On 2 December 1942 he initiated the atomic age with the first self-sustaining chain reaction, after which he became known as " father of the atomic bomb ".

On 23 January 2012, The Financial Post reported that Richard Baker ( owner of NDRC and governor of Hudson Bay's Company ) had dissolved Hudson ’ s Bay Trading Company and that the Hudson's Bay Company would now also operate the Lord & Taylor chain.

On November 12, 2001, about 6, 600 of the photomultiplier tubes ( costing about $ 3000 each ) in the Super-Kamiokande detector imploded, apparently in a chain reaction or cascade failure, as the shock wave from the concussion of each imploding tube cracked its neighbours.

On its west side the Limmat valley is flanked by the wooded heights of the Albis chain, which runs along the western border.

On some chain link fences these strands are attached to a bracket tilted 45 degrees towards the intruder, further increasing the difficulty.

On Christmas Eve, with only $ 1. 87 in hand, and desperate to find a gift for Jim, Della sells her hair for $ 20, and eventually finds a platinum fob chain for Jim's watch for $ 21.

On January 31, 2011, Subway lawyer, Valerie Pochron, wrote to Casey's General Stores, a chain of Iowa-based convenience stores, demanding the small chain to cease using the term " footlong " in advertisements for its 12-inch sandwiches.

On the eastern part, the main chain became suddenly wider and the peaks reach over 4000 metres, in the most glaciated part of the Alps.

On January 29, 1767 King Charles III ordered the Jesuits, who had established a chain of fifteen missions in Baja California, forcibly expelled and returned to the home country.

On the opposite sides of the same chain the exposure to the sun or to warm winds may cause a wide difference in the level of permanent snow, though the increased fall of snow on the side exposed to moist winds may more than compensate for the sun's rays.

On the other hand the chain between the Grande St Bernard and the Simplon sinks at barely half a dozen points below a level of 3, 000 metres.

On January 21, 1990, over 300, 000 Ukrainians organised a human chain for Ukrainian independence between Kiev and Lviv, in memory of the 1919 unification of the Ukrainian People's Republic and the West Ukrainian National Republic.

On most tandems the two sets of cranks are mechanically linked by a timing chain and turn at the same rate.

On a tandem where the pedaling is designed to be in sync, both cranksets will use a chainring for the timing chain of the same size.

On December 29, 2005, Hilton Hotels Corporation agreed to re-acquire the Hilton International chain from its British owner, Hilton Group plc, for GBP 3. 3 billion ( or $ 5. 71 billion ).

On 10 January 2008, Branson's Virgin Healthcare announced that it would open a chain of health care clinics that would offer conventional medical care alongside homoeopathic and complementary therapies.

On chain timpani, a chain links the tension rods so a master handle can be used to turn them all at once.

On October 8, 1948 he opened his first donut shop in Temple City, California and earned the nickname " The Donut King " while making a fortune with a chain of Winchell's-branded donut shops in the western United States during the 1940s and 1950s.

On 19 March 2008, WH Smith announced the takeover of United News, a Yorkshire-based chain of newsagents.

* On 21 May 2012, Gartner published their annual Supply Chain Top 25, a list with global supply chain leaders.

On June 9, 2004, the German Supreme Court ( Bundesverfassungsgericht ) rejected a claim by the German department store chain Kaufhof AG that the shop-closing law was unconstitutional.

On this basis, he argues that ethics must focus on ' dialectically integrating opposites ' and balancing tension, rather than seeking a priori validation or certainty.

On the other hand, nylon thread is more suited to peyote stitch because it is softer and more pliable than fishing line, which permits the beads of the stitch to sit straight without undue tension bending the arrangement out of place.

On modern band and orchestral drums, the drumhead is placed over the opening of the drum, which in turn is held onto the shell by a " counterhoop " ( or " rim "), which is then held by means of a number of tuning screws called " tension rods " which screw into lugs placed evenly around the circumference.

On the other hand, if the player manually lowers the top cymbal of a standard hi-hat stand before playing, this allows any desired tension to be set, and the pedal can still be used to increase the tension while playing, but not to open the hats or to reduce the tension.

On the eve of the First World War a growing tension and unease with the social order, already seen in the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the agitation of " radical " parties, also manifested itself in artistic works in every medium which radically simplified or rejected previous practice.

Prospector Jake Whippany is waiting to save enough money to send for Cherry and her Fandango girls (" Rumson "), while Jennifer senses the tension building in town (" What's Going On Here ?").

On the other hand, a sheet, used to control the orientation of a triangular sail, must be very flexible and smooth, and need only be strong enough to support the tension caused by the wind.

On such slow blues as " I'm Worried-" Make My Dreams Come True "-" It Hurts Me ", his voice reached a climax and created a tension that was unmistakably the down and out blues.

On Aronson's view, however, the lawyer may feel dissonance specifically because falsely calling the defendant " innocent " conflicts with the lawyer's own self-concept of being an honest person. In many experimental situations, Bem's theory and Festinger's dissonance theory make identical predictions, but only dissonance theory predicts the presence of unpleasant tension or arousal.

On 31 October 2006 he published his memoir, called Et liv i spenning ( A life of excitement and tension ).

On instruments with thicker frets, the string tension and pitch will vary with the pressure of the finger behind the fret.

On most audio tape recorders the tachometer ( or simply " tach ") is a relatively large spindle near the ERP head stack, isolated from the feed and take-up spindles by tension idlers.

On an atomic level, the molecules or atoms are forced apart when in tension whereas in compression they are forced together.

On a macroscopic scale, these aspects are also reflected in the fact that the properties of most common materials in tension and compression are quite similar.

On the other hand, he is no friend of the Maoist doctrine of perpetual revolution: " Mao was fundamentally convinced of the importance of struggle, conflict and high tension as something that was not only essential to life but prevented the relapse into the weaknesses of the old Chinese society, whose very insistence on unchanging permanence and harmony had been its weakness.

On the other hand, it was predicted that individuals in Taiwan put more emphasis on the collective goal, so they would conform to the majority influence in hopes of avoiding tension and conflict.

On Wingate's arrival at Belaya there followed a period of considerable tension between Wingate and Sandford because the latter assumed he was in overall command.

On April 14, 1986, in response to acts of terrorism then believed, and now known, to have been sponsored by Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi — in particular, the Berlin discotheque bombing of April 6 — and against the backdrop of heightened tension and clashes between the Libyan and U. S. navies over Libya's disputed territorial water claims in the Gulf of Sidra, the United States launched a surprise attack on key facilities in Tripoli and other parts of Libya.

On December 31, 1899, growing tension between Doubleday and McClure led the two men to dissolve their partnership.

On January 9 of that year, Panamanian students entered the canal zone to fly the Panamanian flag next to the American flag, as per a 1963 agreement to defuse tension between the two countries.

It is this contrast between " rhythmic " and " singing " that Wagner, in his very influential work On Conducting, argued was at the very core of tension in music.