In 1992, he bought Dutch insurance broker Hudig-Langeveldt.

Microsoft launched the competing database Microsoft Access and bought the dBase clone FoxPro in 1992, undercutting Borland's prices.

The Commodore Semiconductor Group ( formerly MOS Technology, Inc .) was bought by its former management and in 1995, resumed operations under the name GMT Microelectronics, utilizing a troubled facility in Norristown, Pennsylvania that Commodore had closed in 1992.

The design was so important to SGI, at the time one of MIPS ' few major customers, that SGI bought the company outright in 1992 in order to guarantee the design would not be lost.

In 1992, a group of Saudi investors, ARA Group International ( AGI ), bought the bankrupt UPI for $ 4 million.

Sir Mix-A-Lot debuted on the Def American label, which also bought the rights of his first two albums, with Mack Daddy in 1992.

Note: Peugeot models ( 1992 – present ) can not be bought or imported in the U. S. from Mexico.

Among the companies that were bought or merged with WorldCom were Advanced Communications Corp. ( 1992 ), Metromedia Communication Corp. ( 1993 ), Resurgens Communications Group ( 1993 ), IDB Communications Group, Inc ( 1994 ), Williams Technology Group, Inc. ( 1995 ), and MFS Communications Company ( 1996 ).

The decision by the Sunday Times ( who had bought the rights to serialised extracts from the diaries before Macmillan published them ) in July 1992 to hire Irving as a translator of Goebbels's diary was criticised by historian Peter Pulzer, who argued that Irving, because of his views about the Third Reich, was not the best man for the job.

In May 1992, they sold the brand to Tyco Toys, whose toy division in turn was bought out by Mattel in 1997, uniting Matchbox with its longtime rival Hot Wheels under the same corporate banner.

Latifah's older brother, Lancelot Jr., was killed in 1992 in an accident involving a motorcycle that Latifah had recently bought him.

Parretti had bought a smaller company and renamed it Pathé Communications anticipating a successful buy of the original French company, but failed in that attempt, so instead merged MGM / UA with his former company, resulting into MGM / Pathé Communications Co. Having bought MGM / UA by overstating his own financial condition, within a year Parretti had defaulted to his primary bank, Crédit Lyonnais, which foreclosed on the studio in 1992, also resulting in the sale or closure of MGM / UA's string of US theaters.

In 1992 Red Rooster bought the Big Rooster chain to expand into the eastern states, and renamed the stores " Red Rooster ".

In 1992, the United Kingdom bought a number of T-80U MBTs for defence research and development.

In May 1990 Wolverhampton Wanderers was bought by lifelong supporter Jack Hayward, who immediately set about funding a comprehensive rebuild of the club's mostly decrepit ground to meet the new government regulations of the early 1990s, with the Stan Cullis Stand erected on the site of the North Bank in 1992, and the Billy Wright Stand replacing the Waterloo Road Stand in August 1993.

Stock from SAM Computers Ltd. were bought by West Coast Computers in November 1992.

In 1992, Siemens bought ROLM entirely from IBM and the original ROLM product line was done for, except for PhoneMail ( the only product Siemens did not destroy ).

The group was bought by Conrad Black before being re-listed in 1992.

In 1992, the company bought up the Western Canadian chain Pinder's Drugs, and followed this in 1995 with a chain of 24 Bi-Rite Drug Stores based in western Canada.

The company was bought out by the management in 1985 after Muellers death and went out of business in 1992.

In the 1990s Ross Perot also bought network time in 1992 and 1996 to present his presidential policies to the public.

For 1992 Williams bought Burns a Group N Subaru Legacy and with the support of Prodrive won the National Championship.

The pair were jailed in 1992 for " publishing obscene material for gain " and " being in possession of obscene material " following a sting operation in which an undercover police officer joined the companies mailing list and over a period of more than a year regularly bought videos to ensure that the operation was " an on-going tax free profitable business ".

An updated version, Oregon Trail Deluxe, was released for DOS in 1992, The rights for this version were later bought up by SpeedDate. com, which replaced the game with an online dating application.

* 1992 – Michael Havers, British barrister and politician ( b. 1923 )

* Adrian Heath ( painter ) ( 1920 – 1992 ), British painter

* 1992 – Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history.

In 1992, David Thacker directed a British television adaptation with Juliet Stevenson, Trevor Eve and David Calder.

* In Scotland, Western Europe's largest hot strip steel mill Ravenscraig steelworks, near Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, was closed by British Steel in 1992, leading to huge unemployment in the area.

In 1992 they sponsored the British Steel Challenge, the first of a series of ' wrong way ' races for amateur crews.

A board of 25 trustees ( with the Director as their accounting officer for the purposes of reporting to Government ) is responsible for the general management and control of the Museum, in accordance with the British Museum Act 1963 and the Museums and Galleries Act 1992.

A British preservation group sent an expedition to Comoros in 1992 to bring some of the bats to Britain to establish a breeding population.

* 1921 – Bob Todd, British comedian ( d. 1992 )

* Summer of Night ( 1991 ) – British Fantasy Award, 1992

* Vuilleumier, François, Mary LeCroy & Ernst Mayr ( 1992 ) New species of birds described from 1981 to 1990 Bulletin of the British Ornithologists ' Club Vol.

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.

Friedrich August Hayek CH (; 8 May 189923 March 1992 ), born in Austria-Hungary as Friedrich August von Hayek, was a British economist and philosopher best known for his defense of classical liberalism.

From 1985 to 1992, Lee used British Wal basses.

London: British Museum, 1992 ( ISBN 0-7141-0952-5 ); New York: H. N. Abrams, 1993

In 1992, His Honour Deemster Callow passed the last-ever sentence of death in a court in the British Islands ( which was commuted to life imprisonment ).

* 1992 Botham was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE ) for services to cricket and for his charity work in the Queen's Birthday Honours.

Despite the British economy then being in recession, he led the Conservatives to a fourth consecutive election victory, winning the most votes in British electoral history ( 14 million ) in the 1992 general election, albeit with a much reduced majority in the House of Commons.

His majority in 1992 was 36, 230 votes, the largest in British electoral history.

On the other hand, it was during Major's premiership that the British economy recovered from the recession of 1990 – 1992.

* 1914 – Lord Ted Willis, British television dramatist ( d. 1992 )

The resulting promotion meant that Blackburn were back in the top flight of English football for the first time since 1966. In the 1992 close season, Dalglish signed Southampton's Alan Shearer for a British record fee of £ 3. 5 million.

From 1987 to 1992, he was the oldest sitting British MP ( preceding former Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath ).

Major General A W Dennis, CB, OBE ( rtd ), British Army, previously Director of Military Assistance Overseas, made the following comments on the initial phase in Namibia at a conference in Pretoria, South Africa on 6 August 1992: