He was rejected, however, because of poor eyesight and was told to finish his engineering degree, which he did in 1941.

Following an eighth-place finish in the 1969 – 70 season and a poor start to the 1970 – 71 season, Busby was persuaded to temporarily resume managerial duties, and McGuinness returned to his position as reserve team coach.

Only 3 wins in the final 17 games of the season was a pretty poor finish the season.

I knew his health was very poor and many of the people who knew what the situation was didn't believe we'd finish the film, that is, that Tracy would be able to finish the film.

As a result of the poor finish in the 1994 season, the Pistons were able to draft Grant Hill, a promising small forward.

Sturrock guided Sheffield Wednesday to Championship survival in 2005 – 06 but was sacked after a poor start to the 2006 – 07 season and replaced by Brian Laws, who led Wednesday to a 9th place finish in the Championship after having an outside chance of reaching the play offs until the penultimate game of the season.

In 1990, after a poor start to the campaign, Telê Santana was hired as the club's coach, and São Paulo went on to finish runners-up in the Brazilian Championship.

Although the works are lost, Jordaens was commissioned in 1639-40 by Charles I to finish decorating the Queen's chambers at Greenwich, a commission which was originally given to Rubens, who was unable to execute due to his poor health.

Despite this poor finish in John McGrath's first season, they eventually achieved their first success for thirteen years 1982 – 83, when Vale were promoted to the Third Division in third place, passing Crewe on the way up.

By October NFL President Joe Carr, after witnessing the poor attendance at Frankford home loss to the Portsmouth Spartans, approved a plan for the Yellow Jackets to finish the season as a traveling team.

His successor Mark McGhee inspired a brief turnaround in fortunes and as late as March they were just outside the play-off zone, but poor form returned and by the end of the season they had finished 20th – just two places above the drop zone and their lowest league finish since they slipped into Fourth Division a decade earlier.

McLaren team boss Ron Dennis blamed what he deemed to be Räikkönen's poor performance for the team's failure to finish in the top two in the race.

The poor finish did pay off however, as the team won the draft lottery and selected All-American guard Seimone Augustus of Louisiana State University with the first overall pick in the 2006 WNBA Draft.

Citing the missed game and the poor local attendance at the Hammond contest, a Racine sportswriter claimed pro football in Kenosha was " a flop " and predicted the Maroons would not finish the season.

Despite the strong finish in the second half of the season, the Whalers were unable to recover from their poor start and they missed the playoffs for the fourth year in a row.

Tsal was a poor wretch of a character who would inevitably finish last in whatever race that Troy was assigned to cover.

Frequently, this poor surface finish, known as chatter, is evident by an undulating or irregular finish, and the appearance of waves on the machined surfaces of the workpiece.

Engel led Basel to a fifth-place finish in his first season in charge and a solid mid-table finish in 1997, but he was sacked after a poor start to the 1997 – 98 campaign, in which Basel finished second-last.

Former player Stuart McCall was appointed the new manager, and although he said anything less than promotion would be a failure, he later changed his mind after a poor start and finally led the team to a 10th place finish.

He led Carlisle to promotion to the Second Division in 1982, and in the 1983-84 season they became promotion contenders before a poor run saw them finish 7th.

After a relatively poor start to the 2004 season that included slow times and an 8th place finish in a 1500 meter race in Rome, El Guerrouj won the gold medal in both the 1500 metres and 5000 metres at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.

England, now led once again by David Gower, suffered from injuries and poor form.

Economic mismanagement, poor infrastructure, a limited tax base, scarce private investment, and adverse external conditions have led to deficits in both its budget and external trade.

This led to disappointment in Britain, as many believed that Florida was a poor return for Cuba and Britain's other gains in the war.

Financial difficulties in Mantua led the Pope in the fall of 1537 to move the council to Vicenza, where participation was poor.

It was also reported that the incident led to a 300 % increase in sales of croquet equipment at Asda, while the TV Five announced that they would be running a series featuring croquet matches played at country houses pitting " rich " against " poor " players.

Injuries to sluggers Travis Hafner and Victor Martinez, as well as starting pitchers Jake Westbrook and Fausto Carmona led to a poor start.

Concern for social problems among Chicago's immigrant poor led Jane Addams to co-found Hull House in 1889.

Many labels expected New York freestyle and Miami freestyle to have the same audience and thought that the same promotional strategy would work for both genres, which often led to poor results for the New York – based freestyle.

In the Lowlands, particularly Glasgow, poor working and living conditions led to industrial and political unrest.

However, poor harvests led to widespread revolt in Gaul, which forced Caesar to leave Britain for the last time.

In April 1863, food shortages led to rioting in Richmond, as poor people robbed and looted numerous stores for food until Davis cracked down and restored order.

In general, the vertical hierarchy structure, a relic of Soviet times, has led to poor coordination and duplication of effort among environmental protection agencies.

However, a poor series of results at the start of the 2010 – 11 season led to Liverpool fans calling for Dalglish's return as manager as early as October 2010,

Parliament appointed a committee, led by William Ewart, on Public Libraries to consider the necessity of establishing libraries through the nation: In 1849 their report noted the poor condition of library service, it recommended the establishment of free public libraries all over the country, and it led to the Public Libraries Act in 1850, which allowed all cities with populations exceeding 10, 000 to levy taxes for the support of public libraries.

It was the difficulty in using the longbow which led various monarchs of England to issue instructions encouraging their ownership and practice, including the Assize of Arms of 1252 and King Edward III's declaration of 1363: " Whereas the people of our realm, rich and poor alike, were accustomed formerly in their games to practise archery – whence by God's help, it is well known that high honour and profit came to our realm, and no small advantage to ourselves in our warlike enterprises ... that every man in the same country, if he be able-bodied, shall, upon holidays, make use, in his games, of bows and arrows ... and so learn and practise archery.

His poor typing on the generator led to several misunderstandings, such as asking Victor for a " bra of soup " ( as opposed to a " bar of soap ").

The narrow range of treatable diseases or " spectrum of activity " of the penicillins, along with the poor activity of the orally active phenoxymethylpenicillin, led to the search for derivatives of penicillin that could treat a wider range of infections.

The most prosperous families of Asunción, whose yerba maté and tobacco plantations competed directly with the Jesuits, initially led this revolt but as the movement attracted support from poor farmers in the interior, the rich abandoned it and soon asked the royal authorities to restore order.

Phased array radars have been in use since the earliest years of radar in World War II, but electronic device limitations led to poor performance.

Although Barre managed to recover enough to present himself as the sole presidential candidate for re-election over a term of seven years on December 23, 1986, his poor health and advanced age led to speculation about who would succeed him in power.

At this time Severus came under the powerful influence of Saint Martin, bishop of Tours, by whom he was led to devote his wealth to the Christian poor, and his own powers to a life of good works and meditation.

An Emergency Medical Service was introduced which provided free treatment to casualties ( a definition which included war evacuees ), while rationing led to significant improvements in the diets of poor families.

Large-scale use of chemicals for cotton cultivation, inefficient irrigation systems, and poor drainage systems are examples of the conditions that led to a high filtration of salinized and contaminated water back into the soil.