The line " There's this to say for blood and breath ,/ they give a man a taste for death " supplies the title for Peter O ' Donnell's 1969 Modesty Blaise thriller, A Taste for Death, also the inspiration for P. D. James ' 1986 crime novel, A Taste for Death, the seventh in her Adam Dalgliesh series.

The management of a number of societies still felt that they were unable to compete with the banks, and a new Building Societies Act was passed in 1986 in response to their concerns.

Since then they have had four separate periods in the top flight of English football: between 1936 – 1957, 1986 – 1990, 1998 – 1999 and 2000 – 2007.

" In John Byrne's 1986 origin version The Man of Steel, instead of adopting him through an orphanage, the Kents passed Clark off as their own child after their farm was isolated for months by a series of snowstorms that took place shortly after they found his rocket, using their past medical history of various miscarriages to account for their reasons for keeping Martha's pregnancy secret.

* Harry Tennant, The Christadelphians: What they believe and preach ( Birmingham, England: The Christadelphian, 1986 ISBN 0-85189-119-5 ).

At one of the concerts, they debuted their first new song since 1986, " You're Such a Fake ".

For the World Cup in 1986 England had a third kit of pale blue, imitating that worn in Mexico sixteen years before and England retained pale blue third kits until 1992, but they were rarely used.

In 1986 they introduced the Index of Economic Freedom, which is based on some fifty variables.

The Hughes Amendment to the Firearm Owners Protection Act now prohibits United States civilian ownership or transfer of automatic weapons unless they were registered before May 19, 1986.

Lineker scored three hat-tricks for Everton ; at home to Birmingham City in a 4 – 1 league win on 31 August 1985, at home to Manchester City in a 4 – 0 home win on 11 February 1986, and then in the penultimate league game of the season on 3 May 1986, when they kept their title hopes alive with a 6 – 1 home win over Southampton.

Lineker married Michelle Cockayne in 1986, but they divorced in August 2006.

Until 1986, they were called " military vicariates " and had a status similar to that apostolic vicariates, which are headed by a bishop who receives his authority by delegation from the Pope.

The scanning tunneling microscope, an instrument for imaging surfaces at the atomic level, was developed in 1981 by Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer at IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, for which they received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986.

Following their Super Bowl loss, they returned to the playoffs in 1986, but lost in the first round.

In 1986, they easily won the division with one of the best records of 108-54 in National League history.

* 1986 – The British government suddenly deregulates financial markets, leading to a total restructuring of the way in which they operate in the country, in an event now referred to as the Big Bang.

In July 1986 China and India held their seventh round of border talks, but they made little headway toward resolving the dispute.

K. Eric Drexler later took the Feynman concept of a billion tiny factories and added the idea that they could make more copies of themselves, via computer control instead of control by a human operator, in his 1986 book Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology.

While he has two championship rings with the 1999 – 2000 Yankees, Clemens has also been on the losing end of four World Series ( 1986 Red Sox, 2001 and 2003 Yankees, and 2005 Astros ), which is tied with Tom Glavine and John Smoltz ( who were both on the Braves when they lost the ' 91, ' 92, ' 96 and ' 99 World Series ) for the most among active players.

For example, during the June 19, 1986 overrun of the San Miguel Army base, FMLN sappers dressed only in black shorts, their faces blacked out with grease, sneaked through barbed wire at night, avoiding the searchlights, they made it to within firing range of the outer wall.

He wed the much-younger Mary Whitaker in 1986 and they had two children, son Chesare Elan on April 25, 1988 and daughter Chianna Maria on February 2, 1991.

Submachine guns produced after 1986, or not registered before the deadline, can be owned by law enforcement, security agencies, and holders of appropriate FFLs, such as a class 2 or 3 FFL, though those with an FFL do not technically own their weapon ; it is a demo weapon that they must relinquish after surrendering their license.

By 1986 only 2, 157 remained in custody and only 39 were still being held in 1989 when they were released under the Esquipulas II agreement.

The club's longest consecutive period in the top division was between 1949 and 1973, and from 1986 to 2002 they spent their longest ever period out of the top division.

Or, third, it incorporates the United Kingdom rules of succession into the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, which itself can now be altered only by Australia, according to the Australia Act 1986 ; in that way, the British rules of succession have been patriated to Australia and, with regard to Australia, are subject to amendment or repeal solely by Australian law.

The main menu screen lacked the Spectrum 128's " Tape Test " option, and the ROM was altered to account for a new 1986 Amstrad copyright message.

In 1986, Smith altered his image by appearing on-stage and in press photos sporting short spiky hair and polo shirts ( this can be seen in The Cure in Orange, a concert in the south of France released on video in 1987 ).

Beginning in 1986, it altered the playoff format to allow the first non-playoff team in one division to take the last playoff spot in the other if they had a better record.

A new logo with the name in italics was released in 1986 and was altered in 1998 from italics to Roman text.

That Act was altered with effect from 18 October 2006 by the Regulatory Reform ( Agricultural Tenancies )( England and Wales ) Order 2006 SI 2006 / 2805, which also contains changes to the 1986 Act.

The current building dates in part from the twelfth century but has been substantially expanded, refurbished and altered, with major restorations in 1863-4 and 1891 and the construction of the Cornerstone Centre in 1986.

Stirling received a series of important commissions in England – the Clore Gallery for the Turner Collection at the Tate Britain, London ( 1980 – 87 ); the Tate Liverpool ( 1984, but since then heavily altered and no longer recognisable as a Stirling project ), and No 1 Poultry in London ( 1986, but completed posthumously without his input and not therefore classifiable as a Stirling building ).

In 1986, a township in Sudbury District, Ontario, previously named the Geographical Township of Stalin, altered its name to the Township of Hansen in the athlete's honour.

" Metahuman " is used for the first time in 1986 by George R. R. Martin in an altered version of the Superworld role playing system, and later in the Wild Cards anthology series as the formal scientific term describing both superhuman powers and those that possess them, as seen in the appendices to Volume I ( the general public of the Wild Cards universe commonly refer to such individuals as Aces ).

Building on the theories of Ernest Hilgard ( 1986, 1992 ) that hypnosis is an altered state of awareness, some theorists hold that the consciousness can develop hypnotic dissociation.

This negative image of Claymore even prompted residents of privately owned houses in the suburb to lobby for the suburb borders to be altered in order to place them into Eagle Vale, which was eventually achieved in 1986.

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

Despite adaptations by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1986 ( Swan Theatre ) and 1987 ( Mermaid Theatre in London ), where the play's setting was altered to take place in the West Indies, most performances of the script in the past 25 years have been by experimental or smaller troupes.

In August 1986, the signalling was altered so that drivers of northbound trains taking the Stoke line would see flashing yellow signals on approach.

A mid-life update was carried out in 1986, in which numerous small details were changed, most notably new doors with an altered window line.

After Armstrong's death in 1986, the subsequent WCG leadership introduced a series of major doctrinal changes starting in 1994, which substantially altered the fundamental beliefs and goals of the original WCG in the direction of historic Christian orthodoxy.

The interior of the station's main hall was refurbished in 1986, which saw some of its original interiors altered and modernised.