The ongoing commercial success of the original Land Rover series models, and latterly the Range Rover in the 1970s in the midst of BL ’ s well documented business troubles prompted the establishment of a separate Land Rover company but still under the BL umbrella, remaining part of the subsequent Rover Group in 1988 under the ownership of British Aerospace after the remains of British Leyland were broken up and privatised.

In 1988 BAe purchased the Rover Group which was being privatised by the British government.

After BL became the Rover Group in 1986, ownership of the MG marque passed to British Aerospace in 1988 and then in 1994 to BMW.

The Rover Group was owned by British Aerospace ( BAe ) from 1988 to 1994, when BAe sold the remaining car business to BMW.

This group was privatised in 1988 by the sale of the company to British Aerospace ( BAe ) for £ 150 million, who retained Day as joint CEO / Chairman, and made Kevin Morley MD of Rover cars.

* 1988: Rover Group privatised ; sold to British Aerospace

The Rover 200 had actually been around since 1988 as the Longbridge-built Honda Concerto, which offered a higher level of equipment but only achieved a fraction of its sales.

+ 4 production was suspended in 1969 but brought back in 1985 with a Fiat engine ( 1985 – 1988 ) and then a 4-cylinder Rover engine ( 1988 – 2000 ).

The Austin Maestro is a compact-sized 5-door hatchback car ( and van derivative ) that was produced from 1983 to 1994, initially by the Austin Rover subsidiary of British Leyland ( BL ), and from 1988 onwards by its successor, Rover Group.

By 1988, it was merely the 14th best selling car in Britain, dipping further to 19th place in 1989, the year that the second generation Rover 200 was launched.

Simpson joined The Rover Group from its subsidiary Leyland-DAF in 1988 and took over as managing director in January 1989.

The K-Series was introduced in 1988 by Rover Group as a powerplant for the Rover 200 car.

Following the renaming of its parent company, BL, in 1986 to the Rover Group, and the subsequent sell-off of its truck and bus businesses, and takeover in 1988 by British Aerospace, and then in 1994 by BMW, the combine now known as Rover Group was eventually sold back into private ownership and became MG Rover, which lasted five years before going bankrupt.

* 1988: Rover Group PLC sold by British Government to British Aerospace.

* 1988 – 94-1994 cc Austin / Rover MDi-Perkins Prima TD I4, and

Sony bought CBS Records Group, which consisted of Columbia Records, Epic Records and other CBS labels in 1988 and Columbia Pictures Entertainment ( Columbia Pictures, TriStar Pictures and others ) in 1989.

In 1988, Lineker played in the Euro 1988, but failed to score as England lost all three Group games.

Modeled on the successful collaborative approach and the compression technologies developed by the Joint Photographic Experts Group and CCITT's Experts Group on Telephony ( creators of the JPEG image compression standard and the H. 261 standard for video conferencing respectively ), the Moving Picture Experts Group ( MPEG ) working group was established in January 1988.

* Calvin, William " Neural Darwinism: The Theory of Neuronal Group Selection ", Science, 24 June 1988, accessed April 16, 2007 ( a review of Gerald Edelman's book Neural Darwinism )

Although it was suspended from the Latin American Economic System — known informally both as the Group of Eight and the Rio Group — in 1988 due to its internal political system under Manuel Noriega, Panama was readmitted in September 1994 as an acknowledgment of its present democratic credentials.

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In 1988, instigated by Brian Powers, the first American taipan of Jardines, the entire corporate structure of Jardine, Matheson & Co., including all its allied companies, were restructured so that a holding company based in London and controlled by the Keswick family would have overall policy and strategic control of all Jardine Matheson Group companies.

* 1988, USA, Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group ISBN 0-440-53981-1, Pub date November 1988, Paperback ( collected edition )

Big Generator earned Yes a nomination for a second Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal in 1988.

The rights to the game were initially licensed to Selchow and Righter in 1982, then to Parker Brothers ( now part of Hasbro ) in 1988, after initially being turned down by the Virgin Group ; in 2008, Hasbro bought out the rights in full, for US $ 80 million.

In 1988, amid the ATA's Return Our Land Movement, in which aborigines demanded the return of lands to the original inhabitants, the ATA sent its first representative to the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations.

A Brief History of Time ( subtitled " From the Big Bang to Black Holes ") is a popular-science book written by British physicist Stephen Hawking and first published by the Bantam Dell Publishing Group in 1988.

* Caerleon-Three-Year-Old Champion Colt in France, won the Group One Prix du Jockey Club and International Stakes, Leading sire in Great Britain & Ireland ( 1988, 1991 )

In 1988, The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery ( TIGHAR ) initiated their project to investigate the Earhart / Noonan disappearance and since then has sent six expeditions to the island.

* 1988 Favorite Country Band / Duo / Group

* 4443d Test and Evaluation Group, 1 July 1988

The factory in Derby Line is still open, but was bought in 1988 by Group Tivoly, a cutting tools company based in France.

Section 39 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 provides that common assault, like battery, is triable only in the magistrates ' court in England and Wales ( unless it is linked to a more serious offence, which is triable in the Crown Court ).

His Esquisse d ' un programme ( 1984 ) is a proposal for a position at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, which he held from 1984 to his retirement in 1988.

The current most senior living descendant of the Electress Sophia who is ineligible to succeed due to the act is George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews, the eldest son of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, who married the Roman Catholic Sylvana Palma Tomaselli in 1988 ; he would now be 29th in the lines of succession if he had not lost his place.

Exile ( 1988 video game ) | Exile is an example of a game where the developers left non-graphical data visible in the display buffer to gain additional memory space.

* 1988 – In Israel, John Demjanuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II.

The second, named Fatih Sultan Mehmet ( Bosphorus II ) Bridge, is long, and was completed in 1988 about north of the first bridge.

The most sacrifice flies by a team in one game is five ; the record was established by the Seattle Mariners in 1988 and tied by the Colorado Rockies in 2006 and then tied again in 2008 by the Seattle Mariners.

Another is the 1988 Koko case in which 5 ships transported 8, 000 barrels of hazardous waste from Italy to the small town of Koko in Nigeria in exchange for $ 100 monthly rent which was paid to a Nigerian for the use of his farmland.

One possible origin is Chun Shui Tang teahouse in Taichung, where Ms. Lin Hsiu Hui ( product development manager ) poured sweetened tapioca balls into the tea during a meeting in 1988.

For example, in English law the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 provides that if a copyrighted work is made by an employee in the course of that employment, the copyright is automatically owned by the employer which would be a " Work for Hire.

He is best known in the film industry for his role as Prince Humperdinck in Rob Reiner's 1987 film The Princess Bride, though he also has had supporting parts in some other successful films such as the original Child's Play ( 1988 ).

The area now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo was populated as early as 80, 000 years ago, as shown by the 1988 discovery of the Semliki harpoon at Katanda, one of the oldest barbed harpoons ever found, and which is believed to have been used to catch giant river catfish.

Engelbart is now Founder Emeritus of the Doug Engelbart Institute, which he founded in 1988 with his daughter Christina Engelbart, who is now Executive Director.

* 1988 – The Australian Capital Territory is granted self-government.

* 1988 – Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state.

* 1988 – Benazir Bhutto is appointed Prime Minister of Pakistan.

* 1988 – The Michael Hughes Bridge in Sligo, Ireland is officially opened.

* 1988 – Chico Mendes, a Brazilian rubber tapper, unionist and environmental activist, is assassinated.

In 1988 he returned to Bloomington as " College of Arts and Sciences Professor " in both cognitive science and computer science, and also was appointed adjunct professor of history and philosophy of science, philosophy, comparative literature, and psychology, but he states that his involvement with most of these departments is nominal.

That is, the inverse transform is the same as the forward transform with the real and imaginary parts swapped for both input and output, up to a normalization ( Duhamel et al., 1988 ).