By the time of his resignation as chairman of the board in 1989 he had transformed Heineken from a brand that was known chiefly in the Netherlands to a brand that is currently famous worldwide.

By September 1989 his cancer was declared terminal.

By 1989, GPL came into being and the only major component missing was the kernel.

By 1989 President Callejas's broad economic goal became to return Honduran economic growth to 1960-80 levels.

By 1989 and the election of President Callejas, however, a heavy toll had been taken by regionwide economic recession, civil war in neighboring countries, the drying up of most external credit, and capital flight equaling more than US $ 1. 5 billion.

By 1989, it accounted for an estimated 34 % of material products, compared to 18 % from agriculture.

By 1989, with a definitive model name now chosen, the MX-5 ( as in " Mazda Experiment ", project number 5 ) was ready to be introduced to the world as a true lightweight sports car, weighing just.

* Music to be Born By ( 1989 ) – Mickey Hart

By contrast, South Korea had an average population density of 425 persons per square kilometer in 1989.

By the end of 1989, the last hardline members of the party's Central Committee had either resigned or been pushed out, followed in 1990 by 95 % of the SED's 2. 3 million members.

By the fall of 1989, the regime was barely clinging to power.

:* Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal ( 1989 ) as part of The Traveling Wilburys

By 1989 there were signs of a revival of the overseas construction market — the Dong Ah Construction Company signed a US $ 5. 3 billion contract with Libya for the second phase of Libya's Great Man-Made River Project, which, when all five phases were completed, was projected to cost US $ 27 billion.

By 1989, the Arizona state legislature had successfully created the holiday, but opponents forced a ballot initiative, and in 1990, Arizona voters rejected the initiative.

By 1986 only 2, 157 remained in custody and only 39 were still being held in 1989 when they were released under the Esquipulas II agreement.

By 1989, the hip hop scene had evolved, gaining recognition and exhibiting a stronger influence on the music industry.

By 1989, Leone had been able to acquire $ 100 million in financing from independent backers, and the film was to be a joint production with a Soviet film company.

By 1989 the political spectrum had widened, and new parties were formed and re-formed almost daily.

By means of the peaceful revolution in 1989, the communist regime was brought down and the city has been governed democratically since 1990.

By contrast, when Canada's YTV began airing the series in 1989, they continued airing the 1981 season as part of the package, as well as Whatever Turns You On, which was never shown in the United States at all.

By 1989, home video game sales in the United States had reached $ 5 billion, surpassing the 1982 peak of $ 3 billion during the previous generation.

By June 1989, an agreement was reached, and the only concession the RIAA would receive was a more practical recommendation from manufacturers to Congress that legislation be enacted to require that recorders have a Serial Copy Management System to prevent digital copying for more than a single generation.

By 1989, ICIC's shareholding was reduced to 11 % with Abu Dhabi groups holding almost 40 %.

By 1989, The Disney Channel had a total of about five million pay subscribers nationwide.

By March 1918, when the organization came to Moscow, it contained the following sections: against counterrevolution, speculation, non-residents, and information gathering.

By 1958 Albania stood with the People's Republic of China in opposing Moscow on issues of peaceful coexistence, de-Stalinization, and Yugoslavia's " separate road to socialism " through decentralization of economic life.

By the 16th century, the rulers of Moscow considered the entire Russian territory their collective property.

By December 1941, Hitler's troops had advanced to within 20 miles of the Kremlin in Moscow.

By the time he arrived in Turkey, three weeks later, Volkov had been removed to Moscow, in bandages.

By the end of 1984, Chernenko could hardly leave the Central Clinical Hospital, a heavily guarded facility in west Moscow, and the Politburo was affixing a facsimile of his signature to all letters, as Chernenko had done with Andropov's when he was dying.

By 2007 the now-Russian force, now designated the Operational Group of Russian Forces in Moldova, under the command of the Moscow Military District had withered away to a strength of some 1500 which included the 8th Motor Rifle Brigade and a surface-to-air missile regiment.

By age twenty, he was a member of the Moscow Committee of the party.

In the US, the new novels Moscow Club ( 1991 ) by Joseph Finder, Masquerade ( 1996 ) by Gayle Lynds, and The Unlikely Spy ( 1996 ) by Daniel Silva, and in the UK, A Spy By Nature ( 2001 ) by Charles Cumming and Remembrance Day ( 2000 ) by Henry Porter, maintained the spy novel in the post – Cold War world.

By this time his relationship with the 25-year-old writer Mira Mendelson ( 1915 – 1968 ) had finally led to his separation from his wife Lina, although they were never technically divorced: indeed Prokofiev had tried to persuade Lina and their sons to accompany him as evacuees out of Moscow, but Lina opted to stay.

By 1947, the Soviets had imposed a communist government in Bucharest, which was friendly and obedient towards Moscow.

By the end of 1941, Germany occupied a large part of Europe and its military forces were fighting the Soviet Union, nearly capturing Moscow.

By doing so he eliminated his rival, allowed the Russian Orthodox Church to move its headquarters to Moscow, and was granted the title of Grand prince by the Mongols.

By 1450, the Tatar language had become fashionable in the court of the Grand Prince of Moscow, Vasily II, who was accused of excessive love of the Tatars and their speech, and many Russian noblemen adopted Tatar surnames ( for example, a member of the Veliamanov family adopted the Turkic name " Aksak " and his descendents were the Aksakovs ) Many Russian boyar ( noble ) families traced their descent from the Mongols or Tatars, including Veliaminov-Zernov, Godunov, Arseniev, Bakhmetev, Bulgakov ( descendents of Bulgak ) and Chaadaev ( descendents of Genghis Khan's son Jagatay ).

By 1960 they reached Saint Petersburg and Moscow, and by 1975 they were to be found in Archangelsk and Astrakhan.

By 2005, the island had become the largest recipient of foreign investment in Russia, followed by Moscow.

By the October 1941, the rapid German drive to Moscow, triggered the decision to relocate the Moscow automotive manufacturer ZIS to the Volga town of Ulyanovsk.

By Ivan's order in 1553 the Moscow Print Yard was established and the first printing press was introduced to Russia.

By the 15th century Moscow principality ( or Muscovy ) established its sovereignty over a large portion of ancient Rus territory, including Novgorod, Pskov, and parts of Chernigov and Pereyaslavl principalities.

By the end of his reign, Dmitry more than doubled territory of Moscow principality.

By 25 November 1533, Vasili reached Moscow and asked to be made a monk before dying.

By 1920 the IMTU had been renamed the Moscow Higher Technical School ( MVTU ) and Tupolev was teaching a course there on the basics of aerodynamic calculations.

By August 1909, they were lovers, and by November 1909, Natalia was living apart from her second husband in an apartment in Moscow paid for by Michael.