Over two-thirds of the members, and all the serving MPs, of the Liberal Party joined this party, led first jointly by Steel and the SDP leader Robert Maclennan, and later by Paddy Ashdown ( 1988 – 99 ), Charles Kennedy ( 1999 – 2006 ), Sir Menzies Campbell ( 2006 – 07 ) and Nick Clegg ( incumbent ).

For the spring part of the 2007 – 08 season, Jeff Goldblum and Laura Michelle Kelly joined Spacey as the three characters in David Mamet's 1988 play Speed-the-Plow.

In 1987, he invested $ 20 million in exchange for 16 % of NeXT's stock and subsequently joined the board of directors in 1988.

In 1988 the Lakas ng Bansa headed by Ramon Mitra and PDP-LABAN ( Cojuangco Wing ) joined to form the Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino or the LDP, causing a split in the ruling coalition and the unification of the Nacionalista Party.

Having joined the Council of Europe as a full member in 1988, San Marino held the rotating chair of the organisation during the first half of 1990.

Sillars eventually joined the SNP, winning the Govan, Glasgow, by-election in 1988 to become an SNP MP.

With the support of Manuel Clouthier, Vicente Fox joined the Partido Acción Nacional on March 1, 1988.

Warner ended the venture in 1988 and joined up with Walt Disney Pictures ; this joint venture lasted until 1993, when Disney created Buena Vista International.

Jim Fulton joined in January 1988 and Keith Packard in March 1988 as senior developers, with Jim focusing on Xlib, fonts, window managers, and utilities ; and Keith re-implementing the server.

Following the collapse of Communist party government in the Soviet Union and eastern Europe, the Federation's membership has risen steeply from 87 million in 1988 and 100 million in 1992, as trade union federations from former Soviet bloc countries joined the ICFTU.

Senna joined Prost at McLaren in 1988 and the two had a series of controversial clashes, including a collision at the 1989 Japanese Grand Prix that gave Prost his third Drivers ' Championship.

In 1988, during the so-called " Unix wars ", DEC joined with IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and others to form the Open Software Foundation ( OSF ) to develop a version of Unix.

There was little success initially competing with Motori Moderni until 1988 and then Cosworth engines, when Nigel Cowperthwaite joined the team, brought in by team manager Jaime Manca Graziadei.

In 1988, she also joined in demonstrations to protect an abortion clinic.

At Demme's personal recommendation, Pfeiffer joined the cast of Stephen Frears's Dangerous Liaisons ( 1988 ) alongside Glenn Close and John Malkovich, playing the virtuous victim of seduction, Madame Marie de Tourvel.

Ryan left Houston in a contract dispute following the 1988 season and joined the Texas Rangers.

WIC's stations in Calgary, Edmonton and Lethbridge had been airing some Global programs since 1988, and those stations formally joined the network on September 4, 2000.

Steve Burg, a former Graysoft programmer, joined PKWARE in 1988.

Deming joined the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University in 1988.

In 1988, McFarlane joined writer David Michelinie on Marvel's The Amazing Spider-Man beginning with issue 298.

R & B singer Lou Courtney was in the group briefly in 1978 and 1979, Joyce Wright joined in 1979, and Phyllis Battle joined in 1988.

A high point in his many contributions to the human rights cause came in 1988, when he joined a team of other major musicians – including Peter Gabriel and Bruce Springsteen – assembled under the banner of Amnesty International for the six-week Human Rights Now!

After a tour in 1988 – 1989 supporting Man in Motion ( including an opening slot for Kansas ), Jack Blades left Night Ranger to form the popular supergroup Damn Yankees with Ted Nugent and Tommy Shaw of Styx and the band broke up.

1 was recorded in mid 1988 as part of the supergroup, Traveling Wilburys.

In 1988, Waite joined former Babys bandmates Jonathan Cain and Ricky Phillips along with Neal Schon from Journey and drummer Deen Castronovo, to form the supergroup Bad English.

Harrison wanted to work with other musicians and as such joined the supergroup Traveling Wilburys in 1988, consisting of Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, Jim Keltner and his son Dhani Harrison.

3 is the 1990 follow-up album by the supergroup Traveling Wilburys to their 1988 debut Traveling Wilburys Vol.

Alias was a Canadian album-oriented rock / hard rock supergroup band, formed in 1988 in Toronto by vocalist Freddy Curci and guitarist Steve DeMarchi of the Canadian arena rock band Sheriff (" When I'm With You "), along with Heart founding members Roger Fisher, Steve Fossen, and Mike DeRosier.

In November 1988, Mystery Girl was completed and Traveling Wilburys Vol.

George Harrison first mentioned the Traveling Wilburys during a radio interview with Bob Coburn on the Rockline radio station in February 1988.

During their time together, the five members of the Traveling Wilburys frequently collaborated on each others ' solo records ; Lynne and Petty worked on Orbison's final album Mystery Girl ( 1988 ), Harrison played on Dylan's Under the Red Sky ( 1990 ), and Petty and Harrison worked on Lynne's Armchair Theatre ( 1990 ); Lynne produced Petty's solo albums Full Moon Fever ( 1989 ) ( which involved all the Wilburys, save for Dylan ) and Highway Companion ( 2006 ), as well as the Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers album Into the Great Wide Open ( 1991 ).

The Traveling Wilburys also appeared in a number of projects outside of their two albums ; Harrison appeared as Nelson Wilbury on Warner Bros. Records 1988 " holiday promo album " Winter Warnerland, which also included Paul Reubens as " Pee Wee Wilbury.

* Traveling Light 1988

As Clinton Heylin reports, while promoting The Traveling Wilburys in the fall of 1988, George Harrison discussed some of Dylan's upcoming work.

" Handle with Care " is the first track from the Traveling Wilburys 1988 album, Traveling Wilburys Vol.

On 18 October 1988, the group released its debut album Traveling Wilburys Vol.

* Traveling Light: Modern Meditations on St. Paul's Letter of Freedom ( Helmers & Howard Publishing, 1988 )

#* Originally heard on Traveling Wilburys ' 1988 album Traveling Wilburys Vol.

Pinney has provided voices for a number of animated characters, including Mighty Mouse in the short-lived Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures ( 1987 – 1988 ), Pa Gorg, Uncle Traveling Matt, Flange Doozer, and " Additional Voices " in the animated version of Fraggle Rock, Chico the Bouncer in the hybrid live-action / animated film Cool World ( 1992 ), and the speaking voice of Painty the Pirate in SpongeBob SquarePants ( 1999 – present ).

He reprised the role in Evil Under the Sun ( 1982 ) and Appointment with Death ( 1988 ).

His alma mater, St Mary's Hospital Medical School, merged with Imperial College London in 1988.

In 1988 the release of the Amiga A2024 fixed-frequency monochrome monitor with built-in framebuffer and flicker fixer hardware provided the Amiga with a choice of high-resolution graphic modes ( 1024 × 800 for NTSC and 1024 × 1024 for PAL ).

Grothendieck was co-awarded ( but declined ) the Crafoord Prize with Pierre Deligne in 1988.

In 1988 Apple had released MacTCP, a system that allowed the Mac to support TCP / IP on machines with suitable Ethernet hardware.

Norman Van Aken embraced a Floridian type cuisine fused with many ethnic and globalized elements in his Feast of Sunlight cookbook in 1988.

Accidents have occurred, sometimes with a large loss of life, such as the 1988 disaster at Ramstein Air Base in Germany and the 2002 air show crash at Lviv, Ukraine.

( 1990 ) carried out a radial velocity ( Doppler shift of spectral lines ) study of the star in April and May 1988, which showed variability with a frequency of the order of a few microhertz, the highest peak corresponding to 4. 3 μHz ( 2. 7 days ) with an amplitude of 60 ms < sup >− 1 </ sup >, with a frequency separation of ~ 5 μHz.

Brunei recognised Bangladesh quickly with other Southeast Asian countries and Bangladesh established residential Diplomatic mission in 1985, although it was closed down from 1988 to 1997 due to financial constraints.

A view of the Bosphorus strait, with the Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge ( 1988 ) seen in the background.

In 1988, Colin Pitchfork was the first person convicted of murder with DNA evidence, which led to growth of forensic science.

After a poor season for Federko in 1988 – 89, he was traded to the Detroit Red Wings with Tony McKegney for future Blues star Adam Oates, and Paul MacLean.

* The C Programming Language (' K & R ') ( 1978, 1988 with Dennis M. Ritchie )

* The AWK Programming Language ( 1988 with Al Aho and Peter J. Weinberger )

Routine immunization with BCG was withdrawn in 2005 because of falling cost-effectiveness: whereas in 1953, 94 children would have to be immunized to prevent one case of TB, by 1988, the annual incidence of TB in the UK had fallen so much, 12, 000 children would have to be immunized to prevent one case of TB.

During 1988, the Liberals formally merged with the SDP to form the Liberal Democrats, though a small splinter Liberal Party was formed in 1989 by former members opposed to the merger.

Most SDP members voted in favour of the merger, but SDP leader David Owen objected and continued to lead a " rump " SDP, with the merger of the two parties being completed in March 1988 to form the Social and Liberal Democrats, becoming the Liberal Democrats in October 1989.

After a ballot of members and the passing of a motion at the 1987 Portsmouth conference, the party merged with the Liberal Party in 1988 to form the Liberal Democrats, although a minority left to form a continuing SDP led by David Owen.

During the final year of communist Hungary in the late 1980s, the Hungarian government, along with his two sons, Béla III and Péter, requested that his remains be exhumed and transferred back to Budapest for burial, where Hungary arranged a state funeral for him on July 7, 1988.

Following two minor heart attacks he had to undergo an emergency quadruple heart bypass in 1983, after which he was extremely weak, but he still managed to attend a 1988 Congressional hearing with old colleagues such as Jimmy Stewart and Ginger Rogers to protest media magnate Ted Turner's plan to colorize various black-and-white films from the 1930s and 1940s.

* Edwina Currie resigns as a junior Health minister for incorrectly claiming that millions of British eggs were infected with salmonella, stating that " most of egg production " was infected ( 1988 )

The UK signed the Berne Convention in 1887 but did not implement large parts of it until 100 years later with the passage of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988.