In September 1987 Borland purchased Ansa-Software, including their Paradox ( version 2. 0 ) database management tool.

Later it was extended to MS-DOS / PC-DOS and in 1987 Borland distributed it as Turbo Basic.

Turbo Basic 1. 1 ( 1987 ) startup screen. Turbo Basic is a BASIC compiler and dialect originally created by Robert " Bob " Zale and bought from him by Borland.

JPI was founded in 1987 by Niels Jensen, who had earlier ( 1979 or 1981 ) been one of the founders of Borland.

In September 1987, Borland purchased Ansa Software, including their Paradox / DOS 2. 0 software.

Sprint was a powerful and programmable text-based word processor for DOS, first published by Borland in 1987.

While touring in Spain in 1987, they had to cancel several appearances when Borland had a complete breakdown.

" Bum " Bright purchased the Dallas Cowboys from Clint Murchison, Jr. As the Cowboys suffered through progressively poorer seasons ( from 10 – 6 in 1985 to 7 – 9 in 1986, 7 – 8 in 1987, and 3 – 13 in 1988 ), Bright became disenchanted with the team.

In 1987 Peter de Savary purchased Land ’ s End for almost £ 7 million from David Goldstone.

In 1987, Simon and Schuster purchased the syndicate from its partners-Edward Stratemeyer Adams, Camilla Adams McClave, Patricia Adams Harr, Nancy Axelrod and Lilo Wuenn-and turned to Mega-Books, a book packager, to handle the writing process for new volumes.

However Burgess abandoned the idea and Monotype shelved the sketches, until decades later when Canadian printer Gerald Giampa stumbled upon them in 1987, after he had purchased Lanston Monotype.

It is owned and operated by Rupert Murdoch's News Limited, who purchased HWT in 1987.

In August 1987, a unit of Ansett Transport Industries Ltd., an Australian airline company and at the time 50 % owned by News Corporation, purchased a 21. 6 percent stake in America West.

Effoa had purchased the famous GTS Finnjet the previous year and from the beginning of 1987 the prestigious but unprofitable " Queen of the Baltic Sea " joined Silja Line's fleet.

The compiler was subsequently repackaged by Microsoft under a distribution agreement as Microsoft C. Lattice was purchased by SAS Institute in 1987.

In 1987, a local group of businessmen purchased the branch line to Parkdale from the Union Pacific Railroad for $ 600, 000, renaming it the Mount Hood Railroad.

The U. S. branch of Hilton hotels was reunited with the international properties after more than 40 years in February 2006, when United States-based Hilton Hotels Corporation purchased the hotels division of United Kingdom-based Hilton Group plc, which had acquired Hilton's International operations in 1987 ( the companies had been separated originally in 1964 ).

On Jan. 1, 1987 the newspaper was purchased by Worrell Enterprises of Lynchburg, Va.

A Ford Horton ambulance was purchased in 1987, and in 1992 another Ford Horton ambulance was added.

Volvo purchased GMC's heavy truck business in 1987 and merged it with White, creating the White-GMC brand.

Peter Kember had purchased an unusual electric guitar near the end of 1987: a Vox Starstream made in the late 1960s.

Only ' Columella ' was released during the lifetime of the Dutch programme, in 1987 ; patents for the < tt > LUTÈCE </ tt > and < tt > VADA </ tt > clones were purchased by the French Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique ( INRA ), which subjected the trees to 20 years of field trials in the Bois de Vincennes, Paris, before releasing them to commerce in 2002 and 2006, respectively.

Hence, 45 years after being founded by the U. S. Navy, its management team, led by Erich Burlefinger, purchased the division and in 1987 founded Burle Industries.

In 1987, Drouhin purchased land in the Willamette Valley, and in 1989 built Domaine Drouhin Oregon, a state-of-the-art, gravity-fed winery.

After Ariola purchased General Electric's RCA Records in 1986, the combined company was renamed Bertelsmann Music Group, though Arista's US releases would not note BMG until 1987.

These included graphics cards ( through their Paradise subsidiary, purchased 1986 ), core logic chipsets ( by purchasing Faraday Electronics Inc. in 1987 ), SCSI controller chips for disk and tape devices ( by purchasing ADSI in 1986 ), networking ( WD8003, WD8013 Ethernet and WD8003S StarLAN ).

On May 1, 1987, the Hearst Corporation purchased the Houston Chronicle from Houston Endowment for $ 415 Million.

* American Motors, a major American automobile manufacturer purchased by Chrysler Corporation in 1987

The new airline was formed on March 27, 1987 when Pacific Western Airlines purchased Canadian Pacific Air Lines, which in turn had recently acquired Eastern Provincial Airways and Nordair.

Both were purchased by the USAir Group in 1987 with Piedmont absorbed two years later and Henson's aircraft repainted in USAir Express livery.

* January 10 – Ray Bolger, American actor, singer, and dancer ( The Wizard of Oz )( d. 1987 )

* The Wizard of Oz ( 1987 musical )

* Ray Bolger ( 1904 – 1987 ), Actor ( The Wizard of Oz )

* The Wizard of 4th Street ( 1987 )

Raymond Wallace " Ray " Bolger ( January 10, 1904 – January 15, 1987 ) was an American entertainer of stage and screen, best known for his portrayal of the Scarecrow and Kansas farmworker Hunk in The Wizard of Oz.

Cast members throughout the program's 40-year run included Bob Bell as Bozo ( 1960 – 1984 ), Ned Locke as Ringmaster Ned ( 1961 – 1976 ), Don Sandburg as Sandy the Tramp ( 1961 – 1969 ), Ray Rayner as Oliver O. Oliver ( 1961 – 1971 ), Roy Brown as Cooky the Cook ( 1968 – 1994 ), Marshall Brodien as Wizzo the Wizard ( 1968 – 1994 ), Frazier Thomas as the circus manager ( 1976 – 1985 ), Joey D ' Auria as Bozo ( 1984 – 2001 ), Andy Mitran as Professor Andy ( 1987 – 2001 ) and Robin Eurich as Rusty the Handyman ( 1994 – 2001 ).

* The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Sumi Shimamoto ( 1986 Japanese track ), Morgan Hallet ( 1987 Canadian English track )

* The Wizard and the War Machine ( 1987 )

* Pinball Wizard 1987

He is best known for the 1987 feature-length film The Wizard of Speed and Time, based on his 1979 short film of the same name.

In 1987, they composed and performed four songs for the Canadian and U. S. versions of the anime series, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Two examples of both techniques are the running sequence in Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen ( 1989 ) in which Eric Idle outraces a speeding bullet, and Los Angeles animator Mike Jittlov's 1980 short and feature-length film, both titled The Wizard of Speed and Time, released to theaters in 1987 and to video in 1989.

The first game that the company was credited for was Falcom's Dragon Slayer action role-playing game title Legacy of the Wizard ( Dragon Slayer IV: Drasle Family ), released in July 1987, despite the company's official founding in 1989 .< ref name =" gtm_falcom_155 ">

*" The World in the Rock " in Liavek: Wizard ’ s Row, edited by Will Shetterly & Emma Bull, published by Ace Books in 1987.

Baum had written short stories and another children's book, entitled Long Ears and Tailspin, before being approached by the International Wizard of Oz Club in 1987 to write original " Oz " stories.