The private Nordbanken was formed in 1986 at a merger between two smaller private local banks, Uplandsbanken and Sundsvallsbanken.

Reagan followed his 1981 tax cuts with the Tax Reform Act of 1986, which sought to eliminate deductions, lower marginal rates for the wealthy, and significantly raise taxes on those earning less than $ 50, 000 In 1982 Reagan agreed to a rollback of corporate tax cuts and a smaller rollback of individual income tax cuts.

As the flavour of interactivity crossed the Atlantic, the massive Cite des Sciences et de l ' Industrie opened in Paris in 1986, and smaller but no less influential national centres soon followed in Spain, Finland and Denmark.

The 3720, introduced in 1986, was capable of supporting up to 60 communications lines, and was a smaller version of the 3725.

Wal-Mart opened a supercenter in Durant in 2003, replacing the older, smaller Wal-Mart that had operated since 1986.

In 1986, W H Smith bought a 75 % controlling share of the Our Price music chain ; in the 1990s it also bought other music retailers including the Virgin Group's smaller ( non-Megastore ) shops.

The annual event now known as Burning Man began as a bonfire ritual on the summer solstice in 1986 when Larry Harvey, Jerry James, and a few friends met on Baker Beach in San Francisco and burned a 9-foot ( 2. 7-meter ) wooden man as well as a smaller wooden dog.

He and Jerry James built an 8-foot ( 2. 4-meter ) wooden effigy for 1986, which was much smaller and more crudely made than the neon-lit figure featured in the current ritual.

There is another, much smaller shopping centre, Burton Place Shopping Centre which was built in 1986.

One version, in 1983 featured a giant chevron logo, made up out of smaller chevrons, and another in 1986 featured the view zooming in from space, to the earth, to Britain and finally to the Yorkshire TV region, which then flipped over, becoming the chevron.

By 1986 a large electro-mechanical destination board at the end of the platforms, with a smaller repeater board at the western side of the concourse, had replaced the former manually operated train-information boards.

ACE in 1986 had three major subordinate commands ( MSCs ), one each for Northern, Central, and Southern Europe, as well as smaller commands.

Gainsborough is the home of two of the largest jokes and novelties importers in the UK: Smiffy's ( formerly known as RH Smith & Sons, founded in 1894 ), and Pam's of Gainsborough, a smaller company founded in 1986.

The New York Times noted extraordinary rent increases and displacement as early as 1986, mirroring the pattern of residential conversions of industrial buildings seen in nearby Williamsburg, as well as the similar formation of a much smaller art community.

For 1986, the Delta 88 switched platforms from the GM B platform to the smaller front-wheel drive H platform, with a wheelbase of only.

When the Marbella was introduced in December 1986, the smaller 843 cc version continued to be available.

A smaller version ( 956 cc ) of this new engine replaced the by now venerable 845 cc engine in the 4 in 1986.

The range was given a facelift, including an all new interior, in 1986, but European Peugeot 505 production began to wind down following the launch of the smaller Peugeot 405 at the end of 1987.

* 2, 498 cc " XD3T " turbocharged engine that produced 95 hp ( 70 kW ) was used on 1985 ( both XD2S and XD3T were available in the US in the 1985 and 1986 model years, with the smaller engine being fitted to station wagons ) and newer models.

Cazzetta considered the event an unforgivable breach of the outlaw code and, rather than joining the Hells Angels, in 1986 formed his own smaller gang, the Rock Machine, with his brother Giovanni.

In 1986, Groningen was the first city in the Netherlands where 16 of the 24 smaller institutions joined forces to create one large university of applied sciences.

The British Army replaced its Series III fleet with One Tens in 1985, with a smaller fleet of Nineties following in 1986.

The smaller LTD continued in sedan and station wagon forms through 1986, overlapping with the first model year of the Ford Taurus in 1986, the car that became its successor.

A broad public discussion of environmental problems began in the mid-1980s, when the first " green " groups formed in opposition to Yerevan's intense industrial air pollution and to nuclear power generation in the wake of the 1986 reactor explosion at Chernobyl '.

Although the industrial sector has traditionally been Taiwan's largest energy consumer, its share has dropped in recent years from 62 % in 1986 to 58 % in 2002.

* November 5 – Raymond Loewy, French-born American industrial designer ( d. 1986 )

Icahn also attempted the grand prize of U. S. Steel, launching a hostile takeover for 89 % of the industrial giant for $ 7 billion ($ billion today ) in late 1986 and only being rebuffed finally by CEO David Roderick on January 8, 1987.

He left in mid 1986 and formed his own industrial project Front Line Assembly with Michael Balch, and later Rhys Fulber and Chris Peterson.

* Raymond Loewy ( 1893 – 1986 ), industrial designer

Innovative and internationally recognised art videos from this era were Despair ( 1982 ) by industrial music innovators SPK and Human Jukebox ( c. 1986 ) by The Scientists.

In the late 1980s, Knowlhill was designated by Milton Keynes Development Corporation as being the industrial part of the " Energy Park "-with the residential part across Watling Street in Shenley Lodge, home to the 1986 Energy World exhibition.

In 1986 the average age of industrial machinery and equipment was 12 years ; 10 percent of the machinery was more than 25 years old, and the percentage was reportedly increasing.

An industrial estate was built immediately after the mine closure along with a proper landscape reclamation scheme in 1986 and the disused colliery and spoil tips were converted into the Severn Valley Country Park.

Originally released for the Apple Macintosh in 1986, LabVIEW is commonly used for data acquisition, instrument control, and industrial automation on a variety of platforms including Microsoft Windows, various versions of UNIX, Linux, and Mac OS X.

Immediately after the strike was announced on Jan 24, 1986, dismissal notices were served on all those taking part in the industrial action, effectively sacking 6, 000 employees.

Despite the passage of the Clean Water Act in 1973 and the closing of the major industrial polluter in 1986, Onondaga Lake is still one of the most polluted lakes in the United States.

Located in Gateshead, near Newcastle upon Tyne, on a former industrial site close to the River Tyne, the Metrocentre opened in stages, with the first phase opening on 28 April 1986 and the official opening on 14 October 1986.

During the 1980s Hamilton again voyaged into industrial design and designed two computer exteriors: OHIO computer prototype ( for a Swedish firm named Isotron, 1984 ) and DIAB DS-101 ( for Dataindustrier AB, 1986 ).

Franti began his music career in 1986 as part of the industrial punk band The Beatnigs.

The Park's industrial wastewater treatment plant began to operate in 1986, and environmental protection department monitors the air quality around the Park.

Jourgensen is the founder and only continuous member of industrial metal band Ministry, of which Barker was an official member between 1986 and 2004, and Ward was also once a touring member.

The NAS / UWT took part in long-running industrial action between 1984 and 1986, in support of a pay claim and the retention of the Burnham committee.

In 1986, the firm established offices in Northern Mexico to facilitate legal transactions connected to industrial development in that region.

The industrial, transport, and residential infrastructure has been largely crumbling since the 1986 evacuation.

In the 1985 Mudginberri dispute and the 1986 Dollar Sweets dispute employer organisations such as the National Farmers Federation successfully backed legal sanctions to defeat union industrial action.