Also in the late 1990s in the Walloon south of the country, French speaking / rapping Starflam was the biggest name in hip hop.

He was thenceforward the biggest name in cricket and the main spectator attraction.

The most notable was Heikant, which is still the name of the biggest neighbourhood.

By working in the area of Combinatory Logic for his entire career, Curry essentially became the founder and biggest name in the field.

The particular name of this historic period takes after the Nuraghi, the biggest megalithic edifices ever found in Europe, which still today represent a symbol for Sardinia.

* 1959 – The Texas Company changes its corporate name to Texaco, Inc. to better reflect the value of the Texaco brand name, which represented the biggest selling gasoline brand in the U. S. and only marketer selling gasoline under one brand name in all 50 states.

* In 1988, a Broadway musical of the same name starring Betty Buckley, Linzi Hateley, and Darlene Love closed after only five performances and 16 previews, leading to it being viewed as one of the biggest Broadway flops of all time.

Coraline is often irritated by rain, crazy grown-ups ( as they all seem to be ), and not being taken seriously because of her young age and quiet demeanor, though perhaps her biggest annoyance is that everyone mistakes her name for Caroline ( everyone in the real world at least, except the mice and her parents ).

Dall ' Ara is the biggest sports building of Bologna and its name is taken from the ex-president of club Renato Dall ' Ara, who died three days before the final for Serie A's Scudetto.

The movement received its biggest impetus ( and its name ), however, when Coleman moved from the West Coast to New York and was signed to Atlantic Records: albums such as The Shape of Jazz to Come and Change of the Century marked a radical step beyond his more conventional early work, and when he released a 1960 recording titled Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation, the name stuck to the movement as a whole.

This in turn comes from the word Frank via the Arabic word firinjīyah, which was used to refer to the Franks, a West Germanic tribe that became the biggest political power in Western Europe during the early Middle Ages and from which France derives its name.

Known as " Mr. Personality ", after the name of one of his biggest million-selling hits.

His name is ironic, since he appears to be the biggest, strongest man in town.

Insofar as Tournemire's name is now remembered, it is usually spoken of in connection with his biggest composition: L ' orgue Mystique, a group of 51 sets of five pieces each ( except for Holy Saturday, which contains only three pieces ), all written between 1927 and 1932.

The name might be a local joke, referring to the " little hill of the Njaro " being the biggest mountain on the African continent, since this is a nearby town, and guides recount that it is the Hill of the Njaro people.

It was his Symphony No. 3, however, first performed by Koussevitsky in 1939, which proved to be the composer's biggest breakthrough and made him practically a household name.

Despite Lane's resignation, Friday Night Football proved a huge success for Channel Nine, in no small part due to the presence of, in his own words, " the biggest name on the Nine Network ", McGuire himself.

The region of São Paulo was the biggest in the proliferation of Mamelucos, who in the 17th century under the name of Bandeirantes, spread throughout the Brazilian territory, from the Amazon rainforest to the extreme South.

Dickerson ( who had not worked with War since 1979 ) adopted a name which referenced one of War biggest hits: Lowrider Band.

The origin of the band's name has been variously described as being inspired by a sign in a lift in a very tall building in the US ; the top level of the biggest car-park in the world, in Japan ; the floor on which Jonathan Pryce's character resides in the film Brazil ( which was released long after the band gained international recognition ); or after Tower 42 ( also known as the NatWest Tower ) formerly the tallest building in the City of London.

Clay disc recordings of Crowley's voice can be heard on a handful of Fields of the Nephilim songs, specifically on Elizium ; one of Fields of the Nephilim's biggest hits, " Moonchild ", shares a name with one of Crowley's novels.

The commercially successful In the Army Now album was released in 1986, the single of the same name becoming one of the band's biggest selling UK singles, reaching number 2.

Brown, a free agent, signed the biggest contract in baseball history with the Dodgers.

The band signed to Parlophone records in 1994 and produced I Should Coco ( 1995 ), the biggest selling début album for the label since the Beatles ' Please Please Me.

Also Sam Cassell ( widely credited as the biggest reason for the Clippers ' recent success ) signed a two-year, $ 13 million deal.

A recent example is the Troubled Asset Relief Program ( TARP ), signed into law by U. S. President George W. Bush on October 3, 2008 to provide a Government bailout for many financial and non-financial institutions who speculated in high-risk financial instruments during the housing boom condemned by a 2005 story in The Economist titled " The worldwide rise in house prices is the biggest bubble in history ".

Pop star Robbie Williams signed a 6 album deal in 2002 paying him over £ 80 million ($ 157 million ), which was not only the biggest recording contract in British music history at the time, but also the second biggest in music history behind that of Michael Jackson.

During this Warner Brothers period they also signed Bing Crosby, who was to become their biggest recording star, as well as The Mills Brothers, The Boswell Sisters, Cab Calloway, Casa Loma Orchestra and Ozzie Nelson.

In connection with the release of Maestro, Kaizers Orchestra signed an international record deal with Universal Germany, taking them from one of the smallest labels to one of the biggest.

Also notable is Hank Snow ( 1914 – 1999 ), who signed with RCA Victor in 1936 and went on to become one of America's biggest and most innovative country music superstars of the 1940s and 1950s.

The Yankees declined and the crosstown New York Mets signed him to a 7-year, $ 119-million contract, the biggest in franchise history at the time.

The band signed a recording contract with Iceland's biggest record company, Skífan in 2002, releasing their first album " Allt sem ég sé " (" All I see ") in early November.

His biggest coup came in 1965, when for $ 400, 000 he signed University of Alabama quarterback Joe Namath, who had been drafted by the NFL St. Louis Cardinals.

This counted against Robson and the biggest blow came in the summer of 1993 when United signed Nottingham Forest's Roy Keane.

In its annual report on the implementation of the 2009 EU Budget, the Court of Auditors found that the two biggest areas of the EU budget, agriculture and regional spending, have not been signed off on and remain " materially affected by error.

All main players signed contracts with biggest western clubs, and the promising generation was scattered.

It was signed to the Ministry of Sound record label, who released it in January 2008, where it reached No. 8 in the UK chart-their second biggest chart success, behind the original version of " Something Good ".

On 18 June 2007, Rolls-Royce announced at the 2007 Paris Air Show that it had signed its biggest ever contract with Qatar Airways for the Trent XWB to power 80 A350 XWBs on order from Airbus worth $ 5. 6 billion at list prices.

One of Hill's biggest selling hits came while signed to Columbia, " Love Is So Good When You're Stealing It ," which spent 18 weeks on the Billboard R & B chart in the summer of 1977.

Guitarist Todd Weinstock has regarded continuity as the biggest difference between Glassjaw's debut album and Worship and Tribute, noting " EYEWTKAS was just kind a bunch of songs written over years and when we got signed we were like ' okay we got some songs we can throw together.

On August 4, 1999, Faulk signed a seven-year, $ 45. 2 million contract with the Rams, which was the biggest deal in team history ‎ at the time.

Riordan has publicly regretted having signed the consent decree and counts it as the biggest mistake of his mayoral tenure.

" He signed for Lazio in 1985 and remained there until 1990, when he was sold to another of Italy's biggest clubs, Juventus.

At the start of August 2007, Beattie signed for Sheffield United in a deal worth £ 4 million., this being the biggest transfer fee ever paid by Sheffield United.