* Van Buren, Raeburn, Abbie an ' Slats — 2 volumes ( 1983 ) Ken Pierce Books

* 1983 — Teradata introduces a database management system specifically designed for decision support.

There were two younger brothers, Hanly ( 1899 – 1983 ) and Carey ( 1902 – 1976 ), who were born after the family had moved to the nearby suburb of Beckenham — in Oakwood Avenue.

In April 1983, in coordination with the IMF, the PNDC launched an economic recovery program, perhaps the most stringent and consistent of its day in Africa, aimed at reopening infrastructural bottlenecks and reviving moribund productive sectors — agriculture, mining, and timber.

Between 1983 and 1985, the government of Honduras — pumped up by massive infusions of external borrowing — had introduced expensive, high-tech infrastructure projects.

Between 1980 and 1983, 20 percent of the work force was unemployed — double the percentage of the late 1970s.

* 1983 — Arthur Laffer

On 13 May 1983, two peat workers at Lindow Moss, Andy Mould and Stephen Dooley, noticed an unusual object — about the size of a football — on the elevator taking peat to the shredding machine.

* Following Hitchcock's death, Universal, which had previously purchased the rights to Psycho ( 1960 ), eventually acquired the distribution rights to the four other films ( along with a former WB feature, Rope ) in 1983 from the Hitchcock estate ( which still holds all other ancillary rights to these films — the estate is overseen by his daughter, Patricia );

Formed at the University of Vermont in 1983 ( with the current line up solidifying in 1985 ), the band's four members — Trey Anastasio ( guitars, lead vocals ), Mike Gordon ( bass, vocals ), Jon Fishman ( drums, percussion, vocals ), and Page McConnell ( keyboards, vocals )— performed together for over 20 years before breaking up in August 2004.

While the patent was initially rejected by the patent office as being a purely mathematical invention, following 12 years of appeals, Pardo and Landau won a landmark court case at the CCPA ( Predecessor Court of the Federal Circuit ) overturning the Patent Office in 1983 — establishing that " something does not cease to become patentable merely because the point of novelty is in an algorithm.

In the 1983 movie The Star Chamber, Michael Douglas, playing an idealistic Los Angeles Superior Court judge frustrated about having to free obviously guilty criminals merely because of legal technicalities, learns from his mentor about a secret cabal of judges — a Star Chamber — that metes out its own brand of justice against those it determines have wrongly been set free.

Demands for the " classic " line-up of the band — Macainsh, Bob Starkie, Strachan, Strauks and Symons — to reform were successful and on 23 April 1983, they started the Living in the 80's Tour.

In 1983, the United States Congress, pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 140 ( Public Law 97 — 198 ), designated February 11, Edison's birthday, as National Inventor's Day.

* Dom Mariani — vocals, guitar ( 1983 – 1987, 2003 – present )

* Richard Lane — vocals, guitar, keyboards, harmonica ( 1983 – 1987, 2003 – present )

* Gary Chambers — drums ( 1983 – 1986 )

The Undertones released two further studio singles in 1983 ; their first single, " Got To Have You Back " — which was inspired by both ABC and Smokey Robinson — was released in February and their second single, " Chain of Love ", was released in May.

Tewari, One Interior Life — A Study of the Nature of Wordsworth's Poetic Experience, ( New Delhi: S. Chand & Company Ltd, 1983 )

In 1983 Sperry sold Vickers to Libbey Owens Ford ( later to be renamed TRINOVA Corporation and subsequently Aeroquip-Vickers ).

The LZW algorithm used in compress was patented by Sperry Research Center in 1983.

For these achievements, he would in 1983 receive the prestigious Albert F. Sperry Award from the Instrument Society of America ( ISA ).

FASA Corporation logo in 1983

* China – Beijing Jeep Corporation – 1983 to 2009 as Beijing-Benz DaimlerChrysler Automotive.

In 1983, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation broadcast eight hour-long episodes for radio dramatising the complete Gormenghast Trilogy.

Rovi was established under the name Macrovision Corporation in 1983.

1983 Australian Broadcasting Corporation | ABC news report on the first day of trading with a floating Australian dollar.

In 1983, Conroy sold O ' Sullivan Industries to Tandy Corporation.

Victoria's public transport system was reorganisation in 1983 and saw the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board dissolved into the Metropolitan Transit Authority, which was in turn absorbed by the Public Transport Corporation in 1989.

Microfilming Corporation of America, 1983.

In 1983, Lenox was acquired by Brown-Forman Corporation.

It was formed in 1983 through the merging of the two Swiss watch manufacturers ASUAG and SSIH, and took its present name in 1998 ( formerly SMH Swiss Corporation for Microelectronics and Watchmaking Industries Ltd ).

Altos shipped a version for their Intel 8086 based computers early in 1982, Tandy Corporation shipped TRS-XENIX for their 68000-based systems in January 1983, and SCO released their port to the IBM PC in September 1983.

* 1983 Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation headquarters in Austin.

The company was bought by CSX Corp. in 1983 ; by Transco Energy Corp. in 1989 ; by Williams in 1995 ; and by Loews Corporation in 2003.

In 1983, the McKee Foods Corporation ( then known as McKee Baking Company ) opened its manufacturing facility in Gentry.

From 1983 until 2009, Potlatch Corporation and its successor Ainsworth operated an oriented strand board plant in nearby Farden Township, which provided employment to many residents.

On July 4, 2008, MSX Association's European contact website, which states to be the " only official contact place for MSX Association in Europe ", reports that the MSX trademark and copyright has been under the MSX Licensing Corporation holding ever since 1983.

The Roland TR-808 was produced between 1980 and 1983 by the Roland Corporation, with approximately 12, 000 units manufactured in that time.

Later bilateral arrangements with individual NATO powers ( 1959 – 1983 ), the Military Training Assistance Plan, which has trained aircrews from developing countries since 1964 and NATO Flying Training in Canada ( NFTC ), since 1998, a partnership of the Canadian Forces, Bombardier Aerospace Corporation and participating air forces.

Starting in 1983 was Ta sjansen, which was televised annually by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation and became Sommerkollen's most popular show.

However, unable to beat its competition in the marketplace, Osborne Computer Corporation filed for bankruptcy in September 1983.

The company was reorganized in 1983, and Union Oil Company of California became an operating subsidiary of a new Delaware-based holding company, Unocal Corporation.

In the early 1980s, following the release of the television series, the Australian Broadcasting Commission ( from 1983, Australian Broadcasting Corporation ) produced a radio show called Brunswick Heads Revisited.