This project was started at a time when there was a critical need for a high-energy fuel to provide an extra margin of range for high performance aircraft, particularly our heavy bombers.

Although the project started in 1958, Chaplin only received his star in 1970 because of his political views.

Chaplin was also given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1970, after having been excluded due to his political beliefs when the project was initially started in 1958.

The profits generated by the Erie Canal project started a canal building boom in the United States that lasted till about 1850 when railroads started becoming seriously competitive in price and convience.

* In 2005, Adrian Bowyer of the University of Bath started the RepRap project to develop a rapid prototyping machine which would be able to replicate itself, making such machines cheap enough for people to buy and use in their homes.

OpenCDE, an open source project to replicate CDE, was started in early 2010.

The project, which used Craig Venter's personal yacht, Sorcerer II, started in Halifax, Canada, circumnavigated the globe and returned to the U. S. in January 2006.

The Canon Pocketronic was a development of the " Cal-Tech " project which had been started at Texas Instruments in 1965 as a research project to produce a portable calculator.

Cyclone development was started as a joint project of AT & T Labs Research and Greg Morrisett's group at Cornell in 2001.

They started a project known as INGRES using funding that had already been allocated for a geographical database project and student programmers to produce code.

The project was started by Alex Jarrett in February 1996 because he " liked the idea of visiting a location represented by a round number such as 43 ° 00 ' 00 " N 72 ° 00 ' 00 " W. What would be there?

An International Development Agency project called nabuur. com, started with the support of former American President Bill Clinton, uses the Internet to allow co-operation by individuals on issues of social development.

In February 1980, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ( IEEE ) started project 802 to standardize local area networks ( LAN ).

Other fixed earning rules such as a 25 / 75 rule or 20 / 80 rule are gaining favor, because they assign more weight to finishing work than for starting it, but they also motivate the project team to identify when an element of work is started, which can improve awareness of work-in-progress.

After hardware manufacturers talked about creating a rival operating system, Kildall started a rush project to develop CP / M 2.

The project was started by Marco Pesenti Gritti with the goal of creating a web browser that would be fast and consistent with the GNOME desktop environment.

In November 2002, as the result of several discussions on the topic Gritti made the decision to cease his work in Galeon and fork the project and started development of a HIG-compliant web browser he called Epiphany ( now known as Web ).

The 8086 project started in May 1976 and was originally intended as a temporary substitute for the ambitious and delayed iAPX 432 project.

The project to build the science center was conceived in 2001 and construction started in 2006.

A few days afterwards, having been encouraged by Ray and New York underground filmmaker Amos Poe and using scholarship funds given by the Louis B. Mayer Foundation to pay for his school tuition, Jarmusch started work on a film for his final project.

He knew some Hebrew when he started his translation project, but moved to Jerusalem to strengthen his grip on Jewish scripture commentary.

The original project was intended for completion on the auspicious date of 8 August 1988.

The eventual successful project, organised by Eurotunnel, began construction in 1988 and opened in 1994.

DEC management doubted the need to produce a new computer architecture to replace their existing VAX and DECstation lines, and eventually ended the PRISM project in 1988.

In 1988 the government withdrew further funding, the project was approaching the end of its design phase but the plans were still speculative and dogged with aerodynamic problems and operational disadvantages.

The article in question, published in issue 10 of ACE magazine in July 1988, featured Flare Technology, a group of computer hardware designers whom, having split from Sinclair, had built on their work on Sinclair's aborted Loki project to create a system known as Flare One.

In 1988, Bernard Sumner teamed up with former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr for the Electronic project ( also enlisting the help of Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe of the Pet Shop Boys ).

Though Seoul completed a " Peace Dam " on the Pukhan River to counteract the potential threat of Pyongyang's dam project before the 1988 Olympics, the North Korean project apparently still was in its initial stages of construction in 1990.

In 1985, after waiting decades for a new penetrating manned bomber, SAC took delivery of its first B-1B Lancer, while concurrent development of the black project that would eventually result in the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit also continued until that aircraft was officially unveiled to the public in late 1988.

However, after Martin Scorsese's project The Last Temptation of Christ was cancelled ( although it would later be completed and released in 1988 ), he showed an interest in directing it.

After directing episodes for the revitalized version of ' 50s /' 60s anthology horror series Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre, Burton received his next big project: Beetlejuice ( 1988 ), a supernatural comedy horror about a young couple forced to cope with life after death, and the family of pretentious yuppies who invade their treasured New England home.

** In the TV series Quantum Leap ( 1988 – 1993 ), the Quantum Leap project is said to be launched in New Mexico, in 1999.

It had invested in one energy project in 1966 and another in 1981, but in the six years between 1988 and 1994 it invested in a bulk of 32 energy projects.

CoSGOP is derived from goal-oriented planning ( Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit-GTZ 1988 ), which was oriented towards the elaboration and implementation of projects based on a logical framework, which was useful for embedding a specific project in a wider development frame and defining its major elements.

At an estimated cost of DKK 21. 4 billion ( 1988 prices ), the link is the largest construction project in Danish history.

Primarily because of the early successes of the PMAX advanced development project and the need for differing business models, Prism was canceled in 1988 in favor of PMAX.

In 1988, The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery ( TIGHAR ) initiated their project to investigate the Earhart / Noonan disappearance and since then has sent six expeditions to the island.

Since 1988 Rome-based American composer Alvin Curran's project Shofar features the shofar as a virtuoso solo instrument and in combination with sets of natural and electronic sounds.

After spending most of the eighties in his native Australia, Allen returned to the UK in 1988 with a new project, the Invisible Opera Company of Tibet, whose revolving cast included the likes of violinist Graham Clark and Didier Malherbe.

The tavern site of one of the reported gang members — Samuel Young of Marion County — was excavated by archaeologists working for the Illinois Department of Transportation in 1988 prior to its destruction by a highway project

From 1988 until 1990 the Downingtown Historical Society relocated the house and did an extensive restoration with money raised for the project.

Brown ventured on a 120-day world tour to promote the Don't Be Cruel project in 1988.

In 1988, with that preliminary phase of the project completed, Professor Skousen took over as editor and head of the FARMS Critical Text of the Book of Mormon Project and proceeded to gather still scattered fragments of the Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon and to have advanced photographic techniques applied to obtain fine readings from otherwise unreadable pages and fragments.