General elections were held in 1974, 1977, 1980, 1983, 1987, 1990, 1994, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2008 and 2012.

In 1997 General Krulak became a Life Member of the Sons of the Revolution in the State of California.

Bourland and Johnston edited a third book E-Prime III: a third anthology: 1997, Concord, California: International Society for General Semantics.

Dupont and British Petroleum left in 1997, Shell Oil ( US ) in 1998, Ford in 1999, and DaimlerChrysler, General Motors, and Texaco in 2000.

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By this time billionaire Sir James Goldsmith had set up his own Referendum Party, siphoning off some Conservative support, and at the 1997 General Election many Conservative candidates were openly expressing reluctance to join.

Although Tim Smith stepped down from the House of Commons at the 1997 General Election, both Neil Hamilton and Jonathan Aitken sought re-election for their seats, and were both defeated, in Hamilton's case by the former BBC Reporter Martin Bell, who stood as an anti-sleaze candidate, both the Labour and LibDem candidates withdrawing in his favour, amidst further publicity unfavourable to the Conservatives.

General Liu Jingsong, commander of the Lanzhou Military Region, led China's first military delegation to Kenya in December 1996 ; Major General Nick Leshan, commander of the Kenyan air force, paid a return visit in 1997.

After the PZPR was dissolved, Leszek Miller became a co-founder of the Social Democracy of the Polish Republic ( till March 1993, he was Secretary General, then Deputy Chairman and, from December 1997, the Chairman of that party ).

The NLP was active in Ireland since 1994, and was based in Dublin under the leadership of John Burns who ran with nine other NLP candidates in the 1997 General Election and four others in the 1999 European elections.

Pepsi-Cola – 100 Years ( 1997 ), General Publishing Group, Los Angeles, CA, USA

The 209th General Assembly ( 1997 ) approved A Formula of Agreement and in 1998 the 210th General Assembly declared full communion among these Protestant bodies.

Deliveries started in December 1997, and involved the buy back of the remaining 11 Mirage F1s by France that were later sold on to Spain., The current commander of the Qatar Emiri Air Force is Brigadier General Mubarak Mohammed Al Kumait Al Khayarin.

On April 27, 1997, one of the last bastions of rowing was breached when, at an Extraordinary General Meeting, Leander Club voted to admit women as members.

From July 1996 to July 1997 he served as Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon ; and from November 1993 to June 1996 General Myers was Commander of U. S. Forces Japan and 5th Air Force at Yokota Air Base, Japan.

On May 25, 1997, a group of seventeen soldiers in the Sierra Leone army led by Corporal Tamba Gborie and loyal to the detained Major General Johnny Paul Koroma launched a military coup which sent President Kabbah into exile in Guinea and they established the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council ( AFRC ).

* Billy Beane: Athletics ' General Manager since 1997.

His rapid rise continued ; in 1997 Mofaz was appointed Deputy Chief of the General Staff and in 1998 he was appointed Chief of the General Staff.

In 1997, following the amalgamation of two of the city's largest hospitals, the Emergency Department at the Victoria General closed.

Between 1990 and 1997, the volt was calibrated using the Josephson effect for exact voltage-to-frequency conversion, combined with cesium-133 time reference, as decided by the 18th General Conference on Weights and Measures.

* June 26 – Bertie Ahern is appointed as the 10th Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland and Mary Harney is appointed as the 16th, and first female, Tánaiste, after their parties, Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats respectively, win the 1997 General Election.

The site was launched on April 21, 1997 by Scott Kurnit, owner of General Internet ; Bill Day ; and a group of other entrepreneurs in New York City.

After the 1997 General Election, in which Labour took power, a swap was carried out by the then-incumbents of the two titles, Tony Blair being a married man with three children still living at home, while his counterpart, Gordon Brown, was unmarried at the time of taking up his post.

During the run up to the 2010 General Election, Caine publicly endorsed the Conservative Party, despite claiming to have supported New Labour in 1997.

It is held by some that, in the 1997 General Election, the incumbent Member of Parliament Michael Portillo lost his seat in part due to the proposal to build a McDonald's restaurant in Green Lanes on the site of the former Century House Conservative club, behind residences in Elm Park Road.

She was elected MP for the Pontefract and Castleford constituency at the 1997 General Election succeeding the Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons, Geoff Lofthouse, who retired as then MP.

Ann Cryer was first elected in the General Election of 1997, and her late husband Bob Cryer held the seat between 1974 and 1983.

* Election Night Armistice ( BBC Two, political satire show ) 1997

This shift was cemented in place by New Labour, which won the 1997 General Election.

Prior to the 1997 General Election, Hamilton determined to retain his parliamentary seat.

Following the Conservative Party's defeat in the 1997 General Election, Howard unsuccessfully made a bid for the post of Conservative Party leader and held the posts of Shadow Foreign Secretary ( 1997 – 1999 ) and Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer ( 2001 – 2003 ).

When Major resigned after the 1997 General Election defeat, Redwood stood for the leadership, and was again defeated, though he secured more support than rival candidates Peter Lilley and Michael Howard.

After the election of the Labour Government at the 1997 General Election he was dumped from Labour's frontbench, but was appointed on the advice of Tony Blair as the Second Church Estates Commissioner, the spokesman for the Church of England in the House of Commons, a position he held from 1997 to 2010.

Nonetheless, the Treasury considered the scheme advantageous and pushed Tony Blair's Labour government to adopt it after the 1997 General Election.

In boundary changes enacted for the 1997 General Election Lamont's constituency of Kingston upon Thames was split up.

He stood down from Parliament at the 1997 General Election to pursue business interests.

Other films with scenes in Georgetown are The Man with One Red Shoe ( 1985, an early Tom Hanks film ), Chances Are ( 1989 ), Timecop ( 1994 ), True Lies ( 1994 ), Dave ( 1993 ), The Jackal ( 1997, private homes ), Enemy of the State ( 1998 ), Spy Games ( 2001 ), Dick ( 1999, C & O Canal ), Election ( 1999 ), Minority Report ( 2002 ), The Recruit ( 2003 ), The Girl Next Door ( 2004 ), Wedding Crashers ( 2005 ), and Transformers ( 2007 ).

* Winterton, G, " The President: Adapting to Popular Election " in M Coper & G Williams ( eds ), Power, Parliament and the People, Federation Press ( 1997 ), 23-41.

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The Scottish Socialist Party was formed from the Scottish Socialist Alliance ( SSA ), an alliance of left-wing organisations in Scotland, Following reasonable results by the alliance in the 1997 General Election, the decision was taken to transform the SSA from an electoral alliance into a single party to contest the first elections of the new Scottish Parliament.

He worked as a researcher for the Labour Party before being elected to the House of Commons at the 1987 General Election as MP for Motherwell North ( 1997 – 2005 ), then Airdrie and Shotts ( 2005 – 10 )).