But whenever a major purchase was contemplated forty years ago -- a new bedroom set or a winter coat, an Easter bonnet, a bicycle for Junior -- the family set off for the downtown department store, where the selection would be greatest.

The department apparently intends to make the Rural Roads Authority a revolving fund under which new bonds would be issued every time a portion of the old ones are paid off by tax authorities.

Each of the organization's ninety-nine members would get two professional posts, such as political affairs officer, a department head or an economist, to start.

Shortly after the team published its first results in 1940, Fleming telephoned Howard Florey, Chain's head of department, to say that he would be visiting within the next few days.

Atlas Autocode included a < code >< u > complex </ u ></ code > data type which would support complex numbers, partly because of pressure from the electrical engineering department, as complex numbers are used to represent the behavior of alternating current.

Late in 2010, some Congressmen ( after the four-day Bicentennial holiday was proved successful ) asked for a law that would forbid the opening of supermarkets and department stores on Sundays, however retailers claimed that Sunday shopping made about 20 % of their weekly sales, more than other day of the week, thus preventing the law from taking place.

Patterson claimed to have screened the film for unnamed technicians " in the special effects department at Universal Studios in Hollywood ... Their conclusion was: ' We could try ( faking it ), but we would have to create a completely new system of artificial muscles and find an actor who could be trained to walk like that.

The Hong Kong Marine department has online records of all accidents in its waters for those who would like more information on their operation.

In a June 2002 column, Republican consultant and speechwriter Peggy Noonan expressed the hope that the Bush administration would change the name of the department, writing that, " The name Homeland Security grates on a lot of people, understandably.

Exotic things would happen to and around him, but he would be a neutral figure — an anonymous, blunt instrument wielded by a government department.

The RLM lacked a technical-tactical department, that would have been able to combine the two functions for better efficiency.

Justly confident that the Roosevelt administration would support his initiative, from a suite in the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York, Bunau-Varilla arranged for the Panama City fire department to stage a revolution against Colombia.

Many of the properties in the neighbourhood were the work of architect Georg Friedrich Heinrich Hitzig ( 1811 – 81 ), a pupil of Schinkel who also built the original " English Embassy " in Leipziger Platz, where the vast Wertheim department store would later stand, although Friedrichvorstadt's focal point and most notable building was the work of another architect — and another pupil of Schinkel.

In such cases where a determination was required to be made by the military service department, photocopies of the archival record ( but not the record itself ) would be forwarded to the headquarters of the military branch in question.

( Cardinal Frings's theological advisor was the young Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, who would later, as Cardinal, head the same department of the Holy See.

However, one director of the local parks department was opposed to letting it be used for commercial purposes and expressed concern that ABC would damage the Memorial.

He would return to Disney in 1940 and go on to pioneer a number of film processes and specialized animation technologies in the studio's research and development department.

His dissertation, entitled, " Solutions of the Mathieu equation of period 4 pi and certain related functions ", was beyond the comprehension of the chemistry and physics faculty, and only when some members of the mathematics department, including the chairman, insisted that the work was good enough that they would grant the doctorate if the chemistry department would not, was he granted a Ph. D. in chemistry in 1935.

In March 2011 The Guardian published an article concerning an agreement between the World Service and the US State department, in which the latter would provide the BBC with a " low six figure " sum so that new technology could be developed that would stop jamming and to educate people on how to avoid state censorship should they want to.

He argued that the two departments had similar goals and that they would have more efficient channels of communication in a single department.

The expense ( operating ) budget is to be a program budget, and red tape is cut to allow greater autonomy ( with the Mayor approving ) in fund transfers within a department.

The action of the Commission in allowing or denying any claim under this title shall be final and conclusive on all questions of law and fact and not subject to review by the Secretary of State or any other official, department, agency, or establishment of the United States or by any court by mandamus or otherwise.

Such certification shall be final and conclusive and shall not be subject to review by any other official or department, agency, or establishment of the United States.

The senior policy officer may be moved to think hard about a problem by any of an infinite variety of stimuli: an idea in his own head, the suggestions of a colleague, a question from the Secretary or the President, a proposal by another department, a communication from a foreign government or an American ambassador abroad, the filing of an item for the agenda of the United Nations or of any other of dozens of international bodies, a news item read at the breakfast table, a question to the President or the Secretary at a news conference, a speech by a Senator or Congressman, an article in a periodical, a resolution from a national organization, a request for assistance from some private American interests abroad, et cetera, ad infinitum.

One way that this can be done, other than by hiring new high-priced professors, is by constantly encouraging the department members to raise their standards of performance.

Just as the suburban factory may be more convenient than the downtown plant to the worker with a car, the trip to the shopping center may seem far easier than to the downtown department store, though both are the same distance from home.

And if the affection for the suburban branch reflects a desire to shop with `` nice people '', rather than with the indiscriminate urban mass which supports the downtown department store, the central location may be in serious trouble.

Even a city of thirty thousand might have six baseball teams, sponsored by grocers and hardware merchants or department stores, that played two or three times a week throughout the summer, usually in the cool of the evening, before an earnest and partisan audience who did not begrudge a quarter each, or even more, to be dropped into a hat when the game was half over.

The council advised the governor that `` large supermarkets, factory outlets and department stores not be allowed to do business '' on Sunday.

If so, it might be worth while to assign a future jazz show to a different department -- one with enough confidence in the musical material to cut down on the number of performers and give them a little room to display their talents.

Teaching experiments could be performed by a university department

Nearby on Tauentzienstraße is KaDeWe, claimed to be continental Europe's largest department store.

Also the general Museum archives which date from its foundation in 1753 are overseen by this department ; the individual departments have their own separate archives and libraries covering their various areas of responsibility, which can be consulted by the public on application.

With BME specifically, the ranking of a university's hospital and medical school can also be a significant factor in the perceived prestige of its BME department / program.

The Bronze Star Medal may be awarded by the Secretary of a military department or the Secretary of Homeland Security with regard to the Coast Guard when not operating as a service in the Navy, or by such military commanders, or other appropriate officers as the Secretary concerned may designate, to any person who, while serving in any capacity in or with the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, or Coast Guard of the United States, after 6 December 1941, distinguishes, or has distinguished, himself by heroic or meritorious achievement or service, not involving participation in aerial flight —

Belize was contested between the Spanish Empire and the British Empire, a dispute that continued after the independence of Guatemala, who considered Belize to be a Guatemalan department.

My subject is a barren one – the world of nature, or in other words life ; and that subject in its least elevated department, and employing either rustic terms or foreign, many barbarian words that actually have to be introduced with an apology.

The law allows the university to appoint a rector in any way, but the university statutes determine that the rector magnificus must be an active professor at the university ( and must have been that before being appointed rector ); in practice the rector is always a former department dean.

At DAIMI, the CS department at Aarhus University, three CS students, avid players of XPilot and of Sid Meier's Civilization, which was a stand-alone PC game for DOS, decided to find out whether the two could be fused into an X-based multiplayer Civilization-like strategy game.

However, these internal departments remained and the Gestapo continued to be a department under the RSHA umbrella.

Schweitzer also studied piano under Isidor Philipp, head of the piano department at the Paris Conservatory.

Brunei's internet service is monopolized by a recently incorporated company TelBru under their " Brunet " department.

In the same year, under Professor Charles Cross, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology began offering the first option of Electrical Engineering within a physics department.

At the same time Bragg's Cavendish Laboratory was also effectively competing with King's College London, whose Biophysics department was under the direction of Sir John Randall.

Today, department store business is the only remaining part of the company operations ; in the form of department stores under the brand name The Bay.

There also appeared one foreign release by Hardfloor under Harthouse UK, by the English UCMG department.

The initiative for computer education came from the Electrical Engineering department, then under the chairmanship of Prof. H. K.

He moved to the feature film department as an assistant director when the company closed its animation department, working under such luminaries as Yutaka Abe and Nobuo Aoyagi.

After the bomb was discovered, all Los Angeles police were ordered to search under their cars, and another bomb was found in front of a police department about a mile away.

This department is one of the museum's oldest ; it began with appropriated royal art, some of which was acquired under Francis I.

Lansing is administered under a mayor-council government, more specifically a " strong mayor " setup in which the mayor holds most of the city's administrative powers, such as appointment of department heads and drafting and administering a city budget, though the council must approve his / her actions.

The National Transport Authority ( NTA ) is a governmental department established under the Road Traffic Act in 1980 whose main responsibility is the regulation and control of road transport in Mauritius and Rodrigues.

* Madras was the first state then to set up a separate section for maternal & child welfare in the public health department under the charge of an Asst.

It is developed at the University Of Melbourne Computer Science department under the supervision of Zoltan Somogyi.

At the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, Atta studied under the guidance of the department chair, Dittmar Machule, who specialized in the Middle East.

Dan Stone, a former Drexel executive, wrote in his book April Fools that Milken was under nearly-constant scrutiny from the Securities and Exchange Commission from 1979 onward due to unethical and sometimes illegal behavior in the high-yield department.

The Office of Telecommunications ( Oftel ) ( the telecommunications regulator ) was a department in the United Kingdom government, under civil service control, charged with promoting competition and maintaining the interests of consumers in the UK telecommunications market.

Fritz Hippler, producer of one of the most powerful propaganda films of the time, 1940's The Wandering Jew, ran the film department under Goebbels.

Also in the United States, the American Podiatric Medical Association ( APMA ) defines podiatrists as physicians and surgeons that fall under the department of surgery in hospitals.

In 1967 New Scotland Yard moved to the present building at 10 Broadway, still within Westminster, which was an existing office block acquired under a long-term lease ; the first New Scotland Yard is now called the Norman Shaw ( North ) building, part of which is used as the headquarters for the Metropolitan Police's Territorial Policing department.