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Heard claimed the closures affected around 2,700 employees. [4] It had five dealerships in Georgia, and six in other states including Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Nevada, Tennessee and Texas. [4] Bill Heard Chevrolet in Sugar Land did stay in business, as of September 25, 2008. [3]
In the United States, government shutdowns occur when funding legislation required to finance the federal government is not enacted before the next fiscal year begins. In a shutdown, the federal government curtails agency activities and services, ceases non-essential operations, furloughs non-essential workers, and retains only essential employees in departments that protect human life or ...
Headline in The Philadelphia Inquirer of 16 November 1919 reporting the first use of cloture by the United States Senate. Cloture (UK: US: / ˈ k l oʊ tʃ ər /, [1] [2] also UK: / ˈ k l oʊ tj ʊər /), [3] closure [4] or, informally, a guillotine, [4] is a motion or process in parliamentary procedure aimed at bringing debate to a quick end.
FIRE FEST. Street festival Heard on Hurd will return to Hurd and Broadway in downtown Edmond from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday. This month’s theme is “Dancing in September,” with live dance ...
It is presently classed in schedule I(C) along with its active constituents, the tetrahydrocannibinols and other psychotropic drugs. Some question has been raised whether the use of the plant itself produces "severe psychological or physical dependence" as required by a schedule I or even schedule II criterion. Since there is still a considerable void in our knowledge of the plant and the ...
The W. F. "Bill" Harris State Fair Arena (called Bill Harris Arena or Fair Park Arena) is a 5,000-seat multipurpose indoor arena located at the Birmingham CrossPlex (formerly Alabama State Fairgrounds). The arena is used primarily for basketball, but also hosts concerts and other events.
The stage includes room for up to 60 orchestral musicians and 80 choral singers. The largest hall, Bill Heard Theatre, is a 2,000-seat three-level theatre. An orchestra pit and 60-foot (18 m)-wide stage are accented by enormous weaving ribbons of colored metal mesh that sweep across the theatre.
The effects of the blast were equivalent to over 5,000 pounds (2,300 kg) of TNT, [62] [77] and could be heard and felt up to 55 miles (89 km) away. [75] Seismometers at the Omniplex Science Museum in Oklahoma City, 4.3 miles (6.9 km) away, and in Norman, Oklahoma , 16.1 miles (25.9 km) away, recorded the blast as measuring approximately 3.0 on ...