Members would promote OS / 2 at trade shows, conferences, fairs, and in stores, participate in operating system discussions on CompuServe, Prodigy, Fidonet and Usenet, throw parties, help users install OS / 2, contact media figures to explain OS / 2 and generate interest, and in general exercise creativity and initiative in helping popularize OS / 2.

Pearl Jam then began a boycott of the company ; however, Pearl Jam's initiative to play only at non-Ticketmaster venues effectively, with a few exceptions, prevented the band from playing shows in the United States for the next three years.

Dean shows that the major Fair Deal initiative, the " Brannan Plan " proposed by Secretary of Agriculture Brannan, failed in Congress because Truman delayed too long in presenting it before Congress and it lost initiative and because he never consulted with top leaders in farm legislation.

In order to fill out a half-hour block ( Boomerang programming follows a strict half-hour scheduling system ), the spaces where commercials originally aired feature advertisements for shows on Cartoon Network and / or Boomerang ( in the latter's case, most of the bumpers are several years old ), occasional advertising for DVD products from Warner Home Video, various animated shorts, and public service announcements in support of Cartoon Network's " Stop Bullying: Speak Up " initiative.

Whether this is an initiative by Carrà, who presented three shows in TVE concerning the event, to try to bring Eurovision back to Italy is unknown, but Sietse Bakker, Manager Communications & PR of the Eurovision Song Contest, reiterated that " Italy is still very much welcome to take part in the competition.

Prior to the rebrand, History International also occasionally featured shows in a language other than English, such as French or Spanish for use with the National Cable & Telecommunications Association's Cable in the Classroom initiative.

Conservation activities of the Club include organizing tree plantation projects, snake shows for students, developing educational material and an annual theme-based exhibition, which runs under the initiative of active WCNC members and is supported by student volunteers from across the college.

His speech on behalf of initiative and referendum shows him in the role of populist and reformer:

Bruce also believes this initiative shows Mary's enterprising character.

It shows initiative that you are able to make difficult decisions.

That continued operation shows that the OSI initiative has been a great success in creating a program that would be able to gain public and private support in order to continue even when the initial OSI grants ended.

He appeared as a guest on the shows Flipside TV and The Culture Show, and appeared in several short films as part of the Channel 4 initiative " 3 Minute Wonders ".

The aims of this event are to provide an opportunity to celebrate the benefits of international education and global exchange. This joint initiative promotes programs that prepare Americans for a global milieu and attract future leaders from abroad to study, learn and exchange experiences in the U. S. This shows how International education is not just about physically crossing borders, but is also about thinking globally in local situations.

As an initiative force, Cueva is a figure of great historical importance ; his epic poem, La Conquista de Betica ( 1603 ), shows his weakness as an artist.

( Personal initiative was required since his division commander, Brig.

From this came econsumer, as an initiative of ICPEN since April 2001. www. econsumer. gov is a portal to report complaints about online and related transactions with foreign companies.

Several major computer-related organizations have originated at MIT since the 1980s: Richard Stallman's GNU Project and the subsequent Free Software Foundation were founded in the mid-1980s at the AI Lab ; the MIT Media Lab was founded in 1985 by Nicholas Negroponte and Jerome Wiesner to promote research into novel uses of computer technology ; the World Wide Web Consortium standards organization was founded at the Laboratory for Computer Science in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee ; the OpenCourseWare project has made course materials for over 2, 000 MIT classes available online free of charge since 2002 ; and the One Laptop per Child initiative to expand computer education and connectivity to children worldwide was launched in 2005.

Although the agreement initially included a declaration of mutual defense, Moldova has since declared its disinterest in participating in any GUAM-based mutual defense initiative.

It was established in 1988 by the initiative of Hiroshi Yasuda ( Nippon Telegraph and Telephone ) and Leonardo Chiariglione, group Chair since its inception.

The Stockholm School of Economics was founded in 1909 on private initiative as a response to rapid industrialization and a growing need for well educated businessmen and company managers and has maintained close ties with the business community ever since.

The initiative has been repeated every year since.

It was about 4: 00 pm, over 6 hours since the two fleets had first sighted each other, when the British — who had the weather gage, and therefore the initiative — opened their attack.

So far, 13 net art exhibitions have been shown since the initiative started in 2000 including Tate in Space ( 2002 ) which was nominated in the Interactive Art category for the 2003 BAFTA Interactive awards.

With Grifo contained, the two mayors, who had not yet proved themselves in battle in defence of the realm as their father had, on the initiative of Carloman, installed the Merovingian Childeric III as king ( 743 ), even though Martel had left the throne vacant since the death of Theuderic IV in 737.

The Swiss political battles since 1891 have given the world a valuable experience base with the national-level constitutional amendment initiative ( Kobach, 1993 ).

Matilda had not been particularly active in asserting her claims to throne since 1135 and in many ways it was Robert that took the initiative in declaring war in 1138.

" This change affected the entire conduct of warfare, since it required the officers to train men in addition to leading them, decreased the size of the basic infantry unit for functional purposes since more specific orders had to be given in battle, and the decrease in herd behavior required more initiative and intelligence from the average soldier.

For example, readings that depart from the known practice of a scribe or a given period may be deemed more reliable, since a scribe is unlikely on his own initiative to have departed from the usual practice.

Napoleon I had been unprepared for the start of hostilities on 10 April 1809, by the Austrians under the Archduke Charles of Austria and for the first time since assuming the French Imperial Crown had been forced to cede the strategic initiative to an opponent.

The treaty also makes it clear that right of initiative should not be confused with the right to petition, particularly since a petition is directed to Parliament while a citizens ' initiative is directed to the Commission ; whereas a petition is a method of remonstrance, usually focussing on perceived infringements of European Law, an initiative is a grassroots proposal for new legislation.

Unsuccessful attempts to get initiatives have nevertheless occurred, but since the proposals were bills, not a constitutional amendments, probably no initiative could have lawfully been voted on notwithstanding the bills ' passage.

A government-sponsored initiative, te wiki o te reo Māori has been celebrated since 1975 and is intended to encourage New Zealanders to learn or at least support the Māori.

Corporate ownership of farmland has been illegal since a statewide voter initiative in 1933.

Iacocca has been an advocate of " Nourish the Children ," an initiative of Nu Skin Enterprises, since its inception in 2002.

* 1975: Albert Shapero: Entrepreneurs take initiative, accept risk of failure and have an internal locus of control.

While this initiative was in process in the Gerald Ford administration, the United States Senate Judiciary Committee, which had jurisdiction over antitrust law, began hearings on airline deregulation in 1975.

Concourse B was built in 1975 for Eastern Air Lines as part of the airport's ambitions " Program 70's " initiative, and first opened in 1983.

From 1970 to 1975 he served as Director for Developmental Psychology at Ryerson Open College, a virtual university which broadcast lectures by radio ( on CJRT-FM ) and TV ( CBC and CTV ) from 1970 to 1975 ; and from 1993 to 2000 he was engaged in Ryerson University Now ( RUN ), an initiative to get bright but disadvantaged students interested in going to university.

As early as 1975, Juan Carlos expressed his view that his role in the government of a " crowned democracy " would be for him to counsel and orient an administration's " thrust in action ", but for the government to take the initiative without the need for it to involve the king unnecessarily in its decisions.

When Snedden lost the 1974 election, Peacock began to be seen as a leadership candidate, but it was Malcolm Fraser who took the initiative and deposed Snedden in 1975.

The result was that virtually no ancestral land was taken by the government of the day in the Whangarei coastal areas, and the initiative helped inspire the 1975 Land March led by Whina Cooper.

* Commercial Import Program, US economic development initiative for South Vietnam ( 1955 – 1975 )

India's state of emergency between 1975 and 1977 included a family planning initiative that began in April 1976 through which the government hoped to lower India's ever increasing population.

KMET's station identification jingle, " A Little Bit of Heaven, Ninety-Four Point Seven-KMET-Tweedle-Dee " was written by Shadoe Stevens as part of his new programming initiative and recorded live during an interview with the Pointer Sisters in 1975.

In 1975, PFIAB members asked CIA Director William Colby to approve the initiative of producing comparative assessments of the Soviet threat.

In 1975 dream finally comes true, have the best ball at home in Aguascalientes is realized, so that under the initiative tireless Raul Medina Reyes-Father of the current president of Rieleros-in partnership with Don Pedro Barbosa and another group enthusiastic local entrepreneurs over the King of sports equipment acquired Eagle Veracruz to Don Pablo Machado, well knowing the great success that had the hot ball in the state and the region, decided to offer shares to ten thousand dollars of those years Baseball fans in Aguascalientes, this was achieved with raising funds to finance campaign Rieleros set, the second step was to conduct a survey to name the team, due to the large participation of people, names finalists the baseball team were novel of Rieleros and Roosters second and third position the Ring.

The last conviction for embracery in the UK was at Caernarvon Crown Court in November 1975 but it was quashed by the Court of Appeal the following year on the initiative of Lord Justice Lawton ( see The Queen-v-Owen ( 1976 ) 3 All ER 229 ), who said that the offence was obsolescent.