 1902, leading a few years later to ‘ who-was-precursor-to-whom ’ debates between the two composers, in which Maurice Ravel would also get involved.

Meanwhile, the Hanseatic League was gaining in power, threatening Scandinavian commerce.