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Noble tried valiantly to build ABC into an innovative and competitive broadcaster, but was hampered by financial problems and the pressure of competing with long-established NBC and CBS, and by 1951 was forced to enter negotiations to merge the network with United Paramount Theaters, headed by Leonard Goldenson ; Goldenson would become chairman of the ABC network, while Noble remained on the ABC board of directors for the remainder of his life.
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Noble and tried
According to Noble: " As Breeder we tried to create peak-time progressive house floor-fillers, and our aim was to make them rock and be good enough so that Sasha and Digweed would play them.
Many tried to kill Noble, but he escaped or survived numerous attempts on his life, although sometimes with gunshot wounds.
ABC was originally formed in 1943 in the wake of an earlier Supreme Court decree effectively ordering the spinoff of the largely secondary-status Blue Network from its then-parent, NBC ; its buyer, industrialist Edward J. Noble, tried valiantly to build ABC into an innovative and competitive broadcaster, but by 1951 was rumored to be on the verge of selling the nearly bankrupt operation to CBS, who apparently wanted ABC's critically important owned-and-operated television stations.
Noble and build
In 1905, Noble bought the Ardkinglas estate on Loch Fyne in Argyllshire, commissioning Sir Robert Lorimer to build a large new house, Lorimer's masterpiece, and later to restore Dunderave Castle on the other side of the loch.
In particular, Noble ( who is of Jewish descent himself ) claimed that there was a connection between alleged " Pro-Israeli influence " on the York Foundation and the university administration's treatment of vocal pro-Palestinian campaigners on campus and to a later-scuttled project to build a Toronto Argonauts football stadium on the campus.
They build six airships and load the Matoran, Great and Noble Kanohi, and other things into them.
Barnes & Noble and other large retail chains collect sales data from retail outlets and their Web sites to build their own bestseller lists.
Noble also oversaw the creation of plans to build Indiana's third statehouse in 1831.
After an approach from Richard Noble, Hewland were persuaded to design and build the AE75, a 75 bhp aero-engine for Noble's forthcoming ARV Super2, a novel British 2-seater light aircraft.
Noble and ABC
In September, 1944, Noble acquired the rights to the names " American Broadcasting Company " ( from the licensee of WOL ), " American Broadcasting Corporation " ( from the licensee of WLAP ), and " American Network " ( from a defunct group of FM broadcasters ), clearing the way to rename American Broadcasting System to American Broadcasting Company, with the Blue becoming " ABC ".
Noble acquired more stations, among them Detroit's WXYZ, an NBC ( Blue )/ ABC affiliate since 1935.
Barred from the film business, Goldenson saw broadcasting as a possibility, and approached Noble in 1951 about buying ABC.
The corporate name became American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres, Inc. Edward Noble remained on the new ABC's board of directors until his death in 1958 ; he and Goldenson would disagree at times over the direction ABC would now take.
NBC Blue was sold to Edward Noble who later named it the American Broadcasting Company ( ABC ).
American Broadcasting Company ( ABC ) used to be NBC Blue until it was sold to Edward Noble.
Noble ’ s network almost went bankrupt and in 1951 Leonard Goldenson and United Paramount Theaters bought ABC for $ 25 million.
" Notwithstanding, Morgan enjoyed a last laugh of a sort: ABC had been founded by Life Savers chief Edward Noble — who had bought and renamed NBC Blue as ABC, after NBC was forced to sell the Blue Network following a federal anti-trust ruling.
He attended the prestigious Noble & Greenough School in Dedham, Massachusetts on scholarship from ABC ( A Better Chance ).
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The Noble Eightfold Path is sometimes divided into three basic divisions, as follows:
The Doctor also manipulated the TARDIS by utilising the self-attracting nature of huon particles, causing the TARDIS to materialise around both Donna Noble and himself, in order to escape into the past.
When Noble resumed duty in 1946 the enrollment had increased to such an extent that almost 600 students were crowded into a building originally designed for 350.
# Insight into the Four Noble Truths
Insight into the Four Noble Truths is here called awakening.
So awakening is insight into karma and rebirth, insight into the Four Noble Truths, the extinction of the passions whereby Nirvana is reached, ànd the certainty thàt liberation has been reached.
In 1925, a United States Navy dirigible, USS Shenandoah ( ZR-1 ), was caught in a storm over Noble County, and broke into several pieces.
As Thomas Noble states, " tribes are no longer imagined to have been " marching for centuries at a time in ordered ranks with homogeneous ethnic compositions " from a distant, localized homeland across Europe into a settlement on Roman soil.
Allen became an announcer for KFAC in Los Angeles and then moved to the Mutual Broadcasting System in 1946, talking the station into airing a five-nights-a-week comedy show, Smile Time, co-starring Wendell Noble.
" Noble thoughts, the book maintains, make for a noble person, whilst lowly thoughts make for a miserable person ; and Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich ( 1937 ) described the use of repeated positive thoughts to attract happiness and wealth by tapping into an " Infinite Intelligence ".
* Caesar ( also "" or " Nobilissimus Caesar "), " Caesar " or " Most Noble Caesar "; initially the mere cognomen of a single individual, it was transformed into a title ; an honorific name later used to identify an emperor-designate ;
* April 8-The Two Noble Kinsmen is entered into the Stationers ' Register ; it is published later in the year.
In " The Fires of Pompeii, when companion Donna Noble attempts to speak the local language directly, her words are humorously rendered into Welsh.
In 1935, while on a visit to California, Noble observed a sugar beet farmer using a straight blade tool to cut into the subsoil beneath the beets to loosen them for harvesting.
He also wrote the tragicomedy The Noble Spanish Soldier ( 1622 ) and later reworked material from this play into a comedic form to produce The Welsh Ambassador ( 1623 ).
... we have mentioned that the Four Noble Truths are divided into two groups.
Both his parents came from wealthy backgrounds, and his father, George Noble Plunkett, had been made a papal count .< ref > Despite being born into a life of privilege, young Joe Plunkett did not have an easy childhood.
Parker ( Gailard Sartain ( pilot season ), Noble Willingham ( seasons 1 – 7 )), a veteran Ranger ( later inducted into the Texas Rangers Hall of Fame ) who worked with Walker until retiring to operate a small restaurant and bar called " CD's Bar and Grill ", a restaurant widely known in the series for its chili.
Upon announcement that Oklahoma and Indian Territories were to combine into one state, Johnston was elected in 1906 to represent Noble and the surrounding counties at the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention.
As the funnel crossed into Noble County, video and photographic evidence suggests dramatic widening and strengthening.
As the tornado passed through Noble County and into Osage County, two farms were completely destroyed and several additional oil rigs were toppled.
Another secondary rivalry heading into the event from the SmackDown brand was between Rey Mysterio and Jamie Noble over the WWE Cruiserweight Championship.
Two F-16 Fighting Falcons begin to roll into position for a rapid descent during an Operation Noble Eagle training patrol over San Francisco.
* Jimmy ’ s Kidnapped: Citracett and a gorilla ( named " Gorilla Friend " in an organ grinder monkey outfit, later " Anaxamander-the Noble Primate " in a " Pericles helmet ") kidnap Jimmy the Hapless Idiot Boy after Rip harasses him into running away.
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