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When the talent agency Music Corporation of America ( better known as MCA ), then wielding major influence on Paramount policy, offered $ 50 million for 750 features released prior to December 1, 1949 ( with payment to be spread over many years ), a cash-strapped Paramount thought it had made the best possible deal.
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When the University of Chicago's Chancellor Lawrence A. Kimpton submitted his resignation last March, a mighty talent hunt gripped the Midway.
When Hollywood began to recruit New York theater talent for sound films, Cukor immediately answered the call.
When he confronted Miller, Miller explained that the deception was necessary since companies at that time were very protective of their talent and it was the only way he could get Romero to initiate contact with him.
When he made a request for her to draw a weeping boy, Anguissola drew Boy Bitten by a Crayfish and sent it back to Michelangelo, who immediately recognized her talent.
When questioned by his captain, Spender replies " We'll rip it up, rip the skin off, and change it to fit ourselves ... We Earth Men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things ", referring to Earth.
When Douglas Fairbanks was on honeymoon in Paris in 1920, he offered him star billing with his new wife Mary Pickford, but Chevalier doubted his own talent for silent movies ( his previous ones had largely failed )..
When Joe Oliver hired Baby and Johnny saw how much Baby ’ s talent as a drummer had grown, however, Johnny changed his mind.
When Tanshihuai was around 14 or 15 years old he had become brave and sturdy with talent and ability.
When Art Rupe of Specialty Records came to New Orleans scouting for talent and heard Price's song, " Lawdy Miss Clawdy ", he wanted to record it.
When he was only a youth his talent earned him much repute.
When Yawkey sent Cronin to Louisville to scout Reese, Cronin deliberately downplayed Reese's talent and suggested Reese be traded.
When his talent became apparent he was turned over to Glen Garnsey, his trainer-driver.
When Hubbell seeks a job as a Hollywood screenwriter, Katie believes he's wasting his talent and encourages him to pursue writing as a serious challenge instead.
* " When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ' I used everything you gave me.
When he was informed that the public's image of Lin was that he was " Mao's best student ", Lin was pleased, and stated: " I don't have any talent.
When he was 17, he took part in a search for talent and was chosen out of 1300 entrants to be the singer of a new group.
" As he describes in his autobiography, It Only Hurts When I Laugh, he did this, getting off the bus and finding a sign that said " talent agency.
When Duke Xiao came to the throne of Qin, he issued an announcement, calling forth men of talent ( including scholars, administrators, theorists and militarists ) from other states to enter Qin and help him with his reforms, promising rewards of high offices and lands in return.
* When the show was relaunched on the BBC in 1998, the star guest on the first programme was Sir Anthony Hopkins, who demonstrated his talent for mimicry by telling several Tommy Cooper jokes.
When he was nine, Smith won a Philadelphia radio talent contest as a boogie-woogie pianist.
When Charlie Bachman became the 1928 Gators ' new head coach, he inherited a team loaded with talent recruited by his predecessor.
When asked why he chose Terada instead of a regular character designer, Kitakubo stated " I personally felt he had an amazing talent ; his characters have a feel to them that is universal and that is probably why he has drawn characters for video games played by people all over the world.
When he reached the age of 11 or 12, the leader of the Barcelona Cathedral took attention to him as a young talent.
Each student had to be approached differently: " When you accept a new pupil, the first thing is to try to understand what natural gift, what intuitive talent he has.
When and agency
When Kennedy's newly appointed NASA Administrator James E. Webb requested a 30 percent budget increase for his agency, Kennedy supported an acceleration of NASA's large booster program but deferred a decision on the broader issue.
When sitting in review of a decision, the Court will only look at the method in which the decision was arrived at, whereas in an administrative appeal the correctness of the decision itself will be examined, usually by a higher body in the agency.
When conspiracy theories are offered as official claims ( for example, originating from a governmental authority, such as an intelligence agency ) they are not usually considered as conspiracy theories.
When no more reproducible material was available in 2001, Per Sanderhage, the editor of the Danish comic strip agency PIB, negotiated a deal where Ferd ’ nand cartoonist Henrik Rehr would redraw 32 pages loosely based on old magazine clippings for the annual.
When Polkinghorne argues that the minute adjustments of cosmological constants for life points towards an explanation beyond the scientific realm, Blackburn argues that this relies on a natural preference for explanation in terms of agency.
When an external agency ( an observer, experimenter ) measures the observable associated with the eigenbasis, the state of the wave function changes from the full to only one of the basis states with Born probability, that is:
When Bertie catches his valet Meadowes stealing his silk socks, he fires him and sends for another from the agency.
When an agency of an official body is the target of the Writ of Prohibition, the Writ is directed to the official body over which the court has direct jurisdiction, ordering the official body to cause the agency to desist.
When an awarding agency expects to be substantially involved in a project ( beyond routine monitoring and technical assistance ), the law requires use of a cooperative agreement instead.
When Sabrina Lloyd ( Wade Welles ) left at the end of season three a spokesperson for her agency said " no comment at this time " and stated that it was her decision not to return.
When women have the agency to do what she wants, a higher equality between men and women is established.
When the first-level adjudication is made by an executive branch agency, and after all intra-agency procedures are exhausted, it is often possible to go to a court to seek judicial review of the judgment of the agency.
When Congress created the Office of Comptroller of the Currency and National Currency Bureau in 1863, currency-processing operations were nominally subordinated to that agency and designated the " First Division, National Currency Bureau.
When the congestion tolls were proposed, the agency expected the scheme to produce a 20 to 30 percent drop in commute traffic.
When a government agency or group shares information between an agency or group of other country ’ s government they will generally employ a special classification scheme that both parties have previously agreed to honour.
When the communists took power in China, the agency represented the Chinese Communist Party in countries and territories with which it had no diplomatic representation, such as Hong Kong.
When the sensed result of the action is congruent with the predicted result, then the action can be labelled as self-generated and associated with an emergent sense of agency.
When a human exercises agency, taking a step to the left, for example, the entire holon, including the constituent parts, moves together as one unit.
When he was caught, Mac made a deal to help the agency arrest Gin.
When the predecessor agency Korea Aviation Accident Investigation Board ( KAIB ) existed, its CVR / FDR and wreckage laboratory was located on the airport property.
When he loses his job in Detroit, the unemployment agency finds him a temporary job ; teaching in the U. S. Army training base, Fort McClane.
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