By 1985, construction was completed and the World Financial Center saw its first tenants.

By way of contrast, when introduced in 1985, the Amiga had compared favorably against 286-based systems with EGA graphics and rudimentary sound capabilities that frequently cost 2 – 3 times as much.

By the mid-1980s, her record sales were still relatively strong, with " Save the Last Dance for Me ", " Downtown ", " Tennessee Homesick Blues " ( all 1984 ); " Real Love " ( another duet with Kenny Rogers ), " Don't Call It Love " ( both 1985 ); and " Think About Love " ( 1986 ) all reaching the country-singles Top 10.

By 1985, a case had not been heard of in the past twenty years whereas previously Albania had the greatest number of patients infected in Europe.

* Murder: By Reason of Insanity ( 1985 ) ( TVM )

By 1985 Honduras had twenty-five financial institutions with 300 branch offices.

By 1985 the privatised British Telecom had inherited the telephone operations of the GPO, including those on the Isle of Man.

By 1985, Kemp was a leading contender for the 1988 Presidential nomination.

Lennon's first-ever tour in the spring of 1985 was documented as part of the film Stand By Me: A Portrait Of Julian Lennon — a film profile started by Sam Peckinpah, but completed by Martin Lewis after Peckinpah's death.

By 1985, Lyon & Healy also made folk harps, also known as " Irish harps ", which are even smaller than the Troubadour.

By 1985, Malmö had lost 35, 000 inhabitants and was down to 229, 000.

By the time SC shipped the first SC-30M to Stanford University in late 1985, most customers had already abandoned the PDP-10, usually for VMS or Unix systems.

By winning their first 13 games, the Saints also set the record for the longest undefeated season opening ( 13 – 0 ) by an NFC team since the AFL – NFL merger, surpassing the previous record ( 12 – 0 ) held by the 1985 Chicago Bears.

By 1985, the group had encountered Burlington, Vermont luthier Paul Languedoc, who would eventually design two guitars for Anastasio and two basses for Gordon.

By comparison, the population of Kwangju, capital of South Cholla Province, increased less than threefold between 1960 and 1985, growing from 315, 000 to 906, 129 inhabitants.

By 1985, Kurzweil ’ s software had a vocabulary of 1, 000 words — if uttered one word at a time.

By 1985, a version of Emacs ( MicroEMACS ) was available for a variety of platforms, but it was not until June, 1987 that Stevie ( ST editor for VI enthusiasts ), a limited vi clone appeared.

By 1985, Harald zur Hausen had shown that two strains of Human papillomavirus ( HPV ) cause most cases of cervical cancer.

By 1985, all three were members of the Defenders, whose monthly series was shortly canceled, which freed the trio.

# Janez Strnad, Jožef Stefan, Ob stopetdesetletnici rojstva ( Jožef Stefan, By his 150th anniversary of birth ), ( DMFA SRS, Ljubljana 1985 ).

# Janez Strnad, Jožef Stefan, Ob stopetdesetletnici rojstva ( Jožef Stefan, By his 150th anniversary of birth ), ( Presek ( 1985 ) 5 ).

By the time of his death in 1985 he was amongst the most celebrated of Welsh writers.

By 1985, the USFL had ceased football operations and he devoted all his time to arena football, and on April 27, 1986, his concept was realized when finally staged the test game.

By the time of the 1985 European Cup Final, it was literally crumbling.

By 1162, with Antioch under nominal Byzantine control and the crusader states further south powerless to make any further attacks on Syria, Nur ad-Din made a pilgrimage to Mecca.

By war and diplomacy he assembled an alliance that delivered to him the keys of the Kaaba, an important pagan shrine which brought revenues to Mecca because of the multitude of pilgrims that it attracted.

By the late 15th century and early 16th century, coffee had spread to Cairo and Mecca.

By 1805, the Wahhabis controlled Mecca and Medina, had attacked Karbala and the Imam Husayn Shrine.

By the age of 53 he embarked on the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, where in 1496 ( 901 Hijra ), after circumambulating the Kaaba he announced that he was the Mahdi.

" By the age of 18 he had exhausted all knowledge in the universities of Mecca.

By expanding their military operations and negotiating with the nomads, the Muslims had created an alliance with greater resources than Mecca, alone, could muster.

By old custom, during the months of pilgrimage, tribal hostilities stopped and all were free to visit Mecca.

By the 14th century the Malian empire ( c. 1230-1600 ) had reached its apogee, acquiring a considerable reputation for the Islamic practice of its court and the pilgrimages of several emperors who followed the tradition of Lahilatul Kalabi, the first black prince to make hajj to Mecca.

By 1930, the island gained world recognition as a quarantine centre screening Asian immigrants and pilgrims returning from Mecca.

By this time Aurangzeb was camping at Visapur and was much aware of the fact that the he was losing revenues from the British trade and the British ships could cause him much trouble by stopping the pilgrimage to Mecca since they controlled the sea-route.

By 615 C. E, five years after Muhammad's declaration of prophethood, persecution of followers of the new faith came to an active phase when the weakest members of the young community, such as the African slave Bilal, were subjected to torture and the local leaders proclaimed a ban of trade with the Muslims, prohibiting citizens of Mecca from providing food and medicine to members of the new movement.

By 611 Prophet Muhammad was preaching the oneness of God to the people of Mecca.

By this same combination of the will and the imagination, each one of us can learn to portray permanently the kind of character we would like to be.

By 1926, when the mighty Yanks were at their mightiest, only a few of these were left but they still shone brightest, even beside able and agile rookies like Tony Lazzeri ( who managed never to have one of his epileptic fits on the field ), Mark Koenig, Lou Gehrig, George Pipgras, and gray-thatched Earl Combs.

By this time, Angola, a Portuguese colony, was in fact like a colony of Brazil, paradoxically another Portuguese colony.

By promoting integration through organizations like Mercosur and UNASUR, Brazil has been able to solidify its role as a regional power.

By a further act of 1541 — which was not repealed until 1845 — artificers, labourers, apprentices, servants and the like were forbidden to play bowls at any time except Christmas, and then only in their master's house and presence.

By the 1850s, bunyip had also become a " synonym for imposter, pretender, humbug and the like " in the broader Australian community.

By 1000 BC ancient civilizations were using technologies that formed the basis of the various branches of chemistry such as ; extracting metal from their ores, making pottery and glazes, fermenting beer and wine, making pigments for cosmetics and painting, extracting chemicals from plants for medicine and perfume, making cheese, dying cloth, tanning leather, rendering fat into soap, making glass, and making alloys like bronze.

These films should not be confused with comedic cult movies like The Toxic Avenger, Bad Taste, Army of Darkness, Murder By Death, Spaceballs, and the films of John Waters, which purposely utilize elements from films " so bad they're good " for comedic effect.

By design, CITES regulates and monitors trade in the manner of a " negative list " such that trade in all species is permitted and unregulated unless the species in question appears on the Appendices or looks very much like one of those taxa.

By the twelfth century great churches in Germany, like those elsewhere were finding it difficult to hold out against the accumulation of lay custom and lay objections to temporary inheritance.

By 1850, Parliament had enacted several statutes on a case-by-case basis to deal with issues regularly faced by certain types of organizations, like joint-stock companies, and with the impetus for most types of group litigation removed, it went into a steep decline in English jurisprudence from which it never recovered.

By the late 1970s, melodrama was nearly finished as an overt genre, as the hunger for realism dominated film in groundbreaking movies like Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets.

By the age of Augustus, poets like Virgil closely adhered to the rules of the meter and approached it in a highly rhetorical way, looking for effects that can be exploited in skilled recitation.

By 2005, large parts of W3C DOM were well-supported by common ECMAScript-enabled browsers, including Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6 ( 2001 ), Opera, Safari and Gecko-based browsers ( like Mozilla, Firefox, SeaMonkey and Camino ).

" By the end of the following year he had taken up the ukelele and tea-chest bass and begun to participate in skiffle sessions with friends, and had started to play the piano ; meanwhile his stage presentation of numbers by both Presley and Chuck Berry — complete with gyrations in tribute to the original artists — to his local Wolf Cub group was described as " mesmerizing ... like someone from another planet.

By the 1980s, widely popular drummers like Billy Cobham, Carl Palmer, Nicko McBrain, Phil Collins, Stewart Copeland and perhaps most notably Neil Peart were using large numbers of drums and cymbals and had also begun using electronic drums.

By the mid — 18th century the French chemist Charles François de Cisternay du Fay had discovered two types of static electricity, and that like charges repel each other whilst unlike charges attract.

Of oil merchants in Baku Çelebi writes: " By Allah's decree petroleum bubbles up out of the ground, but in the manner of hot springs, pools of water are formed with petroleum congealed on the surface like cream.

By mid-1942, the Allies began to regroup and while some Allied aircraft such as the Brewster Buffalo and the P-39 were hopelessly outclassed by fighters like Japan's Zero, others such as the Army's P-40 and the Navy's Wildcat possessed attributes such as superior firepower, ruggedness and dive speed, and the Allies soon developed tactics ( such as the Thach weave ) to take advantage of these strengths.

By the 16th century the vihuela's construction had more in common with the modern guitar, with its curved one-piece ribs, than with the viols, and more like a larger version of the contemporary four-course guitars.

By sorting formulas according to the number of atoms of each element present in the formula according to these rules, with differences in earlier elements or numbers being treated as more significant than differences in any later element or number — like sorting text strings into lexicographical order — it is possible to collate chemical formulas into what is known as Hill system order.

By taking off like the scissors, but extending his back and flattening out over the bar, Sweeney achieved a more economic clearance and raised the world record to in 1895.

By 2000, the consolidation of grocery store chains, the spread of retailers like Wal-Mart, and growth of private-label brands caused competition for shelf space, and put price pressure on the company's products.

By May they were in second place in the National League and looked like a team that could contend.

By the mid-1990s, McLane ( like McMullen before him ) wanted his team out of the Astrodome and was asking the city to build the Astros a new stadium.