Development of the Amiga began in 1982 with Jay Miner, developer of the Atari 800 chip set, as the principal hardware designer of Amiga Corporation.

Benin began producing a modest quantity of offshore oil in October 1982.

Planning for the Big Dig as a project officially began in 1982, with environmental impact studies starting in 1983.

* In 1982, Burroughs began producing personal computers, the B20 and B25 lines with the Intel 8086 / 8088 family of 8-bit chips as the processor.

He was invited to open subsequent gigs for the band, and then began performing as a support act in pubs and clubs, for the next three years, and at events such as the Larks in the Park music festival at Sefton Park ( 1982 ).

The military also suffered several setbacks in its fight against the guerrillas, when several of its rural bases began to be overrun and a record number of soldiers and officers were taken prisoner by the FARC ( which since 1982 was attempting to implement a more " conventional " style of warfare, seeking to eventually defeat the military in the field ).

Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began transmission on 2 November 1982.

The Broadcasting Act 1980 began the process of adding a fourth, and Channel 4, along with its Welsh counterpart, was formally created by an Act of Parliament in 1982.

After some months of test broadcasts, it began scheduled transmissions on 2 November 1982.

He began recording around Los Angeles in 1982 as a member of the Radio Crew, and also Uncle Jam's Army.

" Boztepe also began training in Latosa Escrima, which Kernspecht's German Wing Tsun Organization had decided to make part of the family in 1982.

Beginning in 1982, Eddie Murphy began a parody of Gumby on Saturday Night Live.

In 1982, having looked into a wide variety of faiths and religious movements, she became a Christian and began to distance herself from a past she considered to be sinful.

In 1982, work began to develop a European standard for digital cellular voice telephony when the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations ( CEPT ) created the Groupe Spécial Mobile committee and provided a permanent group of technical support personnel, based in Paris.

Development began with government funding in 1982.

He began his music career in 1982 as Kid Frost as a tribute to his rival Ice-T, whom he often battled in the music industry.

* The Conch Republic, which began in 1982 as a protest by residents and business owners in the Florida Keys against a United States Border Patrol roadblock.

From 1973 ( when construction began ) until 1982 ( when it ended ), gross domestic product grew more than 8 percent annually, double the rate for the previous decade and higher than growth rates in most other Latin American countries.

When Channel 4 began in 1982 it launched its own soap, the Liverpool based Brookside, on its first day.

Brookside began in 1982 with two episodes a week.

The first phase was completed in 1982, and the second phase began in 1983, aided by a US $ 25-million World Bank credit.

Construction of the predecessor of the present Kamioka Observatory, the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo began in 1982 and was completed in April, 1983.

Production began on Monday, August 16, 1982, at a farm just west of Lawrence.

The 80-year-old President then began to seriously consider resigning, most likely in early 1982.

The alternatives incursion began with The Young Ones ( 1982 – 84 ), written by Rik Mayall, Ben Elton and others, and continued with Blackadder ( 1983 – 89 ).

He reprised the role in Evil Under the Sun ( 1982 ) and Appointment with Death ( 1988 ).

Orazioni e frammenti ( now the standard text, with Italian translation, 1982 )

Aon was created in 1982, when the Ryan Insurance Group ( founded by Pat Ryan in the 1960s ) merged with the Combined Insurance Company of America ( founded by W. Clement Stone in 1919 ).

In 1982, after 10 years of stagnation under Clement Stone Jr., the elder Stone, then 79, resumed control until the completion of a merger with Ryan Insurance Co. allowed him to transfer control to Patrick Ryan.

In another 1998 event, Elizabeth Ward Gracen recanted a six-year-old denial and stated she had a one night stand with Clinton in 1982.

Since 1982 the comic, along with The Dandy, has also run " Comic Library " titles.

BCI received a licence and copyright through legal agreements with Charles K. Bliss in 1975 and 1982.

The term " black metal " was coined by the English band Venom with their second album Black Metal ( 1982 ).

Costas has teamed with Isiah Thomas and Doug Collins for NBA telecasts ( from 1997 – 2000 ) and Sal Bando ( 1982 ), Tony Kubek ( from 1983 – 1989 ), Joe Morgan and Bob Uecker ( from 1994 – 2000 ) for baseball telecasts.

Benet committed suicide on April 7, 1982, following a break-up with her assistant, Tammy Bruce.

When Canada achieved formal independence with the passage of the Canada Act 1982, no reception statutes were necessary for the decolonialisation process.

Later, beginning in 1982 with The Pogues ' invention of Celtic folk-punk and Stockton's Wing blend of Irish traditional and Pop, Rock and Reggie, there has been a movement to incorporate Celtic influences into other genres of music.

Chile pressed ahead with privatizations, including public utilities plus the re-privatization of companies that had returned to the government during the 1982 – 1983 crisis.

By 1982, the perceived passivity of the FARC, together with the relative success of the government's efforts against the M-19 and ELN, enabled the administration of the Liberal Party's Julio César Turbay ( 1978 – 1982 ) to lift a state-of-siege decree that had been in effect, on and off, for most of the previous 30 years.

Citizen exhaustion due to the conflict's newfound intensity led to the election of president Belisario Betancur ( 1982 – 1986 ), a Conservative who won 47 % of the popular vote, directed peace feelers at all the insurgents, and negotiated a 1984 cease-fire with the FARC and M-19 after a 1982 release of many guerrillas imprisoned during the previous effort to overpower them.

LiveScience. com recaps new evidence showing that the most dangerous sport for high school and college females is cheerleading: Another study found that between 1982 and 2007, there were 103 fatal, disabling or serious injuries recorded among female high school athletes, with the vast majority ( 67 ) occurring in cheerleading.

Meanwhile, in the USA, cheerleading accounted for 65. 1 % of all major sports injuries to high school females, and to 66. 7 % of major sports injuries to college students from 1982 to 2007, with 22, 900 minors being admitted to hospital with cheerleading-related injuries in 2002.

Until this time, Mike Baldwin had been portrayed as an only child, with his father appearing in the programme between 1980 and 1982 confirming the fact.