British Steel was privatised in 1988 by the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher.

The British press also changed its coverage at the end of 1988, following a speech by Margaret Thatcher to the Royal Society advocating action against human-induced climate change.

* 1988 Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye

This ban was imposed by the then prime minister Margaret Thatcher on 19 October 1988, the reason given being to " starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend " after the BBC interviewed Martin McGuinness and Adams had been the focus of a row over an edition of After Dark, an intended Channel 4 discussion programme which was never made.

File: Denis Thatcher Nancy Reagan 1988. jpg | Denis Thatcher, husband of Margaret Thatcher, kissing the hand of Nancy Reagan wife of US President in 1988

Margaret Atwood: A Reference Guide, 1988 – 2005.

Also in 1988, Keaggy and Stonehill would team up with singer Margaret Becker, former Wings drummer Joe English and others as the Compassion All Star Band.

Keaggy and Stonehill would also team up with singer Margaret Becker, drummer Joe English ( former member of Paul McCartney and Wings ) and others, in 1988 for the Compassion All Star Band's album One by One.

Pike has significant roles in the Pocket Books novels Enterprise: The First Adventure ( Vonda N. McIntyre, 1986 ), Final Frontier ( Diane Carey, 1988 ), Vulcan's Glory ( D. C. Fontana, 1989 ), and Burning Dreams ( Margaret Wander Bonanno, 2006 ).

Mae Margaret Whitman ( born June 9, 1988 ) is an American television, movie and voice actress.

William Whitelaw was Margaret Thatcher's deputy from 1979 – 1988, a post he combined with that of Home Secretary in 1979 – 83 and Leader of the House of Lords after 1983.

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher responded with her famous Bruges Speech in September 1988, in which she said that she had not rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain only to see them reimposed by a Brussels superstate.

She supported John Prescott in the Labour deputy-leadership election in 1988 ( against Eric Heffer and the incumbent Roy Hattersley ), leaving the Socialist Campaign Group, along with Margaret Beckett, as a result of Tony Benn's decision to challenge Neil Kinnock for the leadership.

When asked in a conversation with Woodrow Wyatt on 18 December 1988 whether she would have Owen in her government if approached by him, Margaret Thatcher replied: " Well, not straight away.

In 1988, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher began preparations for a Community Charge to replace the council rates.

Returning to the House of Commons, Margaret Beckett gradually moved away from the hard left, supporting incumbent leader Neil Kinnock against Benn in 1988.

Margaret, Duchess of Argyll appearing on After Dark ( TV series ) | After Dark in 1988

She also did voice-over work on TV and films including the voice of Southern author Margaret Mitchell in the documentary The Making of a Legend: Gone With the Wind in 1988.

They have one daughter, Hannah Margaret Mack Selleck ( born December 16, 1988 ).

* Marion Crawford CVO ( 1909 – 1988 ), known as Crawfie, nanny of the future Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret

He then co-wrote songs with Margaret Becker in the fall of 1988 and the subsequent album, Immigrant's Daughter was nominated for a Grammy award.

Dorrell was promoted to government after the 1987 General Election by the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as an Assistant Government Whip, and in 1988 became a Lord Commissioner to the Treasury ' full whip '.

Having divorced Margaret Deaves in 1985, in 1988 he remarried to Carolyn Somerville.

He served as a junior minister in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major between 1988 and 1997.

Sony bought CBS Records Group, which consisted of Columbia Records, Epic Records and other CBS labels in 1988 and Columbia Pictures Entertainment ( Columbia Pictures, TriStar Pictures and others ) in 1989.

The Online Computer Library Center ( OCLC ) of Dublin, Ohio, United States, acquired the trademark and copyrights associated with the DDC when it bought Forest Press in 1988.

The castle was bought in 1988 by Evelyn Graybill, who converted it into a hotel.

* Gateway Building Society, a UK building society bought in 1988 by the Woolwich Building Society

* Gateways Books and Tapes, a book and audio tape retailer bought in 1988 by Books-A-Million

The rights to the game were initially licensed to Selchow and Righter in 1982, then to Parker Brothers ( now part of Hasbro ) in 1988, after initially being turned down by the Virgin Group ; in 2008, Hasbro bought out the rights in full, for US $ 80 million.

This opposition by CBS softened after Sony, a DAT manufacturer, bought CBS Records in January 1988.

GKN bought into Westland in 1988, acquiring a stake owned by Hanson plc.

Almost lost to time and the elements, the land, including all of the ruins, was bought in 1988 by Prince Hubertus Fugger who restored the gardens and renovated the grounds into an upscale golf resort.

" This building closed as a public school in 1979 ; in 1988, members of Metro Detroit's Muslim community bought the building and turned it into Huda School and Montessori, a K-8 Islamic parochial school ; on Saturdays the building houses the related Dar-al-Huda Islamic Saturday school.

The factory in Derby Line is still open, but was bought in 1988 by Group Tivoly, a cutting tools company based in France.

Westinghouse sold Unimation to Stäubli Faverges SCA of France in 1988, which is still making articulated robots for general industrial and cleanroom applications and even bought the robotic division of Bosch in late 2004.

Max was bought by Clooney in 1988 as a gift for his then-girlfriend Kelly Preston, who later became Travolta's wife.

In late 1988 ACG / Rare Ltd. bought back all the rights sold to U. S. Gold and were reported to be developing games again.

Motown Records was bought in 1988 ( and sold to PolyGram in 1993 ).

Motown Records was bought in 1988 ( and sold to PolyGram in 1993 ).

Soon after its American release, Nintendo bought the rights for it and rereleased it in 1988 as the Power Pad, along with the game World Class Track Meet, which was a rebranding of an earlier game.

UB went public in 1983 but was then bought by Tandem Computers in 1988 .< ref > UB was sold in 1997 by Tandem to Newbridge Networks.

In the 1990s INM bought into South Africa ( from 1994 ), Australia ( from 1988 ) and New Zealand ( from 1995 ), acquiring 38 newspaper titles, over 70 radio stations, cable and telecoms interests at a cost of around € 1. 3 billion.

A notable example is the Saudi national oil company, Saudi Aramco, which the Saudi government bought in 1988 and changed its name from Arabian American Oil Company to Saudi Arabian Oil Company.

Finally, Kluge triumphed on May 20, 1988, when he bought out Redstone's share in Orion for $ 78 million.

Warner Communications ( now part of Time Warner ) would gain indirect ownership of the stations after it bought Lorimar-Telepictures in 1988.

In 1988, the company, which still comprised the original Guiseley fish and chips premises, was bought by Merryweathers, led by Chairmen John Barnes and Richard Richardson.

Around the same time, Viacom bought out Spelling Entertainment, incorporating its library into that of Paramount itself ( in a twist of irony, Spelling's holdings contained most of the programming assets once owned by Taft, which, as mentioned before, owned the theme parks and some of the TV stations that were later acquired by Paramount ; additionally, CBS had owned a former Taft station that TVX intended to keep, WFOR-TV-formerly WCIX-in Miami, but would be sold to the network instead in 1988 ).

In 1987 HLS purchased Northern Engineering and Testing, Inc., and then in 1988 bought Empire Soils Investigations Inc., Chen Associates Inc., and Asteco Inc.