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The commercial and critical success of this film opened up Western film markets for the first time to the products of the Japanese film industry, which in turn led to international recognition for other Japanese filmmakers.
The crash of his ambitious Lawson L-4 " Midnight Liner " during its trial flight takeoff on May 8, 1921, ended his best chance for commercial aviation success.
Due to the firm's commercial success many pirated editions were also produced in Lyons and elsewhere.
AIX / ESA, while technically advanced, had little commercial success, partially because UNIX functionality was added as an option to the existing mainframe operating system, MVS, which became MVS / ESA OpenEdition in 1999.
With the critical and commercial success in the United States of such memoirs as Angela ’ s Ashes and The Color of Water, however, more and more people have been encouraged to try their hand at this genre.
This was the period of Korner's greatest commercial success in the UK.
Above all, The Great Bordello provides a deeper understanding of the human desire to accomplish something of enduring value amidst commercial success and ruthless realities of life.
The commercial success of Dutch hip hop is largely made by Brainpower, Yes-R, Ali B, Lange Frans & Baas B and Extince.
In commercial terms, the Athlon " Classic " was an enormous success — not just because of its own merits, but also because Intel endured a series of major production, design, and quality control issues at this time.
The film was a commercial success, but was highly controversial owing to its portrayal of African American men ( played by white actors in blackface ) as unintelligent and sexually aggressive towards white women, and the portrayal of the Ku Klux Klan ( whose original founding is dramatized ) as a heroic force.
Though these machines are early forerunners to computer engineering, the calculator failed to be a great commercial success.
Many inventors tried to fix these problems, but without commercial success.
Chaplin decided not to release the film in the United States, which also meant that it was financially much less successful than his earlier films, despite moderate commercial success in Europe.
Their debut album, Pretty on the Inside ( 1991 ) garnered them critical praise, and they went on to achieve international critical and commercial success for their following albums, Live Through This ( 1994 ) and Celebrity Skin ( 1998 ).
Meanwhile, Live Through This was an immense commercial and critical success, receiving rave reviews from major music periodicals and going certified gold.
Other early chemists involved in catalysis were Alexander Mitscherlich who referred to contact processes and Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner who spoke of contact action and whose lighter based on hydrogen and a platinum sponge became a huge commercial success in the 1820s.
Since first being aired, it has been one of the most financially lucrative programmes on British commercial television, underpinning the success of its broadcaster ITV and its franchise Granada Television.
Originally active from 1985 to 1996, the band have had consistent commercial and critical success in Australia and New Zealand and international chart success in two phases, beginning with their self-titled debut album, Crowded House, which reached number twelve on the US Album Chart in 1987 and provided the Top Ten hits, " Don't Dream It's Over " and " Something So Strong ".
Cowboy Bebop received widespread critical acclaim and became a commercial success both in Japanese and international markets, most notably in the United States.
It was only a moderate commercial success.
It was also the first story-based concept album of the rock era ( as distinct from the song-cycle style album ) to enjoy commercial success.
Pink Floyd recast itself from its 1960s guise as a psychedelic band into a commercial success with its series of concept albums, most famously with The Dark Side of the Moon ( which, according to the RIAA, is the second best selling album in history ) and later with the double album rock opera The Wall.
Although it did not achieve the same levels of commercial success as the band's later releases ( it reached # 73 on the Billboard 200 ), it has been hailed by many fans and critics as Dream Theater's masterpiece and the band's defining album.
It was a commercial success, selling 53, 000 units in its first year and generating $ 111 million in sales revenue.

commercial and hovercraft
With these improvements the hovercraft became an effective transport system for high-speed service on water and shallow land, leading to widespread developments for military vehicles, search and rescue, and commercial operations.
With the introduction of the SR. N4 in 1968, hovercraft had developed into useful commercial craft.
As well as Saunders-Roe and Vickers ( which combined in 1966 to form the British Hovercraft Corporation ( BHC )), other commercial craft were developed during the 1960s in the UK by Cushioncraft ( part of the Britten-Norman Group ) and Hovermarine based at Woolston ( the latter being ' Sidewall Hovercraft ', where the sides of the hull projected down into the water to trap the cushion of air with ' normal ' hovercraft skirts at the bow and stern ).
Mark III SR. N4 hovercraft arriving in Dover on its last commercial flight-1 October 2000
The fastest ever crossing of the English Channel by a commercial car-carrying hovercraft was 22 minutes, recorded by the SR. N4 Mk. III Princess Anne on 14 September 1995, for the 10: 00 a. m. service.
Some companies hoping to leverage the commercial success of the movies have marketed hovercraft vehicles as hoverboards, but these products have not been shown to replicate the experience depicted in the movies.
Moreton witnessed the world's first commercial passenger and mail hovercraft service.
Mark III SR. N4 hovercraft arriving in Dover on its last commercial flight-October 1, 2000

commercial and suffered
More recently, the Gosford CBD has suffered a decline as more commercial activity has relocated to nearby Erina, particularly Erina Fair.
Real estate, both residential and commercial, also suffered significant drops in 2008.
From the 1960s, Rockville's town center, formerly one of the area's commercial centers, suffered from a period of decline.
All these sectors had suffered enormously from the war: the British blockade and French and British privateering had almost brought marine trade to a standstill, whereas a commercial treaty with France ( which would have ended French discrimination of Dutch trade in industrial goods ) proved an ever-receding fata morgana.
In the 5th century BC, Sicyon, like Corinth, suffered from the commercial rivalry of Athens in the western seas, and was repeatedly harassed by squadrons of Athenian ships.
Despite the enormous commercial success of Middle of Nowhere, the band suffered from the merger that eliminated their label, Mercury Records.
The city had suffered a loss of commerce when U. S. Route 66 was supplanted by Interstate 40, but the popularity of the song led to renewed attention for Winslow and a commercial renaissance.
Carver businesses suffered during the twin events of Prohibition and the Great Depression, causing the city to go into several decades of economic stagnation, leading to the decay of many historic houses and commercial buildings.
For many years Linn City was a political and commercial rival to the adjacent town of Oregon City, but it suffered a series of natural and man-made setbacks.
Following the critical and commercial success of their 1997 album OK Computer, the members of Radiohead began to suffer psychological burnout ; particularly songwriter Thom Yorke, who suffered a mental breakdown.
The bobcat also suffered population declines in New Jersey at the turn of the nineteenth century, mainly because of commercial and agricultural developments causing habitat fragmentation ; by 1972, the bobcat was given full legal protection, and was listed as endangered in the state in 1991.
Accordingly, they suffered the same fate as a number of 1970s children's series in that they were thought to have no further commercial use ( the idea of home video entertainment was still in its infancy ), and therefore many master tapes were wiped for re-use.
Morris and Linda Tannehill propose that ideas in the form of inventions could be registered in a privately owned " data bank "; the inventor could then buy insurance against the theft and unauthorized commercial use of the invention, and the insurance company would guarantee to not only compensate the inventor for any losses suffered due to such infringement but to stop such unauthorized use.
On the one side is the world of commerce and sanity-the commercial men with their dollar calculi and the academics who, according to Johannes Silentio: “ live secure in existence (…) with a solid pension and sure prospects in a well ordered state ; they have centuries and even millennia between them and the concussions of existence .” On the other side are those single individuals-Mary, Mother of Jesus ; the Apostles ; above all, Abraham-who in their own lives have suffered such concussions.
On October 20, 2005, local residents within the area of the oil recovery operation, which is located in the predominantly commercial / industrial eastern section of Greenpoint near the East Williamsburg Industrial Park, filed a lawsuit against ExxonMobil, BP and Chevron Corporation in Brooklyn State Supreme Court, alleging they have suffered adverse health consequences.
After introduction into commercial service, early Comet models suffered from catastrophic air frame metal fatigue, causing a string of well-publicised accidents.
All of the companies suffered from production problems as results from commercial phage medicine were erratic.
The huge investment in both the Imp and the Linwood production plant proved to be one of the reasons for the undoing of Rootes Group, and its commercial failure fuelled the huge losses suffered although the main reason for Rootes Group losses were industrial unrest and the effects of the forthcoming cooperation with Chrysler Corporation of the USA.
Ikeja, like other Lagos municipalities, has suffered from neglect, a lack of planning and over-concentration of disorganized commercial activities ( which include street trading ).
In addition, 2FM suffered the high profile departure of Ian Dempsey to the newly established commercial national radio station Today FM.
Like many areas of the northeastern part of the island, it suffered a decline following the construction of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in 1964, which shifted the commercial activity of the island towards its interior.
He never applied for a patent though and since the device suffered from material problems resulting in a short life-span it never became a commercial product.
South African Airways Flight 295 ( flown by a Boeing 747 named Helderberg ) was a commercial flight that suffered a catastrophic in-flight fire in the cargo area and crashed into the Indian Ocean east of Mauritius on 28 November 1987, killing everyone on board.
In addition 111 churches, 50 hospitals, institutions or colleges, 36 theatres, clubs, government offices, banks, factories, flour mills and other commercial buildings suffered destruction or damage — a total of 30, 000 buildings in all.

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