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.

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.

AIX Version 1, introduced in 1986 for the IBM 6150 RT workstation, was based on UNIX System V Releases 1 and 2.

Category: Products introduced in 1986

Advanced Mobile Phone System ( AMPS ) is an analog mobile phone system standard developed by Bell Labs, and officially introduced in the Americas in 1978, Israel in 1986, and Australia in 1987.

When Compaq introduced the first PC based on Intel's new 80386 microprocessor, the Compaq Deskpro 386, in 1986, it marked the first CPU change to the PC platform that was not initiated by IBM.

Digital video was first introduced commercially in 1986 with the Sony D-1 format, which recorded an uncompressed standard definition component video signal in digital form instead of the high-band analog forms that had been commonplace until then.

In 1996, new rules introduced a single engine ( a detuned Judd V8 engine, re-engineered by and badged as a Zytek ) and chassis ( Lola ), to go along with tyre standardization ( Avon ) introduced in 1986.

The IA-32 instruction set was introduced in the Intel 80386 microprocessor in 1986 and remains the basis of most PC microprocessors over twenty years later.

The same limitations affected Digital Research's FlexOS 286 version 1. 0, a derivation of Concurrent DOS 286, developed in 1986, introduced in January 1987, and later adopted by IBM for their IBM 4690 OS.

The Model B, introduced in 1986, introduced a solid cast flywheel ( now enclosed by a cage ) and the first digital performance monitor, which proved revolutionary.

They were introduced in 1986.

The benchmark was introduced in 1986 and was commonly used until the mid 1990s.

No substantive reform was introduced, however, until 1986 when the government announced its " new economic mechanism " ( NEM ).

* 1986: Range Rover is introduced to the U. S market in April 1986

* The studio introduced a new logo in 1986 in preparation for their 75th anniversary, with a computer-generated lake and stars.

The architecture was introduced on 26 February 1986 when the HP 3000 Series 930 and HP 9000 Model 840 computers were launched featuring the first implementation, the TS1.

Precision Architecture was introduced in 1986.

The 4000 was followed by the very popular 4001 ( in 1961 ), the 4002 ( limited edition bass introduced in 1977 ), the 4008 ( an eight-string model introduced in the mid-1970s ), the 4003 ( in 1979, replacing the 4001 entirely in 1986 and still in production in 2012 ), and most recently the 4004 series.

1986: Nixon returns to draw Roger again, he moves to two pages and Roger The Dodger's Dodge Clinic is introduced.

Roger Wilco is a fictional character and the protagonist of the Space Quest series, introduced in Space Quest: The Sarien Encounter in 1986.

In this case, the XML counterpart would be the specific empty tag, equivalent to the SGML NET-enabling start-tag, introduced in the TC2 ( International Standard ISO 8879: 1986, Technical Corrigendum 2, November 1999 ).