Fighting in Afghanistan also intensified, but in the late autumn of 1984 the United States and the Soviet Union did agree to resume arms control talks in early 1985.

The financial rand system was instituted on 1 September 1985 in an attempt to control the large outflows of capital from South Africa at that time.

Because of the cost vs. revenue contracts within the PKA, many of the promoters also left the organization and formed the International Sport Karate Association ( ISKA ) in 1985, and in the late eighties a struggle for control of the PKA developed between the Quines and equal partner Joe Corley, leading to the decline of the organization as a business entity.

However, in late autumn of 1984, the U. S. and the Soviet Union did agree to resume arms control talks in early 1985.

* 1985 – In Colombia, leftist guerrillas of the 19th of April Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá, eventually killing 115 people, 11 of them Supreme Court justices.

* Daniel Ortega, post-revolution junta head, then President from 1985, lost presidential elections in 1990, 1996, and 2001, but continues to control the FSLN party

In October 1985 Nyerere handed over power to Ali Hassan Mwinyi, but retained control of the ruling party, Chama cha Mapinduzi ( CCM ), as Chairman until 1990, when he handed that responsibility to Mwinyi.

In " The Mark of the Rani " ( 1985 ), the Rani used a Stattenheim remote control to summon her TARDIS.

The British government sold its remaining shares in 1985, maintaining a £ 1 Golden Share which allows it veto foreign control of the board or company.

Interest in fuzzy systems was sparked by Seiji Yasunobu and Soji Miyamoto of Hitachi, who in 1985 provided simulations that demonstrated the superiority of fuzzy control systems for the Sendai railway.

* From 1982 through to 1985, Times Beach, Missouri, was bought out and evacuated under order of the United States Environmental Protection Agency due to high levels of dioxins in the soil caused by applications of contaminated oil meant to control dust on the town's dirt roads.

Kenneth Lay seized control in 1985 of HNG / Internorth created by the merger of Houston Natural Gas and the much larger and more diversified InterNorth, which combined four natural gas pipeline companies, Northern Natural Gas, Transwestern Pipeline, Florida Gas Transmission, and Houston Pipeline company.

When the Republicans took control of the Senate after the 1980 elections, Dole became chairman of the Finance Committee in 1981, serving until 1985.

In 1985, a new government led by the center-right Social Democrats headed by Prime Minister Aníbal Cavaco Silva, came to power in Portugal and began loosening the state's control over economic activity.

The abject stadium conditions, along with poor crowd control procedures, are widely considered to have contributed to the Heysel Stadium disaster before the 1985 European match.

Between 1980 and 1985, nine offensives were launched into the strategically important Panjshir Valley, but government control of the area did not improve.

Partly due to the control that Landy exercised, Wilson stopped working with The Beach Boys on a regular basis after the release of the Levene-produced album The Beach Boys in 1985.

After the Foundation took control of the building in 1979, it took steps to expand gallery space ; by 1985, " all of the rooms on the main floor had been converted into galleries ... the white Istrian stone facade and the unique canal terrace had been restored ", and a protruding arcade wing, called the barchessa, had been rebuilt by architect Giorgio Bellavitis.

After the Foundation took control of the building in 1979, it took steps to expand gallery space ; by 1985, " all of the rooms on the main floor had been converted into galleries ... the white Istrian stone facade and the unique canal terrace had been restored " and a protruding arcade wing, called the barchessa, had been rebuilt by architect Giorgio Bellavitis.

The Parents Music Resource Center ( PMRC ) was an American committee formed in 1985 with the stated goal of increasing parental control over the access of children to music deemed to be violent, have drug use or be sexual via labeling albums with Parental Advisory stickers.

Bulimics are much more likely than non-bulimics to have an affective disorder, such as depression or general anxiety disorder: A 1985 Columbia University study on female bulimics at New York State Psychiatric Institute found 70 % had suffered depression some time in their lives ( as opposed to 25. 8 % for adult females in a control sample from the general population ), rising to 88 % for all affective disorders combined.

In 1985 Siemens bought Allis-Chalmers ' interest in the partnership company Siemens-Allis ( formed 1978 ) which supplied electrical control equipment.

In 1970, Oriolo gained complete control of the Felix character, and continued to promote the character up until his death in 1985.

In attempt to bring intelligence agencies under the control of the civilian-led government as part of the process of democratization that began in Brazil in 1985, President Fernando Collor de Mello replaced the SNI with the short-lived ( 1990 – 94 ) Secretaria de Assuntos Estratégicos ( SAE ) or Strategic Affairs Secretariat.

By 1985 Kru-Cut had produced World Class ’ debut album, ‘ World Class ’, with Cli-N-Tel leaving to control his own direction in life, leaving the group ’ s dancer Shakespear to step up to be the prominent MC as they signed with Epic Records.

In 1985, the Internet Architecture Board held a three-day workshop on TCP / IP for the computer industry, attended by 250 vendor representatives, promoting the protocol and leading to its increasing commercial use.

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.

Karmal was forced to resign from his post as PDPA General Secretary in May, 1985, due to increasing pressure from the Soviet leadership.

Ann Savage made live appearances with the film from 1985 to 2006, increasing public visibility as critical interest and analysis continued to grow.

The British Advanced Passenger Train ( being operational from 1984 to 1985 ) was the first to successfully implement active tilt increasing speeds significantly on tight rail curves.

At the same time, there was increasing use of GUIs in non-UNIX operating systems: the Apple Macintosh was released in early 1984, followed by Microsoft Windows 1. 0 and Amiga Workbench in 1985.

Between 1985 and 2005, the Patuxent saw a 26 % decrease in nitrogen, a 46 % decrease in phosphorus, and a 35 % reduction in sediment, despite urban areas increasing to 31 % of the watershed by 2002.

On 1 August 1985, he resigned OMB and later wrote a memoir of his experience in the Reagan Administration titled The Triumph of Politics: Why the Reagan Revolution Failed ( ISBN 0060155604 ), in which he specifically criticized the failure of congressional Republicans to endorse a reduction of government spending as necessary offsets to the large tax decreases, in order to avoid the creation of large deficits and an increasing national debt.

In the 1980s, a series of festivals took place that helped stimulate increasing agitation for freedom of expression ; these included the 1985 conference of CIOFF, the 1986 Viru säru and 1989's Baltica.

After a leave of absence due to an illness in 1985, Kohlberg returned to find increasing differences in strategy with his partners Kravis and Roberts.

The Mexican government's finances and cash availability were further hampered by two decades of increasing spending, a period of hyperinflation from 1985 to 1993, debt loads, and low oil prices.

Improving economic conditions, lower gasoline prices, as well as increasing competition in the subcompact market segment from imported vehicles meant that total Alliance and Encore sales fell to 150, 000 for 1985, then to 65, 000 in 1986, and finally to only about 35, 000 in 1987.

In 1985, President Reagan sent Laxalt to the Philippines to tell President Ferdinand Marcos about the U. S. government's increasing concerns about the state of the Philippine economy and the threat posed by a Communist insurgency.

The agency's budget increased from $ 1. 8 million to $ 7. 2 million between 1983 and 1984, increasing to $ 15 million in 1985, making it the greatest source of funding for child abuse and neglect prevention in the United States.

In 1985, the government and PETRONAS revised the standard production-sharing contract, increasing the rate of recovery of capital costs from 30 % to 50 % of gross production in the case of oil and from 35 % to 60 % in the case of natural gas, abolishing signature, discovery, and production bonus payments and increasing the foreign partners ' share of the profits.

The last batch of 1938 stock was withdrawn in 1985, except for five trains required on the Northern Line between 1986 and May 1989 due to increasing passenger numbers.

In 1985 six new clubs were elected to the league increasing the leagues participation to 22.

Conway had supported the announcement of full funding by Bill Davis's Progressive Conservative government prior to the 1985 election, and was responsible for significantly increasing the actual revenues to the Catholic system after a mathematical error in the Davis government's funding formula came to light.

It was decided in 1985 that the strategic homeport program was the best method for implementing the militarily-sound principles of dispersal, battlegroup integrity, and increasing the naval presence in the geographic flanks.

Several models followed, starting in 1985 with the 8000s and continuing with periodic updates of increasing frequency until 1993's Classic II.

* The game Balance of Power, written by Chris Crawford and published in 1985 puts the player in the position of the President of the United States or the General Secretary of the Soviet Union, with the goal of increasing " prestige ", balanced out by the need to avoid a nuclear war, which ends the game.

As service levels were declining anyway before 1985, it is not clear whether the reduction is a consequence of deregulation or of other factors such as increasing car ownership.