Between 1988 and 1996, there were an average of 133, 735 hospital discharges for amputation per year in the US.

In 1988, as a result of threatening actions by the forces of the Nicaraguans, US forces were deployed to Honduras.

Japan's aid to the ASEAN countries totaled US $ 1. 9 billion in Japanese fiscal year ( FY ) 1988 versus about US $ 333 million for the United States during U. S. FY 1988.

Japan's aid to seven South Asian countries totaled US $ 1. 1 billion in 1988 and 1989, dropping to just under US $ 900 million in 1990.

Investments in Australia totaled US $ 8. 1 billion in 1988, accounting for 4. 4 percent of Japanese direct investment abroad.

On 31 October 2008, Libya paid $ 1. 5 billion, sought through donations from private businesses, to a fund that would be used to compensate both US victims of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 and the 1986 bombing of the La Belle disco in Germany.

* 1988 – A fire at Illinois Bell's Hinsdale Central Office triggers an extended 1AESS network outage once considered the ' worst telecommunications disaster in US telephone industry history ' and still the worst to occur on Mother's Day.

In 1988, an unusually designed US 9mm machine pistol named the Calico M950 was introduced.

*" The problem of slavery in Western culture ", David Brion Davis, Oxford University Press US, 1988, ISBN 0-19-505639-6

There was a sharp decrease in new orders in the late 1980s ; new orders for 1988 totaled 3 million gross tons valued at US $ 1. 9 billion, decreases from the previous year of 17. 8 percent and 4. 4 percent, respectively.

In 1988, however, overseas construction contracts totaled only US $ 2. 6 billion ( orders from the Middle East were US $ 1. 2 billion ), a 1 percent increase over the previous year, while new orders for domestic construction projects totaled US $ 13. 8 billion, an 8. 8 percent increase over 1987.

Seoul achieved its first significant surplus in its balance of payments in 1986 and recorded a US $ 7. 7 billion and a US $ 11. 4 billion surplus in 1987 and 1988 respectively.

Senator John Kerry's 1988 U. S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations report on links between the Contras and drug imports to the US concluded that " senior U. S. policy makers were not immune to the idea that drug money was a perfect solution to the Contras ' funding problems.

On the other hand, Gilliam's first successful feature, Time Bandits ( 1981 ), earned more than eight times its original budget in the United States alone ; The Adventures of Baron Munchausen ( 1988 ) was nominated for four Academy Awards ( and won, among other European prizes, three BAFTA Awards ); The Fisher King ( 1991 ) ( his first film not to feature a member from Python ) was nominated for five ( and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress ); and 12 Monkeys went on to take over US $ 168 million worldwide ; whilst The Brothers Grimm, despite a mixed critical reception, grossed over US $ 105 million worldwide.

* If I Should Fall from Grace with God ( 1988 ): No. 3 UK, No. 88 US, No. 15 NO

From 1988 to December 2004, cumulative foreign direct investment ( FDI ) commitments totaled US $ 46 billion.

His Esquisse d ' un programme ( 1984 ) is a proposal for a position at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, which he held from 1984 to his retirement in 1988.

The modern American Media came into being after Generoso Pope, Jr., longtime owner of The National Enquirer, died in 1988, and his tabloids came under new ownership.

He gave the nationally televised opening night address at the 1988 Democratic National Convention, but his speech, which was 33 minutes long and twice as long as it was expected to be, was criticized for being too long and poorly delivered.

Altogether, Clinton has spoken at the last six Democratic National Conventions, dating to 1988.

Watterson was awarded the National Cartoonists Society's Humor Comic Strip Award in 1988 and the society's Reuben Award in 1986 ; he was the youngest person ever to receive the latter award.

* 1988: National Cartoonists Society, Newspaper Comic Strips Humor Award

In 1988, after prompting from the United States Congress, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences ( National Institutes of Health ) ( NIGMS ) instituted a funding mechanism for biotechnology training.

In 1988 Colonel Koffi Botty was the high commander of the National Gendarmerie, having replaced Brigadier General N ' daw in 1983.

* New York Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics Best Documentary for The Thin Blue Line ( 1988 )

The Ethan Allen School was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

The National Tremor Foundation ( NTF ), founded in 1992, is a British friendly organisation based in Essex, England, an affiliate of the International Tremor Foundation, which was founded in 1988.

* In 1962, his home in Anacostia ( Washington, DC ) became part of the National Park System, and in 1988 was designated the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site.

All three principal types of resonator guitars were invented by the Slovak-American John Dopyera ( 1893 – 1988 ) for the National and Dobro ( Dopyera Brothers ) companies.

In 1988 and 1991 in Moscow, the delegation visited the National Congress of Honduras.

** National Tournament Top 10 finishes: 1967, 1968, 1969, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1988, 1989, 1995, 1997, 1998 and 2000

The first Comedy League of America National Tournament was held in 1988, with 10 teams participating.

Mark Davis, the 1989 league leader in saves ( 44 ) and boasting a 1. 85 earned run average while earning the 1989 National League Cy Young winner and back-to-back All-Star selections ( 1988, 1989 ) with the San Diego Padres, became a free agent at the close of the 1989 season.

* Mary Flowers, " Fuchs, ( Emil Julius ) Klaus ( 1911 – 1988 )", rev., Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004,, accessed 24 September 2005.

In 1988, he was awarded the National Medal of Science.

One that occurred on a 1988 show taped at the Apollo Theater, involving Al Sharpton and CORE National Chairman Roy Innis.

In National Assembly elections in June 1988, multiple UDPM candidates were permitted to contest each seat, and the regime organized nationwide conferences to consider how to implement democracy within the one-party framework.

The National Computer Board ( NCB ) was also set up in 1988 by the National Board Act ( No 43 ) to advise the Government on the formulation of national policies for the development of the IT sector and promote an IT culture in the country.

Banknotes are mostly paper, but Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation developed the world's first polymer currency in the 1980s that went into circulation on the nation's bicentenary in 1988.

" Dance Research Journal 20. 1 ( 1988 ): 29 – 36.

Mark Weiser coined the phrase " ubiquitous computing " around 1988, during his tenure as Chief Technologist of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center ( PARC ).

Acquired by Intel in 1988 from RCA's Sarnoff Research Labs, DVI never caught on.

Perhaps the first software-defined radio transceiver was designed and implemented by Peter Hoeher and Helmuth Lang at the German Aerospace Research Establishment ( DLR, formerly DFVLR ) in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, in 1988.

Starting in 1988, IANA was funded by the U. S. government under a contract between the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Information Sciences Institute.

* 1988 3M opens Research and Development Center in Austin

Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1988: 45 – 59.

Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama: USAF Historical Research Center, 1988.

In 1978, Dr. Jackson became part of the Scattering and Low Energy Physics Research Department, and in 1988 she moved to the Solid State and Quantum Physics Research Department.

He received many awards and honors for his work in climate research, including the Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal ( 1984 ), the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement ( 1988 ), the highest atmospheric science award of the American Meteorological Society and the Blue Planet Prize ( 1995 ), often considered as the Nobel Prize for environmental sciences.

The Open Software Foundation ( OSF ) was a not-for-profit organization founded in 1988 under the U. S. National Cooperative Research Act of 1984 to create an open standard for an implementation of the UNIX operating system.

It is officially called the Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap since 1988 ; previously, it was known as Joint Defence Space Research Facility.

In 1988 it was renamed the Royal Aerospace Establishment before merging with other research entities to become part of the new Defence Research Agency in 1991.

* United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Civil Action 88 – 2600 GHR, Archives and Research Center v. Central Intelligence Agency, Affidavit of George William Bush, September 21, 1988.

RSISE resulted from the merger of the Department of Systems Engineering ( 1981 ) and the Computer Sciences Laboratory ( 1988 ), both of which were part of the Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering ( RSPhysSE ).

From 1988 he worked at University College Dublin at the Centre for Water Resources Research.

* Selection Research, Inc. ( SRI ) that acquired and merged with the Gallup Organization in 1988

In 1988, researchers at IBM's Zürich Research Institute successfully spelled the letters " IBM " in xenon atoms on a cryogenic copper surface, grossly validating the approach.

* In 1988, one of the first NIH-funded Centers for AIDS Research ( CFARs ) in the country was created at Einstein.

He was a Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Fellow at the Research School of Pacific Studies of the Australian National University from 1984 to 1988 and the Director of the Graduate Program in the Economics of the Development at the National Centre for Development Studies of the Australian National University from 1986 to 1988.