The presidential elections held in 1988 marked a watershed in Mexican politics, as they were the first serious threat to the party in power by an opposition candidate, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, a defector from the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) and son of former President Lazaro Cardenas, who was nominated by a broad coalition of leftist parties.

Singapore general election, 2006 marked the first time since 1988 the PAP did not return to power on nomination day, with the opposition parties fielding candidates in over half of the constituencies.

The 1988 – 89 season marked a second straight year of major off-season moves.

On October 27, 1988, Molina was at The Arco Arena in Sacramento, to challenge the IBF super featherweight champion Tony Lopez, in what marked the beginning of a three-fight rivalry between Molina and Lopez.

The sale marked Renault's withdrawal from the North American market ( excluding Mexico ) in the 1988 model year.

Becker was back in the Wimbledon final in 1988, where he lost in four sets to Stefan Edberg in a match that marked the start of one of Wimbledon's great rivalries.

Ramírez, who is a godfather to one of Chávez's sons, lost an 11 round technical decision to Chávez on October 29 of 1988, which marked the last day he would be a world champion.

During his tenure at the helm of CBC's flagship newscast beginning May 1, 1988 ( as co-anchor of CBC Prime Time News from November 1992 to fall 1995, and as sole anchor of The National otherwise ), he has covered Canadian news stories including federal elections, party leadership conventions, the Meech Lake Accord negotiations, the Charlottetown Accord and its referendum, the 1995 Quebec referendum, floods in Manitoba in 1997, ice storms in Ontario and Quebec in 1998, the six days in September 2000 that marked the death and state funeral of Pierre Trudeau, the 2003 blackout across much of Eastern North America and the death and state funeral of Jack Layton.

An 8-song 7 " record posthumously released under the name " Red Menace: Farewell Suburbia '' marked the end of the band in 1988, but BSY ’ s missionary dedication to the punk ethic gave rise to a vibrant alternative music scene in South Carolina and spawned other original bands spanning many musical genres.

1988 also marked the foundation of the Triple Bottom Line Investing group by Robert J. Rubinstein, a group advocating and publicizing these principles.

1988 marked the release of Shadowland, an album of torch country produced by Owen Bradley.

The 1988 season marked the 100th season of Iowa football.

This marked a return to the three party system in parliament which was last seen in the 1988 election.

The BBC sitcom Double First only lasted one series in 1988, but marked a different approach.

Media reports highlighted the particularly warm reception which leaders of both countries received whenever they visited each other's domains, particularly in July 1988, when Sultan Iskandar's visit to Singapore marked the first official visit by any Yang di-Pertuan Agong since 1957.

This game is sometimes considered as the fourth edition of Berlin XVIII, a game edited in 1988 that took place in Berlin ( Germany ), with a social and political context marked by the Cold War ( recall that this date was before the fall of the Berlin Wall ); Berlin XVIII was edited by Siroz ( first in the Universom collection then as a standalone game ), created by Laurent Tremmel and Nicolas Thery ( Croc contributed to the third edition ).

Nieuwendyk again scored 51 goals in 1988 – 89 and marked the 100th of his career in his 144th career game.

Between 1985 and 1988 Górnik again marked a magnificent streak, with four consecutive championships.

Year 1988 marked the establishment of the Technology Development and Information Company of India Ltd. ( TDICI ) promoted by the ICICI and UTI ( Unit Trust of India ) and was immediately followed by the Gujurat Venture Finance Ltd.

It marked a return to RWD cars for the brand, and was the first Cadillac to be offered with a manual transmission since the 1988 Cimarron.

Formed by students of St. Louis University High School in 1988, MU330 played a self-described brand of music called " Psycho Ska ", high energy ska punk marked by manic performances and humorous, often strange lyricism.

The eighties marked a professional setbacks in Chopra's career as several films he directed and produced in that period failed to leave a mark at the Indian box office, notably Silsila ( 1981 ), Mashaal ( 1984 ) and Vijay ( 1988 ).

EGMs return marked a largely new staff of contributors that saw founder Steve Harris serving in the role of Publisher and Editor-In-Chief, the positions he held when the magazine was launched in 1988.

The delegation's participation in the Athens Olympics marked Aruba's fifth appearance at the Summer Olympics since the Dutch colony's debut at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

Deployed beginning in 1988.

Established by the old regime in 1988, the agency's post-Soviet responsibilities have been described in a series of decrees beginning in 1991.

The new-look Liverpool side shaped by Dalglish topped the league for almost the entire season, and had a run of 37 matches unbeaten in all competitions ( including 29 in the league ; 22 wins and 7 draws ) from the beginning of the season to 21 February 1988, when they lost to Everton in the league.

Among the last things he made while he was still in Italy, at the end of the Eighties and at beginning of the Nineties, there are the so called Paperolimpiadi ( a long story about the 1988 Seoul Olympic games ) and some strip stories, the same kind of stories that he loved when he was a child.

At the beginning of 1988, nearly one million Yerevantsis engaged in demonstrations concerning these subjects, centered on Theater Square.

The company began to produce models with its own technology in 1988, beginning with the midsize Sonata.

On August 2, 1988, the plaintiff and defendants announced a settlement of the lawsuit, which included a Confidential Cross-License Agreement under which SEA licensed PKWARE for all the ARC-compatible programs published by PKWARE during the period beginning with the first release of PKXARC in late 1985 through July 31, 1988, in return for an undisclosed payment.

Finally, it was decided that the NBA would expand by 4 teams, with the Charlotte Hornets and Miami Heat debuting for the 1988 – 89 season and the Minnesota Timberwolves and Orlando Magic beginning for the 1989 – 90 season.

With the exception of the Firebird and Fiero, beginning in 1988 all Pontiacs switched to front-wheel drive platforms.

He suffered a heart attack in 1988, and would have suffered a severe heart attack at the beginning of 1992 caused by his lungs being filled with fluid, had it not been for the emergency team attending the Wimbledon theatre that night.

In 1988, McFarlane joined writer David Michelinie on Marvel's The Amazing Spider-Man beginning with issue 298.

From the beginning of the dictatorship until 1988, the titular presidents were essentially army-installed by Bouterse, who ruled as a de facto leader of Suriname.

The Vernon Greene / Walter Gibson Shadow newspaper comic strip from the early 1940s was finally collected by Malibu Graphics ( Malibu Comics ) under their Eternity Comics imprint, beginning with the first issue of Crime Classics dated July, 1988.

Since 1988, Hay-on-Wye has been the venue for a literary festival, now sponsored by The Daily Telegraph newspaper, which draws a claimed 80, 000 visitors over ten days at the beginning of June to see and hear big literary names from all over the world.

Teams representing 116 national football associations from all six populated continents entered the competition, with its qualification process beginning in April 1988.

The scene began around a series of artist-led exhibitions held in warehouses and factories, beginning in 1988 with the Damien Hirst-led Freeze and, in 1990, East Country Yard Show and Modern Medicine.

Meanwhile, Bruce Artwick left subLOGIC and founded The Bruce Artwick Organization to continue his work on subsequent Microsoft releases, beginning with Microsoft Flight Simulator 3. 0 in 1988.

As Congress was considering the Proxmire Financial Modernization Act in 1988, the Commission of the European Communities proposed a “ Second Banking Directive ” that became effective at the beginning of 1993 and provided for the combination of commercial and investment banking throughout the European Economic Community.

Concorde made regular appearances during its scheduled operations, beginning in 1985 and also appearing in 1988, 1990, 1994 and 1998.

Having peaked at 21. 9 % in 1980, inflation ( as measured by the 12-month increase in the Retail Prices Index ) fell to 3. 3 % at the beginning of 1988.

By the end of the 1980s the excesses of the buyout market were beginning to show, with the bankruptcy of several large buyouts including Robert Campeau's 1988 buyout of Federated Department Stores, the 1986 buyout of the Revco drug stores, Walter Industries, FEB Trucking and Eaton Leonard.

Derided as one-hit wonders and estranged from their original producer, Rick Rubin, and record label, Def Jam, the Beastie Boys were in self-imposed exile in Los Angeles during early 1988 and were written off by most music critics before even beginning to record their second studio album, Paul's Boutique.