Then he asked to use the phone and called Brian Thayer, who said that he was just leaving to keep a lunch date but would be home by two o'clock.

Two millions were added to what had been set aside for it in Mrs. Meeker's lifetime, and the proviso made that as long as Brian Thayer continued to discharge his duties as administrator of the fund to the satisfaction of the board of trustees ( hereinafter appointed by the bank administering the estate ) he was to be retained in his present capacity at a salary commensurate with the increased responsibilities enlargement of the fund would entail.

Brian Thayer was a thoroughly honest and competent administrator.

Brian Thayer had a downtown address.

Some of them were Vince Evans, Tim Spencer, Trumaine Johnson, Greg Landry, Jeff Gossett, Vagas Ferguson, Richard Holland, Joe Ehrmann, Tim Wrightman, Larry Canada, Tom Thayer, Frank Minniefield, Jim Fahrnhorst, Marc May, Brian Glasgow, Walter Easley, Luther Bradley, Troy Thomas, Robert Cobb, Ed Smith, Stan White, Eddie Brown, Kevin Long, and Mark Keel.

Artists who performed at the Rambles include Helm's former bandmate Garth Hudson, as well as Elvis Costello, Emmylou Harris, Dr. John, Chris Robinson, Allen Toussaint, Donald Fagen of Steely Dan, Jon Herington of Steely Dan, Jimmy Vivino of " Late Night with Conan O ' Brien's " The Max Weinberg 7, Sean Costello, The Muddy Waters Tribute Band, Pinetop Perkins, Hubert Sumlin, Carolyn Wonderland, Kris Kristofferson, Gillian Welch, David Rawlings, Justin Townes Earle, Bow Thayer, Luther " Guitar Junior " Johnson, Rickie Lee Jones, Kate Taylor, Ollabelle, The Holmes Brothers, Catherine Russell, Norah Jones, Elvis Perkins in Dearland, Phil Lesh ( along with his sons Grahame and Brian ), Hot Tuna ( although Jorma Kaukonen introduced the group as " The Secret Squirrels "), Michael Angelo D ' Arrigo with various members of the Sistine Chapel, Johnny Johnson, Ithalia, David Bromberg and Grace Potter and the Nocturnals.

He has written readers ' guides to the Aubrey-Maturin series of naval novels by Patrick O ' Brian, as well as works on Alfred Thayer Mahan and Sir Julian Corbett.

According to one account by Piers Paul Read ( 1978 ), in January 1963, shortly after the furore over the Airport Job had died down, Brian Field called Gordon Goody to a meeting at the Old Bailey and asked him whether he was interested in a large sum of money that only a large gang could steal.

He would receive the same yearly salary that he was earning at I. C. I., the controversial sum of £ 24, 000 (£ 367, 000 in today's money ), £ 10, 000 more than Sir Brian Robertson, the last chairman of the British Transport Commission, £ 14, 000 more than Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and two-and-a-half times higher than the salary of any head of a nationalised industry at the time.

Beeching would receive the same yearly salary that he was earning at I. C. I., the controversial sum of £ 24, 000 (£ 367, 000 in today's money ), £ 10, 000 more than Sir Brian Robertson, the last chairman of the British Transport Commission, £ 14, 000 more than Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and two-and-a-half times higher than the salary of any head of a nationalised industry at the time.

" There has also been speculation that Survivor: Thailand winner Brian Heidik was asked to appear on the show, but he would only do so on the condition that he be paid a substantial sum for his appearance regardless of his standing in the game.

The date was originally supposed to be an off-day for the band, but they agreed to perform when Finley offered their manager, Brian Epstein, a then-record sum of $ 150, 000.

As part of new Villa manager Brian Little's rebuilding programme, which resulted in most of the Ron Atkinson era of players being sold, Saunders was off-loaded to Turkish club Galatasaray for £ 2. 35million ( a large sum for a 31-year-old player ), being managed by his former Liverpool manager Graeme Souness, on 1 July 1995.

He is one of ten San Francisco Giants to appear on the cover, along with Kelly Downs, Rick Reuschel, Willie Mays ( nine times ), Alvin Dark, Juan Marichal, Will Clark, Tim Lincecum ( twice ), Brian Wilson, and Buster Posey.

In the 1996 World Cup, he scored 78 and 45 * against New Zealand and Pakistan respectively as South Africa won their group but in the Quarter final with West Indies a Brian Lara century ended their ten game winning streak.

The ten remaining confused passengers are Brian Engle, a troubled, off-duty airline pilot traveling to Boston to attend his ex-wife's funeral ; Dinah Bellman, a young blind girl with minor psychic powers ; fifth-grade teacher Laurel Stevenson, who takes to watching over Dinah ; Nick Hopewell, a junior attache & " mechanic " for the British Embassy ; Don Gaffney, a retired tool-and-die engineer on a trip to see his grandchild ; Rudy Warwick, a businessman ; Albert Kaussner, a talented teen violinist heading to a prestigious school of the arts ; Bethany Simms, a teenager being sent by her family to rehab ; Bob Jenkins, a mystery author who acts as the voice of logic ; and Craig Toomey, an irritable investment banker on the verge of a psychotic breakdown.

It took Brian ten years of campaigning to achieve his goal which, considering he could and did call on all of the military forces of the rest of Ireland, indicates how formidable the Kings of Ulster were.

* Havergal Brian, the English composer, moved from London to Shoreham-by-Sea in 1958 ; he wrote twenty symphonies there over the next ten years.

The latter two hits both reached the top ten, but the only other act to achieve sustained success with the formula were Jan & Dean, who had a number 1 hit with " Surf City " ( co-written with Brian Wilson ) in 1963.

2046 was called the best film of 2005 by Michael Atkinson ( The Village Voice ), Daryl Chin ( Journal of Performance and Art ), Josef Brown ( Vue Weekly ), Sean Burns ( Philadelphia Weekly ), Will Sloan ( The Martingrove Beacon ), and Justine Elias ( The Guardian ), and was ranked among the top ten best films of the year by Manohla Dargis ( The New York Times ), Richard Corliss ( Time Magazine ), Same Adams ( Philadelphia City Paper ), Leslie Camhi ( The Village Voice ), Jason Anderson ( eye Weekly ), Gary Dretzka ( Movie City News ), Godfrey Cheshire ( The Independent Weekly ), Ty Burr ( The Boston Globe ), Liza Bear ( indieWIRE ), Edward Crouse ( The Village Voice ), Jeffrey M. Anderson ( The San Francisco Examiner ), John DeFore ( Austin American Statesman ), Brian Brooks ( indieWIRE ), Chris Barsanti ( Filmcritic. com ), F. X.

The Legends of Dune prequel trilogy ( 2002 – 2004 ) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson establish that the Spacing Guild first start using Guild Navigators because the travel technique of spacefolding is not safe ; only about nine out of every ten heighliners make it to their final destination without Navigators.

In February 1969 O ' Neill called a surprise general election because of the turmoil inside the Ulster Unionist Party caused by ten to 12 anti-O ' Neill dissident members of the Unionist Parliamentary Party and the resignation of Brian Faulkner from O ' Neill's Government.

The Meech Lake Accord ( French: Accord du lac Meech ) was a package of proposed amendments to the Constitution of Canada negotiated in 1987 by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and the ten provincial premiers.

Brian Carlson scored the only Australian try ten minutes from time-much too late to prevent British captain Eric Ashton from collecting the World Cup.

His election in 2000 had been the first federal win for the NDP in Ontario in ten years, and he helped add a second Ontario seat with Brian Masse's win in the neighbouring Windsor West in 2002.

In 1982, a compilation including only Geordie's 1973 – 1976 ten songs was issued as Brian Johnson's solo album Strange Man on the MCA label.

Chris Benoit, Eddie Guerrero and Brian Adams were also discovered to have been given steroids during this investigation, as well as ten current WWE superstars who have been suspended ( however, WWE has not confirmed the identities of its suspended wrestlers ).

In Brian Leiter's law school rankings, Georgetown ranks within the top ten law schools based on selectivity, student quality, and Supreme Court clerkship placements.

Hosted by Amanda MacKay and Brian Adler and taped in Vancouver, British Columbia, the show featured interviews with bands and singers, video requests, and a countdown of the ten songs that received the most votes at the Select website, starting at Number 10 on Monday and ending at Number 1 on Friday.

Hosted by Amanda MacKay, Brian Adler, Enisa Hot and taped in Vancouver, British Columbia, the show featured interviews with bands and singers, video requests, and a countdown of the ten songs that received the most votes at the Select website, starting at Number 10 on Monday and ending at Number 1 on Friday.

Brian Ó Néill ( Brian O ' Neill ) died ten years later in 1260 ; he had supported an Ó Canannain claimant to Tír Conaill, i. e. to the Kingdom of Tír Conaill ( Tirconnell ).

In January 2006, Curb scored a top ten hit with Brian Kennedy and Peter Corry's ' Tribute to George Best ', an EP featuring recordings of You Raise Me Up amongst others.

Liefeld responded to this accusation by stating that in these instances, which he said were limited to ten, he was offering tribute to the artists of the original pieces in question, rather than plagiarizing, and compared this to the work of filmmaker Brian De Palma, who explicitly used the techniques of Alfred Hitchcock.

Colorization, Inc .' s art director Brian Holmes screened ten minutes of colorized footage from It's a Wonderful Life to Capra, which led Capra to sign a contract with Colorization, Inc.

It was their first studio album in three years and the first Brian Wilson-produced album released by the band since Pet Sounds, ten years earlier.

In the FAI Cup Final against St. Patrick's, Shels were reduced early on to ten men as keeper Alan Gough was sent off, and with no sub keeper, midfielder Brian Flood played seventy minutes in goal.

According to Brian McFarlane, it was said that King Clancy started a thousand fights and never won one.

The House Ethics Committee investigated several members of the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, including Moran, Peter J. Visclosky, Norm Dicks, Marcy Kaptur and the late John Murtha, who was the chairman at the time, for a conflict of interest in the allocation of the government contracts to clients of the PMA Group, which donated nearly a million dollars to Moran's political action committee, as well as a significant amount of money to the gubernatorial campaign of Moran's younger brother, Brian.

In 2003, Vahaly also started the Brian Vahaly Brighter Future Foundation raising over 300, 000 dollars for his own local charity within the Georgia community.

In the fifth book, Brian got his first car: an old jalopy which he purchased from Mr. Lytell, a storekeeper, for fifty dollars.

The current limited partners are Ronald E. Canakaris ; Warrick Dunn ; Douglas J. Hertz ; John P. Imlay, Jr .; Ed Mendel ; Derek V. Smith ; John A. Williams ; and Brian J. Barker.

* Tokar, Brian ; " Monsanto: A Checkered History ", Z Magazine, March 1999

After expressing his interest to play in the 2011 fourth edition of the Indian Premier League ( IPL ), and despite not having have played active cricket for four years, Brian Lara still managed to attract the highest reserve price of $ 400, 000 ahead of the IPL players ' auction in early January 2011 ; however, no franchise bought him.

Before there was an official standard for C, many users and implementors relied on an informal specification contained in a book by Ritchie and Brian Kernighan ; that version is generally referred to as " K & R " C. In 1989 the American National Standards Institute published a standard for C ( generally called " ANSI C " or " C89 ").

According to Cordwainer Smith scholar Alan C. Elms, this speculation first reached print in Brian Aldiss's 1973 history of science fiction, Billion Year Spree ; Aldiss, in turn, claimed to have gotten the information from Leon Stover.

In the aftermath of the 1989 budget, which saw a fillibuster by Liberal Senators in attempt to kill legislation creating the Goods and Services Tax, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney " stacked " the Senate by creating additional seats in several provinces across Canada, including New Brunswick ; however, there was no attempt by these provinces to increase the number of MPs to reflect this change in Senate representation.

* 1971 – Brian Gay, professional golfer ; three-time winner on the PGA Tour

Edinburgh has been home to the actor Sir Sean Connery, famed as the first cinematic James Bond ; Ronnie Corbett, a comedian and actor, best known as one of The Two Ronnies ;, actor Brian Cox and Dylan Moran, the Irish comedian.

The game's designers took inspiration from the post-apocalyptic novels and movies of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s ; the first edition rules cite Brian Aldiss's Hothouse, Andre Norton's Star Man's Son ( also published as Daybreak-2250 A. D .), Sterling E. Lanier's Hiero's Journey, and Ralph Bakshi's Wizards.

Three pre-16th century examples survive today ; the Brian Boru Harp in Trinity College, Dublin, and the Queen Mary and Lamont Harps, both in Scotland.

* Finkelstein, Israel ; Mazar, Amihay ; Schmidt, Brian B., " The Quest for the Historical Israel " ( Society of Biblical Literature, 2007 )

* Carey, Brian Todd ; Allfree, Joshua B ; Cairns, John.

This is also reinforced by the fact that several characters throughout the film claim crucifixion is not as bad as it seems, such as when Brian asks his cellmate in prison what will happen to him, he replies ; " Oh, you'll probably get away with crucifixion.

David Pears and Brian McGuinness ( 1961 ), Routledge, hardcover: ISBN 0-7100-3004-5, 1974 paperback: ISBN 0-415-02825-6, 2001 hardcover: ISBN 0-415-25562-7, 2001 paperback: ISBN 0-415-25408-6 ; ** Philosophische Untersuchungen ( 1953 ) or Philosophical Investigations, translated by G. E. M.

There do exist checks on the prime minister's power: parliament may revoke its confidence in an incumbent prime minister ; cabinet or caucus revolts can quickly bring down a sitting premier, and even mere threats of such action can persuade and / or compel a prime minister to resign his post, as happened with Jean Chrétien ; the Senate may delay or impede legislation put forward by the Cabinet, such as when Brian Mulroney's bill creating the Goods and Services Tax ( GST ) came before the upper chamber ; and, given Canada's federal nature, the jurisdiction of the federal government is limited to areas prescribed by the constitution.