Undercutting the competition, for he had no need to make a profit ( having effectively limitless funds from NCR ), he gradually monopolized the business ; until he was able to buy out the competitors, which he promptly did.

Undercutting them, Jefferson took up the banner and threatened an alliance with Britain, although relations were uneasy in that direction.

But though disgraced, they still retained great influence, and two years later, seizing the person of the king, they compelled their rivals to consent to the erection of a regency representative of both parties.

A remarkable achievement, since AZ is financially not a big club and it does not have a similar fanbase like their Eredivisie rivals: AZ's home ground in the 2005 – 06 season, the Alkmaarderhout, had a spectator capacity of 8, 390.

When the Sequani, their hereditary rivals, with the assistance of a Germanic chieftain named Ariovistus defeated and massacred the Aedui at the Battle of Magetobriga, the Aedui sent Diviciacus, the druid, to Rome to appeal to the senate for help.

As a result, Bedr and the Umayyad clients sent out feelers to their rivals, the Yemenite commanders.

Likewise, the Zulus in the early 19th century were victorious in battles against their rivals in part because they adopted a new kind of spear, the iklwa.

Troublesome rivals who have overstepped their bounds can have the laws suddenly enforced against them, leading to fines or even jail time.

Soon, Wei's rivals Shu and Wu proclaimed their independence, leading China into the Three Kingdoms Period.

The Browns had few worthy rivals among the AAFC's eight teams, but the New York Yankees and San Francisco 49ers were their closest competition.

Due to current scheduling, Carolina has infrequently played many of their former division rivals, and the rivalries have thus dulled.

Therefore, The Cottagers have had 12 grounds overall ( including a temporary stay at Loftus Road ), meaning that only their former ' landlords ' and rivals QPR have had more home grounds ( 14 ) in British football.

Unfortunately, their success did not extend to the Fall Classic, as they fell to their AL rivals each time.

Despite this, Chicago engaged St. Louis in a see-saw battle for first place into August, but the Cardinals played to a torrid 20 – 6 pace that month, designating their rivals to battle in the Wild Card race, from which they were eliminated in the season's final week.

The Cardinals have enjoyed an overwhelming advantage over their Chicago rivals in the regular season standings since the Cubs last participated in a World Series ( 1945 ): in the 66 seasons from 1946 through 2011 the Cardinals have finished ahead of the Cubs 49 times.

Charlton finally secured promotion to the First Division by beating local rivals West Ham in front of 41, 254 fans at the Valley, with their valiant centre-half John Oakes playing on despite concussion and a broken nose.

The colours had been chosen by the group of boys who had founded Charlton Athletic in 1905 after having to play their first matches in the borrowed kits of their local rivals Woolwich Arsenal, who also played in red and white.

The Great Army defeated an attack on York by the two rivals for the Northumbrian throne, Osberht and Ælla, who had put aside their differences in the face of a common enemy.

A couple other division rivals such as the New York Giants and the Cardinals ( formerly in their time as their existence in St. Louis ) have purposely worn white at home against the Cowboys in the past.

The immediate necessity for the Labours of Heracles is as penance for Heracles ' murder of his own family, in a fit of madness, which had been sent by Hera ; however, further human rather than mythic motivation is supplied by mythographers who note that their respective families had been rivals for the throne of Mycenae.

Fulham started playing at their current ground Craven Cottage in 1896, their first game against now defunct rivals Minerva F. C .. Fulham are the oldest established club in southern England currently playing professional football, though there are many non-league sides like Cray Wanderers which are several decades older.

After their suppression, Florence came under the sway ( 1382 – 1434 ) of the Albizzi family, bitter rivals of the Medici.

He initially allied himself with the Cakchiquel nation to fight against their traditional rivals the K ' iche ' nation.

The following personalities took up a residence in Carson City at some point in their lives.

Passenger trains haven't served Carson City since 1948, Greyhound Lines stopped their bus services to the town in 2006 and Amtrak discontinued their connecting thruway bus to Sacramento in 2008.

Specialist units can be used profitably, including commando squads, long range reconnaissance and " hunter-killer " patrols, defectors who can track or persuade their former colleagues like the Kit Carson units in Vietnam, and paramilitary style groups.

Words were exchanged, and Carson and Chouinard charged each other on horses while brandishing their weapons.

Carson remembered their arrival as follows:

:" The tragedy of Dokdokwas is deepened by the fact that most scholars now agree that Frémont and Carson, in their blind vindictiveness, probably chose the wrong tribe to lash out against: In all likelihood the band of native Americans that had killed three men were from the neighboring Modoc ...

Frémont ordered their execution stating, " I want no prisoners, Mr. Carson, do your duty.

They asked Carson to carry their correspondence overland to the President.

By December 5, three months after leaving Los Angeles, Carson had brought Kearny's men to within of their destination San Diego.

Their boots also made too much noise, therefore Carson and Beale removed them and tucked them under their belts.

While picking through the belongings that the Jicarilla had left in their camp, one of Major Grier's soldiers came across a book that the White family had carried with them from Missouri — the paperback novel starring Kit Carson.

Carleton ordered Carson to kill all the men of that tribe, and say that he ( Carson ) had been sent to " punish them for their treachery and crimes.

In 1868, at the urging of Washington and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Carson journeyed to Washington D. C. where he escorted several Ute Chiefs to meet with the President of the United States to plead for assistance to their tribe.

In 1952, Warner Bros. made their first film ( Carson City ) in " Warnercolor ", the studio's name for Eastmancolor.

In the series, she lives in the fictional town of River Heights with her father, attorney Carson Drew, and their housekeeper, Hannah Gruen.

It's also a very cheerful recollection of the kind of self-searching, home-movie documentaries that Jim McBride, the director, and L. M. Kit Carson, the writer and actor, satirized so brilliantly in their fiction film, David Holzman's Diary.

Alcoa Fastening Systems, a subsidiary of Alcoa Inc. which produces aerospace fasteners, has their corporate headquarters located in Torrance with manufacturing facilities in both Torrance and Carson.

In addition to the Los Angeles Times, the South Bay cities are served by their own daily paper, the Daily Breeze, and a bi-monthly community paper Carson / South Bay Community News

Gay Byrne, Steve Allen, Jack Paar, Johnny Carson ,, Dick Cavett, Ed Sullivan, Oprah Winfrey, Rush Limbaugh, and Mosunmola Abudu have hosted notable talk shows ; in many cases, the shows have made their hosts famous.

The big-screen adaptation of the play was made in 1958 by MGM, and starred Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Judith Anderson, and Jack Carson, with Burl Ives and Madeleine Sherwood reprising their stage roles.

Starting in September 1991, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was pushed back from 11: 30 p. m. to 11: 35 p. m., with Letterman starting at 12: 35 a. m., at the request of NBC affiliates who wanted more advertising time for their profitable late newscasts.

Some of the more successful comedians on the Working Men's Club circuit-including Bernard Manning, Bobby Thompson, Frank Carson and Stan Boardman-eventually made their way to television via such shows as The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club.

" Larry often makes strange claims, though some of the most outrageous things he says turn out to be true, including a statement that Johnny Carson pays their gas bills.