Pace and CHI took over as joint 50 / 50 owners at the beginning of 1981, with Gauntlett as executive chairman.

In August 1989, Senegalese-Gambian military cooperation, which began with the joint Senegalese-Gambian efforts during the 1981 coup attempt, ceased with the dissolution of the Senegambian Confederation.

In 1981, the United States District Court for the District of Idaho, however, found that Congress did not have the authority to extend the deadline, even when only contained within the proposing joint resolution's resolving clause.

In October 1981, at the System ' 81 trade show in Munich, West Germany, Motorola, Mostek, Signetics / Phillips, and Thomson CSF announced their joint support of the VMEbus.

In tournaments, he was first equal at Baden 1980, first at Tilburg 1981, second equal at Tilburg 1984, joint winner at Wijk aan Zee 1984 and joint second at the same venue a year later.

The Sofim was originally joint diesel engine enterprise of Fiat, Saviem and Alfa Romeo established in 1973 and was bought by Iveco in 1981.

The first joint recipients of the award were Lane Kirkland and his wife Irena who won the prize in 1981.

This 1975 joint mission was the last manned space flight for the U. S. until the Space Shuttle flights of 1981 and has been described as the symbolic end of the Space Race.

Beginning in 1981, he also held the position of joint deputy editor.

With the American Skylab missions now complete, the flight marked the start of the monopoly of manned space activities by the Soviets until the 1981 launch of STS 1, the first space shuttle flight, save for the joint Apollo-Soyuz flight of 1975.

By this point the ELF had been drained during the Ethiopian resurgence after Soviet assistance was leveraged, and were eventually defeated by a joint force of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front and the Tigray People's Liberation Front ( TPLF ) led by current Ethiopian president, Meles Zenawi in 1981.

He was the press assistant to Representative James Shannon from 1979 to 1981 and the head research analyst for the Massachusetts Senate's joint committee on election laws from 1981 to 1984.

This saw Swansea joint top of the Premiership, making it the first time since October 1981 the team have been at the summit of the top tier, when they beat Stoke City 2 – 1 away and led during the 10th round of matches.

He was the minority whip from 1981 – 1982 and minority party joint caucus leader from 1983-84.

In 1981 the bank transferred its operations in the Solomon Islands to the National Bank of Solomon Islands, which operated as a joint venture ( 51-49, Commonwealth and Government of the Solomon Islands ).

On 5 May 1981, Margaret Reid was elected by a joint sitting of the Australian Parliament to fill a casual vacancy in the representation of the Australian Capital Territory in the Senate, following the sudden death of her close friend, Senator John Knight.

He was the chairman and shareholder of a Malaysian joint venture with a worldwide advertising agency ( 1981 – 1992 ), chairman and director of a joint venture company involved in the manufacturing of building products ( 1995 – 1998 ) and a director and shareholder of a company engaged in electrical engineering and construction ( 1995 to present ).

Since leaving NASA, Gordon has served as Executive Vice President of the New Orleans Saints Professional Football Club in the National Football League ( 1972 – 76 ); was General Manager of Energy Developers, Limited ( EDL ), a Texas Partnership involved in a joint venture with Rocket Research Corporation for the development of a liquid chemical explosive for use in the oil and gas industry ( 1977 ); President of Resolution Engineering and Development Company ( REDCO ) which provided design and operational requirements for wild oil well control and fire fighting equipment onboard large semi-submersible utility vessels ( 1978 ); following REDCO merger with Amarco Resources, Gordon assumed the additional duties of Vice President of Marketing, Westdale, an oil well servicing subsidiary of AMARCO operating in North Central Texas and Oklahoma, and also served as Vice President for Operations, Texas Division ( 1980 ); served as Director, Scott Science and Technology, Inc., Los Angeles Division ( 1981 – 1983 ).

It was constructed between 1975 and 1981 by an AMEC / Balfour Beatty joint venture, designed for Northumbrian Water by Sir Frederick Gibberd and Partners and consulting engineer Babtie, Shaw and Morton, and was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1982.

Ruppe added that on May 15, 1981 she and Secretary of State Alexander Haig had sent a joint communique to all United States embassies reaffirming that Peace Corps volunteers would not engage in spy or intelligence activities.

In 1981, party members Gerry Kelly and Sean Flynn won two seats on Belfast City Council in a joint campaign with People's Democracy, although neither councillor served a full term with one going on the run after being implicated during the Supergrass trials and another resigning his seat citing disillusionment with the IRSP and later claiming in the Irish News that he had received threats from his former colleagues.

Over the decade of the 1980s, GM spent upwards of $ 90 billion attempting to remake itself, including a 1981 joint venture with the Japanese robot manufacturer, Fujitsu-Fanuc.

Three previous judges of the award, Malcolm Bradbury, David Holloway and W. L. Webb, met and chose Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children ( the 1981 winner ) as " the best novel out of all the winners.

* Arnold Lobel ( 1933 – 87 ), author of Fables, winner 1981 Caldecott Medal.

* 1981 To Wake the Dead ( later, the Parasite ), British Fantasy Award winner, Best Novel

In 1981, he released Elephant Parts, the first winner of a Grammy for music video, directed by William Dear.

* In 1981, Budd Schulberg described Bow as " a easy winner of the dumbbell award " who " couldn't act " and compared her to a puppy who his father B. P.

* Jay Dusard, contemporary photographer, 1981 Guggenheim award winner, recipient of two book awards and a Pulitzer nomination.

* Harold C. Urey ( 1893 – 1981 ), winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of deuterium, was born in Walkerton.

* Nic Chatfield ( born 1981 ), actor and 2nd place winner of 2009 the Doritos " Power of the Crunch " commercial contest chosen to air on Super Bowl XLIII.

Some of his late successes included victories at Lone Pine 1976 and in the 1979 Paul Keres Memorial tournament in Tallinn ( 12 / 16 without a loss, ahead of Tal, Bronstein and others ), shared first place ( with Portisch and Hübner ) in the Rio de Janeiro Interzonal the same year, and second place in Tilburg in 1981, half a point behind the winner Beliavsky.

From 1981 to 1985, each series had twelve heats, from which each winner along with the top four runners-up progressed to the four semi-finals, the winners of which competed in the Grand Final.

Shergar ( 1978-unknown ) was an acclaimed Irish racehorse, and winner of the 1981 Epsom Derby by a record 10 lengths, the longest winning margin in the race's 226-year history.

" Evert rebounded with another clay court streak that reached 64 matches ( including titles at the 1979 and 1980 French Open ) before ending with a semi-final loss to eventual winner Hana Mandlíková at the 1981 French Open ( a record of 189 victories in 191 matches on clay from 1973 to 1981 ).

Tribu Kaunlaran ( Bgy 3 ) of Comon under then tribe trainer and choreographer Herman Cortez became a regular winner, that they represented the province in 1981 in the Dinagyang Festival in Iloilo City as Tribu Binirayan.

The only triple winner of the Cox Plate, the mighty Kingston Town, won in 1980, 1981 and 1982.

Benatar is also the winner of three American Music Awards: Favorite Female Pop / Rock Vocalist of 1981 and 1983, and Favorite Female Pop / Rock Video Artist of 1985.

Each winner of the 1981 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit was selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.

Nicknamed ' Plough ' for his knack of crashing through packs, Wallace was Hawthorn's best and fairest winner in 1981 and 1983, the latter in another premiership year.

Two-time Grand Championship winner Kenny Roberts at the 1981 German Grand Prix.

* Death in a Tenured Position ( 1981, Nero Award winner )

Darrell Lee Waltrip ( born February 5, 1947 ) is a 3-time NASCAR Cup Series champion ( 1981, 1982, 1985 ), 3-time runner-up ( 1979, 1983, 1986 ), winner of the 1989 Daytona 500 and the first 5-time winner of the prestigious Coca-Cola 600 ( formerly the World 600 ), ( 1978, 1979, 1985, 1988, 1989, a first for any driver, all time ).

He is a 2-time winner of NASCAR's Most Popular Driver Award, ( 1989, 1990 ), was " American Driver of the Year ", ( 1979, 1981, 1982 ), and was " NASCAR's Driver of the Decade ", ( 1980s ).

Guy Theodore Sebastian ( born 26 October 1981 ) is an Australian pop, R & B, and soul singer-songwriter who was the first winner of Australian Idol in 2003.