Meanwhile, in 2002 material from the band's original 17-track demo tape was released as an EP, Pixies, on Cooking Vinyl in the U. K. and SpinArt Records in the U. S .; Frank Black has also used these labels to release solo work and albums with The Catholics.

Meanwhile, a new crop of young record buyers, the largest since the Baby Boomer era, were now being targeted to the exclusion of Gen-Xers, like myself, still waiting for the Pixies to reform.

Meanwhile, in October 1685 Louis signed the Edict of Fontainebleau ordering the destruction of all Protestant churches and schools in France.

Meanwhile, in 1948, under pressure from their World War II allies and to the dismay of the Somalis, the British " returned " the Haud ( an important Somali grazing area that was presumably ' protected ' by British treaties with the Somalis in 1884 and 1886 ) and the Ogaden to Ethiopia, based on a treaty they signed in 1897 in which the British ceded Somali territory to the Ethiopian Emperor Menelik in exchange for his help against plundering by Somali clans.

Meanwhile, Prussian Prime Minister Bismarck saw that his own ends in the war had been achieved, and signed an armistice with Austria on July 27.

Meanwhile in free agency they signed Tim Thomas away from divisional Phoenix, in a four-year, $ 24 million deal.

Meanwhile, treaties signed by America and France were made public in March 1778, and France formally recognised American independence.

Meanwhile Polk settled a major territorial dispute with Britain with the Oregon Treaty, signed on 15 June ; this avoided a conflict with Great Britain, and hence gave the U. S. a free hand.

Meanwhile, in 1684 Sambhaji signed a defensive treaty with the British at Bombay, realising his need for British arms and gunpowder, particularly as their lackings of artillery and explosives impeded the Maratha's ability to lay siege to fortifications.

Meanwhile Louis XIV agreed in The Hague with the maritime powers on the distribution of the Spanish Crown's lands on the death of Charles II: the treaty was signed with England on September 8 and the United Provinces on 11 October.

Meanwhile, in 1934, Saavedra Lamas presented the South American Antiwar Pact to the League of Nations where it was well received and signed by eleven countries.

Meanwhile, in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, whose eastern part was since August 1655 occupied by another Swedish army, under Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, Janusz Radziwiłł and his cousin Bogusław Radziwiłł signed the Union of Kėdainiai ( October 20, 1655 ), which ended Lithuania's union with Poland.

Meanwhile, Rakoczi had already been negotiating with Bohdan Khmelnytsky, and on September 7, 1656, Transilvania and Zaporizhian Sich signed a peace treaty, which obliged both sides to help each other in war.

Meanwhile, the Pope repudiated the " jurors " who had signed the oath, especially bishops who had ordained new, elected clergy, and above all Bishop Louis-Alexandre Expilly de la Poipe.

Meanwhile, all three of the major television networks signed contracts to televise games, thus ensuring the combined league's stability.

Meanwhile Zack Allen reports to Ivanova that a suspicious number of Narn have been passing through the station, all with papers purportedly signed by a Centauri bureaucrat " Abrahamo Lincolni ", an identity shown to have been invented by Vir.

Meanwhile, after contemplating releasing the new material on their own Hag label, the band eventually signed a new deal with Eagle Records.

Meanwhile, in July 2001, the PRC and Russia signed the twenty-year Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation, aimed at increasing Sino-Russian cooperation and mutual assistance in various areas, covering economic, military, diplomatic ( including Taiwan ), energy and ecological fronts.

Meanwhile, the university has signed cooperation agreements with more than 20 transnational companies, and with 80 institutions of higher learning from 28 countries, conducting academic exchanges, cooperative scientific research and joint training programs.

Meanwhile, World Championship Wrestling president Eric Bischoff, attempting to capitalize on the rapper's popularity while searching for a quick fix to boost sagging television ratings, signed Master P to a contract at a reported $ 200, 000 per TV appearance.

Meanwhile, the Muckdogs signed with the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Meanwhile, in 1948, under pressure from their World War II allies and to the dismay of Somalis, the British " returned " the Hawd ( an important Somali grazing area that was presumably ' protected ' by British treaties with the Somalis in 1884 and 1886 ) and the Ogaden to Ethiopia, based on a treaty they signed in 1897 in which the British ceded Somali territory to the Ethiopian Emperor Menelik in exchange for his help against plundering by Somali clans.

Meanwhile, on 1 June, an agreement had been signed for the absorption of the Irgun into the IDF and one of the clauses stated that the Irgun had to cease all independent arms acquisition activities.

Meanwhile, in December the INF Treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union was signed, effectively allowing mutual inspections.

Meanwhile, after someone sent a song of her singing to producer Byron Gallimore, Andrews signed with DreamWorks Records Nashville and soon began working on her first album.

Meanwhile, a friend of the group passed their work onto a Sire Records executive in the U. S., who signed them despite the group being unknown.

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 Baltimore Clippers still continued to be built, and were built specifically for the China opium trade running opium between India and China, a trade that only became unprofitable for American shipowners in 1849.

Meanwhile, the American submarine Seahawk gets caught in an iceberg.

Meanwhile, Masorti synagogues in Europe and Israel, which have historically been somewhat more traditional than the American movement, continue to maintain a complete ban on homosexual conduct, clergy, and unions.

Meanwhile, North American camelids died out at the end of the Pleistocene.

Meanwhile in the downtown scene in New York's East Village 10th Street galleries, artists were formulating an American version of pop art.

Meanwhile, Marsh's rival Edward Drinker Cope also had unearthed several specimens of the large North American pterosaur.

Meanwhile, the government took in vast sums of American aid, in amounts sometimes near the total size of the national budget.

Meanwhile, the median income of the average American age 25 + was roughly $ 32, 000 ($ 39, 000 if only counting those employed full-time between the ages of 25 to 64 ) in 2005.

Meanwhile, the 1993 title Mortal Kombat II captivated American audiences, and was considered the best Mortal Kombat game in retrospect during a 2008 review.

Meanwhile, Laurents had written a new draft of the book changing the characters ' backgrounds: Anton, once an Irish American, was now of Polish and Irish descent, and the formerly Jewish Maria had become a Puerto Rican.

Meanwhile, western Europe was influenced by the American Marshall Plan and made a quick economic recovery, becoming major allies of the United States under capitalist economies and relatively democratic governments.

Meanwhile, the American mathematician, Emil L. Post ( 1921 ), also introduced the formulation of additional truth degrees with n ≥ 2, where n are the truth values.

Meanwhile, the relationship between non-human primates in the subsistence and symbolism of indigenous lowland South American peoples has gained increased attention, as has ethno-biology and community-based conservation efforts.

Meanwhile, the American Eisenhower administration was outraged at the tripartite aggression, the British and French abandonment of international diplomacy, and its timing during the crisis in Hungary.

Meanwhile, Johnson escalated American involvement in the Vietnam War, from 16, 000 American advisors / soldiers in 1963 to 550, 000 combat troops in early 1968, as American casualties soared and the peace process bogged down.

Meanwhile, the American Revolutionary War continued.

Meanwhile the Tin Pan Alley and Broadway songwriters popularized the " Great American Songbook ".

Meanwhile, the French state remains ambivalent over the integration into " French " culture of cultural traditions from recent immigrant groups and from foreign cultures, particularly American culture ( movies, music, fashion, fast food, language, etc .).

Meanwhile, American general Stephen Van Rensselaer III, a Federalist political appointee, in command of a sizable army near Lewiston, came under presidential pressure to invade.

Meanwhile, the native American peoples of the region were being pushed onto each other's land through American expansionism.