She was first elected to the House of Commons in the 1987 general election as member for the constituency of Maidstone ( which became Maidstone and The Weald in 1997 ).

From 1987 to 1991, he served as major general, and then was promoted to lieutenant general.

* 1987 – Punch Imlach, Canadian ice hockey coach and general manager ( b. 1918 )

Following boundary changes, Major became Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Huntingdon in 1983 and retained the seat in the 1987, 1992 and 1997 general elections.

Major was promoted to the Cabinet as Chief Secretary to the Treasury in 1987, following the general election, and in a surprise re-shuffle in July 1989, a relatively inexperienced Major was appointed Foreign Secretary, succeeding Sir Geoffrey Howe.

Few then were surprised when Major's Conservatives lost the 1 May 1997 general election to Tony Blair's " New Labour ", although the immense scale of the defeat was not as widely predicted: in 1987 and 1992 the Conservatives had polled better than had been suggested by the opinion polls, but in 1997 this was no longer the case.

Since independence, general elections have been held in 1966, 1971, 1976, 1981, 1987, 1992, 1996, 1998, 2003 and 2008.

Their mixture of heavy metal and glam rock stylings produced several best-selling albums during the 1980s, including Shout at the Devil ( 1983 ), Theatre of Pain ( 1985 ), and Girls, Girls, Girls ( 1987 ), which showcased their love of motorcycles, whiskey and strip clubs, and which told tales of substance abuse, sexual escapades, and general decadence.

On the other hand, in 1987, the AMA stated in their Family Medical Guide: " In general, the macrobiotic diet is a healthful way of eating.

The original version of the Soviet Joint Venture Law, which went into effect in June 1987, limited foreign shares of a Soviet venture to 49 percent and required that Soviet citizens occupy the positions of chairman and general manager.

He continued to serve as SDP Member of Parliament for Glasgow Hillhead until his defeat at the 1987 general election by the Labour candidate George Galloway.

Hoffmann is also a writer of poetry published in two collections, " The Metamict State " ( 1987, ISBN 0-8130-0869-7 ) and " Gaps and Verges " ( 1990, ISBN 0-8130-0943-X ), and of books explaining chemistry to the general public.

The Chargers have six players and one coach enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio: wide receiver Lance Alworth ( 1962 – 1970 ), defensive end Fred Dean (–), quarterback Dan Fouts (–), head coach / general manager Sid Gillman ( 1960 – 1969, ), wide receiver Charlie Joiner (–), offensive lineman Ron Mix ( 1960 – 1969 ) and tight end Kellen Winslow (- 1987 ).

Bantubonke Holomisa, who was a general in the homeland of Transkei from 1987, has served as the president of the United Democratic Movement since 1997.

** Maxwell Taylor, American general ( died 1987 )

* April 13 – Ira C. Eaker, World War II United States Army Air Forces general ( d. 1987 )

* June 11 – The Conservative Party of the United Kingdom, led by Margaret Thatcher, is re-elected for a third term at the 1987 general election.

DC re-gained the post of Prime Minister in 1987, after a mild recovery in the 1987 general election ( 34. 2 %), and the Pentapartito coalition governed Italy almost continuously until 1993.

He returned to the House of Commons in October 1974 as the Ulster Unionist Party MP for the Northern Irish constituency of South Down until he was defeated in the 1987 general election.

Nonetheless, in the 1987 general election that he lost, Powell campaigned in Bangor for James Kilfedder, the devolutionist North Down Popular Unionist Party MP and against Robert McCartney, who was standing as a Real Unionist on a policy of integration and equal citizenship for Northern Ireland.

At the start of 1987 general election, Powell claimed the Conservatives ' prospects did not look good: " I have the feeling of 1945 ".

The general elections that followed in 1987 saw the Nationalist Party achieve such a majority of votes.

Washington defeated former mayor Jane Byrne in the February 24, 1987, Democratic mayoral primary by 7. 2 %, 53. 5 % to 46. 3 %, and in the April 7, 1987, mayoral general election defeated Vrdolyak ( Illinois Solidarity Party ) by 11. 8 %, 53. 8 % to 42. 8 %, with Northwestern University business professor Donald Haider ( Republican ) getting 4. 3 %, to win reelection to a second term as mayor.

Parties that gain more than 5 % of the second votes or win at least 3 direct mandates are allocated seats in the Bundestag in proportion to the number of votes it has received ( d ' Hondt method until 1987, largest remainder method until the 2005 election, now Sainte-Laguë method ).

After a decade as president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, he entered parliament as a Labor MP at the 1980 federal election and became Prime Minister within three years, leading Labor to victory at four consecutive federal elections: 1983, 1984, 1987 and 1990.

The 1987 election saw the Alliance's share of the votes drop slightly and it now had 22 MP's, and in the election's aftermath Liberal leader David Steel proposed a merged of the two parties.

In addition, Michael Noonan received £ 3, 000 in 1992 towards his election campaign, Ivan Yates received £ 5, 000, Michael Lowry received £ 5, 000 and Sean Barrett received £ 1, 000 in the earlier 1987 election.

Partly due to the impact of the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, and to growing awareness of the threat of air pollution and acid rain to German forests (" Waldsterben "), the Greens increased their share of the vote to 8. 3 % in the 1987 federal election.

The November 1987 elections was cancelled after troops massacred 30 – 300 voters on election day.

The 1996 elections resulted in the election of the Labour Party, by 8, 000 votes, to replace the Nationalists who had won in 1987 and 1992.

A separate party, the Joh-inspired NT Nationals, competed in the 1987 election with former Chief Minister Ian Tuxworth winning his seat of Barkly by a small margin.

As a result, Labour faced the 1987 election in some danger of coming third in the popular vote.

However, the traditional Labour supporting Daily Mirror had backed Kinnock in the 1987 election and again in 1992.

In April 1987, President Chun made a declaration in an attempt to overpower the opposition that measures would be taken to protect the current constitution at the end of his term, instead of contemplating constitutional reform that would call for direct election of the president.

He appeared as himself in the first episode of ITV comedy The New Statesman, coming second in the 1987 election, ahead of the Labour and SDP, which saw Alan B ' Stard elected to Parliament.

After revising the constitution in 1987 and after years of resisting the United States-supported Contras the FSLN lost the election in 1990 to Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, but they retained a plurality of seats in the legislature.

The elections of 1990, which had been mandated by the constitution passed in 1987, saw the Bush administration funnel $ 49. 75 million of ‘ non-lethal ’ aid to the Contras, as well as $ 9m to the opposition UNO — equivalent to $ 2 billion worth of intervention by a foreign power in a US election at the time, and proportionately five times the amount George Bush had spent on his own election campaign.

Despite problems over the previous acquisition of AC Cars, Hayes saw the potential of the brand and the discussion resulted in Ford taking a share holding in September 1987.

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 rightist Swiss People's Party ( SVP ), traditionally the junior partner in the four-party coalition government, more than doubled its voting share from 11. 0 % in 1987 to 22. 5 % in 1999, thus overtaking its three coalition partners.

As both Osco and its photofinishing market share grew, three more photo plants were added: Alves Photo Service Braintree, Massachusetts in 1980, Rich Photo Lab Salt Lake City, Utah in 1984 and Drewry Photocolor Burbank, California in 1987 renamed to Crest Photo in 1988.

Lufthansa bought a 24. 5 % share of the airline in 1987 and Luxair increased its share to 24. 53 %.

This allowed the NDP, under the leadership of former Vancouver mayor Michael Harcourt, who had succeeded former leader Bob Skelly in 1987, to win with 41 % of the popular vote ( one percentage point lower than the share the party had lost with in 1986 ).

On March 9, 1987, Chrysler agreed to buy Renault's share in AMC, plus all the remaining shares, for about US $ 1. 5 billion ( US $ in dollars ).

In February 1988, the premiere broadcast of the 1987 action-comedy film Lethal Weapon became the highest rated telecast in Cinemax's history at that time, averaging a 16. 9 rating and 26 share.

At the end of 1987, it was third in market share after Digital Equipment Corporation and Sun Microsystems, and ahead of Hewlett-Packard and IBM.

In the 1987 parliamental elections, the Green Party manages to increase its share of votes to 8. 3 %, gaining 44 parliament seats in the process.

By the spring of 1987, the company's stock had plummeted below $ 10 a share.

By February 1987, ZZZZ Best was trading at $ 18 a share on NASDAQ, valuing the company at $ 280 million.

Macsyma's market share in symbolic math software had fallen from 70 % in 1987 to 1 % in 1992.

The Italian Socialist Party reached its post-war apex when it increased its share of votes in the general election of 1987.

This positive result marked the first professional election in which the CGT's vote share had not declined: it had declined constantly from 36. 35 % in 1987 to 32. 13 % in 2002.

A worldwide fall in share markets in October 1987 gave his work greater urgency.

The PPP vote share fell down from almost 28 % in the 1982 Legislative Elections to 16 % in the 1987 Legislative Elections.

Lazarowicz was Labour's Parliamentary candidate in Edinburgh Pentlands in 1987 and 1992, taking Labour from third to second place in the constituency in 1987, and increasing Labour's share of the vote on both occasions.

Its sales ( often " wrap & roll " financial deals ) helped bring CA enough revenue and market share, especially from existing customers converting from DOS / VSE ( z / VSE today ) to OS / MVS ( z / OS today ), that CA was eventually able to acquire its archrival, UCCEL Corporation, in 1987.

It became one of Atlanta's dominant FM stations and remained so until 1987, when its audience share began to dwindle.