Cunningham left Rolls-Royce as an engineer and shop steward in 1988 upon his appointment as Leader of the City Council which he served until his election to Parliament in 1992.

Since 1988 it has been part of the Rolls-Royce Power Engineering group.

NEI themselves, in 1988, were taken over by Rolls Royce plc, and the company became part of the Allen Power Engineering-Crossley Engines division of the Rolls-Royce Industrial Power Group.

Raymond Baxter narrated The Story of Rolls-Royce, a 1988 film about the history of the world's most prestigous motor car, made by the RREC.

Charles acquired cult status in 1988, in his television acting debut, as the Liverpudlian slob Dave Lister, in BBC2's new science fiction comedy series Red Dwarf.

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.

For the 1986 to 1988 model years the car acquired the powerplant from the 944 model and became the Porsche 924S.

That move, along with the 1987 NBA Draft of Ken Norman, the 1988 draftings of Danny Manning and Charles Smith ( Smith was acquired from Philadelphia in exchange for the draft rights to Hersey Hawkins ), and the 1990 NBA Draft of Loy Vaught, formed a nucleus that made the franchise a playoff contender.

TNT, as a cable service, was launched with a showing of the 1939 classic movie Gone with the Wind ( to which Ted Turner had acquired the rights ), on October 3, 1988.

In 1988, Hershey's acquired the rights to manufacture and distribute many Cadbury-branded products in the United States.

Additional aircraft were acquired and routes launched from Gatwick to New York JFK ( 1988 ), Tokyo ( 1989 ), Los Angeles ( 1990 ), Boston ( 1991 ), and Orlando ( 1992 ).

In 1988, Cunard acquired Ellerman Lines and its small fleet of cargo vessels, organizing the business as Cunard-Ellerman, however, only a few years later, Cunard decided to abandon the cargo business and focus solely on cruise ships.

In 1988, Norton Company was acquired by Saint-Gobain, the world's largest manufacturer and supplier of performance engineered abrasives for technical manufacturing and commercial applications, in addition to general household and automotive refinishing.

The campus was acquired by the Federal Bureau of Prisons in 1988 for use as the Federal Prison Camp-Yankton.

Just outside the city limits of Union City, Darling International operates a rendering plant that it acquired in the 2010 purchase of Griffin Industries, which in turn had acquired Duncan Tankage Corporation in 1988.

Lorena acquired national attention at the 1988 Democratic National Convention in Atlanta, Georgia, where the keynote address was delivered by then state treasurer and later Governor Ann Richards.

In 1988 United Cable of Denver, US, acquired Croydon Cable.

In 1988, the company acquired Brooks Brothers, an American clothing company and Kings Super Markets, a US food chain.

Gordy relocated Motown Records to Los Angeles in 1972 and there it remained an independent company until June 28, 1988, when Gordy sold the company to MCA and Boston Ventures ( which took over full ownership of Motown in 1991 ), then to PolyGram in 1994, before being sold again to MCA Records ' successor Universal Music Group, when it acquired The PolyGram Group.

In 1988 Siemens and GEC acquired the UK defence and technology company Plessey.

In 1988, Barris Industries acquired the Guber-Peters Company.

It was sold again in 1988 to an attorney, François Michaud, who owned it until 1991 when it was acquired by its current owners, the Princes of Broglie who undertook significant improvements and modernization.

The mid and late 1980s also saw Cinemax include a very limited amount of television series on its schedule including the sketch-comedy series Second City Television ( whose U. S. broadcast rights Cinemax had acquired from NBC in 1983 ) and the science fiction series Max Headroom ( which had also aired on ABC from 1987 to 1988 ).

Edelman in 1988 topobiology is the process that sculpts and maintains differentiated tissues and is acquired by the energetically favored segregation of cells through heterologous cellular interactions.

In 1994, the group distributed ASSA AB ( acquired in 1988 ) to its shareholders.

Originally settled by De Witt Clinton High School, the building was erected in 1903, and acquired by John Jay in 1988.

In 1988 Sterling Winthrop was acquired by Eastman Kodak which sold the over the counter drug rights to SmithKline Beecham in 1994.

Founded in 1987, it was acquired by Ziff-Davis in 1988.

The Fight for Civil Rights in Northern Ireland and Black America ( London Press, 1988 )

* 1988 – Jonny Evans, Northern Irish footballer

* 1988 – Michael Dunlop, Northern Irish motorbike racer

Between 1988 and 2006, the Northern and Eastern provinces were temporarily merged to form the North-East Province.

The campaign takes its name from Surat al-Anfal in the Qur ' an, which was used as a code name by the former Iraqi Ba ' athist administration for a series of attacks against the peshmerga rebels and the mostly Kurdish civilian population of rural Northern Iraq, conducted between 1986 and 1989 culminating in 1988.

Between 1974 and 1988, twelve times Northern Dancer yearlings led the Keeneland July Selected Yearling Sale by average price.

* Merrill, William L. " Raramuri Souls: Knowledge and Social Process in Northern Mexico ", 1988 ; ISBN 0-87474-684-1

Pecatonica is the hometown of Hacks Auction, Northern Illinois premeir auction house and J & J Tumbling and Trampoline which has produced several world class athletes, including 1988 Woman's Tumbling World Champion Megan Cunningham Gearhart ( later a coach ) and National Trampoline Team member Michael Devine.

The Amtrak Depot, formerly the Northern Pacific Passenger Depot and later the Burlington Northern Depot, significant of the periods 1900 – 1924 and 1925 – 1949, now primarily serving as a small shop and eatery, was added in 1988.

Great Northern Mall was built in the Town of Clay in 1988.

( The Northern and Eastern Provinces have however, technically been jointly administered since 1988.

According to Sports Illustrated, he was convicted of cocaine possession ( three ounces ) in 1988 and sentenced to 10 years at Northern State Prison in Newark.

1988, May 6 – Banner of Peace was hoisted at Northern Pole.

The Criminal Evidence ( Northern Ireland ) Order 1988 provided for adverse inferences being drawn for failure to mention something prior to being charged to an offence.

By 1981 however, the holding company of the railroad, Burlington Northern, Inc. relocated headquarters from Saint Paul, Minnesota to Seattle, Washington and spun off all non-rail operations to Burlington Resources in 1988.

In 1988, EPT also established ET3 a regional state-owned network which focused on issues of Northern Greece, to counter the Athens-centric broadcasts of the other two major state broadcasters at the time.

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

Wanda Tinasky, ostensibly a bag lady living under a bridge in the Mendocino County area of Northern California, was the pseudonymous author of a series of playful, comic and erudite letters sent to the Mendocino Commentary and Anderson Valley Advertiser between 1983 and 1988.

Sharp re-entered the public sector as the commissioner of the Northern Pipeline Agency, an agency formed under the Northern Pipeline Act ( 1978 ) to give effect to the U. S .- Canada Agreement on Principles Applicable to a Northern Natural Gas Pipeline ( 1977 ), from 1978 until 1988.

The slogan continued to be used for decades in unionist politics in Northern Ireland, and explains the visceral outburst by Ian Paisley in the European Parliament against the presence of Pope John Paul II on 12 October 1988.

Following the 1987 general election Stanley was moved to the Northern Ireland Office, once again as Minister of State, but left the government front bench in 1988 and has remained on the back benches since.

He was reappointed as Minister of Northern Affairs and Minister responsible for Native Affairs, on November 23, 1987, and served until the defeat of Howard Pawley's government in 1988.