Grant then made a few more albums before dropping out of college to pursue a career in music — Never Alone, followed by a pair of live albums in 1981 ( In Concert and In Concert Volume Two ), both backed by an augmented edition of the DeGarmo & Key band.

In 1981, nominee John Banville wrote a letter to The Guardian requesting that the prize be given to him so that he could use the money to buy every copy of the longlisted books in Ireland and donate them to libraries, " thus ensuring that the books not only are bought but also read — surely a unique occurrence.

1981 — Constitution is amended.

In fact, Idol had been a member of the punk band Generation X from 1976 – 1981, which was named after Deverson and Hamblett's 1965 sociology book Generation X — a copy of which was owned by Idol's mother.

His mother, Anita Frances ( née Levy ; later Livingston ; May 22, 1926 — July 1981 ), was a lawyer and judge in New Orleans and, later, a Louisiana Supreme Court justice.

* 1981 — Ray Bradbury ( Science Fiction Writer )

Jetsprinting as an organised sport originated in New Zealand in 1981, and events were originally held in the same natural braided rivers that had inspired Sir William Hamilton to develop the jetboat, but when the sport was introduced to Australia in the mid-1980s permanent artificial courses were used — and this is now the norm even in New Zealand.

Ferrigno continued playing the Hulk role until 1981 — although the last two episodes were not broadcast until May 1982.

Real GDP grew at over 8 percent a year and exceeded 10 percent from 1976 to 1981 — a faster growth rate than in any other economy in Latin America.

Stephen KingKing dedicated Bachman's early books — Rage ( 1977 ), The Long Walk ( 1979 ), Roadwork ( 1981 ), and The Running Man ( 1982 ) — to people close to him, and worked in obscure references to his own identity.

Lee — The Last Years 1981.

* 1981: " Don't Know Much " — # 88 U. S.

* McLean v. Arkansas — 1981

The white wedding style was given another significant boost in 1981, when three-quarter billion people — one out of six people around the globe — watched Charles, Prince of Wales marry Diana Spencer in her elaborate white taffeta dress with a 25-foot-long train.

It was delivered to Kennedy Space Center ( KSC ) on March 25, 1979, and was first launched on April 12, 1981 — the 20th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's space flight — with a crew of two.

Initially named CATI ( Conception Assistée Tridimensionnelle Interactive — French for Interactive Aided Three-dimensional Design ) — it was renamed CATIA in 1981, when Dassault created a subsidiary to develop and sell the software, and signed a non-exclusive distribution agreement with IBM.

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In 1981, UA was sold to Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer, and five years later, Ted Turner acquired the pre-May 1986 MGM library — which included the rights to MGM's cartoon characters like Tom and Jerry and Bosko.

* French — Alain Kan: " Au pays de Pierrot " (" In Pierrot Country " ); Chantal Goya: " Les pierrots de Paris " and " Pierrot tout blanc " (" Pure White Pierrot "), in Monsieur le Chat Botté ( 1982 ); Danielle Licari: " Les Chansons de Pierrot " ( 1981 ); Guy Béart: " Pierrot la tendresse " (" Pierrot the Tender "), from Béart à l ' université de Louvain ( 1974 ); Gérard Lenorman: " Pierrot chanteur ", from Le Soleil des Tropiques ( 1983 ); Jacques Dutronc: " Où est-il l ' ami Pierrot?

Nonetheless, according to the Haley News fan club newsletter and the Haley biography Sound and Glory, planned concerts such as a fall 1980 tour of Germany, and proposed recording sessions in New York and Memphis were cancelled — including a potential reunion with past members of the Comets — and Haley returned to his home in Harlingen, Texas where he died in his sleep of an apparent heart attack on February 9, 1981.

In 1978, the NASA SETI program was heavily criticized by Senator William Proxmire, and funding for SETI research was removed from the NASA budget by Congress in 1981, however, funding was restored in 1982, after Carl Sagan talked with Proxmire and convinced him of the program's value.

* Wind Tunnels of NASA ( NASA SP-440, 1981 )

* NASA Space Shuttle News Reference – 1981 ( PDF document )

After retiring from the United States Navy in 1975 and NASA in 1981, Bean pursued his interest in painting, depicting various space-related scenes and documenting his own experiences in space as well as that of his fellow Apollo Program astronauts.

* Solar Mesosphere Explorer, a NASA artificial satellite in orbit 1981 – 89

STScI is located on the Johns Hopkins University Homewood campus in Baltimore, Maryland and was established in 1981 as a community-based science center that is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy ( AURA ).

* Space Shuttle, the vehicle for the NASA space program from 1981 to 2011

* NASA Distinguished Service Medal ( 1962 ) with two oak leaf clusters ( 1981, 2004 )

After leaving NASA and the Air Force, he held a number of positions in international and U. S. businesses, and became owner and president of Gulf Coast Coors in 1981.

* Four NASA Group Achievement Awards ( 1980, 1981, 1989, and 2003 );

* Courtney Stadd ( 1981 ) NASA Chief of Staff from 2001-2003

Evans Foundation Scholarship, 1970 ; University of Kansas Honor Scholarship, 1970 ; Summerfield Scholarship, 1970 – 1973 ; Veta B. Lear Award, 1970 ; Stranathan Award, 1972 ; Outstanding Physics Major Award, 1973 ; University of California Regents Fellowship, 1974 ; Group Achievement Award for software testing at the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory, 1981 ; NASA Outstanding Performance Award, 1981 ; NASA Superior Performance Award, 1981 ; Group Achievement Award for Second Orbiter Test and Checkout at Kennedy Space Center, 1982 ; Quality Increase, 1982 ; NASA Space Flight Medal ( 1984, 1986, 1990, 1997, 1999 ); Group Achievement Award for JSC Strategic Planning, 1987 ; NASA Exceptional Service Medal ( 1988, 1991 ); Special Achievement Award, 1988 ; Exceptional Service Medal for Return to Flight, 1988 ; Outstanding Leadership Medal, 1990 ; Special Achievement Award, 1990 ; Haley Flight Achievement Award, 1991 ; Kansan of the Year Award, 1992 ; Group Achievement Award for ESIG 3000 Integration Project, 1994 ; Presidential Rank Award ( 1994, 1999 ); Group Achievement Award for Space Shuttle Program Functional Workforce Review, 1995 ; Group Achievement Award for SFOC Contract Acquisition, 1997 ; Kansas Aviation Hall of Fame, 1997 ; University of Kansas Distinguished Service Citation, 1998 ; NASA Distinguished Service Medal ( 1998, 2000 ); Aviation Week & Space Technology Laurel Citation for Space, 1998, V. M.

The show's title character retrieves the code by achieving a score of 2, 000, 000 points after realizing that " the mathematical pattern underlying the game is the same " as Rush's 1981 hit " Tom Sawyer ".

The still older Cronquist system of 1981, which was not based on molecular data, placed the order in subclass Commelinidae of class Liliopsida and included the families Commelinaceae, Mayacaceae, Rapateaceae and Xyridaceae.

's research with data through 1986 to provide new estimates encompassing a period when the real ( i. e., inflation-adjusted ) value of the minimum wage was declining, because it had not increased since 1981.

According to the World Gazetter, the following reflects the census data for Omagh since 1981:

In 1981 IBM introduced the IBM Personal Computer and Scientific Solutions introduced the first PC data acquisition products.

Hayes Communications introduced a solution in its 1981 Smartmodem by re-using the existing data pins with no modification.

Pemex disallowed release of specific data but let Penfield and company official Antonio Camargo present their results at the 1981 Society of Exploration Geophysicists conference.

The WVS has shown that from 1981 to 2007 happiness rose in 45 of the 52 countries for which long-term data are available.

On 27 January, 1981, after reviewing the Brady-Spence prediction, the U. S. National Earthquake Prediction Evaluation Council ( NEPEC ) announced it was " unconvinced of the scientific validity " of the prediction, and had been " shown nothing in the observed seismicity data, or in the theory insofar as presented, that lends substance to the predicted times, locations, and magnitudes of the earthquakes.

He hypothesized that higher revenues could constrain spending, and found strong statistical support for that conjecture based on data from 1981 to 2005.

Schlumberger established the first international data links with e-mail in 1981.

From 1978 to 1981 he was an associate of the Voyager mission to Jupiter and Saturn, participating in analysis of imaging data.

** Bloomberg L. P., a financial news and data service founded by Michael Bloomberg in 1981

The original version of this quotation came much earlier ; the very first problem in Tanenbaum's 1981 textbook Computer Networks asks the student to calculate the throughput of a St. Bernard carrying floppy disks ( which are said to hold 250 kilobytes of data ).

* 1981 Mark Spector, a graduate student in the laboratory of Efraim Racker fabricated and published data in support of a new molecular mechanism of cancer.

The SIPP was developed from the Income Survey Development Program, conducted between 1977 and 1981, which developed survey data collection strategies and instruments as well as data processing strategies for the SIPP.

This arrangement effectively limited the size of the public service database to around 250, 000 frames so in order to cope with planned growth by 1981 the IRC machines had been expanded by the addition of two further data drives.

* NASA's Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center ( PO. DAAC ) Provider of historic and near real time SST data from 14 satellites, spanning 1981 through yesterday

By 1981 was consistent with known data.

In 1981 SAS / FSP followed, providing full-screen interactive data entry, editing, browsing, retrieval, and letter writing.

Based on 2001 census data except for districts with numbers given in italics ; these are from 1981 census

From 1981 to 1984, the SPS operated as a hadron ( more precisely, proton – antiproton ) collider ( as such it was called SpS ), when its beams provided the data for the UA1 and UA2 experiments, which resulted in the discovery of the W and Z bosons.

The original Hand Held Products company, established in 1981 in Charlotte, North Carolina, began life as a manufacturer of memory modules for Hewlett-Packard and Texas Instruments programmable calculators, but quickly came to the industry spotlight in 1983 thanks to an RFP hand-off by Hewett-Packard, as a package delivery company Federal Express selected their Micro-Wand portable data collection device to begin its first major proof of delivery system for package tracking.

This is data from two Yugoslav censa ( 1971 and 1981 ).