The Compactron is a 12-pin vacuum tube family introduced in 1961 by General Electric in Owensboro, Kentucky to compete with transistorized electronics during the solid state transition.

In 1899, the banana industry in Honduras was growing rapidly and the peaceful transfer of power from Policarpo Bonilla to General Terencio Sierra would mark the first time in decades that such a constitutional transition had taken place.

They also note that there was a command transition in Iraq as V Corps and General Ricardo Sanchez took command of U. S. forces in Iraq without being fully resourced and trained for the mission in advance.

General Amherst also oversaw the transition of French forts in the western lands to British control.

The transition got off to a shaky start because, contrary to SWAPO President Sam Nujoma's written assurances to the UN Secretary General to abide by a cease-fire and repatriate only unarmed Namibians, it was alleged that approximately 2, 000 armed members of the People's Liberation Army of Namibia ( PLAN ) SWAPO's military wing, crossed the border from Angola in an apparent attempt to establish a military presence in northern Namibia.

During the transition to full secularization, Father José González Rubio remained at the Mission as chief administrator for the church, while José de Jesús Vallejo ( brother of General Mariano G. Vallejo ) was appointed civil administrator.

In 2002, Jiang stepped down from the powerful CPC Politburo Standing Committee and CPC General Secretary to make way for a " fourth generation " of leadership headed by Hu Jintao, marking the beginning of a transition of power that would last several years.

In 1995, the face of the flightline changed when the wing began its transition from the F-111 to General Dynamics F-16C / D aircraft.

Following UVA's transition to coeducational status in 1970, the Virginia General Assembly reorganized Mary Washington College in 1972 as a separate, coeducational institution.

Fraga's career as one of the key political figures in Spain straddles both General Francisco Franco's dictatorial regime and the subsequent transition to democracy.

The Congress marked the nominal transition of power between Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao, who replaced Jiang as General Secretary, and a newly expanded Politburo Standing Committee line-up.

These and the poems Bas-Bleu and Florio ( 1786 ) mark her gradual transition to more serious views of life, which were fully expressed in prose, in her Thoughts on the Importance of the Manners of the Great to General Society ( 1788 ), and An Estimate of the Religion of the Fashionable World ( 1790 ).

Jiang was initially seen as an unlikely candidate for the position of General secretary, and was believed to be simply a power transition figure.

In 1969, Blount was appointed as the Postmaster General by U. S. President Richard Nixon, and he supervised the transition in 1971 of the U. S. Post Office Department from a Cabinet-level department of the U. S. government to a special independent executive agency.

After making the transition from juvenile to young leading man, he spent several seasons in daytime soaps such as General Hospital.

" On April 23, 2009, General Hospital broadcasting in high definition, making it the first ABC soap opera to make such transition.

Evolution of popular vote in the Spanish General Elections from the democratic transition until 2008.

In his second special report to the Security Council, the U. N. Secretary General proposed a reorientation of MONUC missions: to provide support to the transition and to maintain security in key areas of the country.

On December 29, the 17th Amendment was ratified by Parliament after an agreement between the MMA and the Musharraf regime was reached, thus enacting the LFO into law on January 1 and allowing for the General ’ s transition for COAS to President.

Chile was ruled by a military dictatorship headed by General Augusto Pinochet from 1973 when Salvador Allende was overthrown in a coup d ' etat until 1990 when the transition to democracy began.

The transition was initiated by the General Post Office and was one of the first in a long series of changes in the organisation of telephone numbers in the United Kingdom.

Evolution of popular vote in the Spanish General Elections from the democratic transition until 2008.

Therefore, at the session of the General People's Congress held in the town of Sirte on 18 November 1992, it was decided to set up a new political structure: this was to initiate the country's transition to the supreme level of democracy-" a Model Jamahiriya ".

At the start of the Second World War much of the Red Army, including its armoured forces, were in transition and recovering following the 1937 repression of the officer corps, as well as ignoring their lessons from Nomonhan which had been successfully accomplished by General Zhukov, and relying instead on lessons from their politically selected Spanish Civil War veteran high ranking officers, which resulted in their poor showing during the Soviet-Finnish War of 1939.

During the inauguration of President Barack Obama on January 20, 2009, the Bush and Obama transition teams agreed to name Secretary of Defense Robert Gates as the " designated survivor " and he was taken to a secure location instead of attending the ceremony.

In 2001, President George W. Bush asked Khalilzad to head the Bush-Cheney transition team for the Department of Defense and Khalilzad briefly served as Counselor to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

Inslee was once touted as a candidate for United States Secretary of the Interior and for United States Secretary of Energy in the Presidential transition of Barack Obama.

One prominent example was the Commission's Staff Director, Philip D. Zelikow, who had served on George W. Bush's Presidential transition team and had worked closely with U. S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, a key Commission witness, in the George H. W. Bush administration.

The Circle had Birch elected Secretary, and, following the resignation of Martin Folkes, the Circle helped oversee a smooth transition to the Presidency of Earl Macclesfield, who Hardwicke helped elect.

Washington appointed McHenry Secretary of War in 1796 and immediately assigned him the task of facilitating the transition of Western military posts from Great Britain ’ s control, one of the terms of the Jay Treaty.

Section 141 of the Act gave the Home Secretary the power to make rules by statutory instrument to deal with the transition from the old to the new laws, to cover the situation where a defendant is charged with offences which overlap the commencement date of 1 May 2004.

He endorsed Schwarzenegger, and, following his victory, served on his transition team, and was appointed to the cabinet as Secretary for Education.

Crowninshield became Secretary of the Navy in January 1815, a position almost held by his brother Jacob Crowninshield ten years earlier, at the end of the War of 1812 and managed the transition to a peacetime force.

David Lunn-Rockliffe, Executive Secretary of the ARA from 1976 – 1987 and later co-founder of the River and Rowing Museum at Henley-on-Thames, oversaw the transition to a more professional organization.

Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, PC ( 1 April 1877 – 26 January 1963 ) was a British civil servant who gained prominence as the first Cabinet Secretary and who later made the rare transition from the civil service to ministerial office.

Following the Socialist success in the Spanish general elections of 1982 Marin joined the government as State Secretary for Relations with the European Communities – effectively, as Chief Negotiator for Spain's admission to the European Communities, a politically visible appointment because successful negotiations were seen as a seal of approval of Spain's transition from a dictatorship under Franco to a genuine parliamentary democracy.

He worked on the Carter-Mondale transition team in 1976 and 1977 and has been Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs since early 1977.

* May and June 2000, World Business Review episode 711B marked the first major transition in Host duties as Alexander M. Haig Secretary of State for Reagan 1980 to 1981 ) assumes the post of Moderator from the retiring Caspar Weinberger.

Prior to his nomination as Under Secretary the White House appointed Brown to head a transition team creating the Emergency Preparedness & Response Directorate within DHS.

The student of ideas and their place in history will always be concerned with the patterns of transition, which are at the same time patterns of transformation, whereby ideas pass from one area of activity to another.

But the attempt itself produced a number of brilliant works, and these form a transition from the early romantic period to the new age of Ibsen and Chekhov.

`` The committee continues to feel that Florida has progressed in a sound and equitable program at both the state and local levels in its efforts to review and assess transition problems as they arise from time to time in the entire spectrum of civil rights ''.

The purpose of the adjusted Federal share relating to the base allotment and of the transition provisions for reaching the unadjusted Federal share is to prevent dislocations from abrupt changes in matching rates.

It was recognized years ago that the transition from daytime to nighttime propagation conditions, and vice versa, is not an instantaneous process, but takes place over periods of time from roughly 2 hours before sunset until about 2 hours after sunset, and again from roughly 2 hours before sunrise until some 2 hours after sunrise.

This is exactly what happened in the transition from baroque to rococo music.

One of these is the `` dissolve '', which makes possible a visually smooth transition from scene to scene.

The transition from segregation to finances might already be in progress, in the form of an administration proposal to hike the state sales tax from 2 per cent to 3 per cent.

Davis may use the tax bill as a means to effect a transition from special sessions of the Legislature to normalcy.

The transition from one state to the next is not necessarily deterministic ; some algorithms, known as randomized algorithms, incorporate random input.

The Turkish language and the Islamic religion were gradually introduced as a result of the Seljuk conquest, and this period marks the start of Anatolia's slow transition from predominantly Christian and Indo-European and Semitic-speaking, to predominantly Muslim and Turkish-speaking ( Although some ethnic groups such as Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians and Georgians retained Christianity and their native languages ).

Azerbaijan is an economy that has completed its post-Soviet transition into a major oil based economy ( with the completion of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline ), from one where the state played the major role.

For example, one can say for a given transition that it corresponds to the excitation of an electron from an occupied orbital to a given unoccupied orbital.

The color of amethyst has been demonstrated to result from substitution by irradiation of trivalent iron ( Fe < sup > 3 +</ sup >) for silicon in the structure, in the presence of trace elements of large ionic radius, and, to a certain extent, the amethyst color can naturally result from displacement of transition elements even if the iron concentration is low.

An electron from the 2s level fills in the 1s hole and the transition energy is imparted to a 2p electron which is emitted.

Upon ejection the kinetic energy of the Auger electron corresponds to the difference between the energy of the initial electronic transition and the ionization energy for the electron shell from which the Auger electron was ejected.

Observation of electron tracks independent of the frequency of the incident photon suggested a mechanism for electron ionization that was caused from an internal conversion of energy from a radiationless transition.

What is meant by stating that Aelbert learned form from his father is that his eventual transition from a specifically landscape painter to the involvement of foreground figures is attributed to his interaction with his Jacob.

The graphics are generated by a custom graphics chip called MARIA which is very different from other second and third generation consoles, and made it more difficult for game programmers to make the transition.