He gave the Democratic response to President Reagan's 1985 State of the Union Address and served as Chair of the National Governors Association from 1986 to 1987, bringing him to an audience beyond Arkansas.

Watterson was awarded the National Cartoonists Society's Humor Comic Strip Award in 1988 and the society's Reuben Award in 1986 ; he was the youngest person ever to receive the latter award.

In 1986, the National Cheerleaders Association ( NCA ) addressed this situation by creating a separate division for teams lacking a sponsoring school or athletic association, calling it the All-Star Division and debuting it at their 1987 competitions.

Perhaps the most famous nominal damages award in modern times has been the $ 1 verdict against the National Football League ( NFL ) in the 1986 antitrust suit prosecuted by the United States Football League.

SQL became a standard of the American National Standards Institute ( ANSI ) in 1986, and of the International Organization for Standards ( ISO ) in 1987.

The name and logo for EFTPOS in Australia were originally owned by the National Australia Bank and were trade marks from 1986 until 1991.

In 1986, Capra received the National Medal of Arts.

Access to the ARPANET was expanded in 1981 when the National Science Foundation ( NSF ) developed the Computer Science Network ( CSNET ) and again in 1986 when NSFNET provided access to supercomputer sites in the United States from research and education organizations.

For example, in 1986, students from Mudd stole a memorial cannon from Fleming House at Caltech ( originally from the National Guard ) by dressing as maintenance people and carting it off on a flatbed truck for " cleaning.

The 1986 National League Championship Series against the New York Mets was noted for great drama and is considered one of the best postseason series ever.

These include: In 1959 he became a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ; in 1967 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences ; the ACM's Turing Award for making " basic contributions to artificial intelligence, the psychology of human cognition, and list processing " ( 1975 ); the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics " for his pioneering research into the decision-making process within economic organizations " ( 1978 ); the National Medal of Science ( 1986 ); and the APA's Award for Outstanding Lifetime Contributions to Psychology ( 1993 ).

** National Finalist in 1986

* 1986 – The National Resistance Movement topples the government of Tito Okello in Uganda.

Lesbian consciousness began in Nicaragua in 1986, when the Sandinista National Liberation Front expelled gay men and lesbians from its midst.

Additionally, Raynor also stated that Edwards had previously told him he had faked a photograph in 1986, which he had promoted as genuine in the National Geographic documentary.

In 1986, the National Mah Jongg League conducted their first Mah Jongg Cruise Tournament, in conjunction with Mah Jongg Madness.

* 1986 – The Seville Statement on Violence is adopted by an international meeting of scientists, convened by the Spanish National Commission for UNESCO, in Seville, Spain.

In September 1986 the National Compromise Commission ( NCC ) was established on the orders of Najibullah.

At the end of 1986, Najibullah called for a six-months ceasefire and talks between the various opposition forces, this was part of his police of National Reconciliation.

Dodge Caravan 1986, Generation I, at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History

* 1986 – Iran-Contra Affair: National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary start to shred documents implicating them in the sale of weapons to Iran and channeling the proceeds to help fund the Contra rebels in Nicaragua.

During their history, the Mets have won two World Series titles ( 1969 and 1986 ), four National League pennants ( 1969, 1973, 1986, 2000 ) and five National League East titles ( 1969, 1973, 1986, 1988, 2006 ).

The Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands ( TTPI ) was a United Nations trust territory in Micronesia ( western Pacific ) administered by the United States from 1947 to 1986.

( Since the Northern Mariana Islands was a part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands and became a commonwealth of the USA in 1986, it is technically the only area to have not joined as a part of another state or gained full independence as a sovereign nation.

* Morgan Guarantee Trust, 1980 – 1981, 1983 – 1984, 1986

The Federated States of Micronesia achieved independence in 1986 after being administered by the United States under UN auspices since 1947 as part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.

* “ An Act of Trust ” in Liavek: The Players of Luck ( 1986, edited by Emma Bull and Will Shetterly )

After rebranding to become Derbyshire Wildlife Trust in 1986, the organisation became the focus of attention again the following year when it launched an appeal to raise £ 200, 000 to renovate the old railway station buildings at Matlock Bath and create the Whistlestop Countryside Centre, an education facility in the old railway station buildings at Matlock Bath.

The land claim was partly successful and, in 1986, three areas in the eastern part of Stage Two were granted to the Jabiluka Aboriginal Land Trust.

The Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust, which was founded by Warwick resident Keith Ross in 1986, pays homage to the mountain by dint of its name, though its land protection activities take place in 23 municipalities.

* McCartney performed a version of the song at the 1986 Prince's Trust Rock Gala at London's Wembley Arena, along with several other artists, including Tina Turner, Bryan Adams, Paul Young, Elton John, Phil Collins and Brian May.

There were several private owners after that, including Alastair de Watteville, a descendant of Colin MacDonald who wrote a book about the island, until finally it was gifted to the National Trust for Scotland by Jock Elliott Jr. of New York in 1986 as an imaginative way to honour the 60th birthday of his wife, Eleanor.

* Headley, Gwyn & Meulenkamp, Wim, Follies — A National Trust Guide, Jonathan Cape, London 1986

* The UN Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands ( originally comprising Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Northern Mariana Islands and Palau ), after Allied military occupations, since 18 July 1947, had a dozen high commissioners, also presiding over the splitting off of Palau and Marshall Islands in 1980 and the 10 May 1979 granting of autonomy to the Federated States of Micronesia ( former Ponape, Truk and Yap districts of the Trust Territory ) until on 3 November 1986 the Trust Territory was dissolved by the U. S. ( a single Director of the Office of Transition, Charles Jordan, stepped in from 3 November 1986 – 30 September 1991, a while after the 22 December 1990 proclamation of final independence as the UN Security Council ratified the termination of US trusteeship ).

Following the end of World War II, Enewetak came under the control of the United States as part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands until the independence of the Marshall Islands in 1986.

The carousel was acquired by the Martha's Vineyard Preservation Trust in 1986 to prevent it from being dismantled and sold piecemeal to collectors of antique carved horses.

Happy Eater and the five Welcome Break service areas were bought from Hanson Trust PLC on 1 August 1986.

In 1986 he became general manager of Trust Bank, a newly-established banking group.

* Koch Cultural Trust ( founded 1986 as Kansas Cultural Trust, renamed in 2008 )

A study by Khan of the grain futures market indicated semi-strong form efficiency following the release of large trader position information ( Khan, 1986 ).

A 1986 study that looked at married women indicated that sexual fantasies helped them achieve arousal and orgasm.

The time of perspective of the English future can be shifted from the present to the past by replacing will with its past tense form would, thus effectively creating a " future of the past " construction in which the indicated event or situation occurs after the past time of perspective: In 1982, I knew that I would graduate in 1986.

News reports later indicated that GM had been led astray by a consultant's prediction that gasoline would be at $ 3 per gallon in the U. S. by 1986, and that small luxury cars would be in demand.

The Doctor's partiality to the works of Dickens was indicated previously when the Sixth Doctor quoted A Tale of Two Cities in the last part of The Trial of a Time Lord ( 1986 ).

Scappaticci appears to give intimate details of the modus operandi of the IRA's Northern Command, indicated some of his previous involvement in the organisation and alleges, amongst other things, that Martin McGuinness was involved in the death of Frank Hegarty-an IRA volunteer who had been killed as an informer by the IRA in 1986.

His refusal to support those taking action against Militant led to Heffer losing his position on the Labour Party National Executive at the 1986 conference, a loss which Heffer took personally, and indicated the changed nature of the Labour Party, which Heffer anticipated in his letter to Whitty in 1986.

Michael Sunnafrank's predicted outcome value theory ( 1986 ) indicated that the actual motivation for interaction is a desire for positive relational experiences.