In the first year of the new century, the Big Board, as some termed the NYSE, was described as the world's " largest and most prestigious stock market.

The Big Board: A History of the New York Stock Market ( 1962 )

In the derivatives market, the CME Group through its subsidiaries the Chicago Mercantile Exchange ( CME ) and the Chicago Board of Trade ( CBOT ), issues Futures Contracts ; including the E-mini Dow ($ 5 ) Futures ( YM ), the DJIA ($ 10 ) Futures ( DJ ) and the Big Dow DJIA ($ 25 ) Futures ( DD ) which track the average and trade on their exchange floors respectively.

Each episode consists of four rounds: a question round, a Big Board round, a second question round, and then a second Big Board round with higher money amounts and prize values.

A correct buzz-in answer earns three spins for use in the Big Board round, while a correct multiple-choice selection earns one spin.

In the Big Board round, contestants use their spins to win cash and prizes on the " Big Board ".

In the first Big Board round, the contestant with the fewest spins plays first.

In the first Big Board round, prizes are relatively small, with cash amounts ranging from $ 100 to $ 1, 500 and prizes typically worth no more than $ 2, 000.

The show's ratings reached its peak in mid-1984, unsurprisingly after Michael Larson's run against the Big Board.

This version used the same Whammy animations as the original, as well as a similar set ( a Grundy tradition ); however, the Big Board used considerably lower dollar values.

The DVD game included three Question Rounds and three Big Board Rounds.

** The Big Snit-National Film Board of Canada-Richard Condie and Michael Scott

At Cutknife is the world's largest tomahawk, the Poundmaker Historical Centre and Big Bear monument erected by cairn erected by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada.

Despite his confidence, Missouri inched closer to leaving on October 21 when its Board of Curators authorized Chancellor Brady Deaton to move the school out of the Big 12 Conference if it would be in the school's best interest to do so.

On October 6, the Big 12 Conference Board of Directors, acting upon a unanimous recommendation of the expansion committee, authorized negotiations with Texas Christian University to become a member of the Conference even though TCU had previously agreed to join the Big East Conference in the near-future.

On October 10, Texas Christian University's Board of Trustees voted to accept the invitation from the Big 12 Conference, and the school joined the conference on July 1, 2012.

* National Film Board of Canada at the Big Cartoon DataBase

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* Kelly van der Veer ( 1980 ), Big Brother contestant, singer, famous transsexual

Marvin's last big role was in Samuel Fuller's The Big Red One ( 1980 ), a war film based on Fuller's own war experiences.

* The Big Red One ( 1980 )

In the 1970s and 80s, Ft. Lauderdale swimming champion Charkie Phillips revived water ballet on television with The Krofftettes in The Brady Bunch Hour ( 1976 – 77 ), NBC's The Big Show ( 1980 ), and then on screen with Miss Piggy in The Great Muppet Caper ( 1981 ).

is a Japanese seinen manga written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi and serialized in the manga magazine Big Comic Spirits from 1980 through 1987.

While allowing him to participate in the All-Century Team, MLB has refused to allow him to participate in local events in Cincinnati, such as the 25th anniversary reunion of the Big Red Machine, the closing of Cinergy Field, and the opening of the Great American Ballpark, as well as the closing of Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia and 1980 Phillies anniversary celebrations.

* 1980: 7-Eleven introduces the Big Gulp

Recent examples include Under the Net ( 1954 ) by Iris Murdoch, Jerzy Kosinski's The Painted Bird ( 1965 ), Thomas Berger's Little Big Man ( 1964 ), Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle ( 1973 ), John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces ( 1980 ), Isabel Allende's Eva Luna ( 1987 ), Edward Abbey's The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel ( 1988 ), Robert Clark Young's One of the Guys ( 1999 ), Helen Zahavi's Dirty Weekend ( 1991 ), C. D. Payne's Youth in Revolt ( 1993 ), Christian Kracht's Faserland ( 1995 ), Umberto Eco's Baudolino ( 2000 ), Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver ( 2003 ), and Aravind Adiga's " The White Tiger " ( Booker Prize 2008 )

The Dennis the Menace Fun Fest and the Dennis the Menace Big Bonus Series were revived for a short issue run in 1980.

In 1980 they appeared in the short-lived American variety show The Big Show ; the two were glad the show did not last as they objected to the use of canned laughter by the American networks.

Director of The Baby Maker ( 1970 ), The Paper Chase ( 1973 ), The China Syndrome ( 1979 ), Urban Cowboy ( 1980 ), Perfect ( 1985 ), and Bright Lights, Big City ( 1988 )

Big Bear Lake was incorporated as a city on November 28, 1980.

In 1980, students from the Mecosta-Osceola Career Center in Big Rapids built a replica of the Eiffel Tower out of metal frames from WPA workers ' beds that had been stored in barns.

A heart attack in 1970 slowed Newton's output, but his notoriety continued to increase, most notably with his 1980 " Big Nudes " series, which marked the pinnacle of his erotic-urban style, underpinned with excellent technical skills.

The top cash prize in " Big Money " in the first series ( 1980 ) was £ 1, 000.

* Big Showdown at King Tubby's ( 1980 ) – with Prince Jammy

In May 1980, VMI introduced the first nationwide voice-mail service from its headquarters in Santa Clara, CA using a Digital Equipment PDP 11 with proprietary voice technology called the " Big Talker ". Business Week-Information Processing – August, 1981-page90F.

* The Big Red One ( 1980, distributed by United Artists )

* Big John Duncan aka Jeff le Rennais ( 1980 – 1983 )

In 1980, he joined the cast of I'm a Big Girl Now, a sitcom starring Diana Canova and Danny Thomas.

Big Apple Rappin, perhaps Spyder's most famous album from the post-disco era, was released on his own Newtroit Records in 1980, making him the first rapper to make an independent release.

Irvin Ferdinand Westheimer ( September 19, 1879 – December 31, 1980 ) is best remembered for being the founder of the Big Brothers Big Sisters of America.

In the essay section of his novel 1985, Anthony Burgess states that Orwell got the idea for Big Brother from advertising billboards for educational correspondence courses from a company called Bennett's, current during World War II.

The most expensive was the building of the Phase II Silver Line tunnel under Fort Point Channel, done in coordination with Big Dig construction.

Samuel Fuller's experiences in World War II would influence his largely autobiographical films of later decades such as The Big Red One.

* 1944 – World War II: The " Big Week " began with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers.

* 1945 – World War II: The Yalta Conference between the " Big Three " ( Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin ) opens at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea.

* 1944 – World War II: After the success of Big Week, the USAAF begins a daylight bombing campaign of Berlin.

The Mole Trilogy is made up of parts I, II ( The Tunes of Two Cities ) and IV ( The Big Bubble: Part Four of The Mole Trilogy ), in addition to releases of related material such as Intermission.

The Big Beach Boutique II, where more than 250, 000 people saw Fatboy Slim play live.

On 13 July 2002, Fatboy Slim performed the second of his free, open air concerts on Brighton Beach, named The Big Beach Boutique II, Although organisers expected a crowd of around 60, 000 people, the event instead attracted an estimated 250, 000 who crammed the promenade and beach between Brighton's piers.

Lawrence courted government as his sponsor in the early years of the Manhattan Project, the American effort to produce the first atomic bomb during World War II, and along with Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins ( which helped develop the proximity fuse ), and the MIT Radiation Laboratory ( which helped to develop radar ) ushered in the era of " Big Science ".

Big Bands played a major role in lifting morale during World War II.

It was held in the Soviet Embassy in Tehran, Iran and was the first of the World War II conferences held between all of the " Big Three " Allied leaders ( the Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom ).

There was another step towards conference stability on October 5, 2011, when the Big 12 Conference agreed to equally distribute Tier I and II television revenues.

Founded in 1909, the RMAC is the fifth oldest college athletic conference in the United States ( oldest in Division II ), surpassed only by the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association, the Big Ten Conference, the Ohio Athletic Conference, and the Missouri Valley Conference.

** The Big Chill at the Big House ( Cold War II ), a game involving the same two teams as the first Cold War game

Romana II also appears with Paul McGann's Eighth Doctor in the 2003 remake of Shada, an audio play produced by Big Finish for the BBC's Doctor Who website and accompanied by Macromedia Flash animations, and also in Neverland and Zagreus.

The " Allied leaders of World War II | Big Three " at the Yalta Conference, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin.

Speedy Gonzales appeared in the Drawn Together episode The One Wherein There Is a Big Twist, Part II when he was one of the candidates who wanted to be the new housemates.

Prima's original recordings have also featured in many films, including Mad Dog and Glory, Big Night, Anger Management, Mickey Blue Eyes, The Sopranos, Casino, Swingers, Kicking and Screaming, Elf, Swing Kids, Analyze This and Igor, as well as the game Mafia II.

* Walter E. Grunden-Historian, Professor at Bowling Green State University, author of Secret Weapons & World War II: Japan in the Shadow of Big Science

Big military contracts eventually went to Willys and Ford, and the Bantam factory failed during World War II.

It initially opened during World War II as the Big Spring Bombardier School, a training base for bombardier pilots.

Following the war, it was converted to a US Air Force Training Base and was named for James Webb, a Big Spring native who died in action during World War II.

Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom stayed in Big Horn in October 1984 during a visit with her close friends, Lord and Lady Carnarvon, ( née Jeanne Wallop ) at Senator and Mrs. Wallop's Canyon Ranch.