Under Pfeiffer's tenure as chief executive, Compaq entered the retail computer market with the Presario which one of the first manufacturers in the mid-1990s to market a sub -$ 1000 PC.

While the plans were well received by all of the teams, Holden chief Simon McNamara warned potential new manufacturers to stay out of the championship just hours after the plans were released, claiming that they would " gain nothing " from entering the series,

With an eye toward commanding the emerging European market for sound film, Tobis entered into a compact with its chief competitor, Klangfilm, a joint subsidiary of Germany's two leading electrical manufacturers.

In 1970, Mustang won the SCCA Trans-Am series manufacturers ’ championship again, with Parnelli Jones and George Follmer driving for car owner / builder Bud Moore and crew chief Lanky Foushee.

The postwar years had not been good to him: The British Aerial Transport Company for which he was chief designer went bankrupt and all other manufacturers were struggling for survival themselves too hard to think of hiring.

and chief designer Dan D ' Agostino, is one of America's largest manufacturers of high-end audio systems.

Orvis's chief competitors included both the mass-produced rods of Sears, Wards, and Chubb, and the top-end rods produced by Leonard, Kosmic, and other exclusive manufacturers of what were essentially custom-built fly rods.

Bimota's co-founder and long-time chief designer Tamburini has been an influential player in the development of other Italian brands, most significantly his work on the popular Ducati 916, the Ducati Paso, and MV Agusta F4 ; other designers such as current Bimota chief Sergio Robbiano have also been involved with larger-volume manufacturers.

As the streetcar manufacturers transitioned from wooden to steel construction, his expertise allowed him to accept a better offer with Southern Car Company in High Point, North Carolina, where he became chief engineer, and he and his wife moved south in 1910.

The contributors to this testament were all well-known: a former Democratic candidate for President, a New Deal poet, the magazine's chief editorial writer, two newspaper columnists, head of a national broadcasting company, a popular Protestant evangelist, etc..

the rather pleasant white city was on the hill where the chief stores were.

Yuri Soloviev, Oleg Sokolov, Alexei Zhitkov, Lev Sokolov, Yuri Korneyev and Mr. Livshitz were the chief soloists, but everybody on stage was magnificent.

The chief Apollonian festivals were the Boedromia, Carneia, Carpiae, Daphnephoria, Delia, Hyacinthia, Metageitnia, Pyanepsia, Pythia and Thargelia.

The chief causes of his victory over his opponents were his great popularity and the reverence paid to the episcopal character at that period.

As a result of this, eight chief deities of the Anunnaki pantheon were supposed to have come together and withdrawn their support from Akkad.

But three months later, Stilicho and the chief ministers of his party were treacherously slain on Honorius ' orders.

The stream was temporarily turned aside from its course while the grave was dug wherein the Gothic chief and some of his most precious spoils were interred.

One of the terms of the surrender was that Guthrum convert to Christianity ; and three weeks later the Danish king and 29 of his chief men were baptised at Alfred's court at Aller, near Athelney, with Alfred receiving Guthrum as his spiritual son.

Although Cambria Iron and Steel's facilities were heavily damaged by the flood, they returned to full production within a year .. After the flood, Carnegie built Johnstown a new library to replace the one built by Cambria's chief legal counsel Cyrus Elder, which was destroyed in the flood.

Of all the causes of defection, that connected with arrears of tribute and vessels, and with failure of service, was the chief ; for the Athenians were very severe and exacting, and made themselves offensive by applying the screw of necessity to men who were not used to and in fact not disposed for any continuous labor.

Unlike these states, which were ruled by local nobles who acknowledged British suzerainty, Ajmer-Merwara was administered directly by the British, until 1858 by the East India Company and after 1858 by a chief commissioner who was subordinate to the Governor-General of India's agent for the Rajputana Agency.

Between 1861 and 1871, the Tanzimat reforms which began during the reign of his brother Abdülmecid I were continued under the leadership of his chief ministers, Keçecizade Mehmet Fuat Pasha and Mehmed Emin Aali Pasha.

The chief characteristics of the new order were the adoption of the nation in arms principle and the adoption of French war organization and tactics.

The army reforms were not yet completed by the war of 1809, in which Charles acted as commander in chief, yet even so it proved a far more formidable opponent than the old and was only defeated after a desperate struggle involving Austrian victories and large loss of life on both sides.

Painda Khan and the chiefs of the Nurzai and the Alizai Durrani clans were executed, as was the chief of the Qizilbash clan.

Mild measures were agreed on for those heretic bishops who repented, but severe penance was decreed for the chief leaders of the major heresies.

When Hitler's chief engineer, Fritz Todt, began opening the new autobahn ( highways ) in 1935, many of the bridges and service stations were " bold examples of modernism " – among those submitting designs was Mies van der Rohe.

Since its inception Beechcraft has resided in Wichita, Kansas, also the home of chief competitor Cessna, the birthplace of Learjet and of Stearman, whose trainers were used in large numbers during WW2.

The previous inhabitants of the area were Celtic-speaking Gauls, as evidenced by the two Latinised Celtic names for their chief town: Batavodurum and Noviomagus ( Nijmegen, Neth ).

The Bastarnae were also a target because they had recently subjugated the Triballi, whose territory lay on the southern bank of the Danube between the tributary rivers Utus ( Vit ) and Ciabrus ( Tsibritsa ), with their chief town at Oescus ( Gigen, Bulgaria ).

As of 1935, its chief industries were shipbuilding, tanning, and pottery.

The Emperor had risen early to begin prayers for divine guidance when spies from Ras Alula, his chief military advisor, brought him news that the Italians were advancing.

Dabormida's remains were never found, although his brother learned from an old woman living in the area that she had given water to a mortally wounded Italian officer, " a chief, a great man with spectacles and a watch, and golden stars ".

The chief reformer was Baron vom Stein ( 1757 – 1831 ), who was influenced by The Enlightenment, especially the free market ideas of Adam Smith.

* Adam Keswick, chief executive of Jardine Pacific and of Jardine Motors

In the United States, the US mint established a coin Cabinet in 1838 when chief coiner Adam Eckfeldt donated his personal collection.

Later that year Shillington elected its first official, Adam Rollman, as chief burgess.

A similar treaty was made with the Griqua chief, Adam Kok III.

" In withdrawing from the Sovereignty the British government declared that it had " no alliance with any native chief or tribes to the northward of the Orange River with the exception of the Griqua chief Captain Adam Kok " III.

Owen Williams, writing for Empire magazine, opines that Star Trek as a whole has been slow to adapt and develop to new trends, while singling out Deep Space Nine for special mention: "... arguably even the ace DS9 only got good in response to Babylon 5 ..." Adam Smith, chief features writer for Empire commented in a 2009 article that, " It's hard to choose the best episodes of DS9 without mentioning the stories involving the Dominion War.

* Graceless, Aimless, Feckless, and Pointless: the farm's cows, and Adam Lambsbreath's chief charge.

* Elizabeth de Moravia, 10th Countess of Sutherland ( d. 1535 ) ( Married to Adam Gordon, a younger son of the chief of Clan Gordon )

* Adam Crozier, former chief executive of the Royal Mail ;

His chief works are A Discourse of Government relating to Militias ( 1698 ), in which he argued that the royal army in Scotland should be replaced by local militias-a position of republican virtue which was to return a half-century later and foreshadowed the thinking of Adam Ferguson in lauding martial virtues over commercially minded polite society which he thought unmanly.

In 1998 chief executive Roger Luard died, with Adam Singler becoming chief executive.

Buffy and her friends discover that chief amongst these experiments is the creation of a human-cyber-demonoid hybrid known as Adam ( George Hertzberg ), whose programming has gone terribly wrong, leading him to wreak havoc on the town.

The surname Hobbis had been particularly common in the area in the 19th century and people with that name included farmers, agricultural workers and ( in Kings Norton village ) the publican of the inn, The Plumber's Arms, but no-one named Hobbis is listed in the 1907 Directory as owning property in West Heath although a small piece of land in what is now Alvechurch Road was known as Hobbis ' Piece and was then owned by Adam Webb, chief clerk in an assurance company, another solid middle class inhabitant of that time in West Heath.

In September 2011 Deerhoof performed at SFMOMA at an event with Adam Pendleton and former Black Panther Party chief of staff David Hilliard.

Kokstad is named after the Griqua chief Adam Kok III who settled here in 1863.

* Adam von Trott zu Solz 1909 – 1944, a descendant on his mother's side of the first chief justice of the USA

In 1315 a group of men led by Sir William Bradshaigh of Haigh Hall, Sir Henry Lea of Charnock Richard and Sir Adam Banastre met at Wingates to plan a campaign of violence against Sir Robert de Holland of Upholland, chief retainer of the powerful Earl of Lancaster.

In addition to guest starring in over 60 television series, he was best known for his roles as Ben Cartwright's eldest son, Adam Cartwright, on the western series Bonanza, a role he played from 1959 to 1965 — and as chief surgeon Dr. John McIntyre, the title character on Trapper John, M. D.

Its main organiser and chief figure was a Catholic priest, Hugo Kołłątaj ; other notable supporters included Ignacy Potocki and Adam K. Czartoryski.

Short of funds, he turned to Adam Jellicoe, at that time chief clerk in the pay branch of the Royal Navy treasury, who agreed to finance Cort in return for a payment of £ 27, 000 on the security of the assignment of Cort's patents and one half of any profits.

During the arc of the Adam plot, and after considerable torture at the hands of Nicholas Blair and Angelique Bouchard, another witch / vampire and Barnabas's chief nemesis, Barnabas's character on the show changed from haunted Villain to outright Hero.