Squidward turns his head away from the band before they begin, assuming that the performance will be a disaster, but the band is tremendously successful, playing a rock ballad titled "Sweet Victory".
With boarding schools taking charge of the education of middle-class boys, women, too, began assuming a more visible place in public life: they entered London University for the first time in 1848; they won the right to divorce in 1857; and they began campaigning for the vote.
But then Gamal Mubarak began assuming a public role after returning from a stint in London as an investment banker.
His son, Laurence Ginsberg assumed control of the place, and soon, live bands began assuming a more prominent place in the club's schedule.
It was only in 1939, when Lowry met Margerie, who was herself an aspiring writer, that the novel began assuming a coherent shape.
The debate over dogs in the national recreation area started in 1972 when the United States Department of the Interior began assuming control of the properties.
Germany began assuming a stronger world role once the end of the cold war brought the country not just unification, but full sovereignty.
Mr. Zaoui became a partner in 1998 and then began assuming management positions, including overseeing European mergers and then investment banking for the Continent.
After Mr. Goodyear announced his intention to retire in February, Mr. Kloppers began assuming a higher profile, even serving as co-chairman of the company's annual results presentation in August.
She was thus taken aback when her younger son, at about the age of twelve, began assuming the trappings and pretensions of a dandy of the Vienna of the twenties and thirties.
