Riding high in the polls, it appeared that the party was poised to win the 1986 election against the unpopular Social Credit government of the day but due to a minor verbal gaffe by its new leader Bob Skelly during the campaign and the surprising charisma and telegenic performance of the Socreds ' new leader William Vander Zalm, the party failed to score its anticipated breakthrough.

A Wits initiated research project, Perspectives of Wits ( POW ), published in 1986, revealed a surprising disconnect between the perceptions of disadvantaged communities of Wits and the image Wits had been attempting to convey of itself as a progressive opponent of apartheid.

In December 2007, Calderwood led Aberdeen to the last 32 of European competition for the first time since 1986 with a surprising 4 – 0 demolition of FC Copenhagen at Pittodrie.

Brown and Marc Henneaux had rigorously proved already in 1986, that the asymptotic symmetry of 2 + 1 dimensional gravity gives rise to a Virasoro algebra, whose corresponding quantum theory is a 2 dimensional conformal field theory .< ref >.

But he did not rise to stardom until 1986, when he played Molly Ringwald's foil Steff in Pretty in Pink.

Ernest Matthew Mickler's White Trash Cooking ( 1986 ) enjoyed an unanticipated rise to popularity.

Under the ideological guidance of Antoine Waechter, the party in 1986 signalled a break with the traditional divide in French politics, declaring that environmental politics could not be “ married ” to either the left or the right ( which gave rise to its famous slogan “ ni droite, ni gauche ”-" neither right, nor left ").

Roone Pickney Arledge, Jr. ( July 8, 1931 – December 5, 2002 ) was an American sports and news broadcasting pioneer who was president of ABC Sports from 1968 until 1986 and ABC News from 1977 until 1998, and a key part of the company's rise to competition with the two other main television networks, NBC and CBS, in the 1960s, ' 70s, ' 80s and ' 90s.

Since 1986 saw the rise of David Rudder, brass bands have began to dominate the Carnival competitions.

The modern elaboration of Serbs ' grievances and allegation of inequality in Yugoslavia was to be developed in the Memorandum of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts ( 1986 ), which was the single most important document to set into motion the pan-Serbian movement of the late 1980s which led to Slobodan Milošević's rise to power and the subsequent Yugoslav wars.

Guinness Plc: In 1986 there were rumours that the Guinness takeover of the Distillers Company was tainted by an unlawful share support operation which involved Guinness offering secret indemnities ( from its own funds ) against losses to people ‘ supporting ’ the bid which resulted in a dramatic rise in the price of Guinness shares.

Other early video games known to make use of cut scenes as an extensive and integral part of the game include Portopia Renzoku Satsujin Jiken in 1983 ; Valis in 1986 ; Phantasy Star, Maniac Mansion and La Abadía del Crimen in 1987 ; Ys II: Ancient Ys Vanished – The Final Chapter, Star Cruiser and Ninja Gaiden in 1988 ; and Prince of Persia and Zero Wing in 1989, with the poor translation in Zero Wings opening cutscene giving rise to the ( in ) famous Internet meme " All your base are belong to us " in the 2000s.

This raised fears that the lava might cause gas-saturated waters deep in the lake to suddenly rise to the surface, releasing lethally large amounts of carbon dioxide and methane – similar to the disaster at Lake Nyos in Cameroon in 1986.

Although the Contadora group was disbanded in 1986, the idea of a greater Central American integration remained, giving rise to the Esquipulas II Agreement, which among other things, decided to create the Central American Parliament.

If, as Ms. Hendel alleges, she was told that meditators would slowly rise in the air, and that some of them were ' flying over Lake Lucern ' or ' walking through walls, hovering, and becoming invisible ,' and that her failure to go to bed on time could bring about World War III, then a reasonable person would surely have noticed, at some time prior to September 1, 1986, that some of these representations might not be true.

It took the club another seven years to rise to Division 2 ( 1986 / 1987 season ), before winning a place in the Polish Premier League in 1992.

In 1986 this building was substantially altered, and now only the facade remains, attached to a large high rise office building.

In 1986, there were several changes to the team, previous first coat was replaced by the current shield the idea was the then owner Salvador Necochea, the latter was first played in the uniform settlement in green and white stripes and third at last a league ranked by the rise when 4 dates to finish the regular season defeat to Santos Laguna Tepic by a score of 1: 0 and gets the lead in the Second Division " A ".

Mike Tyson fought twice at the venue in 1986, but Tyson's rise to the heavyweight championship at the end of the year helped lead to a decline, and boxing has not been featured at Houston Field House in recent years.

However, the rise of corporate responsibility as an important communication issue for larger corporation led to experiments in funding basic research by companies such as IBM ( high temperature supraconductivity was discovered by IBM sponsored basic experimental research in 1986 ), L ' Oreal ( which created the L ' Oreal-Unesco prize for women scientists and finances internships ), AXA ( which launched a Research Fund in 2008 and finances Academic Institutions such as advanced fundamental mathematics French Foundation IHES ), e. g.

The rise of a new, competent opposition is a healthy development in Alberta's politics and will likely contribute positively to Alberta's economic and social well-being, Tupper ( 1986 ) argues.

The list of world kickboxing titles that Kash picked up and added to his collection over the next few years was impressive and his rise to fame gathered impetus in 1986 when he blasted his way to a gold medal at the World PKA Amateur Full Contact Championships.

Instead, the opposition remained fragmented and disunited until the rise of the National Alliance for Reconstruction in 1986.

In an article entitled " Neither Denial nor Forgetfulness Will Free Us " first published in the Frankfurter Rundschau on December 1, 1986, Mommsen argued that Historikerstreit was a result of the failures of modern society Mommsen argued that in the prosperous 1950s-60s, most Germans were happy to forget about their recent past, and looked forward to a brighter future Starting with the oil shock of the early 1970s and the rise of fundamentalist Islam in the late 1970s, Mommsen argued that the idea of a progressively better future was discredited, leading to a pessimistic public mood, and the a renewed interest in history This had occurred in tandem in a period when German historians had started to make a more critical examination of their recent past As a result at the precise mood when public demanded a past that could make them feel good about being Germans, German historians came under attack for not writing the sort of history the public wanted Mommsen argued that the work of those like Ernst Nolte was intended to provide the sort of history that would allow Germans feel good about being Germans by engaging in “… an explanatory strategy that … will be seen as a justification of National Socialist crimes by all those who are still under the influence of the extreme anti-Soviet propaganda of National Socialism " Mommsen charged that Ernst Nolte was attempting to egregiously whitewash the German past.

The rise of a new, competent opposition is a healthy development in Alberta's politics and will likely contribute positively to Alberta's economic and social well-being, Tupper ( 1986 ) argues.

The early 1980s saw the rise of a new Asian force: led by superstar Lang Ping, China stamped its mark on the World Championship's history by winning two editions in a row ( 1982 and 1986 ).

Seeing this rise in NGO support, the U. S. Congress made amendments to the Foreign Assistance Act in 1979 and 1986 “ earmarking U. S. Agency for International Development ( USAID ) funds for biodiversity ”.

Mário Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares,,,, (; born 7 December 1924 ), Portuguese politician, served as Prime Minister of Portugal from 1976 to 1978 and from 1983 to 1985, and subsequently as the 17th President of Portugal from 1986 to 1996.

The President theoretically has wide powers, but most are rarely used, following the precedent set by President António Ramalho Eanes ( 1976 – 1986 ) and upheld by his successors Mário Soares and Jorge Sampaio.

In the follow up for the presidential elections, the Socialists decided to nominate their former general secretary, Mário Soares, President of the Republic between 1986 and 1996.

* Mário Soares, President from 1986 to 1996, the official candidate of the Socialist Party ; and

In the Portuguese presidential election, 1986, held in March, Soares was elected President of Portugal, beating Diogo Freitas do Amaral by little more than 2 %.

As results for the second round were counted, the urban vote, traditionally more left-wing, overcame the early lead of Freitas do Amaral by less than 140, 000 votes, and Soares became president on March 9 of 1986.

Thomas James " Tom " Soares ( born 10 July 1986 ) is an English footballer.

On December 19, 1986, Mikhail Gorbachev, who had initiated the policies of perestroika and glasnost, called Sakharov to tell him that he and his wife may return to Moscow.

In 1986, U. S. President Ronald Reagan ( who survived an assassination attempt himself ) ordered the Operation El Dorado Canyon air raid on Libya in which one of the primary targets was the home residence of Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi.

The headship of the family is in dispute between Charles Napoléon, born 1950, great-great-grandson of Jérôme Bonaparte by his second marriage ; and his son Jean-Christophe ( born 1986 ) who was appointed heir in the will of his grandfather Prince Louis Napoléon.

Citizen exhaustion due to the conflict's newfound intensity led to the election of president Belisario Betancur ( 1982 – 1986 ), a Conservative who won 47 % of the popular vote, directed peace feelers at all the insurgents, and negotiated a 1984 cease-fire with the FARC and M-19 after a 1982 release of many guerrillas imprisoned during the previous effort to overpower them.

The Virgilio Barco ( 1986 – 1990 ) administration, in addition to continuing to handle the difficulties of the complex negotiations with the guerrillas, also inherited a particularly chaotic confrontation against the drug lords, who were engaged in a campaign of terrorism and murder in response to government moves in favor of their extradition overseas.

According to a report in the Cork Examiner, the Continuity IRA's first chief of staff was Dáithí Ó Conaill, who also served as the first chairman of RSF from 1986 to 1987.

Neal Anderson, who played from 1986 to 1993, is the closest to Payton's record with 6, 166 yards.

In 2000, Larry Dolan bought the Indians for $ 320 million from Richard Jacobs, who, along with his late brother David, had paid $ 45 million for the club in 1986.

Licensed miniature manufacturers who produced official figures include Grenadier Miniatures ( 1980 – 1983 ), Citadel Miniatures ( 1984 – 1986 ), Ral Partha, and TSR itself.

In 1986, he married Toni Hudson, an actress ( who had previously appeared in the fourth season A-Team episode " Blood, Sweat and Cheers " as Dana ), with whom he has two sons, George and Roland.

Music commented that Jones's death " hit so many people so hard " because " Monkees nostalgia cuts across generations: from the people who discovered the band during their original 1960s run ; to the kids who came of age watching 1970s reruns ; to the twenty-and thirtysomethings who discovered the Monkees when MTV ( a network that owes much to the Monkees ' influence ) began airing old episodes in 1986.

Electric Light Orchestra ( ELO ) were a British rock group from Birmingham who released eleven studio albums between 1971 and 1986 and another album in 2001.

Upon completion of the album Lynne reformed the band with completely new members including his then-girlfriend Rosie Vela ( who had released her own album " Zazu ", in 1986 ) and announced that ELO would tour again.

When the Azzuri crashed out to France in the 1986 tournament and Scirea retired, the mantle was passed to Baresi who returned to the side, a responsibility that become more poignant when Scirea was killed in a car accident aged 36, only months before Italy was to host the World Cup.

The Institute was founded in 1986 by K. Eric Drexler, no longer with the Institute, along with his then wife Christine Peterson, who is now President.

The Rules Supplement was sent to gamers who requested it by mail, and included in reprintings of the boxed set ( Ward and Johnson 1986 ).

Since the Australia Acts of 1986, it is the Governor, and not the Queen, who exercises all the powers of the Head of State, and the Governor is not subject to the direction or supervision of the Monarch, but acts upon the advice of the Premier.

President François Mitterrand, a Socialist, for example, was forced to cohabit with the neo-Gaullist ( right wing ) Jacques Chirac, who became his prime minister from 1986 to 1988.

Highlander is a film and television franchise that began with a 1986 fantasy movie starring Christopher Lambert, who plays Connor MacLeod, the Highlander.

The 1985 and 1986 teams combined for only eight wins, including an 0 – 13 start in 1986, which prompted the firing of head coach Rod Dowhower, who was replaced by Ron Meyer.

In United States v. Carpenter ( 1986 ) the U. S. Supreme Court cited an earlier ruling while unanimously upholding mail and wire fraud convictions for a defendant who received his information from a journalist rather than from the company itself.

In 1986, Jarmusch wrote and directed Down by Law, starring musicians John Lurie and Tom Waits, and Italian comic actor Roberto Benigni ( his introduction to American audiences ) as three convicts who escape from a New Orleans jailhouse.