Meanwhile in the 2008 NBA Playoffs, Detroit rolled out to a Game 1 romp of the Orlando Magic, and won a tight Game 2 amid mild controversy.

Meanwhile, English went on to become one of the most prolific scorers in NBA history.

Meanwhile, the United States ' team, made up entirely of NBA players, struggled to a sixth place finish.

Meanwhile, longtime Monday Night Football commentator ( and unofficial " Voice of ABC Sports ") Al Michaels was hired to replace Nessler as lead broadcaster of the NBA.

Meanwhile, the then-rookie NBA star Shaquille O ' Neal was a media sensation.

Meanwhile, they acquired incumbent NBA Sixth Man of the Year Lamar Odom via a trade with the Lakers, while signing veterans Vince Carter and Delonte West.

Meanwhile, Carlos Mario crossed the ' Falls bike ' in front of a remodeled Santurce, with Olumide Nigerian camp just back from a NBA player.

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, 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, 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, IBM began to worry that it was losing control of the industry it had created.

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.

Meanwhile, the Tampa Bay Rays were putting the finishing touches on their eight run comeback against the New York Yankees.

Meanwhile, other corporations, such as Sony or Disney, simply open their own chains of stores, preventing the competition from even putting their products on the shelves.

Meanwhile, Stephen's brother Henry of Blois and Archbishop Theobald of Canterbury were for once unified in an effort to broker a permanent peace between the two sides, putting pressure on Stephen to accept a deal.

Meanwhile, the Bills ' offense set an NFL playoff record with 41 points in the first half, putting the game out of reach by halftime.

Meanwhile, Stephen's brother Henry of Blois and Archbishop Theobald of Canterbury were for once unified in an effort to broker a permanent peace between the two sides, putting pressure on Stephen to accept a deal.

Meanwhile, Bean does much work behind the scenes, putting together Ender's Dragon Army and helping as much as he can.

Meanwhile, putting together facts about Jane's origins, the ansible, and philotes, the irreducible building blocks of all matter everywhere, they deduce that Jane has the power to take any object she knows about in great detail and pull it outside the known universe, an area where conscious thought has a lot more power than anything else.

Meanwhile, Portugal defeated Hungary, 3 – 0, putting the Portuguese team ahead in the standings.

Meanwhile, Quatermass is inside a pressure dome, where he sees guards putting meteorites into the tanks of poisonous slime that killed Ward, where together, in the recreated atmosphere of a Moon of Saturn, they combine and grow into the first of the enormous ammonid alien creatures.

Meanwhile, South Korea's KARI and its Ministry of Science & Technology plan to develop a national satellite launch vehicle now based on the Russian Angara space booster, capable of putting a payload into orbit by the end of 2008 and a lower-orbit commercial satellite with by 2010, with further upgrades planned for increasing the payload capability to by 2015.

Meanwhile, Wilson, who is also on board, coerces a crew member to sabotage the planes, putting the pilots ' lives at risk.

Meanwhile, the Balkan Wars in the Ottoman Empire ( 1912 – 13 ) created an unstable situation in the country, again putting off the initiation of the application.

Meanwhile X-Pac, who had altercations with Shane McMahon previous to the February event, was frustrated with his Shane's interference in the match and was goaded into putting his European Championship on the line in a tag team match with Triple H against Kane and Shane which Shane won thanks to Triple H being distracted by Chyna.

Meanwhile, the Roman Inquisition had attested the value of his history by putting it on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.

Meanwhile, by this point, Wang Xu had also become extremely paranoid, as he had been warned by a sorcerer that there was qi belonging to a king in his army, so he began to put to death anyone whom he considered to have talents surpassing his own — going as far as putting Liu Xingquan to death.