In 1990, The Rank Group, a London-based leisure company, acquired Mecca Leisure Group and continued expansion of the concept in its geographic territory.

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The site was briefly owned by Rank Hovis McDougall in 1988, who sold it to Cereal Partners in 1990.

Rank Organisation logo (~ 1990 )

The album yielded no Top 40 Country hits, although numerous singles were released between 1990 and 1991, including a duet with Randy Travis titled, " We're Strangers Again ".

* The Comfort of Strangers ( 1990 )

Returning to the public eye in The Comfort of Strangers ( 1990 ), several films of variable success followed.

* The Comfort of Strangers ( 1990 )

Paul Toscano is a Salt Lake City attorney who co-authored with Margaret Merrill Toscano a controversial book, Strangers in Paradox: Explorations in Mormon Theology ( 1990 ), and, in 1992, co-founded The Mormon Alliance ; he later wrote the book The Sanctity of Dissent ( 1994 ) and its sequel The Sacrament of Doubt ( 2007 ).

Her performances opposite Robert Duvall and Faye Dunaway in The Handmaid's Tale and Christopher Walken, Rupert Everett and Helen Mirren in The Comfort of Strangers ( directed by Schrader ) won her the 1990 Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Actress.

His work in the 1990s included The Comfort of Strangers ( 1990 ), adapted by Harold Pinter from the Ian McEwan novel, Light Sleeper ( 1992 ), a sympathetic study of a drug dealer vying for a normal life, which he called his " most personal " film, Touch ( 1997 ), from an Elmore Leonard novel, and the rural drama Affliction ( 1997 ), from the Russell Banks novel, which gained wide critical acclaim.

* The Comfort of Strangers ( 1990 )

* A Country of Strangers, Anchor Books, 1990, ISBN 9780385267755

* The Comfort of Strangers ( 1990 )

His other books since 1978 include Strangers in Paradise: The Hollywood Emigres 1933-1950 ( 1983 ), and bio-critical studies of Ingrid Bergman ( 1983 ), Alec Guinness ( 1984 ), Vivien Leigh ( 1984 ), Orson Welles ( 1986 ), Elizabeth Taylor ( 1991 ), film historian John Kobal ( 2008 ) and the artists Edward Wolfe ( 1986 ), Bernard Meninsky ( 1990 ), Muriel Pemberton ( 1993 ), Ricardo Cinalli ( 1993 ), Claude Monet ( 1995 ), Bill Jacklin ( 1997 ), Cyril Mann ( 1997 ) Peter Coker ( 2002 ), Zsuzsi Roboz ( 2005 ), Carl Laubin ( 2007 ), Philip Sutton ( 2008 ) and Paul Day ( 2010 ).

The Company of Strangers ( US release title: Strangers in Good Company ; French title: Le Fabuleux gang des sept ) is a Canadian film, released in 1990.

In addition to the original Broadway and London cast recordings, and the motion picture soundtrack ( no longer available ), there are recordings of the 1990 studio cast, the 1995 Royal National Theatre revival ( starring Judi Dench ), and the 2001 Barcelona cast recording sung in Catalan.

CD-R recording systems available in 1990 were similar to the washing machine-sized Meridian CD Publisher, based on the two-piece rack mount Yamaha PDS audio recorder costing $ 35, 000, not including the required external ECC circuitry for data encoding, SCSI hard drive subsystem, and MS-DOS control computer.

The cargo sector grew rapidly in the 1980s, recording 274. 2 billion tonne-kilometres in 1990.

* 1990 Hardware ( Lemmy was cast as a water taxi driver ; and plays a recording of " Ace of Spades " for his passengers ).

* 1990 – Stan Walker, Australian / New Zealand recording artist and actor.

In 1990, the original recording of " Unchained Melody " was featured in the enormously popular feature film Ghost ( starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, and Best Supporting Actress Oscar < sup >®</ sup >- winner Whoopi Goldberg ).

* 1990: " Unchained Melody " ( new 1990 recording for Curb Records ) — # 19 U. S. ( Platinum )

Disc two is referred to by fans as " The Lost Album ", with previously unreleased songs from their 1990 and 1994 recording sessions.

Silvertone owners Zomba Records took out an injunction against the band in September 1990 to prevent them from recording with any other label, but in May 1991 the court sided with the group, which was then released from its contract.

Even though the show had ended its 18 year television network run, in 1990 Johnny Young used his own money, and his television studio and recording complex to produce a one-off direct-to-video special " Young Talent Time Now-1990 ".

Irving went on to assert that the " ship " was due for rough sailing because recently the Soviet government had allowed historians access to " the index cards of all the people who passed through the gates of Auschwitz ", and claimed that this would lead to " a lot of people are not claiming to be Auschwitz survivors anymore " ( Irving's statement about the index cards was incorrect ; what the Soviet government had made available in 1990 were the death books of Auschwitz, recording the weekly death tolls ).

* 1990: Solidaridad ( duets duets, charity recording )

The 1990 Premiership team, coached by Leigh Matthews and captained by Tony Shaw, had a one-sided grand final win against Essendon, the Magpies recording a 48 point victory and ending a 32 year premiership drought which included eight grand final losses and one draw.

During 1990, the band started recording their début album, Industrial, with the main vocalist being Mark Clayden instead of JS, who contributed with backing vocals.

* Tommy ( studio recording ) ( 1990 )

In 1990, Hole recruited Jill Emery on bass and began recording studio material.

During the supposed hiatus, Hole released two retrospective albums: firstly, their second EP, titled The First Session ( 1997 ), which was composed of a complete version of the band's first recording session at Rudy's Rising Star in Los Angeles in March 1990, some of which had been bootlegged widely years prior.

A studio cast recording starring Gregg Edelman as Val, Judy Blazer as Billie, Jason Graae as Gus, Donna Kane as Dolores, Judy Kaye as Baby Rose, Adam Grupper as Peter, with JQ and the Bandits as the Quartet and featuring the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra was released by New World Records in 1990.

In 1990, Hawkeye floundered and Nilsson found himself in a dire financial situation after it was discovered that his financial adviser Cindy Sims had embezzled all the funds he had earned as a recording artist.

Meanwhile, Yes began composing and recording material for their follow-up, while Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe did the same, beginning production at Miraval Studios in the South of France in April 1990.

The orchestra received its first Grammy nomination in January 1990 for a 1989 recording of music of Howard Hanson.

The other members changed their mind and they all began recording the band's next album, ' Bossanova ( 1990 ).

The group next released Cigarettes & Carrot Juice: The Santa Cruz Years, a five-disc box set compiling their first three ( pre-Virgin ) albums, Camper Vantiquities, and a live recording from 1990 they called Greatest Hits Played Faster.

The remaining members of Thin Lizzy did not work together until the recording of the single " Dedication " in October 1990, when a rough demo of Lynott's was worked into a finished song to commemorate the fifth anniversary of his death.

On 23 January 1990 at its 14th Congress the Communist League of Yugoslavia voted to remove its monopoly on political power, but the same day effectively ceased to exist as a national party when the League of Communists of Slovenia walked out after Serbia's Slobodan Milošević blocked all their reformist proposals – the League of Communists of Croatia walked out soon after.

On 17 August 1990, the Serbs began what became known as the Log Revolution, where barricades of logs were placed across roads throughout the South as an expression of their secession from Croatia.

When it started in 1970, the Universal Press Syndicate gave cartoonists a 50-percent share on the ownership of their works, while the Creators Syndicate ( founded in 1987 ) granted artists full rights to the strips, something that Universal Press did in 1990. followed by King Features in 1995, while before 1999 both the Tribune and United Feature services began granting rights to creators over their works ; however the latter three syndicates only applied this to new strips, or to ones popular enough.

The Virgilio Barco ( 1986 – 1990 ) administration, in addition to continuing to handle the difficulties of the complex negotiations with the guerrillas, also inherited a particularly chaotic confrontation against the drug lords, who were engaged in a campaign of terrorism and murder in response to government moves in favor of their extradition overseas.

The best-known of these was the Twitchell Case in Massachusetts, in which parents David and Ginger Twitchell were convicted in 1990 of involuntary manslaughter in the death of their two-year-old son Robyn, who succumbed to a bowel obstruction.

In his book he asked why, if Saudi Arabia had such an effect on Soviet oil prices, did prices not fall in 1980 when the production of oil by Saudi Arabia reached its highest level — three times as much oil as in the mid-eighties — and why did the Saudis wait till 1990 to increase their production, five years after the CIA's supposed intervention?

The Cowboys ' streak of 160 sold-out regular and post-season games began in 1990, and included 79 straight sellouts at their former home, Texas Stadium, and 81 straight sell-outs on the road.

Deicide then released their self-titled debut album, also produced by Scott Burns at Morrisound, in 1990.

The couple divorced in March 1990, and Lambert was awarded custody of their only child Tyler Edward ( July 2, 1984 – May 6, 2010 ), with Plato having visitation rights.

Devo played their first European tour since 1990 in the summer of 2007, including a performance at Festival Internacional de Benicàssim.

In December 2007, Devo released their first new single since 1990, " Watch Us Work It ," which was featured in a commercial for Dell.

In 1990, Steven Pinker and Paul Bloom published their paper " Natural Language & Natural Selection " which strongly argued for an adaptationist approach to language origins.

They next went on to achieve their second best result in the 1990 World Cup by finishing fourth – losing again to West Germany in a semi-final finishing 1 – 1 after extra time, then 3 – 4 in England's first penalty shoot-out.

ELO Part II released their debut album Electric Light Orchestra Part Two in 1990.

The next couple of years saw Lola improve slightly — their car was arguably marginally superior to the Reynard in 1990 — and March slip, but both were crushed by the Reynard teams and by the mid-90s, F3000 was a virtual Reynard monopoly, although Lola did eventually return with a promising car and the Japanese Footwork and Dome chassis were seen in Europe.

* The Kelly Family recorded the song twice: live version is included on their 1988 album Live and a studio version-on 1990 New World.

For this Greenpeace calls for the industrialized countries to cut their emissions at least 40 % by 2020 ( from 1990 levels ) and to give substantial funding for developing countries to build a sustainable energy capacity, to adapt to the inevitable consequences of global warming, and to stop deforestation by 2020.

The center-right Hungarian Democratic Forum government of 1990 – 1994 decided to demolish agricultural co-operatives by splitting them up and giving machinery and land to their former members.

At the end of the Lebanese Civil War in 1990, despite the Taif Agreement asking for the " disbanding of all Lebanese and non-Lebanese militias ," Syria, in control of Lebanon at that time, allowed Hezbollah to maintain their arsenal, and control the Shiite areas in Southern Lebanon along the border with Israel.

* 1990 – East Germany and West Germany merge their economies.

After redomiciling to Bermuda in 1984 ahead of the 1997 handover of Hong Kong, in 1990 Jardine Matheson Holdings and four other listed group companies arranged primary share listings on the London Stock Exchange in addition to their Hong Kong listings.

In 1990 the Central Conference of American Rabbis ( CCAR ) officially endorsed a report of their committee on homosexuality and rabbis.

Gorbachev's policy of separating Party and State began to impact at the Soviet Republic level in early 1990 when each SSR held competitive elections to their respective legislative Supreme Soviets, shortly after the CPSU had given up its ' leading role '.

Between January and April 1990 each of the Communist Party leaders of the five states of Soviet Central Asia assumed the position of Chairman of the Supreme Soviet in their respective SSRs, without any difficulty from the still weak opposition forces in the region.