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" Though the two companies reached a tentative agreement, with final contract papers to be signed at the 1983 Summer Consumer Electronics Show ( CES ), Atari refused to sign at the last minute, after seeing Coleco, one of its main competitors in the market at that time, demonstrating a prototype of Donkey Kong for its forthcoming Coleco Adam home computer system Although the game had been originally produced for the ColecoVision and could thus automatically be played on the backwards compatible Adam computer, Atari took the demonstration as a sign that Nintendo was also dealing with Coleco.
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Though the four boys and two girls, the youngest nineteen years of age, the oldest twenty-four, came from varying backgrounds and had different professional and personal interests, there was surprising agreement among them.
Though Garibaldi's fight was small shakes compared to Pickett's Charge -- which, like all Southerners, I view in almost Miltonic terms, fallen angels, etc. -- I associated the two.
Institutionalization Though undoubtedly all six processes are operative within the whole social system and its subsystems, two processes that are of crucial importance to this study will be singled out for particular emphasis.
Though the methods of deciding may be profound and diverse, the possible conclusions remain but two.
Though there are many exceptions, which we have noted in preceding pages, white wine is as a rule best consumed between two and six years old, and red wines, nowadays, between three and ten.
Though the sales gains these two dealers are experiencing are above average for their business, farm equipment sales are climbing in most rural areas.
Though there has been some avant garde indication that contemporary furniture might go back to the boxy look of the '20's and '40's, two manufacturers chose to take the approach of the sophisticated, but warm look in contemporary.
Though simple and compound walls were often used, Great Houses were primarily constructed of core-and-veneer walls: two parallel load-bearing walls comprising dressed, flat sandstone blocks bound in clay mortar were erected.
Though he was destined to be a strongly counter-reforming emperor, Alexander had little prospect of succeeding to the throne during the first two decades of his life, as he had an elder brother, Nicolas, who seemed of robust constitution.
Though the period of his caliphate was not long, it included successful invasions of the two most powerful empires of the time, a remarkable achievement in its own right.
Though the Boers accepted British rule without resistance in 1877, they fought two wars in the late 19th century to defend their internationally recognized independent countries, the republics of the Transvaal ( the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, or ZAR ) and the Orange Free State ( OFS ), against the threat of annexation by the British Crown.
Though closely related, the two disciplines are not necessarily the same.
Though the Bengals ran it with some success, like the West Coast Offense the scheme became more successful elsewhere, in this case with the rival Pittsburgh Steelers, where LeBeau has served two stints as defensive coordinator.
Though physical confrontations between the two species are usually dominated by the larger wolves, coyotes have been known to attack wolves if they outnumber them.
Though the fact of the irregularity of the lunar orbit was known in the 1st century BC, the starts of the months were calculated using the mean motions of both the sun and moon until 619, the second year of the Tang dynasty, when chronologists began to use true motions modeled using two offset opposing parabolas ( with small linear and cubic components ).
Though Alexander and his successor, John XXIII, gained widespread support, especially at the cost of the Avignon pope, the schism remained, now involving not two but three claimants: Gregory XII at Rome, Benedict XIII at Avignon and John XXIII.
Though the main theme of Natyashastra deals with drama, dance is also widely featured, and indeed the two concepts have ever since been linked in Indian culture.
Though neither of the album's two singles, "( Why Don't More Women Sing ) Honky Tonk Songs " and " Salt in my Tears ", charted, videos for both songs received significant airplay on CMT.
Though the two are related, they are separate and distinct.
Though he had a happy childhood surrounded by his many siblings, his family knew Francis was likely to be a future Emperor ( his uncle Joseph had no surviving issue from either of his two marriages ), and so in 1784 the young Archduke was sent to the Imperial Court in Vienna to educate and prepare him for his future role.
Though he is not related to Allen Whipple, who described the Whipple procedure and Whipple's triad, the two were lifelong friends ..
Though individuals have to show a continuous activity in a handguns sporting for last two years before they can have a license for their own gun.
Though of course hotels have always been built in popular destinations, the defining characteristic of a resort hotel is that it exists purely to serve another attraction, the two having the same owners.
Though it previously held a more eurosceptic stance than is usually articulated by most other green parties in Europe, the party backed the Lisbon Treaty with support from two thirds of the party.
Though in the next two centuries it would become the most important city in the region, at that time it was a small and growing city.
Though and companies
Though these companies have successfully developed their software, they have not considered or defined or managed their processes as the CMM described as level 3 or above, and so would have fitted level 1 or 2 of the model.
Though the combination of both companies ' PC manufacturing capacity initially made it the number one, it soon lost the lead and further market share to Dell which squeezed HP on low end PCs.
Though the companies merged, the Justice Department required Warner to produce and release a few films each year under the First National name until 1938.
Though companies like MOSAIC Threat Assessment Systems sell products and services designed to identify potential threats, a thorough study of all United States school shootings by the U. S. Secret Service warned against the belief that a certain " type " of student would be a perpetrator.
Though its official name is Bureau Junction, the village is more commonly called Bureau, and Bureau is the main name used by phone companies, the federal Board on Geographic Names, and the United States Post Office.
Though the major record companies dominate the American music industry, an independent music industry ( indie music ) does exist.
Though the vessels are mostly used for conventional trade ( legal and illegal ) around the Alpha and Gamma quadrants, some of the more powerful companies in the Ferengi Alliance use them to attack colonies or other ships, stealing technology or supplies which they can resell.
Though for years private polling companies and several news media published polls predicting Arias would win by a wide margin, the election was initially deemed too close to call.
Though one focused on the developments of the motor scooter and the other on aeronautical, both companies still maintain the Piaggio name.
Though internal auditors are not considered independent of the company they perform audit procedures for, internal auditors of publicly-traded companies are required to report directly to the board of directors, or a sub-committee of the board of directors, and not to management, so to reduce the risk that internal auditors will be pressured to produce favorable assessments.
Though Brownlee continued to fear resistance from the shareholders, both companies ' annual general meetings approved the proposal.
Though the move was popular at the time, it would prove not to be a financially astute one: by focusing on areas neglected by existing companies, the government was entering into the most expensive and least profitable fields of telecommunication.
Though technically separate companies, CBS and Viacom ( owners of MTV Networks and several mostly cable television stations ) have a large portion of common ownership through Sumner Redstone's National Amusements.
Though held to the same cooking efficiency standards, energy efficiency standards are based on the utility, gas or electric, and products on this list are subject to rebates from local utility companies.
Though timber has diminished as a prominent industry in the north-central United States, logging companies still operate in the nearby Nicolet National Forest.
Though a nascent and small industry when pitted against big detergent giants in the US and Europe, oleochemical companies in southeast Asia had competitive edge in cheap ingredients.
Though there are duplicates of recordings across the labels, they will differ in sound quality due to the different restoration techniques employed by the companies.
Though oil nationalization became one of AD's main objectives, the economy was not stable enough to handle potential boycotts by foreign oil companies and would have left Venezuela fiscally vulnerable.
Since October 2007 telecommunication companies have been required to keep records of phone calls and text messages for twelve months under the Data Retention Directive Though all telecoms firms already keep data for a period, the regulations are designed to ensure a uniform approach across the industry.
Though Hydro started off as a fertilizer producer and agricultural products was for a long time one of the companies major ventures, the agricultural division was in 2004 demerged into the independent company Yara International, listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange.
Though many of his development projects required foreign technical expertise, he avoided awarding contracts to British and Soviet companies.
Though NCIC records may not be available to private sector companies, they still may hold very accurate criminal records bought from other reporting agencies.
Though these investments were hidden from the Allies ( with whom Nogara also transacted ), through the use of holding companies and offshore banking centers, under Nogara " like water finding a downhill path, Vatican money found its way to the grisly side of the Holocaust ".
Though the expense involved in making movies almost immediately led film production to concentrate under the auspices of standing production companies, advances in affordable film making equipment, and expansion of opportunities to acquire investment capital from outside the film industry itself, have allowed independent film production to evolve.
Though more recent use by Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead has raised the Starcaster's profile, CBS-era instruments are generally much less coveted or collectable than the " pre-CBS " models created by Leo Fender prior to selling the Fender companies to CBS in 1965.
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