The focus on number speaks to the drive behind each of them: to reduce the size of the electorate by linking the franchise with property qualifications.

Furthermore, the bill standardised and expanded the borough franchise, increasing the size of the electorate ( according to one estimate ) by half a million voters.

Depending on the complexity of the franchise, though, the crossover can be even more indirect, serving to suggest the size of the fictional world.

Competing with Hampton for Virginia's NBDL team, Roanoke was evaluated as a potential franchise location based on its population, arena size and lack of a major NCAA basketball program in the Roanoke Valley.

The franchise played out of the 6, 500 Stampede Corral knowing that its small size would prevent the team from achieving profitability initially.

This was a necessity for the league to remain viable, as U. S. broadcasters have traditionally had a very limited level of interest in team sports leagues without a viable New York franchise, due to the size of that market area.

This was a wide franchise for the period, and taken with the reasonable size of the town meant that St Ives was one of the few boroughs in Cornwall that could claim not to be a rotten borough.

The hurry-up tactic was used by the franchise during the late 1980s while Sam Wyche was the coach.

In the 1980s and 1990s, the copyright holders of the Conan franchise permitted Howard's stories to go out of print entirely, while continuing to sell Conan works by other authors.

They were the first in Europe to gain the franchise, and by the 1980s they routinely constituted about one-third of the membership of the Eduskunta ( parliament ) and held several ministerial posts.

He has also been voiced in animation by Jackson Beck in the 1960s series The New Adventures of Superman, Stan Jones in the 1970s / 1980s Super Friends franchise, Michael Bell in the 1988 Superman animated series, and by Clancy Brown in the 1990s / 2000s DC animated universe, as well as a 2007 episode of The Batman and the 2009 direct-to-DVD animated feature Superman / Batman: Public Enemies, among others.

Studio executives had begun to call it " the franchise " in the 1980s due to its reliable revenue, and other studios envied its " untouchable and unduplicatable " success.

In the early 1980s, Mercia Television was an unsuccessful contender for the Midlands franchise, then owned by ATV.

Public demands for democratic reforms led to the extension of the franchise to women in the 1970s and to the creation of new and more fully autonomous organs of government in the early 1980s.

In the 1980s, Mel Gibson and Danny Glover had a popular string of " buddy cop " films in the Lethal Weapon franchise.

During the peak of its popularity in the late 1980s through early 1990s, the franchise gained considerable worldwide success and fame.

In the 1970s and early 1980s, the former WFL franchise Memphis Southmen / Memphis Grizzlies sued the NFL in an attempt to be accepted as an expansion franchise.

The Hellraiser franchise was adapted to comic book form in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Though Stepien eventually threatened to move the franchise to Toronto and rename it the Toronto Towers, but brothers George and Gordon Gund purchased the franchise in the mid 1980s and decided to keep the team in Cleveland ( a decade later, Toronto would eventually receive an expansion franchise, the Toronto Raptors.

During the late 1980s, John Stockton and Karl Malone arose as the franchise players for the team, and formed one of the most famed point guard – power forward duos in NBA history.

Scrappy remained an integral part of the Scooby-Doo franchise, on both TV and in Scooby-related licensed products and merchandising, through the end of the 1980s.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, McFarlane became a comic book superstar due to his work on Marvel Comics ' Spider-Man franchise.

The 1980s saw renewed vigor in Snohomish when, along with other developments, two 7-Eleven convenience stores and a McDonald's franchise opened during the first part of the decade.

They were also the first franchise to appear in the Super Bowl in four different decades ( 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 2000s ), the 1990s was the only decade that they didn't appear in the Super Bowl.

In 2012, Topps announced it would reboot the Garbage Pail Kids franchise with new character and content themes more reminiscent of the original 1980s series in a set called " Brand-New Series 1 " ( BNS1 ) scheduled to be released on October 24, 2012.

It gained a virtual monopoly after it bought the Provi-Soir brand, a franchise with a winking owl as part of its logo ( now part of the Couche-Tard logo ); Provi-Soir had previously purchased the competing Perrette chain in the late 1980s.

The game provides a good example of the work produced by Capcom in the late 1980s and early 1990s, along with such titles as those in the Mega Man franchise ; both shared key personnel such as Tokuro Fujiwara, Keiji Inafune and Yoshihiro Sakaguchi.

Attempts had been made by Nelson Skalbania, a local entrepreneur, to get an NBA franchise to Vancouver in the 1980s, but had failed.

The Atlanta Falcons franchise began on June 30, 1965 when NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle granted ownership to 41 year-old Rankin Smith Sr .. Smith an Executive Vice President of Life Insurance Company of Georgia at the time, paid $ 8. 5 million the highest price in NFL history at the time 1965 for an NFL franchise.

Although they failed to make the playoffs in 2009, the streak ended when the team rallied to win their final three regular season games to record back-to-back winning seasons for the first time in franchise history.

The modern Orioles franchise can trace its roots back to the original Milwaukee Brewers of the minor Western League, beginning in 1894 when the league reorganized.

From a sociological and demographic perspective, the Big Brother franchise allows the opportunity for analysis of how people react when forced into close confinement with people who lie outside their comfort zone, since they may hold different opinions or ideals from other contestants, or simply belong to a different group of people than a contestant normally interacts with.

Often when a fan does not agree with one of the events in a story ( such as the death of a favorite character ) they will choose to ignore the event in question so that their enjoyment of the franchise is not diminished.

The rivalry with Atlanta began in the first season of the franchise when both teams were members of the NFC West.

" He only acquiesced to joining the AFL when he was guaranteed that the team would become an NFL franchise after the impending merger of the two leagues.

The winningest season in franchise history came in, when the Indians finished the season with a record of 111-43 (. 721 ).

Robinson served as player-manager and would provide a franchise highlight when he hit a pinch hit home run on Opening Day.

For the first time in franchise history, Dallas posted back-to-back shutouts when they beat division rivals Washington ( 17 – 0 ) and Philadelphia ( 24 – 0 ) to end the season.

The franchise remained in that state until 2000, when Doom 3 was announced.

A retelling of the original Doom using entirely new graphics technology, Doom 3 was hyped to provide as large a leap in realism and interactivity as the original Doom, and helped renew interest in the Doom franchise when it was released.

The growth in franchising accelerated in the 1930s when such chains as Howard Johnson's started to franchise motels.

Id Software became involved in film development when they were in the production team of the film adaption of their Doom franchise in 2005.

Lamping is the second team president in franchise history and the first since 1997, when David Seldin left that position.

The Kings played there until 1985, when the franchise moved to California and became the Sacramento Kings.

In 1951, Labatt launched its Pilsener Lager ; when it was introduced in Manitoba, the beer was nicknamed " Blue " for the colour of its label and the company's support of Winnipeg's Canadian Football League ( CFL ) franchise, the Blue Bombers.

In 2002, the team was nearly disbanded when Major League Baseball selected the Twins and the Montreal Expos ( now the Washington Nationals franchise ) for elimination due to their financial weakness relative to other franchises in the league.

However, a new professional team in the area did not surface again until August 1959, when Minneapolis businessmen Bill Boyer, H. P. Skoglund, and Max Winter were awarded a franchise in the new American Football League ( AFL ).

Harry Wismer, a businessman, had been interested in sports for much of his life when he was granted a charter franchise in the American Football League.

As the Jets sought to become a stronger franchise and remove themselves from their counterparts ' shadow, the team entered into negotiations with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in an attempt to build a stadium on the west side of Manhattan, entering a bidding war with TransGas Energy Systems and Cablevision for the rights to the West Side Yard property — Hess, prior to his death, had been approached by former mayor Rudy Giuliani about bringing the team to the West Side when their lease at Giants Stadium expired in 2008.

Despite yet another losing season, the Mets made history in 2011 when Jason Isringhausen converted his 300th save with the team, the third player in franchise history to reach the milestone while with the organization behind John Franco and Billy Wagner.

In 2007, the Giants became the third NFL franchise to win at least 600 games when they defeated the Atlanta Falcons 31 – 10 on Monday Night Football.

In the Star Trek franchise, the books The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh ( Volumes 1 & 2 ), by Greg Cox, detail the fictional Eugenics Wars of the early 1990s – still many years into the future when first mentioned in the episode " Space Seed " in 1967 – giving alternative explanations for real world events such as the Indian nuclear test of 1974 and the violent breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, presenting them as small parts of a single wider conflict.