SSI was acquired by Mindscape in 1994, spent time as part of Mattel, and finally became part of Ubisoft ( in March 2001 ), which has since retired the brand name.

From 1994 to 1996, Mattel released a line of Street Sharks action figures.

Founded in 1994, the company was originally dubbed " Todd Toys ," but the name was changed in 1995 following pressure from Mattel ( who feared the new company's name would be confused with that of Barbie's younger brother ).

In 1994, Power Wheels was purchased by Mattel.

The company was floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1966 and was taken over by Mattel in 1994 after a bidding war with Hasbro.

After Commodore's bankruptcy in 1994, Commodore Semiconductor Group, MOS's successor, was bought by its former management for about $ 4. 3 million, plus an additional $ 1 million to cover miscellaneous expenses including EPA liens.

On September 30, 1994, Nichols bought forty bags of ammonium nitrate from Mid-Kansas Coop in McPherson, Kansas, an amount regarded as unusual even for a farmer.

Nichols bought an additional bag on October 18, 1994.

Jeffrey Lurie bought the Eagles on May 6, 1994 from then-owner Norman Braman for an estimated $ 185 million.

This joint venture marketed and sold Lehar Pepsi until 1991 when the use of foreign brands was allowed ; PepsiCo bought out its partners and ended the joint venture in 1994.

Among the companies that were bought or merged with WorldCom were Advanced Communications Corp. ( 1992 ), Metromedia Communication Corp. ( 1993 ), Resurgens Communications Group ( 1993 ), IDB Communications Group, Inc ( 1994 ), Williams Technology Group, Inc. ( 1995 ), and MFS Communications Company ( 1996 ).

In 1994 Flynt bought a Gulfstream II private jet, which was used in the movie The People vs. Larry Flynt.

Western produced games such as Trivial Pursuit and Pictionary until Hasbro bought that division in 1994.

He worked as an investments analyst for Laing & Cruickshank Investment Management ( bought by UBS in 2004 ) from 1981-5, and then in corporate finance for S. G. Warburg Securities ( bought by UBS in 1994 ) from 1985 – 92, where he became a director from 1990-2.

On 11 August 1994 it bought Ferranti Satcomms ( from administration ), which was based in Poynton in Cheshire.

In 1994, the city bought the Schaumburg Regional Airport from its formerly-private owners and refurbished it with 90 % of the funds for the purchase and refurbishment acquired by federal grant, 5 % from the State of Illinois, 2. 5 % Cook County and the Village putting up the remaining 2. 5 % with the village gaining 100 % control of the property.

Guardians of the Lost Library was later referenced in Part 10: The Invader of Fort Duckburg ( 1994 ), of Don Rosa's The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck where in 1902 the first three Junior Woodchucks ( seen as ripe old men half a century later at the beginning of Guardians of the Lost Library ) are expelled from their former headquarter, the ruins of Fort Drakeborough recently bought by Scrooge.

In 1994, Novell bought WordPerfect, as well as the Quattro Pro from Borland.

Boon Rawd bought two German breweries in Hartmannsdorf and Mittweida in Saxony in 1994.

Kimberly-Clark entered a joint venture to produce personal care products in Argentina in 1994 and also bought the feminine hygiene units of VP-Schickedanz ( Germany ) and Handan Comfort and Beauty Group ( China ).

* November 14, 1994: Sybase acquires Powersoft, which bought Watcom earlier that year.

In the 1990s INM bought into South Africa ( from 1994 ), Australia ( from 1988 ) and New Zealand ( from 1995 ), acquiring 38 newspaper titles, over 70 radio stations, cable and telecoms interests at a cost of around € 1. 3 billion.

* 1994: Popular bought Pioneer Bank in Chicago and merged it with Popular's existing operations.

The end of the Cold War, at the beginning of the 1990s, the reduced need for defense spending led to a wave of mergers as aerospace companies shrank in number ; in 1994 Northrop bought Grumman for $ 2. 1 billion to form Northrop Grumman, after Northrop topped a $ 1. 9 billion offer from Martin Marietta.

In 1994, partly due to the loss of the Advanced Tactical Fighter contract to Lockheed Martin and the removal of their proposal from consideration for the Joint Strike Fighter competition, the company bought Grumman to form Northrop Grumman.

In 1994, Central was completely bought by Carlton and on 6 September 1999 was rebranded as Carlton Central, though the registered company name remained Central Independent Television Limited.

When Carlton bought Central Independent Television in 1994, their Nottingham studios at Lenton Lane became Carlton's, giving them a studio complex that they could use, should the need for one ever arise.

In 1994, NIR bought two EMD 208 Class locomotives, identical to Iarnród Éireann's 201 Class.

The Journal of Irreproducible Results ( JIR ) was founded by Alex Kohn and Harry Lipkin in 1955, but most of its editorial staff, including editor Marc Abrahams, left after the magazine was bought by publisher George Scherr in 1994.

* A fictionalized account of the invention of two Wham-O products, the Hula-Hoop and Frisbee, is depicted in the 1994 film The Hudsucker Proxy, though the company is mentioned only in the end credits of the film.

* In 1994, Guy Delage was the first man to allegedly swim across the Atlantic Ocean ( with the help of a kick board, from Cape Verde to Barbados ).

More than 30, 000 people were killed in the fighting from 1992 to 1994.

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* 1994: Praise and Worship Album of the Year – Songs from the Loft

In 1994, Atari Corp. shifted its focus away from the Lynx.

According to one anecdote ( from Al Capp Remembered, 1994 ), Capp and his brother Elliot ducked out of a dull party at Capp's home — leaving Walt Kelly alone to fend for himself entertaining a group of Argentine envoys who didn't speak English.

The Bronx in the frontier era: from the beginning to 1696 ( 1994 )

In February 1994, watchdog group Morality in Media claimed that the death of 8-month-old Natalia Rivera, struck by a bowling ball thrown from an overpass onto a Jersey City, New Jersey highway near the Holland Tunnel by 18-year-old Calvin J.

Prior to the release of the VHS Volumes, a laserdisc titled Beavis and Butt-Head: The Essential Collection was issued in 1994, containing sixteen episodes from the second and third seasons.

*" Big Dipper ", a song by Built to Spill from their 1994 album There's Nothing Wrong with Love

The EME has expanded from four sections in 1968 to 15 sections in 1994.

In 1994, Raytheon merged Beechcraft with the Hawker product line it had acquired in 1993 from British Aerospace, forming Raytheon Aircraft Company.

It was formed from the nationalisation of the " Big Four " British railway companies and lasted until the gradual privatisation of British Rail, in stages between 1994 and 1997.

His third marriage, to Susan Martin, was from September 1990 until his death in 1994.

He died in his Century City apartment in Los Angeles from a third heart attack at 4: 50 A. M. on October 20, 1994 at the age of 80.

Berkeley DB originated at the University of California, Berkeley as part of the transition ( 1986 to 1994 ) from 4. 3BSD to 4. 4BSD and of the effort to remove AT & T-encumbered code.

Then, from 1995 to late-1999, eight societies demutualised accounting for two thirds of building societies assets as at 1994.

Marc Ewing and Young's partnership started in 1994 when ACC acquired the Red Hat trademarks from Ewing.

Following the IRA ceasefires between 1994 and 1996 and since 1997, demilitarisation has taken place as part of the peace process, reducing the military presence from 30, 000 to 5, 000 troops.

Costas has teamed with Isiah Thomas and Doug Collins for NBA telecasts ( from 1997 – 2000 ) and Sal Bando ( 1982 ), Tony Kubek ( from 1983 – 1989 ), Joe Morgan and Bob Uecker ( from 1994 – 2000 ) for baseball telecasts.

In 1994, the biopic Ed Wood, directed by Tim Burton, alleged that Wood and the filmmakers stole the mechanical octopus ( previously used in the film Wake of the Red Witch ) from the Republic Studios backlot, while failing to steal the motor which enabled the prop to move realistically, although, by the director's admission, the film preferred narrative interest over historical accuracy.

A cease-fire between Chad and Libya held from 1987 to 1988, and negotiations over the next several years led to the 1994 International Court of Justice decision granting Chad sovereignty over the Aouzou strip, effectively ending Libyan occupation.