More controversially, officials of the Federal Reserve assisted in the negotiations that led to this bail-out, on the grounds that so many companies and deals were intertwined with LTCM that if LTCM actually failed, they would as well, causing a collapse in confidence in the economic system.

The team with the best overall record in the major leagues, the Cincinnati Reds, failed to win their division in either half of that season and were controversially excluded, as were the St. Louis Cardinals, who finished with the NL's second-best record.

United won the League championship but were denied the 20th century's first " double " when they controversially lost the 1957 FA Cup final to Aston Villa.

More controversially on 30 October 1682 he issued an edict by which all the money-lending activities carried out by the Roman Jews were to cease.

And it has been claimed, though controversially, that there were elements of socialist thought in the politics of classical Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle.

* In 2008, two engraved bricks on the " Wall of Fame " at Liverpool's famous Cavern Club were controversially removed because they bore the names of two members of music industry who have since been disgraced by sexual scandal: singer / songwriter Gary Glitter and record producer Jonathan King.

Whether Watson ’ s views were controversially radical or not, they garnered a lot of attention and were accepted as valuable in his time.

Over the next week, steam and hydrogen were removed from the reactor using a catalytic recombiner and, controversially, by venting straight to the atmosphere.

Argentina were only on a goal difference of + 2, but in their last group match, they managed, controversially, to defeat Peru by 6 – 0 and thus qualify for the final.

More controversially, during the 1991 Ashes Tour in Australia, England were playing a warm up match in Queensland when Gower together with batsman John Morris, chose to go for a joy-ride in two Tiger Moth biplane without telling the England team management.

Canibus initially stumbled during the first two rounds, and controversially resorted to pulling out a notepad to read his bars during the third round, after admitting defeat and wishing to recite what he said were 30 pages of rhymes that he had failed to memorize.

Orders in Council were controversially used in 2004 to overturn a court ruling in the United Kingdom which held that the exile of the Chagossians from the British Indian Ocean Territory ( BIOT ) was unlawful.

Although Compass was controversially and perhaps inevitably forced out of business, Australian's days, and those of Ansett were numbered.

Another important inn, Serjeants ' Inn, was dissolved in 1877 and its assets were, controversially, distributed amongst the existing members.

A committed Royalist, he was instrumental in putting down rebellion in Metz, and led forces that controversially crushed a military mutiny in the so-called " Nancy Affair " in August 1790, in which both soldiers and civilians were killed.

These police were, controversially, the first in New Zealand to be issued with visored riot helmets and with what was then referred to as the long baton ( more commonly the side-handle baton ).

Wright was buried in the Lloyd-Jones family cemetery next to Unity Chapel near Taliesin and Spring Green from his death in 1959 until 1985, when his remains were controversially removed after the death of his third wife and widow, cremated and reinterred in Arizona.

An Italian-led peacekeeping force was controversially deployed to Durrës and other Albanian cities to restore order, although there were widespread suggestions that the real purpose of " Operation Alba " was to prevent economic refugees continuing to use Albania's ports as a route to migrate to Italy.

In the former's work, a number of ' species ' were controversially sunk as varieties.

By the following January, Luton were battling against relegation to the Second Division and Harford was controversially sacked – the relegation battle was won by his successor Jim Ryan who remained in charge until the end of the following season, when he was sacked even though Luton had avoided relegation again.

During her speech at the 2002 Conservative Party Conference while making a point about why her party must change, May controversially stated that the Conservatives were currently perceived as the " Nasty Party ".

Marija Gimbutas controversially suggested that agrarian settlers of around 3500-2500 BCE were examples of earth-worshipping Old Europeans.

`` The argument that is cutting most ice is that Hearst is the only candidate who is fighting the trusts fearlessly and who would use all the powers of government to disrupt them if he were elected.

Francesca and Grazie were habitual committee chairmen and they usually managed to be elected co-chairmen, equal bosses, of whatever PTA or civic project was being launched.

The Belgian Congo was granted its independence with what seemed a workable Western-style form of government: there were to be a president and a premier, and a bicameral legislature elected by universal suffrage in the provinces.

Lincoln finished eighth out of 13 candidates ( the top four were elected ), though he received 277 of the 300 votes cast in the New Salem precinct.

At that time, senators were elected by the state legislature.

* In 1990 12 soldiers were sent to Trinidad after a failed coup attempt by radical Black Muslims against the constitutionally elected government headed by Prime Minister A. N. R.

Secret ballots were introduced, and a bicameral parliament was elected on 9 March 1857, by which time 109, 917 people lived in the province.

They elected a city council, although only a small number of rich families were eligible for election.

He was elected as Governor of Tennessee for two terms ; all these offices were gained as a member of the Democratic Party.

He and Lincoln were elected in 1864, inaugurated in early 1865 and a month later Johnson assumed the presidency upon Lincoln's assassination.

" He and Lincoln were elected in a landslide victory.

Since Johnson's proclamations allowed the Southern states to control the procedure and conduct of their elections in 1865, prominent former Confederate leaders were elected to the U. S. Congress ( but not seated ).

Unlike a parliament, the assembly's members were not elected, but attended by right when they chose.

The officials of the democracy were in part elected by the Assembly and in large part chosen by lot.

They were mostly chosen by lot, with a much smaller ( and more prestigious ) group of about 100 elected.

In the 5th century version of the democracy, the ten annually elected generals were often very prominent, but for those who had power, it lay primarily in their frequent speeches and in the respect accorded them in the assembly, rather than their vested powers.

Approximately one hundred officials out of a thousand were elected rather than chosen by lot.

One reason that financial officials were elected was that any money embezzled could be recovered from their estates ; election in general strongly favoured the rich, but in this case wealth was virtually a prerequisite.

Generals were elected not only because their role required expert knowledge but also because they needed to be people with experience and contacts in the wider Greek world where wars were fought.

Michael Vick and Keith Brooking were elected to the NFC Pro Bowl for their performances in the 2002 regular season.

Plebeian Aediles were elected by the Plebeian Council ( popular assembly ), usually while under the presidency of a Plebeian Tribune.

Curule Aediles were elected by the Tribal Assembly, usually while under the presidency of a Roman Consul.

Since the Plebeian Aediles were elected by the Plebeians ( commoners ), rather than by all of the People of Rome ( Plebeians as well as members of the Patrician aristocracy ), they were not technically magistrates.