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New boss Craig Boddy, assisted by GCap management ( Hugh Murray and Regional Programme boss Peter Sinclair ), undertook a radical restructure of the station in September 2005, in response to falling listening figures and mounting overheads.
Many in the party had regretted the division of Liberal forces a decade earlier and Brown undertook negotiations with the Liberal Party leader Sir Archibald Sinclair over a potential reunion, but these talks foundered on the question of continued support for the National Government after the war.

Sinclair and for
Although not as well supported by the biggest software publishers as rivals like the Commodore 64 and Sinclair ZX Spectrum, a good range of games were available for the Electron.
They also assembled kits for people without soldering skills, especially the " junior Computer " from Elektor ( a copy of the KIM-1 ), and the ZX80 from Sinclair.
Two convicts, Henry and Susannah Kable, sought to sue Duncan Sinclair, the captain of Alexander, for stealing their possessions during the voyage.
In 1940 they joined Churchill's wartime coalition government, with Sinclair serving as Secretary of State for Air, the last British Liberal to hold Cabinet rank office for seventy years.
Ports of the game were released for the Commodore 64, Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Amiga, Atari ST, MSX, Amstrad CPC, Sharp X68000, PC ( MS-DOS, 1989 and 1996 ), Apple II, FM Towns Marty, Sega Master System, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Nintendo Entertainment System, Famicom Disk System, Sega Game Gear, mobile phone ( Sprint PCS ), Texas Instruments TI-8x series of calculators and UltraCade's Taito Arcade Classics.
Salinger, Upton Sinclair, and the journalist Hunter S. Thompson, who was primarily known for his works in the American magazine Rolling Stone.
Beaux received her first introduction to lithography doing copy work for Philadelphia printer Thomas Sinclair and she published her first work in St. Nicholas magazine in December 1873.
The first American-made pocket-sized calculator, the Bowmar 901B ( popularly referred to as The Bowmar Brain ), measuring 5. 2 × 3. 0 × 1. 5 in ( 131 × 77 × 37 mm ), came out in the Autumn of 1971, with four functions and an eight-digit red LED display, for $ 240, while in August 1972 the four-function Sinclair Executive became the first slimline pocket calculator measuring 5. 4 × 2. 2 × 0. 35 in ( 138 × 56 × 9 mm ) and weighing 2. 5 oz ( 70g ).
In 1390s, Henry Sinclair I, Earl of Orkney, took possession of the islands ( as vassal of Norway, however ) and for some time they were part of the Sinclair principality in the North Atlantic.
Both had been on the design team for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum.
This can be seen comparing the Bahá ' í approach to history and the future to that of the theory of The Clash of Civilizations on the one hand and the development of a posthegemony system on the other ( compared with work of Robert Cox, for example, in Approaches to World Order, ( Robert Cox & Timonthy Sinclair eds, Cambridge University Press, 1996 ).
The Q60 extended the Sinclair QL design similarly from the slowest start to the ultimate pace of the 68K architecture's capabilities ; these 68060-based motherboards — at 66 MHz for the full 68060 or a non-FPU 68LC060 option overclocked to 80 MHz — are more than 100 times faster than the Sinclair QL while running the same operating systems.
In February 2010, Larrikin Music Publishing won a case against the group arising from the uncredited appropriation of " Kookaburra ", originally written in 1934 by Marion Sinclair and for which they owned the publishing rights, as the flute line in the song " Down Under ".
They became involved with local intellectuals, artists, socialists, and activists for political reform, including John Reed, Upton Sinclair, Mabel Dodge, and Emma Goldman.
Sanger's ally Upton Sinclair wrote an open letter of support for Sanger and her husband in The Masses and during her absence, a groundswell of support grew in the United States, and Margaret returned to the United States in October 1915.
When Sinclair gained the Democratic nomination for Governor of California in 1934, Heinlein worked actively in the campaign.
In 1934 he worked actively for the Democratic campaign of Upton Sinclair for Governor of California.
During the 1970s and 1980s, RPN was even known to the general public, as it was widely used in handheld calculators of the time – for example, the HP-10C series and Sinclair Scientific calculators.
The two had mutual admiration and between the end of October 1930, and Thanksgiving of that year, Sinclair had secured an extension of Eisenstein's absences from the USSR, and permission for him to travel to Mexico.
The trip to Mexico was for Eisenstein to make a film produced by Sinclair and his wife, Mary Craig Kimbrough Sinclair, and three other investors organized as the " Mexican Film Trust ".

Sinclair and Instrument
After spending several years as assistant editor of Practical Wireless and Instrument Practice, Sinclair founded Sinclair Radionics in 1961, where he produced the first slim-line electronic pocket calculator in 1972 ( the Sinclair Executive ).
Sinclair, unable to find capital, joined United Trade Press ( UTP ) as technical editor of Instrument Practice.
Thus, he converted a company he had purchased in 1973, Ablesdeal Ltd, into Westminster Mail Order Ltd, which was itself renamed to Sinclair Instrument Ltd.

Sinclair and Practice
* Cudgel Playing Modernized and Improved ; or, The Science of Defence, Exemplified in a Few Short and Easy Lessons, for the Practice of the Broad Sword or Single Stick, on Foot-Captain G. Sinclair

Sinclair and devices
The same slot bus was continued on the ZX81, and later the ZX Spectrum, which encouraged a small cottage industry of expansion devices, including memory ( Sinclair produced RAM expansion packs for the ZX80: the original ZX80 RAM Pack held either 1, 2 or 3 KB of static RAM ; a later model held 16 KB, using dynamic RAM chips ( DRAM )), printers, and even floppy drives.
Through UTP, Sinclair had access to thousands of devices from 36 manufacturers.

Sinclair and which
In the private home computer market, where games were a significant driver, the Dragon suffered due to its graphical capabilities, which were inferior to contemporary machines such as the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and BBC Micro.
Sinclair merged staff from NID25 and MI1b into the new organisation, which initially consisted of around 25 – 30 officers and a similar number of clerical staff.
After the VIC-20 he purchased a Sinclair QL, which he modified extensively, especially its operating system.
The Sinclair QL ( though the QL was a sister machine to the ICL One Per Desk, which also used a 68008 ) was the most commercially important.
Physically, the QL was the same black colour as the preceding ZX81 and Sinclair ZX Spectrum models, but introduced a new angular styling theme and keyboard design which would later be seen in the ZX Spectrum +.
His frustration with the Sinclair would also lead to his purchasing a more standard PC in later years on which he would develop what would become the Linux operating system.
Tony Tebby went on to produce another updated operating system, SMSQ / E, which has continued to be developed for the Sinclair QL and emulators, offering many more features.
A famous experiment in telepathy was recorded by the American author Upton Sinclair in his book Mental Radio which documents Sinclair's test of psychic abilities of Mary Craig Kimbrough, his second wife.
The award is based on a formula which employs the " Sinclair Coefficient ", a coefficient derived and approved by the sport's world governing body and which allows for differences in both gender and bodyweight.
Sinclair also released the ZX Interface 2 which added two joystick ports and a ROM cartridge port.
In certain markets, a Fox affiliate may outsource news programming to an NBC, ABC or CBS station in the market ( either due to insufficient funds for production of their own newscasts or the station being operated under a duopoly or some form of an operational agreement with a major network affiliate ); while this is less common in the 50 largest television markets, the largest station in regards to market size using this arrangement is WPGH-TV / Pittsburgh ( in the 23rd largest U. S. media market ), which has broadcast a 10 p. m. newscast that is produced by Cox Media-owned NBC affiliate WPXI since the 2006 shutdown of WPGH's in-house news department by owner Sinclair Broadcast Group after the company's News Central division folded.
It was related to the Loki project they had worked on previously at Sinclair Research, which in turn was derived from the ZX Spectrum home computer.
Sinclair wrote a book for Bernard's Publishing, Practical transistor receivers Book 1, which appeared in January 1959.
In response to Churchill's enquiry Sinclair approached Bottomley, who asked Harris to undertake attacks on Berlin, Dresden, Leipzig, and Chemnitz, as soon as moon light and weather allowed, " with the particular object of exploiting the confused conditions which are likely to exist in the above mentioned cities during the successful Russian advance.
The Z88 evolved from Sir Clive Sinclair's Pandora portable computer project which had been under development at Sinclair Research during the mid-1980s.
Later books which owe a large debt to Uncle Tom's Cabin include The Jungle by Upton Sinclair and Silent Spring by Rachel Carson.
is shown to be " Sinclair Beckstein ", which is an amalgamation of the names of authors Upton Sinclair, Sinclair Lewis, and John Steinbeck, all of whom wrote socially conscious fiction.
Hawksmoor is the subject of a poem by Iain Sinclair called ' Nicholas Hawksmoor: His Churches ' which appeared in Sinclair's collection of poems Lud Heat ( 1975 ).
Both Sinclair and Ackroyd's ideas in turn were further developed by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell in their graphic novel, From Hell, which speculated that Jack the Ripper used Hawksmoor's buildings as part of ritual magic, with his victims as human sacrifice.

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