In the essay section of his novel 1985, Anthony Burgess states that Orwell got the idea for Big Brother from advertising billboards for educational correspondence courses from a company called Bennett's, current during World War II.

Beginning with a Nintendo Entertainment System port of 1942 published in December 1985, the company started to venture into the market of home console video games, which became its main business segment a few years later.

Over the next 18 months, the Coleco company ramped down its video game division, ultimately withdrawing from the video game market by the end of the summer of 1985.

In a wider sense, most companies in the UK are created under statute since the Companies Act 1985 specifies how a company may be created by a member of the public, but these companies are not called ' statutory corporations '.

Second Commodore logo, with mixed-case company name ( 1985 – 1994 ).

It did so by buying a small startup company called Amiga Corporation in August 1984, for $ 25 million ($ 12. 8 million in cash & 550, 000 in common shares ) which became a subsidiary of Commodore, called Commodore-Amiga, Inc. Commodore brought this new 32-bit computer design ( initially codenamed " Lorraine ", later dubbed the Amiga 1000 ) to market in the fall of 1985 for US $ 1295.

However, by 1985, several company business decisions, including an awkward new breakfast menu and loss in brand awareness due to fizzled marketing efforts, caused the company ’ s new president to urge Thomas back into a more active role with Wendy's.

Mort Weisman, Jordan's father, joined the company in 1985 to lead the company's operational management having sold his book publishing business, Swallow Press.

Its affiliations included water utility, university, electricity company, brewery, and teacher unions, as well as several peasant organizations, including the National Central of Farm Workers ( Central Nacional de Trabajadores del Campo — CNTC ), formed in 1985 and active in land occupations in the early 1980s.

In June 1981, the Army awarded AM General a contract for development of several more prototype vehicles to be delivered to the U. S. government for another series of tests, and the company was later awarded the initial production contract for 55, 000 HMMWVs to be delivered in 1985.

Under his leadership the company acquired the Beatrice Chemical Division in 1985 and Glidden Coatings & Resins, a leading paints business in 1986.

In 1985 the Battalion was replaced by a reinforced company of, an AMF Company with two Recce Platoons and an Anti-Tank Platoon, a Forward Air Control team, a National Support Element for logistics and a Medical Support element.

Before the independence of the country and till 1985, international communications were managed by Cable and Wireless, a private British company.

They founded the Kesmai company in 1982 and in 1985 an enhanced version of Dungeons of Kesmai, Island of Kesmai, was launched on CompuServe.

Jones sold the company to Ashton-Tate in December 1985 for about $ 20 million.

Following the success of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Miyazaki co-founded the animation production company Studio Ghibli with Takahata in 1985, and has produced nearly all of his subsequent work through it.

Jobs was intrigued by Berg's concept of a workstation and contemplated starting a higher education computer company in the fall of 1985, amidst increasing turmoil at Apple.

Atlantis was the fourth operational ( and the next-to-the-last ) Space Shuttle to be constructed by the Rockwell International company in Southern California, and it was delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center in eastern Florida in April 1985.

The magazine was acquired by Advance Publications, the media company owned by Samuel Irving Newhouse, Jr., in 1985.

Lanier had founded the company VPL Research in 1985, which developed and built some of the seminal " goggles and gloves " systems of that decade.

Tony Finn went on to do his own negotiations with Darby and company from Australia and the result as mentioned above were the US boards later launched under the ' Skurfer ' brand name in September, 1985.

Fox network's foundations were laid in March 1985 by News Corporation's $ 250-million purchase of 50 percent of TCF Holdings, the parent company of the 20th Century Fox movie studio.

In May 1985, News Corporation agreed to pay $ 2. 55 billion to acquire independent television stations in six major U. S. cities from John Kluge's company, Metromedia.

The company went into bankruptcy in 1983, and emerged again in 1985.

After Guiler's death in 1985, the unexpurgated versions of her journals were commissioned by Pole.

However, since the contras failed to win widespread popular support or military victories within Nicaragua, since opinion polls indicated that a majority of the U. S. public was not supportive of the contras, since the Reagan administration lost much of its support regarding its contra policy within Congress after disclosure of CIA mining of Nicaraguan ports, and since a report of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research commissioned by the State Department found Reagan's allegations about Soviet influence in Nicaragua " exaggerated ", Congress cut off all funds for the contras in 1985 by the third Boland Amendment.

The piece in the main lobby of Meany Hall, entitled " Theatre ", was commissioned by the University for the hall in 1985.

( 1985 ), about the songs and poems of the UK miners ' strike, was commissioned by ITV's The South Bank Show, but also banned.

It may be of relevance that in 1985 the Smithsonian Institution commissioned aeronautical engineer Paul MacCready to build a half-scale working model of Quetzalcoatlus northropi.

She was commissioned 30 December 1959 and decommissioned 24 January 1985.

* was a guided missile cruiser commissioned in 1985 and known for shooting down an Iranian airliner in 1988.

In 1985, President François Mitterrand commissioned a statue of Dreyfus by sculptor Louis Mitelberg.

The statue outside the Broadway Centre is " Family Outing " by local artist John Ravera ; it was commissioned by Norwich Union and unveiled in 1985.

" In addition to large scale orchestral works like Symbolon ( 1988 ), Symphony no. 2 ( Cello Symphony ) ( 1985 ), and Symphony no. 3 ( 1992 ), all of which were commissioned by the New York Philharmonic, she has written a number of notable, smaller-scale concertos for relatively uncommon instruments.

Hockney was commissioned to design the cover and a series of pages for the December 1985 issue of the French edition of Vogue.

In December 1985, Hockney was commissioned to draw with the Quantel Paintbox, a computer program that allowed the artist to sketch directly onto the screen.

The new domestic terminal was commissioned in 1985 and the international terminal was commissioned in 1989.

He has had commissions from Mordine & Company in 1971 and 1989, from Carnegie Hall for " Quintet for Strings and Woodwinds " in 1983 and 1985, the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1985, Bang on a Can All-Stars in 1995, " Peroxide " commissioned by the Miller Theatre Columbia University in 2003 for " Aggregation Orb ", a commission from the Talujon Percussion Ensemble in 2008, a piece " Fly Fliegen Volar " commissioned and premiered at the Saalfelden Jazz Festival with the Junge Philharmonie Salzburg Orchestra in 2007, a premier of the piece " Mc Guffins " with Zooid at the Biennale Festival in Italy in 2004 to name some.

In 1985, rock band U2 and manager Paul McGuinness commissioned him to write the story of their origins, formation, early years and the time leading up to their phenomenally successful album, The Joshua Tree.

The concert version of Jacob ’ s Room, a mono drama commissioned by Betty Freeman for the Kronos Quartet and singer Joan La Barbara, received its premiere in San Francisco in 1985.

*, a River class destroyer escort commissioned in 1961 and in service until 1985

* The, was a Los Angeles-class nuclear attack submarine, commissioned in 1985 and decommissioned in 2008.

With the closure of the Officer Cadet School, Portsea, in December 1985, and the closure of the Women's Officer Training Wing at Georges Heights, Sydney, in December 1984, the Royal Military College, Duntroon became the sole General Service Officer training institute in the Australian Army, as all Regular Army officers serving in combat, combat support or service support Corps must attend Duntroon in order to be commissioned.

In 1981, the first geothermal plant for Lake Naivasha was commissioned and by 1985, a total of 45 MW of electricity was being generated in the area.