With Paxson and Jordan in the backcourt, Brad Sellers and Oakley at the forward spots, Corzine anchoring center, and rookies Pippen and Grant coming off the bench, the Bulls made major noise in the 1987 – 88 season, winning 50 games and advancing to the Eastern Conference Semifinals, where they were beaten by the eventual Eastern Conference Champions Detroit Pistons in five games.

The Cavs finally returned to the playoffs in 1985, only to lose to the eventual Eastern Conference Champions Boston Celtics in the first round.

They returned to the NBA Finals after winning 57 games, winning a close 6-game 1st round series against the Portland Trail Blazers ; dethroning the NBA Champions of the past two years — the Los Angeles Lakers — in the Western Conference Semifinals ( four-game sweep ); and defeating the Oklahoma City Thunder in 5 games in the Western Conference Finals on home court in Dallas to win their second Western Conference Championship.

In the 2006-2007 basketball season, the Conway Bears were 26-3, Summit Conference Champions ( 6-0 ), Class 3 District 13 Champs, Sectional Champs and were a point away from going to the state final four, but were cut down by the Spokane Owls on a questionable foul call.

PHS Softball has been District Champions from 2002 – 2007, Regional Champions from 2004 – 2007, State quarter finalist in 2004, State semi-finalist in 2006, and in 2004 were Top X Conference Champions.

Conference Tournament Champions

Conference Champions

For the second straight year in round 2 the Battalion would have to face the Eastern Conference Champions, the Toronto St. Michaels Majors.

Eastern Conference Champions

* Eastern Conference Champions, an American indie rock band from Philadelphia, PA

However, the Spurs lost in the second round to the eventual Western Conference Champions Utah Jazz.

The Galaxy again finished first in the Western Conference in 1999, with a final record of 20 – 12, with a win in the CONCACAF Champions Cup, but they lost to DC United again 2 – 0.

Macclesfield's professional football club, Macclesfield Town, first gained league status in 1997 as Football Conference Champions ; they had won that title two years earlier but were denied promotion as their Moss Rose stadium in the south of the town failed to meet Football League stadium capacity requirements.

The Blackhawks were Golden Horseshoe Junior Hockey League Champions in 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005 and Golden Horseshoe Conference Champions in 2008.

* 1984 Kansas: Big Eight Conference Tournament Champions

* 1986 Kansas: NCAA Final Four & Big Eight Conference & Tournament Champions

* 2001 Philadelphia 76ers: NBA Eastern Conference Champions

* 2005 Detroit Pistons: NBA Eastern Conference Champions

FBI records show that 85 % of COINTELPRO resources targeted groups and individuals that the FBI deemed " subversive ," including communist and socialist organizations ; organizations and individuals associated with the civil rights movement, including Martin Luther King, Jr. and others associated with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the Congress of Racial Equality and other civil rights organizations ; black nationalist groups ; the American Indian Movement ; a broad range of organizations labeled " New Left ", including Students for a Democratic Society and the Weathermen ; almost all groups protesting the Vietnam War, as well as individual student demonstrators with no group affiliation ; the National Lawyers Guild ; organizations and individuals associated with the women's rights movement ; nationalist groups such as those seeking independence for Puerto Rico, United Ireland, and Cuban exile movements including Orlando Bosch's Cuban Power and the Cuban Nationalist Movement ; and additional notable Americans — even Albert Einstein, who was a member of several civil rights groups, came under FBI surveillance during the years just prior to COINTELPRO's official inauguration .< ref >

On 3 July 2009, the Board of Governors voted to appoint Yukiya Amano " by acclamation ," and IAEA General Conference in September 2009 approved.

" Bernstein referred to a meeting of the Western Humanities Conference in Berkeley, California, on "' Political Correctness ' and Cultural Studies ," which examined " what effect the pressure to conform to currently fashionable ideas is having on scholarship ".

; Haagen, J .; AT & T Bell Labs., Murray Hill, NJ, " A speech coder based on decomposition of characteristic waveforms ," IEEE 1995 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1995.

:* T. S. Taylor, T. C. Powell, " Current Status of Metric Engineering with Implications for the Warp Drive ," AIAA-2003-4991 39th AIAA / ASME / SAE / ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit, Huntsville, Alabama, July 20 – 23, 2003

* Williams, J. R. and Pentland, A. P., " Superquadric and Modal Dynamics for Discrete Elements in Concurrent Design ," National Science Foundation Sponsored 1st U. S. Conference of Discrete Element Methods, Golden, CO, October 19 – 20, 1989.

Entitled " World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance ," the conference was discussing unfair treatment of one group against another.

" Closed Architectures for Content Distribution ," Japan Media Review ( University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication ); Yale University Conference ( 2004 ), " Reproduction in Modern Japan " -- paper abstract

The ISU athletic teams are members of the Missouri Valley Conference and the Missouri Valley Football Conference and are known as the " Redbirds ," in reference to the state bird, the cardinal.

* Henry Hazlitt, " The Early History of FEE ," The Freeman, March 1984 ( article is excerpted from his remarks at the Leonard E. Read Memorial Conference on Freedom, November 18, 1983.

The centerpiece of the Railroad Conference exhibits ( on seventeen acres ) was " Railroads on Parade ," a spectacular live drama re-enacting the birth and growth of railroads.

The Declaration was produced at a UNESCO seminar, " Promoting an Independent and Pluralistic African Press ," held in Windhoek, Namibia, from April 29 to May 3, 1991 ; it was later endorsed by the UNESCO General Conference.

" Brooks's law Revisited: A System Dynamics Approach ," compsac, p. 370, Twenty-Third Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference, 1999.

" The demographic transition ," IUSSP Liege International Population Conference.

In response to actual and threatened expulsions, a convention was held in Baltimore, November 12, 1828, an initial organization was formed with the provisional name of " The Associated Methodist Churches ," temporary Articles of Association adopted, and its first General Conference scheduled for 1830.

During that stretch in the Michigan – Ohio State football rivalry, dubbed the " Ten-Year War ," Hayes and Schembechler's teams won or shared the Big Ten Conference crown every season and usually each placed in the national rankings.

" Reparations at the Paris Peace Conference ," The Journal of Modern History, Volume 51, Issue # 1, March 1979. pp 24-55 in JSTOR

* John K. Ousterhout, Gordon T. Hamachi, Robert N. Mayo, Walter S. Scott, and George S. Taylor, " Magic: A VLSI Layout System ," 21st Design Automation Conference, 1984, pp. 152 – 159

* George S. Taylor and John K. Ousterhout, " Magic's Incremental Design-Rule Checker ," 21st Design Automation Conference, 1984, pp. 160 – 165

Scott and John K. Ousterhout, " Plowing: Interactive Stretching and Compaction in Magic ," 21st Design Automation Conference, 1984

* Gordon T. Hamachi and John K. Ousterhout, " A Switchbox Router with Obstacle Avoidance ," 21st Design Automation Conference, 1984, pp. 173 – 179

* Walter S. Scott and John K. Ousterhout, " Magic's Circuit Extractor ," 22nd Design Automation Conference, 1985, pp. 286 – 292

McKinley, " Looking Back on the Language and Hardware Revolutions: Measured Power, Performance, and Scaling ," In the ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, March 2011.