By 1990, after efforts by Wendy's agency, Backer Spielvolgel Bates, to get humor into the campaign, a decision was made to portray Thomas in a more self-deprecating and folksy manner, which proved much more popular with test audiences.

But this proved unsustainable and it collapsed to a cumulative 10 % growth in the turbulent Eighties ( 1980 – 1990: USD 1, 369 – 1, 507 ), rising again to almost 50 % cumulative growth in the Nineties ( 1990 – 2000: USD 1, 507 – 2, 245 ), signifying the impact of successful diversification.

This Q-jet design proved good enough to last until 1990 ( Oldsmobile V8 applications ), with added computer controls in order to meet federal and CARB standards.

A whale skeleton discovered there in 1990 was proved to be a new whale species ( see Eobalaenoptera harrisoni ).

The effort quickly proved futile, and American purchased the routes ( including the route authority between Miami and London then held by Eastern sister company Continental Airlines ) in a liquidation of Eastern which was completed in 1990.

" While Saturn cars proved very popular with buyers, actual sales never met the optimistic projected targets, in part because of a recession in 1990.

Despite Jumblatt's initial reluctance to engage in paramilitarism, it built a powerful private army, which proved to be one of the strongest in the Lebanese Civil War of 1975 to 1990.

The disastrous performance in the 1990 presidential election in which the party finished a humiliating and unprecedented third in a national election, proved to be the final straw for the party and Dukes forced to resign as leader shortly after.

The revived 442, introduced for the 1990 model year, proved to be a low seller, leading Pontiac to quietly cancel the GTO revival.

When the book was initially released over 1990 / 1991, it proved very popular and led Vertigo Executive Editor Karen Berger to make it a regular ongoing series under editor Stuart Moore.

The LRC ( Light, Rapid, Comfortable ) locomotives and cars used advanced technology such as active tilt to increase speed, but proved troublesome and took several years to work out problems ( by 1990 only a handful of LRC locomotives remained in service which were subsequently retired by the arrival of the GE Genesis locomotives in 2001 ).

The change proved to be a positive one for the Tories, who had trailed Labour in most opinion polls by a double-digit margin throughout 1990 but soon returned to the top of the polls and won the general election in April 1992.

John H. Conway conjectured that a presentation of the bimonster could be given by adding a certain extra relation to the presentation defined by the Y < sub > 555 </ sub > diagram ; this was proved in 1990 by A.

The club was seriously weakened by the departure of captain Stojković, who was undoubtedly among the best World players that year, which he proved at the 1990 FIFA World Cup.

This proved to be a mistake for Ford, which later introduced a saloon version in 1990, and the estate appeared two years later.

After finishing fourth in 1990, Graham signed goalkeeper David Seaman and Swedish winger Anders Limpar in the close season ; both players proved vital as Arsenal won a second title in 1990 – 91 and reached the FA Cup semi-finals, losing to arch-rivals Tottenham Hotspur.

The growth of the site near San Simeon has proved even more spectacular ; no animals were there prior to 1990.

In Italy, the concept of a " strategy of tension " ( strategia della tensione ) directly carried on by far-right forces linked to the security forces was popular in extra-parliamentary leftist movements ; its existence was proved after Italian Premier Giulio Andreotti's 1990 revelations concerning Gladio, a NATO stay-behind anti-communist organization, and the parliamentary inquiries into the bombings carried on during this period ( 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing, 1980 Bologna massacre, etc.

Although tensions in Yugoslavia had been mounting since the early 1980s, it was 1990 that proved decisive.

In 1990 Babai, Fortnow, and Lund proved that PCPpoly ( n ) = NEXP, providing the first nontrivial equivalence between standard proofs ( NEXP ) and probabilistically checkable proofs.

In the end, the cast additions proved fruitless, and 227 ended its run in the spring of 1990.

In the summer of 1986, Ribet ( 1990 ) proved the epsilon conjecture, thereby proving that the Taniyama – Shimura – Weil conjecture implied Fermat's Last Theorem.

The assumption that Altaic is a valid family, but only consists of Japonic, Korean and Tungusic, appears to be restricted to Unger ( 1990 ).

* 1990 – Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province.

He would not be released until 1990.

( The red numerals could be seen on the away jerseys briefly in 1990.

* 1990 – Customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, United Kingdom, say they have seized what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.

Contrary to the above, the Expositor's Bible Commentary ( Zondervan, 1990 ) says that the language of Daniel, in comparison with the Hebrew and Aramaic texts of the Hellenistic period, " prove quite conclusively to any scholar that the second-century date and Palestinian provenance of the Book of Daniel cannot be upheld any longer without violence being done to the science of linguistics.

The 2006 national election was expected to be a landslide for former President ( 1986 – 1990 ) and PLN's candidate Óscar Arias, but it turned out to be the closest in modern history.

Before 1990, CPU design was often done for this market, but mass market CPUs organized into large clusters have proven to be more affordable.

Another writer says, " My own position can be summarized in the following terms: just as music is whatever people choose to recognize as such, noise is whatever is recognized as disturbing, unpleasant, or both " ( Nattiez 1990, 47 – 48 ).

1990 saw the release of Smooth Noodle Maps, which would be Devo's last album for twenty years.

On November 21, 1989, George H. W. Bush signed an appropriation bill authorizing payments to be paid out between 1990 and 1998.

International co-productions of the kind which were becoming common in France and Italy tended to be rejected by German producers ( Schneider 1990: 43 ).

In 1990 he founded the Science & Environmental Policy Project to advocate this position, and in 2006 was named by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as one of a minority of scientists said to be creating a stand-off on a consensus on climate change.

Since the reunification of 1990, Schwarzbier, which was common in East Germany, but could hardly be found in West Germany, has become increasingly popular in Germany as a whole.

Most graphic designers entering the field since about 1990 are expected to be proficient in at least one or two of these programs.

It includes the totality of learned habits, bodily skills, styles, tastes, and other non-discursive knowledges that might be said to " go without saying " for a specific group ( Bourdieu 1990: 66-67 ) -- in that way it can be said to operate beneath the level of rational ideology.

In 1990, Tim Berners-Lee, then a scientist at CERN, proposed and later prototyped a new hypertext project in response to a request for a simple, immediate, information-sharing facility, to be used among physicists working at CERN and other academic institutions.

On 26 April 1990 GM's New Zealand subsidiary, Holden New Zealand, announced that production at the assembly plant based in Trentham would be phased out and that vehicles would be imported duty-free.

The government ’ s response was the New Economic Policy of 1971, which was to be implemented through a series of four five-year plans from 1971 to 1990.

In 1990 France, led by François Mitterrand, joined the short lived Gulf War against Iraq, the French participation to this war would be called the Opération Daguet.

On 6 August 1990, after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, the U. N. Security Council adopted Resolution 661 which imposed economic sanctions on Iraq, providing for a full trade embargo, excluding medical supplies, food and other items of humanitarian necessity, these to be determined by the Security Council sanctions committee.

In other words, rewards that are given to individual team members should be contingent upon the performance of the entire team ( Sundstrom, et al., 1990 ).