The Mantetsu Research Wing was the centerpiece of Japan's colonial program, and instigated agricultural research into development of soybean farming.

The aliens assume the forms of dead humans and work as the development staff of the peace-themed theme park, World Children's Land, the centerpiece of which is " Godzilla Tower ".

Burj Khalifa was designed to be the centerpiece of a large-scale, mixed-use development that would include 30, 000 homes, nine hotels ( including The Address Downtown Dubai ), of parkland, at least 19 residential towers, the Dubai Mall, and the man-made Burj Khalifa Lake.

The facility, funded entirely by local businessman, hotel mogul and benefactor John Q. Hammons, is the centerpiece of the midtown development project, Jordan Valley Park, on the corner of Sherman Avenue and Trafficway Boulevard.

In addition to maintaining a permanent U. S. naval presence in the Gulf, providing funds for Middle East development, and instituting safeguards against the spread of unconventional weapons, Michael Oren notes “ The centerpiece of his program, however, was the achievement of an Arab-Israeli treaty based on the territory-for-peace principle and the fulfillment of Palestinian rights .” As a first step Bush announced his intention to reconvene the international peace conference in Madrid.

The centerpiece of MPT's service to Maryland educators, students, and families is Thinkport, a Web site that offers online teaching resources, professional development opportunities and digital technology tools to assist educators.

The Desjardins Canal was the centerpiece of Dundas ’ efforts to adjust to this development and preserve its early status as the industrial hub of the area.

Completed in 2003 and named for builder Minoru Mori, the tower is the centerpiece of the Roppongi Hills urban development.

His original home is the centerpiece of a private development called Lion's Gate.

The restored Harbison house ( which the Nut Tree had open for public tours during its final years of operation ) is a major centerpiece of the development.

According to the CPPK ideology a centerpiece of the society shall be a citizen with full civic rights and liberties, opportunities for development and manifestation of their abilities, as well as abilities to satisfy his diverse needs.

* Micromotions of the body as a factor in the development of the nervous system, a centerpiece article published in the anthology Kundalini, Evolution, and Enlightenment by John White, editor, ( ISBN 1-55778-303-9 ).

Young's perfect game was the centerpiece of a pitching streak.

It was the centerpiece of a large racetrack he built.

A budget for the Exposition was passed and on 1 May Lockroy announced an alteration to the terms of the open competition which was being held for a centerpiece for the exposition, which effectively made the choice of Eiffel's design a foregone conclusion: all entries had to include a study for a four-sided metal tower on the Champ de Mars.

Although Infocom started out with Zork, and although the Zork world was the centerpiece of their product line throughout the Zork and Enchanter series, the company quickly branched out into a wide variety of story lines: fantasy, science-fiction, mystery, horror, historical adventure, children's stories, and others that defied categories.

The centerpiece of this plan was the group of sixty-story, cruciform skyscrapers ; steel-framed office buildings encased in huge curtain walls of glass.

The architectural centerpiece was a " floating " staircase with no visible supports.

The centerpiece of the deregulation was the establishment of two categories of basic services licenses: Local loop ( LL ), for fixed line telecommunication within the 14 PTCL regions, and Long-distance and International ( LDI ), for connectivity between regions .” Two sets of criteria set by the regulatory authorities must be met before an operator is allowed to start operation: one for the issuance of a license and another for the maintenance of service quality.

It was then incorporated as the centerpiece of the documentary film that Patterson had set out to make in the first place.

When WWE ( then WWF ) unveiled its new " Attitude " era in 1997, the no-disqualification match was used as a centerpiece for this new design of wrestling, and a Hardcore Title was offered between 1998 and 2002.

Enterprise was stored at the Smithsonian's hangar at Washington Dulles International Airport before it was restored and moved to the newly built Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles International Airport, where it was the centerpiece of the space collection.

The centerpiece of this viewpoint was that Walter Sobchak is " a neocon ," citing the movie's references to then President George H. W. Bush and the first Gulf War.

The Conservatoire du muséum national des Arts ( National Museum of Arts's Conservatory ) was charged with organizing the Louvre as a national public museum and the centerpiece of a planned national museum system.

In Zeus's oracle in Dodona, Epirus, the sacred oak was the centerpiece of the precinct, and the priests would divine the pronouncements of the god by interpreting the rustling of the oak's leaves.

Schulman gave the people more dignity and recognized that they were losing land that was rightfully theirs through the 1893 land rush that was the film's centerpiece.

It features hundreds of hand-forged bronze feathers and was the centerpiece of one of the many German exhibits at the fair.

The PWA was the centerpiece of the New Deal program for building public housing for the poor people in cities.

The centerpiece of the War on Poverty was the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, which created an Office of Economic Opportunity ( OEO ) to oversee a variety of community-based antipoverty programs.

The phenomenological tie-in with the sociology of knowledge stems from two key historical sources for Mannheim's analysis: Mannheim was dependent on insights derived from Husserl's phenomenological investigations, especially the theory of meaning as found in Husserl's Logical Investigations of 1900 / 1901 ( Husserl: 2000 ), in the formulation of his central methodological work: " On The Interpretation of Weltanschauung " ( Mannheim: 1993: see fn41 & fn43 )-this essay forms the centerpiece for Mannheim's method of historical understanding and is central to his conception of the sociology of knowledge as a research program ; and The concept of " Weltanschauung " employed by Mannheim has its origins in the hermeneutic philosophy of Wilhelm Dilthey, who relied on Husserl's theory of meaning ( above ) for his methodological specification of the interpretive act ( Mannheim: 1993: see fn38 ).

Kevin Ayers painted a withering and beautiful portrait of Nico in " Decadence " ( the centerpiece of his Bananamour album in 1973 ) Late singer-songwriter Elliott Smith cited her as a major inspiration and was said to have listened to The Marble Index for months.

In 2012 the university began a search for placement of the reconstructed Sam Houston Memorial Window, once a centerpiece in the Old Main Building on campus, in honor of the upcoming 150th Anniversary of the death of General Sam Houston.

During his first campaign for the Illinois General Assembly in 1832, he made navigational improvements on the river a centerpiece of his platform.

He lost the Democratic nomination to former Navy Secretary John B. Connally, Jr. Other 1962 Democratic candidates included highway commissioner Marshall Formby of Plainview, state Attorney General Will Wilson, a future Republican convert, and Major General Edwin A. Walker, who made anticommunism the centerpiece of his campaign.

* 1954: The General Tire and Rubber Company uses the Super Chief as the centerpiece of a print advertisement for its new " Nygen Cord " tire, in which the train is towed by an AT & SF switcher using one of the tires as a connecting link.

The centerpiece of the $ 50 million 2003 expansion is The Eleanor Armstrong Smith Glasshouse, an 18, 000 square foot ( 1, 700 m² ) conservatory home to plant and animal life from two separate biomes, the spiny desert of Madagascar and the cloud forest of Costa Rica.

Faultless owners and managers, and their engineering and architectural partners, conceived “ The Faultless 8th Street Plan .” Using the existing manufacturing plant as a centerpiece, the plan called for assembling near-by brownfield ’ s real estate sites, and relocating Faultless office workers to the campus from another part of the city.

The centerpiece of the expansion is a 900, 000-square-foot ( 84, 000 m < sup > 2 </ sup >) plant, which in addition to manufacturing includes a 12-story-tall freezer.

In June 2010, several life-sized models of Q. northropi were put on display on London's South Bank as the centerpiece exhibit for the Royal Society ’ s 350th anniversary exhibition.

Former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani made a crackdown on vandalism a centerpiece of his anti-crime agenda in the 1990s, asserting that a strong campaign against nonviolent " quality of life " crimes such as vandalism would bring about a corresponding decrease in violent crime.

The Hope Diamond is the most popular jewel on display and the collection's centerpiece.

Bouchardon's work designed to be a powerful symbol of loyalty to the king became the centerpiece of a public relations event staged to restore public confidence in a monarchy in decline using art as propaganda on a grand scale.

ET on October 7, 2002, Disney Channel introduced a new on-air appearance with a new logo designed by CA Square ( using an outline of Mickey Mouse's head as its centerpiece ) that was adopted by its international sister channels in May 2003, and unveiling a new graphics designed to fit the network's new look.

CFOs are increasingly playing a more critical role in shaping their company ’ s strategies today, especially in light of the highly uncertain macroeconomic environments, where managing financial volatilities is becoming a centerpiece for many company ’ s strategies, based on a survey held by Clariden Global .. CFOs are increasingly being relied upon as the owners of business information, reporting and financial data within organizations and assisting in decision support operations to enable the company to operate more effectively and efficiently.

The centerpiece was the American premiere of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, to take place at Castle Garden on the southern tip of Manhattan.

Although it failed to reach the Moon, the Soyuz went on to be repurposed from the centerpiece of the Zond lunar program to the people-carrier of the Salyut space station program, the Mir space station, and the International Space Station.

At Le Raincy the salon spans the corps de logis and projects on both sides, but at Vaux, because of the double row of rooms, it is preceded by the vestibule on the entrance side, " thus delaying and dramatizing the visitor's discovery of this, the centerpiece of the house.

The walls on two sides consist primarily of stained-glass panes set in magnificent arches, and overhead is an enormous skylight of stained glass designed by Antoni Rigalt whose centerpiece is an inverted dome in shades of gold surrounded by blue that suggests the sun and the sky.

In August 2005, a master plan was adopted, the centerpiece of which is the restoration of narrow lanes of two-way traffic on this model portion of Main Street shown to the right.

Site of the gunpowder mill, on Powder Mill Road, which is the centerpiece of the Orange Mill Historic District, the only historic district within the Town.

The district includes 63 contributing properties, with St. Paul Catholic Church, which is also individually listed on the NRHP, as the centerpiece.

Sponsored by the town itself, the centerpiece event is exactly what the name suggests: free corn-on-the-cob prepared and served in large quantities with BBQ chicken on an open pit grill.

The statue featured Jesus Christ on a globe accompanied with the words, " Christ Guide us on our Way ," and had been a centerpiece of the city for 40 years.

The centerpiece of the film is the short film Smooth Criminal which is based on the song by the same name.