On a shelf in the office behind the counter was a small radio dialed permanently on a station which broadcast only vulgar commercials and cheap popular music.

On her bureau lay a small, brass ornament of simple design and faded engraving -- an object which, Pamela believed now, had been the property of her great-grandfather, Major Hiram Munroe Culver.

On unoccupied roadway the bottle shattered into a small amber flash.

On Christmas Eve, students brought out two small Christmas trees which I placed on either side of the tent.

On a misty Sunday morning last month, a small band of militant anti-Communists called the Minutemen held maneuvers in a foggy field about fifteen miles east of here.

On the remainder of the clear channels, the dominant ( class 1 ) -- B stations are protected as described above, and the relatively small number of secondary ( class 2 ) ) stations permitted to operate on these channels at night are required to operate directionally and/or with reduced power so as to protect the class 1, stations.

On Big Stone Lake near the headwaters of the Red River, Robert Dickson, Superintendent of the Western Indian Department of Canada, had a trading post and planned in 1818 to build a fort to be defended by twenty men and two small artillery pieces.

On February 6, 1862, Union Navy gunboats quickly reduced the defenses of ill-sited Fort Henry, inflicting 21 casualties on the small remaining Confederate force.

* On the inner façades of the small arches are engraved the names of the military leaders of the French Revolution and Empire.

On March 25, 1853, Alameda County was created by division of Contra Costa County, as well as from a small portion of Santa Clara County.

On personal computers and small workstations, the CPU is housed in a single silicon chip called a microprocessor.

On land, mammals were a small and still relatively minor component of the fauna.

On Earth, small amounts of new atoms are naturally produced in nucleogenic reactions, or in cosmogenic processes, such as cosmic ray spallation.

On July 2, 2011, an F-15E intercepted a small two-seat passenger plane flying near Camp David, where President Obama was in residence.

On July 10, 2011, an F-15 Intercepted another small two-seat passenger plane flying near Camp David where President Barack Obama was in residence, totalling the number of interceptions over the July 9 weekend at 3 planes.

On 6 December 2008 Crowded House played the Homebake festival in Sydney, with warm up gigs at small venues in Hobart, Melbourne and Sydney.

On the other hand, if the condition number is small then the error in x will not be much bigger than the error in b.

On cleavage by trypsin into two parts that are still connected via an S-S bond, cleaved chymotrypsinogen molecules can activate each other by removing two small peptides in a trans-proteolysis.

On June 13, 2008, a small majority of members of the House of Ariki attempted a coup, claiming to dissolve the elected government and to take control of the country's leadership.

On this issue, Trotsky said, " as this regime becomes consolidated all affairs are concentrated in the hands of a small group, sometimes only of a secretary who appoints, removes, gives the instructions, inflicts the penalties, etc.

On a small island, in a tiny hut on stilts, he first read Vannevar Bush's article " As We May Think ", which greatly inspired him.

On the other hand, nominal damages are very small damages awarded to show that the loss or harm suffered was technical rather than actual.

On 5 February 1869, George Goyder, the Surveyor-General of South Australia, established a small settlement of 135 people at Port Darwin.

On the northeast corner of High Street and Court Street the U. S. Coast & Geodetic Survey, now the U. S. National Geodetic Survey, has placed a small medallion into a granite block showing an elevation of.

On 20 April 1899 Beatty was appointed executive officer of the small battleship HMS Barfleur, flagship of the China Station, Captain Stanley Colville under Rear-Admiral James Bruce.

On the contrary, the old plays are continually being reinterpreted, and each new production of a classic has only a brief history at the Comedie.

On January 1, 1992, Atari Corp. formally announced that production of the Atari 7800, the Atari 2600, the Atari 8-bit computer line, and the Atari XE Game System would cease.

On 27 November 2007, Textron announced that Cessna had purchased the bankrupt Columbia Aircraft company for US $ 26. 4M and would continue production of the Columbia 350 and 400 as the Cessna 350 and Cessna 400 at the Columbia factory in Bend, Oregon.

On 4 November 2008 Cessna's parent company, Textron, indicated that Citation production would be reduced from the original 2009 target of 535 " due to continued softening in the global economic environment " and that this would result in an undetermined number of lay-offs at Cessna.

On 17 September 2010, it became the world's longest-running TV soap opera in production, after the United States soap opera As the World Turns ended.

On May 7, 2008, following speculation by John Carmack at QuakeCon on August 3, 2007, Doom 4 was announced as in production.

On 9 February 1964, he appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show with Georgia Brown who was playing Nancy in the Broadway production of Oliver !.

On the supply side of the market, some factors of production are described as ( relatively ) variable in the short run, which affects the cost of changing output levels.

On some productions the Executive Producer role may be combined with other roles, so that as well as raising the finance they may also be responsible for managing the budget during production.

On May 2, 2011 they announced their new production " Revenge of the Grand Guignol ", which is to be staged in London from October 25 at the Courtyard Theatre, London as part of the London Horror Festival.

On 3 March 1969 Alexander Rhea, managing director of General Motors-Holden's at the time, was joined by press photographers and the Federal Minister of Shipping and Transport, Ian Sinclair as the two men drove the two millionth Holden, an HK Brougham off the production line.

On 26 April 1990 GM's New Zealand subsidiary, Holden New Zealand, announced that production at the assembly plant based in Trentham would be phased out and that vehicles would be imported duty-free.

On July 6, 1776, the first committee for the production of the Great Seal of the United States convened.

On June 3, 2008, one day prior to GM's annual shareholder meeting, Rick Wagoner, GM's CEO at that time, said the brand was being reviewed, and had the possibility of either being sold, having the production line completely redesigned, or being discontinued.

On November 25, 1864, Booth performed for the only time with his two brothers, Edwin and Junius, in a single engagement production of Julius Caesar at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York.

On February 28, 2005, at 12: 08 hrs local time, in Nardò, Italy, the CCR broke the Guinness record for the fastest production car in the world, having attained on the Nardò Ring ( a circular track of circumference ), breaking the record previously held by the McLaren F1.

) On the other hand if VC > R then the firm is not even covering its production costs and it should immediately shut down.

On August 26, 1943, Albert Speer called a meeting with Hans Kammler, Dornberger, Gerhard Degenkolb, and Karl Otto Saur to negotiate the move of A-4 main production to an underground factory in the Harz mountains.

On Mark Hellinger's production Swell Guy ( 1946 ), for instance, Siodmak was brought in to replace Frank Tuttle only six days after completing work on The Killers.

On November 14, 1925, the Yount-Lee Oil Company brought in its McFaddin No. 2 at a depth of about, sparking a second boom, which culminated in the field's peak production year of 1927, during which 21 millions barrels ( 3. 3 GL ) were produced.

On May 2, 2002, the Swiss Government eased the sanctions regime in accord with UNSCR 1388 and 1390, lifting the ban on the sale of acetic acid ( used in drug production ), Afghan airlines, and Afghan diplomatic representations.

On the other hand, higher crude oil prices countered declining oil production and led to higher budgetary and export receipts.

On 6 October 1964, Milligan appeared in Frank Dunlop's production of the play Oblomov at the Lyric Theatre in London, based on the novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov.

On binding with the receptor, the ligands pass through the nuclear membrane into the nucleus, enabling gene transcription and protein production.