Each of the four films had their premiere at the eminent and discerning New York Film Festival, while Mystery Train was in competition at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival.

Amid fierce competition, primarily from Toshiba ( the Walky ), Aiwa ( the CassetteBoy ) and Panasonic ( the MiJockey ), by the late 1980s, Sony upped the ante once again by creating the playback-only WM-DD9, launched in 1989 during the 10th anniversary of the Walkman ( five years after the WM-D6C ) and became the holy grail for a niche group of cassette Walkman collectors.

After several changes in the name of the competition ( last time in 1989 ), the event is now held annually as the World Short Track Speed Skating Championships.

In a competition in 1989, Freeman ran 11. 67s in the 100 metres and Danila began to think about entering her in the Commonwealth Games Trials in Sydney.

Both channels moved to the Astra 1A satellite used by Sky in 1989 and later floundered due to the increased cable competition.

In 1989, two Danish teenagers, Jesper Lund Madsen and Theis Christiansen won a competition in the Danish Anders And ( Donald Duck ) magazine, with a comic produced completely by themselves, " På gensyn med den gyldne hjelm " ( The Golden Helmet Revisited.

While the United States became a signatory to the convention in 1989, it still does not completely recognize moral rights as part of copyright law, but rather as part of other bodies of law, such as defamation or unfair competition.

It was the first British shoe factory to introduce music in the workplace ( 1936 ), and washable children ’ s sandals (‘ Plastisha ’ 1957 ), but it closed in 1989 as a result of competition from cheap imports.

In 1989, the tiebreak was also introduced into Davis Cup competition.

Starting in 1989 there were significant policy changes with economic reform, tax cuts, welfare reform, an increase in competition, and a ban on borrowing to fund current spending.

In 1989 New Zealand Post established CourierPost, a nationwide courier company designed to protect the company's parcel business from private competition.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and German reunification in 1990, the eastern football competition was reintegrated into the DFB.

In the U. S. in 1989, a vice president of Braniff said, " the government should consider ordering an end to frequent-flyer programs, which he said allow unfair competition.

Exclusive Tango items that could be won or purchased through phonelines, or through other methods like a competition, include Tango Doll ( 1993 ), Horn ( 1997 ), Megaphone ( 2000 ), Radio Hat ( 1989 ), " 60s Soul Sounds " cassette ( 1988 ), Sofa ( 1998 ), Mini-fridge ( 2008 ), Lunchbox ( 2000 ) and Gotans ( 2005 ) ( the Gotans were a set of four Halloween-style characters.

During the 1980s, major competition, especially on the Dublin – London routes, resulted in passenger numbers swelling to 5. 1 million in 1989.

In 1989, facing increased competition and margin pressure, Seagate acquired Control Data's MPI / Imprimis ( CDC ) disk storage division.

However by 1989, it faced strong competition from convenience stores owned by oil companies, and Circle K declared bankruptcy in 1990.

Jetsons: The Movie was originally slated for a 1989 release, but was delayed to avoid competition with Disney's The Little Mermaid, United Artists ' All Dogs Go to Heaven, and Universal's own Back to the Future Part II.

By the time PTAT-1 was placed into service in 1989 competition was widely accepted.

Partizan only won the 1989 national cup, 32 years after the last victory in that competition.

From 1989 until 2004, the UCI administered the UCI Road World Cup, a season-long competition incorporating all the major one-day professional road races.

The dip in sales was partly due to competition from GM's own Buick Riviera, which grew 11 " this year in a dramatic restyle, and had a production increase from 8, 625 units in 1988 to 21, 189 in 1989.

* 1989 Paris: Bibliothèque de France ( unsuccessful competition entry )

The initial design competition was won in 1989 by a team of four architects from The Pennsylvania State University, but this team withdrew as it became clear that changes would be needed to satisfy the advisory board and reviewing agencies such as the Commission of Fine Arts.

At the end of the 1989 – 90 season Southend's promotion from the Football League Fourth Division coincided with Colchester's fall from the Football League and the clubs had to wait almost 15 years before meeting once again in competition when they met in the Southern Final of the Football League Trophy ; the Shrimpers won 4 – 3 on aggregate to secure their first ever appearance in a national cup final.

Formerly abundant, it was last seen in 1989.

From 1975 to 1989, Angola was aligned with the Eastern bloc, in particular the Soviet Union, Libya, and Cuba.

Economic requirements triumphed over environmental considerations when the Soviet-era Nairit plant was reopened in January 1992 after being closed in 1989 because of the massive air pollution it caused.

Most of Armenia's ethnic Azeri population was deported in 1988 – 1989 and remain refugees, largely in Azerbaijan.

The Australian team of 1989 was comparable to the great Australian teams of the past, and resoundingly defeated England 4 – 0.

Before the 1989 series began, the win-loss ratio was almost even, with 87 wins for Australia to England's 86, 74 having been drawn.

BZNS was made into a Communist puppet group until 1989, when it reorganized as a genuine party.

The film, which also starred cabaret singer Astrid Hadad and model / actress Claudia Ramírez — with whom Cuarón was linked between 1989 and 1993 — was a big hit in Mexico.

In 1989 the first part of his On Aristotle Metaphysics was published as part of the Ancient commentators project.

Fleming's Nobel Prize medal was acquired by the National Museums of Scotland in 1989 and is on display after the museum re-opened in 2011.

In the Australian Capital Territory, the Act of Settlement was, on 11 May 1989, converted, from an act of the Parliament of England into an ACT enactment, by section 34 ( 4 ) of the Australian Capital Territory ( Self-Government ) Act 1988 ( Cwlth ), and then renamed The Act of Settlement 1700 by the Legislation Act 2001.

A significant re-design was released in 1989 as AppleTalk Phase II.

He was a central figure in the resistance against the Soviet occupation between 1979 and 1989 and in the following years of civil war.

Although Gauntlett was contractually to stay as chairman for two years, his racing interests took Aston back into sports car racing in 1989 with limited European success.

For example, the Barony of Grey of Codnor was in abeyance for over 490 years between 1496 and 1989, and the Barony of Hastings was similarly in abeyance for over 299 years from 1542 to 1841.

The Atari Lynx is a 16-bit handheld game console that was released by Atari Corporation in 1989.

The Lynx was released in 1989, the same year as Nintendo's best-selling, monochromatic Game Boy.

Atari Corp. then showed the Lynx to the press at the Summer 1989 CES as the " Portable Color Entertainment System ", which was changed to Lynx when actual consoles were distributed to resellers.

However, Nintendo's new Game Boy was also introduced at the 1989 CES.

Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (; May 21, 1921 – December 14, 1989 ) was a Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident and human rights activist.

In March 1989, Sakharov was elected to the new parliament, the All-Union Congress of People's Deputies and co-led the democratic opposition, the Inter-Regional Deputies Group.

Soon after 21: 00 on December 14, 1989, Sakharov went to his study to take a nap before preparing an important speech he was to deliver the next day in the Congress.

In 1983, the American National Standards Institute formed a committee, X3J11, to establish a standard specification of C. After a long and arduous process, the standard was completed in 1989 and ratified as ANSI X3. 159-1989 " Programming Language C ." This version of the language is often referred to as " ANSI C ", or sometimes " C89 " ( to distinguish it from C99 ).