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NLB's franchise was extended on 1 April 1997 to run until 31 March 2007.

NLB's and .
Before the construction of Tung Chung New Town, almost all of NLB's routes terminated at Mui Wo.

last and Chairman
Ben Rosen provided the venture capital financing for the fledging company and served as chairman of the board for 18 years from 1983 until September 28, 2000, when he retired and was succeeded by Michael Capellas who served as the last Chairman and CEO until its merger with HP.
Capellas, Compaq's last Chairman and CEO, became president of the post-merger Hewlett-Packard, under Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina, to ease the integration of the two companies.
In 1967, the last of these positions became permanent, when Ulam was appointed as professor and Chairman of the Department of Mathematics at Boulder.
Soon thereafter the office of the Comintern Chairman was abolished and Zinoviev lost his last important post.
Prior to its sale to News Corp, the last members of the board of directors of the company were: Christopher Bancroft, Lewis B. Campbell, Michael Elefante, John Engler, Harvey Golub, Leslie Hill, Irvine Hockaday, Peter Kann, David Li, M. Peter McPherson ( Chairman ), Frank Newman, James Ottaway, Elizabeth Steele, and William Steere.
Bellanca remained President and Chairman of the Board from the corporation's inception on the last day of 1927 until he sold the company to L. Albert and Sons in 1954.
For example, the last sentence of the lyrics read " raise high Chairman Mao's banner ".
The last years of the Cultural Revolution were dominated by internal chaos, and following Chairman Mao's death in October 1976, only two PSC members continued their official duties ; namely, Hua Guofeng ( party chairman ) and Ye Jianying ( vice chairman ).
Jiang resigned as Chairman of the Central Military Commission in September 2004, his last official post.
In April 2012 the council resolved to split the roles of Chairman and Mayor of Frodsham and separate votes are now held for each position-although the council also resolved to offer the Mayorship to the councillor who had served the longest since last being Mayor, or having been first elected.
Three days later, after a protracted count which saw presidential results in Kibaki's Central Kenya come in last, allegedly inflated, in a cloud of suspicion and rising tensions, amid vehement protests by Raila's ODM, overnight re-tallying of results and chaotic scenes, all beamed live on TV, at the national tallying center at the Kenyatta International Conference Center in Nairobi, riot police eventually sealed off the tallying Center ahead of the result announcement, evicted party agents, observers and the media, and moved the Chairman of the Electoral Commission, Samuel Kivuitu, to another room where Kivuitu went on to declare Kibaki the winner by 4, 584, 721 votes to Odinga's 4, 352, 993, placing Kibaki ahead of Odinga by about 232, 000 votes in the hotly contested election with Kalonzo Musyoka a distant third.
He was the last five-star commissioned officer of the United States ( a rank historically held by only five men ) and was the first general to be selected Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Chairman Dave Allen resigned in November 2007, and Wednesday avoided relegation with a win on the last day of the season.
The last Chairman of the Housing Corporation was Peter Dixon, and his deputy was Shaukat Moledina.
* in Germany there were also four major occupation zones: the British Zone ( after three consecutive Military governors from 22 May 1945, the last stayed on as first of three consecutive High Commissioners 21 September 1949 – 5 May 1955 ), the US Zone ( after five Military governors from 8 May 1945, four High Commissioners 2 September 1949 – 5 May 1955 ), the Soviet Zone ( after a military commander April 1945 – 9 June 1945 who stayed as first of three Military governors 9 June 1945 – 10 October 1949, the last of whom stayed on as only Chairman of the Soviet Control Commission 10 October 1949 – 28 May 1953, two High commissioners 28 May 1953 – 20 September 1955 ) and the French Zone ( after a Military commander from May 1945 and a Military governor from July 1945, a single High commissioner 21 September 1949 – 5 May 1955 ); the Nazi capital, Berlin, enclaved in the Soviet zone, is separately quartered under four military City Commanders ; only the small Dutch zone by the border is destined for annexation in 1949, so it is divided up in two districts, each under a landdrost ( Tudderen, attached to the province of ( Dutch ) Limburg and Elten, attached to Gelderland province ), but returned to Germany after compensation payments and minor border corrections on 11 August 1963
Egon Krenz ( born 19 March 1937 ) is a former politician from East Germany, then German Democratic Republic, and the GDR's last Chairman of the State Council of the SED party.
Usually the office as Chairman of the Central Military Commission is the last office handed over by the previous paramount leader, in order to secure political influence and ensure political continuity.
In 1995, Bush, then the Governor of Texas, appointed Evans to the Board of Regents of the University of Texas System, serving as Chairman of the Board for the last four years.
When Chairman Victor reveals the Council ’ s true reasons for recovering the Sleepers, Marlene is stunned to learn that Yuji may be humankind ’ s last hope at taking back the Earth.
Rüütel also served as the last Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR from April 8, 1983 to March 29, 1990, and Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR ( from May 8, 1990: Supreme Council of the Republic of Estonia ) from March 29, 1990 to October 6, 1992.
The Pilgrim Theatre, one of the last old time burlesque houses, was the site of a political scandal when in December 1974 the then Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee Wilbur Mills, seemingly inebriated, appeared on stage with stripper Fanne Foxe, " The Argentine Firecracker ".
* Leonid Brezhnev — First Secretary ( later General Secretary ) of the CPSU ( 1964 – 1982 ), and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR ( 1964 – 1982 ), also awarded once Hero of Socialist Labour ; this last feat was the subject of numerous Russian jokes.

last and was
That girl last night, what was her name??
At last, when I put it to him directly, the clerk was forced to admit that the delay in my case was unusual.
She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.
Now, he could only play the last card in what was probably the world's coldest deck.
It was practically the last move that McBride made of his own volition.
Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.
Greg's mission was the last to leave, and as he circled the ships off Tacloban he saw the clouds were dropping down again.
My last impression as they led him off to a stockade was of his pale face
Satisfied at last, and after a few amorous gambits on her part which convinced Delphine that Dandy was capable of learning new arts, she opened the window and called to her liveried driver.
Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.
The difference came down to this: The Southern States insisted that the United States was, in last analysis, what its name implied -- a Union of States.
The Rooseveltian America was a haven of liberalism and progress and seemed to him to constitute the last best hope for civilization.
It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.
Incidentally, there was an Atlas firing last night.
Fortunately the hole was found at last and plugged.
At last they concluded that the heavy, full feeling in their stomachs was due to lack of exercise.
The last point was soon to be included in the `` seditious '' remarks used against him in Parliament.
It was her job to stand at the foot of the stairs, and, just as the First Lady stepped off the last tread, Mama would straighten out her long train before she marched to the Blue Room to greet her guests with the President.
Trevelyan's Manin And The Venetian Revolution Of 1848, his last major volume on an Italian theme, was written in a minor key.
He had braved the elements and the enemy, but the strain, aided by the winter, was catching up with him at last.
`` This whole Washington venture was my last gesture, and it has failed.
Lewis was spending his mornings, with the help of two secretaries, on the galleys of that long novel, making considerable revisions, and the combination of hard work and hard frivolity exhausted him once more, so that he was compelled to spend three days in the Harbor Sanatorium in the last week of January.

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