Canon released the 2. 8L version, also known as the ' Magic Drainpipe ', in September 1989, retailing it for about US $ 1, 320.

Since the end of the communist era in 1989, Poznań municipality and suburban area have invested heavily in infrastructure, especially public transport and administration.

The company states that no animal testing for finished products has taken place since 1989 and that L ' Oreal has invested significantly in alternative methods for chemical safety testing, though they implicitly acknowledge that they continue to perform animal testing of ingredients.

The firm specializes in leveraged buyout transactions as well as growth capital investments and has invested in more than 130 companies globally since its inception in 1989.

Through its Seismograph Service Corporation subsidiary, Raytheon Company invested in and subsequently purchased GeoQuest Systems, Inc in the late 1980s ( circa 1989 ).

Since Rio Tinto purchased Kennecott Utah Copper in 1989 it has invested about $ 2 billion in the modernization of KUC ’ s operations.

Bain invested the $ 37 million of capital in its first fund in twenty companies and by 1989 was generating an annualized return in excess of 50 percent.

The amount of invested assets under investment management's control grew from $ 12. 4 billion in 1985 to $ 21. 8 billion in 1989.

Meanwhile, in 1989, the US Congress passed a series of amendments to the Clean Air Act.

A first US IPO followed in 1989 after Ben Rosen joined the Borland board with Goldman Sachs as the lead banker and a second offering in 1991 with Lazard as the lead banker.

* 1989 – Cold War: In a meeting off the coast of Malta, US President George H. W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev release statements indicating that the cold war between Nato and The Soviet Union may be coming to an end.

* 1989 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers a US $ 3 million bounty for the death of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie.

His eponymous first album was released in 1989 and peaked at number 2 in the US country album chart while climbing to number 13 on the Billboard 200 album chart.

By 1989 and the election of President Callejas, however, a heavy toll had been taken by regionwide economic recession, civil war in neighboring countries, the drying up of most external credit, and capital flight equaling more than US $ 1. 5 billion.

The situation was further complicated in 1989 when all UK beef and lamb was banned from importation to the US due to the BSE crisis.

Japan was the number one foreign investor in the ASEAN countries, with cumulative investment as of March 1989 of about US $ 14. 5 billion, more than twice that of the United States.

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.

* 1989 – Second Gulf of Sidra incident: a pair of Libyan MiG-23 " Floggers " are shot down by a pair of US Navy F-14 Tomcats during an air-to-air confrontation.

An animated feature film entitled Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland ( known simply as Nemo in Japan ) was finally released in Japan in July 1989 and in the US in 1992.

The US military de-emphasized hand-to-hand combat training during the Cold War period, but revived it with the introduction of LINE in 1989.

) per US $ 1 – 1. 790 ( fixed rate since 1989 )

The treaty was eventually signed as an initiative of US president ( and former Director of Central Intelligence ) George H. W. Bush in 1989.

When Guillermo Endara won the Presidential elections held in May 1989, the Noriega regime annulled the election, citing massive US interference.

The US State Department at times labeled Serbia and Montenegro as a rogue state solely because Slobodan Milosevic, who served as President of Serbia between the years 1989 and 1997, had violated the rights of some of his nation's citizens.

South Korea's real gross domestic product expanded by an average of more than 8 percent per year, from US $ 2. 7 billion in 1962 to US $ 230 billion in 1989, breaking the trillion dollar mark in 2007.

Total investment in car and car-component manufacturing was over US $ 3 billion in 1989.

By 1989 there were signs of a revival of the overseas construction market — the Dong Ah Construction Company signed a US $ 5. 3 billion contract with Libya for the second phase of Libya's Great Man-Made River Project, which, when all five phases were completed, was projected to cost US $ 27 billion.

South Korean construction companies signed over US $ 7 billion of overseas contracts in 1989.

Thanks to industrialization GDP per hour worked ( labor output ) more than tripled from US $ 2. 80 in 1963 to US $ 10. 00 in 1989.

Under the 1989 agreement between the BPCA and the City of New York, $ 600 million was transferred by the BPCA to the city.

* 1989 – Union Carbide agrees to pay $ 470 million to the Indian government for damages it caused in the 1984 Bhopal disaster.

In 1989, Coleman sued his foster parents and former business adviser for $ 3. 8 million over misappropriation of his trust fund, and won a $ 1, 280, 000 judgment in 1993.

In 2004, Indian elections covered an electorate larger than 670 million people — over twice that of the next largest, the European Parliament elections — and declared expenditure has trebled since 1989 to almost $ 300 million, using more than 1 million electronic voting machines.

With the stabilization of the new market economy, Hungary has experienced growth in foreign investment with a " cumulative foreign direct investment totaling more than $ 60 billion since 1989.

With about $ 18 billion in foreign direct investment ( FDI ) since 1989, Hungary has attracted over one-third of all FDI in central and eastern Europe, including the former Soviet Union.

* 1989 – Iran-Contra Affair: Oliver North is sentenced by U. S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell to a three-year suspended prison term, two years probation, $ 150, 000 in fines and 1, 200 hours community service.

In 1989, after a five-week trial which began on August 28 in Charlotte, the jury found him guilty on all 24 counts, and Judge Robert Potter sentenced him to 45 years in federal prison and a $ 500, 000 fine.

After several attempts to acquire Davis, the organization was ultimately successful in signing him to a four-year $ 13 million contract ( the largest annual salary in baseball history at the time ) on December 11, 1989.

Several days earlier, the Royals bulked up their bullpen by inking starting pitcher Storm Davis, who was enjoying a career-high 19 game win record ( third best in the AL ) with the Athletics in 1989, on a three-year $ 6 million contract.

* 1989: Straight From the Underground Tour ( opened for Ice Cube, Too $ hort, D Nice and Yo-Yo )

The $ 1 note remained in issue and in circulation along with the coin for the next two years, until the note was finally withdrawn on June 30, 1989.

In 1990, Madagascar was designated as a priority aid recipient, and assistance increased from $ 15 million in 1989 to $ 40 million in 1993.

Romania has experienced growth in foreign investment with a cumulative FDI totaling more than $ 100 billion since 1989, and has been referred to as a " Tiger " due to its high growth rates and rapid development .< ref name =" autogenerated2 ">