In the late 1970s, Whelan acquired the sporting goods store franchise JJB, and in 1995 he expanded his business interests with the purchase of Wigan Athletic Football Club. Following his purchase, the club went from Division Three to the Premier League, beating Manchester City in 2013 at the ...
Over recent years religious conservatives in the United States have fervently contested the idea of a liberal, secular public sphere. This article urges scholars to consider that contest in light of the history of the New Christian Right (NCR) of the late 1970s and 1980s. NCR activists, ...
The number of overseas Chinese has reached 60 million, out of which around 10 million are new immigrants after China adopted the reform and opening policies in the late 1970s. To build CPEC into "Silk & Silicon Corridor" China, a country with over a billion people, has a coastline, less...
After relocating to Winnipeg in the late ‘90s and then Calgary, Blackmore joined Zomba Records in 2000 and two years later found a home with Universal Music Canada as a Promotions Manager and later Western Promotions Manager for two decades. “A staple of our radio promotion department for c...
supra Section 2), the empirical monitoring of the vocative and intensifier paradigms suggests that in a time frame of 15 years—including a generational shift between the late millennials and the generation Z—there is no tabula rasa of the vocative nor intensifier paradigm. Quite the opposite ...
His peak in the late 1970s and early 1980s saw him win several All-Stars, two NBA Finals MVP, and the NBA Most Valuable Player Award three times. The 1996 movie Space Jam, starring Michael Jordan andBill Murray, features a small cameo appearance from Bird. ...
The onset of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, although it intensified the antigay rhetoric of the New Right, also stimulated further organizing within the gay community. AIDS made political mobilization a matter of life and death. With a large majority of the cases striking male homosexuals, th...
Homebodies1974 directed by Larry Yust (Trick Baby 1972) features a marvelous ensemble of beloved character actors, Ruth McDevitt ( The Birds 1963, Miss Emily in the 1970s series-Kolchak: The Night Stalker, and a slew of made-for-television movies and popular tv series), Peter Brocco (One...
He ran Formula one from the late 1970s until 2017, during which time he grew it into a global brand. Ecclestone essentially made F1 into one of the most valuable global media assets. It sits between the motor industry and a global audience. ...
A framework is a synthetic abstract scheme that organises the elements of reality—and every framework is a compromise between the attempt to simplify and the need to reflect reality’s complexity. Thus, it provides a formal representation of ideas and knowledge concerning phenomena [3]. Frameworks...