While Compaq shareholders unanimously approved the deal, there was a public proxy battle within HP as the deal was strongly opposed by numerous large HP shareholders, including the sons of the company founders, Walter Hewlett and David W. Packard, as well as the California Public Employees ’ Retirement System ( Calpers ) and the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan.

While officials in Washington, D. C. thought the project had merit, and Secretary of State Henry Clay formally presented it to the Congress of the United States in 1826, the plan was not approved.

While the Eisenhower administration approved of the strategy in general, LeMay continued to increase SAC ’ s independence by refusing to submit SAC war plans for review, believing that operational plans should be closely guarded, a view the Joint Chiefs of Staff eventually came to accept.

While Universities have the ability and power to design and offer their own degree courses, each TAFE degree course must be assessed and approved by the Higher Education Accreditation Committee ( HEAC ).

While her parents approved of her college choice, they were dismayed at her lifestyle, and, according to Ono, chastised her for befriending people they considered to be " beneath " her.

While the first conference was held in Geneva in 1964, the second conference in New Delhi was an opportunity for schemes to be finally approved.

While intranets are generally restricted to employees of the organization, extranets may also be accessed by customers, suppliers, or other approved parties.

While in Ravenna, Otto III received ambassadors from Duke Boleslaw I of Poland and approved of King Stephen of Hungary's plans to establish the Archdiocese of Esztergom in order to convert Hungary to Christianity.

While the Eye of Providence is currently a common Masonic motif, this was not the case during the 1770s and 1780s ( the decades when the Great Seal was being designed and approved ).

While Blanche Barrow approved the depiction of her in the original version of the script, she objected to the later re-writes.

While Beck oversaw the visual aspects of the various comics featuring Captain Marvel, he emphatically stated in an interview with Tom Heintjes published in Hogan's Alley # 3 that he and his fellow artists had no input or influence on the scripts they illustrated, noting " In the 13 years I spent drawing Captain Marvel, I wrote only one story, about Billy ’ s trip to a Mayan temple, which had to be submitted in typed form and edited and approved before I was allowed to illustrate it.

While glyphosate has been approved by regulatory bodies worldwide and is widely used, concerns about is effects on humans and the environment persist.

While approved by the County Commission, Gilley's development has encountered stiff opposition from local religious and anti-gambling groups who are concerned that the planned bingo hall is illegal under state law, and would bring increased crime and gambling addiction to the area.

While Louisville voters approved the plan in a large majority, suburban voters rejected it by a 2-to-1 margin.

While it is general protocol that Hu must have at least implicitly approved the use of force against protesters, whether he actually gave orders throughout March 5 is a matter of debate.

While Villepin's measures would surely have been approved by his wide UMP majority in Parliament.

While Premier, Alexander Rutherford, always a stalwart ally of the University of Alberta, approved a plan to locate Alberta's first agricultural college on the university's campus, in Rutherford's home town of Strathcona.

While this next stage in swimwear evolution was quickly approved by FINA, it was not without controversy.

While a number of other biotech products have been approved since then, approvals remain controversial.

While Congress approved the Arkansas River Compact in 1949, it did not stop further disputes by the two states over water rights to the river.

While those Beaufort first approached turned the opportunity down, FitzRoy eventually approved Charles Darwin for the position.

While the GSM EDGE standard (" 2. 9G "), DECT cordless phones and Mobile WiMAX standards formally also fulfill the IMT-2000 requirements and are approved as 3G standards by ITU, these are typically not branded 3G, and are based on completely different technologies.

While he expressed dissatisfaction with some of Calvin's earlier writings, he approved of the Consensus Tigurinus negotiated in 1549 between the Zwinglians and Calvinists of Switzerland.

While Gallatin discussed the details of engineering, construction and costs, including the national benefits to accrue from lowered transportation costs between state markets and internationally, his full $ 20 million plan spread over ten years was never approved.

While Allegheny County and the City of Pittsburgh approved the pacts swiftly, due to plans already being in place at the time of legislative approval, debate within Philadelphia's city leadership carried on as Pittsburgh opened their stadiums ( PNC Park for the Pirates and Heinz Field for the Steelers ) in 2001.

While most armies still maintained cavalry units at the outbreak of World War II in 1939, significant mounted action was largely restricted to the Polish, Balkan and Soviet campaigns.

Soon after his arrival in New York City ( January 2, 1939 ), Fermi began working at Columbia University, where he had already given summer lectures in 1936 While at Columbia from 1939 – 42, until they moved to Chicago, Fermi and his wife resided in Leonia, New Jersey.

While the Palestinians were " carefully disarmed " by the British Mandatory authorities by 1939, the Zionists were not.

While active collaboration between Nazi Germany and Soviet Union caused great shock in western Europe and amongst communists opposed to Germany, on 1 October 1939, Winston Churchill declared that the Russian armies acted for the safety of Russia against " the Nazi menace.

While " The Wizard of Oz " nickname was an allusion to the 1939 motion picture of the same name, Smith also came to be known as simply " The Wizard " during his playing career, as Smith's Baseball Hall of Fame plaque would later attest.

While it was not a true ice age, the term was introduced into the scientific literature by François E. Matthes in 1939.

While most of the ministers head government ministries, since 1939 it has been permissible to appoint ministers without portfolio.

While the Jim Crow laws kept McDaniel from the Atlanta premiere, she did attend the Hollywood debut on December 28, 1939.

While working in Vermont in 1939, he became so seriously ill with pneumonia and pleurisy that his doctors didn't expect him to survive.

While in Cutchogue on August 2, 1939, pipe-smoking Einstein was visited by fellow Jewish physicists from Hungary Leo Szilard ( who had produced a nuclear chain reaction in a laboratory at Columbia University ) and Eugene Wigner ( who both had been put up to it by Niels Bohr, and found his house after asking directions from a 7-year-old boy on the street ), and signed the famous July 16 Letter to President Roosevelt, alerting him to the new developments in nuclear physics and hinting that the Germans might be working on an atomic bomb, urging him to launch his own program.

* Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation ( 1939 ) — While pretending to be on vacation in San Francisco, Moto is actually keeping an eye on the crown of the Queen of Sheba, surefire bait for the master thief known as Metaxa.

While there Grunert was promoted to major general in 1939.

While fleeing Europe in 1939, Capa had lost the collection, which over time came to be dubbed the " Mexican suitcase ".

While there, on 3 September 1939, he decided to join the Army at the large base opposite the house he was staying in.

While in the past Norman's role in the transferring of Czech gold to the Nazi regime in March of 1939 was uncertain, careful investigation by historian David Blaazer into the Bank of England's internal memos has established that Norman knowingly authorized the transfer of Czech gold from Czechoslovakia's No. 2 account with the Bank of International Settlement to the No. 17 account, which Norman was aware was managed by the German Reichsbank.

While Gulliver's Travels ( 1939 ) did moderate box office, it did not make back all of its costs since the production ran nearly $ 500, 000 overbudget due to the relocation, transportation of film for processing and back, and costs of training new workers.

While in London, Balk was cast by Walt Disney Productions to star as Dorothy Gale in Return to Oz, the loose sequel to MGM's 1939 musical The Wizard of Oz.

While the two other major Methodist denominations in America — the MEC and the Methodist Protestant Church — had agreed to ordain women either as local elders and deacons ( the MEC ) or full clergy ( the Methodist Protestant Church ), the MEC, South did not ordain women as pastors at the time of the 1939 merger that formed The Methodist Church.

While it is commonly accepted by nearly all biographical accounts ( including those of the Lucy Parsons Center, the IWW, and Joe Knowles ) that Parsons joined the Communist Party in 1939, there is some dispute, notably in Gale Ahrens ' essay " Lucy Parsons: Mystery Revolutionist, More Dangerous Than A Thousand Rioters ", which can be found in the anthology Lucy Parsons: Freedom, Equality, Solidarity.

( Personal experiences of Guanikunkilele, 1939 ) While chicha fuerte most traditionally refers to chicha made of germinated corn ( germination helps to convert starch to sugar ), any number of fruits can be fermented into unique, homemade versions of the beverage.

While attending the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy in Rolla, Missouri, Cowan was Editor-in-Chief of the Missouri Miner newspaper from 1939 – 1940, and graduated in 1940 with a B. S.

Sharecroppers ' strikes in Arkansas and the Bootheel of Missouri, the 1939 Missouri Sharecroppers ' Strike, were documented in the film Oh Freedom After While.

While at Lehigh University at the beginning of the 20th Century, Herman Schneider ( 1872 – 1939 ), engineer, architect, and educator, concluded that the traditional classroom was insufficient for technical students.

While General Secretary Browder at first attacked Germany for its September 1, 1939 invasion of western Poland, on September 11, the CPUSA received a blunt directive from Moscow denouncing the Polish government.