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 it is a popular belief that it is illegal to pick the common Trillium grandiflorum ( white trillium ) in Ontario, in reality they are only protected in provincial parks and land owned by conservation authorities.

While there, Prince Andrew spent six months from January to June 1977 participating in an exchange programme to Lakefield College School in Lakefield, Ontario, and graduated in July two years later with A-Levels in English, history, economics, and political science.

While LFCA still exists as the command structure for land forces units in Ontario, the commander of LFCA is simultaneously the commander of JTFC, and as such has the authority to deploy all naval, army and air force assets based in Ontario in the event of a domestic crisis or threat.

While manufacturing its own Studebaker Electric vehicles from 1902 to 1911, the company entered into body-manufacturing and distribution agreements with two makers of gasoline-powered vehicles, Garford of Elyria, Ohio, and the Everitt-Metzger-Flanders ( E-M-F ) Company of Detroit and Walkerville, Ontario ).

While some claims of prior art do exist ( e. g., Bóbrka, Poland in 1854, Wietze, Germany in 1857, Oil Springs, Ontario, Canada in 1858 ), the Drake Well at Titusville was the first well to be widely copied.

While John Brownlee relished life in Alberta, Florence missed her friends and family in Ontario.

While the NDP polled considerably better in northern Ontario than it did in 1990, it lost much of its support in rest of the province, especially the 905 region where they had won many seats five years earlier.

While exposure from the blackout had boosted the PCs into a short-lived tie with Dalton McGuinty's Liberals in the polls, and despite the reputation of the Ontario Tories for increasing their support base in mid-campaign, Eves had trouble convincing voters that his party deserved to stay in office.

While the movie was filmed in Ontario, several local items were imported to appear in the film, including the local daily newspaper, taxi-cabs and shopping bags from the locally owned Empsall's department store.

While they lost much of their support in Atlantic Canada, they won all but two seats in Ontario and improved on their numbers in Quebec, assuring them of at least a minority government.

While the fifth year of secondary education was formally eliminated, both have noted that the fifth year in secondary schools is still a norm in Ontario, with students in Ontario still opting to take a fifth year in secondary school, colloquially known as the victory lap.

While the Government of Metro Toronto ( Metro ), the Government of Ontario and the Government of Canada proposed to add STOL scheduled airlines to the facility, this was opposed by the City of Toronto.

While there was little that Peterson, or any other Ontario Premier, could have done to prevent this downturn, it weakened his government's reputation for fiscal competence.

While none of the various protest parties ever succeeded in gaining significant power federally, they were damaging to the Progressive Conservative Party throughout its history, and allowed the federal Liberals to win election after election with strong urban support bases in Ontario and Quebec.

While agriculture – especially fruit farming along the shore of Lake Ontario – remains important to this day, it was joined in the 19th century by industrial developments.

While Ontario receives transfer payments from the federal government of Canada to partially fund health care, OHIP is also supported by general provincial tax revenues and premiums ( taxes ) paid by employers and individuals.

While not directly adjacent to the park, the Royal Ontario Museum and the Gardiner Museum are both located nearby.

While LU's focus is primarily on undergraduate programming, the university also features Canada's newest medical school — opened in 2005, the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, in consortium with Lakehead University.

While at a beach in Ontario with Claire, Vindicator is visited by Wolverine who states that the people in the United States are starting to be concerned about the Unity Party's actions and him seeing Vindicator call the rest of Alpha Flight traitors causing him to investigate.

While working in Sharon, Macphail became active politically, joining the United Farmers of Ontario ( UFO ) and its women's organization, the United Farm Women of Ontario.

While most French-speaking Canadians live in the province of Quebec ( the area originally settled by French colonists in the 17th century ), there are also major communities of French-speaking Canadians in the provinces of Manitoba, Ontario, New Brunswick, and smaller communities in other parts of Canada.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

Grant participated in Lifetime's 1st Annual " Girls & Guitars " benefit, singing numerous songs, including a duet with Melissa Etheridge on " You Can Sleep While I Drive ".

While both Breitkopf & Härtel and Bärenreiter consider their editions the most accurate versions available — labeling them Urtext editions — their conclusions are not universally accepted.

While there are self-contained departments for the creation of arcade, pachinko and pachislo, online, and mobile games, the Consumer Games R & D Division instead is an amalgamation of subsections in charge of various game development stages.

While modernist critical theory ( as described above ) concerns itself with “ forms of authority and injustice that accompanied the evolution of industrial and corporate capitalism as a political-economic system ,” postmodern critical theory politicizes social problems “ by situating them in historical and cultural contexts, to implicate themselves in the process of collecting and analyzing data, and to relativize their findings ” ( Lindlof & Taylor, 2002, p. 52 ).

While not recording, he frequently hung out and jammed with members of New Jersey – based country rockers Quacky Duck and His Barnyard Friends ( whose members included Tony Bennett's sons, Danny and Dae Bennett as well as future Dylan sideman and member of the Alpha Band, multi-instrumentalist David Mansfield ) and the proto-punk Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers, who were being managed by Kaufman.

While Nintendo's Research & Development 3 division ( R & D3 ) was focused on developing the Nintendo 64, the other two engineering units were free to experiment with new product ideas.

While New Order toured North America with friends Echo & the Bunnymen, the summer of 1987 saw the release of the compilation Substance, which featured the new single " True Faith ".

While the Victorian version of the show drew on the morality of its day, the Punch & Judy College of Professors considers that the 20th-and 21st-century versions of the tale have evolved into something more akin to a primitive version of The Simpsons, in which a bizarre family is used as vehicle for grotesque visual comedy and a sideways look at contemporary society.

While always having an interest in puzzles and games, his passion for games began when he was introduced to Dungeons & Dragons.

While the American magazines Amazing Stories, with Cele Goldsmith as editor, and the respected Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction had from the very start had a leaning towards unusually literary stories, Moorcock turned that into a concerted policy.

While still breezy in the summer time in comparison to other MLB parks, AT & T Park has been a consensus success and has developed the reputation as a " pitcher's park.

While the Game & Watch Zelda was developed in-house by Nintendo, the subsequent two LCD games were developed by third parties under license by Nintendo.

While Burroughs Wellcome & Co. were not the first to derive the technology to make compressed tablets, they were the most successful at marketing them, hence the popularity of the term ' tabloid ' in popular culture.

While UMTS2100 is the most widely deployed UMTS band, some countries ' UMTS operators use the 850 MHz and / or 1900 MHz bands ( independently, meaning uplink and downlink are within the same band ), notably in the US by AT & T Mobility, New Zealand by Telecom New Zealand on the XT Mobile Network and in Australia by Telstra on the Next G network.

While the exact style of the wine will vary from producer, some of the terroir characteristics associated with California Chardonnay include " flinty " notes with the Russian River Valley and mango & guava from Monterey.

While enrolled at Carnegie Mellon, acting students Michael McKean and David Lander ( class of 1969 ) created the characters " Lenny & Squiggy ".

While this " Treaty of Boston " did not exactly favor the purist of original D & RG intentions, the conquering of new mining settlements to the west and the future opportunity to expand into Utah was realized from this settlement

) While Burnside began assembling a supply base at Falmouth, near Fredericksburg, the Lincoln administration entertained a lengthy debate about the wisdom of his plan, which differed from the president's preference of a movement south on the O & A and a direct confrontation with Lee's army instead of the movement focused on the city of Richmond.

" While frequently left undefined ( Pollitt, 2005 ), decentralization has also been assigned many different meanings ( Reichard & Borgonovi, 2007 ), varying across countries ( Steffensen & Trollegaard, 2000 ; Pollitt, 2005 ), languages ( Ouedraogo, 2003 ), general contexts ( Conyers, 1984 ), fields of research, and specific scholars and studies.

While still engaged in legal proceedings over " peta. org ", PETA themselves registered the domains " ringlingbrothers. com " and " voguemagazine. com ", using the sites to accuse Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus and Vogue of animal cruelty.

While at the University of Michigan, Page created " an inkjet printer made of LEGO bricks " ( actually a line plotter ), served as the president of the Beta Epsilon chapter of Eta Kappa Nu, and was a member of the 1993 " Maize & Blue " University of Michigan Solar Car team.

While attending Antelope Valley High School in Lancaster, Van Vliet became close friends with fellow teenager Frank Zappa, the pair bonding through their interest in Chicago blues and R & B.