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.

By Christmas of 1982, Coleco had sold more than 500, 000 units, in part on the strength of its bundled game.

By 1982 the stagnation of the Soviet economy was obvious, as evidenced by the fact that the Soviet Union had been importing grain from the U. S. throughout the 1970s, but the system was so firmly entrenched that any real change seemed impossible.

By 1982 after all of Sinai was returned to Egypt, the central government divided the peninsula into two governorates.

By 1982, oil would constitute half of Ghana's imports, while overall trade contracted greatly.

By 1982, only four players and three starting pitchers remained from the 1980 squad.

By early 1982, the Iraqi occupation forces were on the defensive and were being forced to retreat from some of their forward lines.

By 1982, sales were soaring.

In the early 1980s, Jarmusch was part of a revolving lineup of musicians in Robin Crutchfield's Dark Day project, and later became the keyboardist and one of two vocalists for The Del-Byzanteens, a No Wave band whose sole LP Lies to Live By was a minor underground hit in the United States and Britain in 1982.

By the end of 1982 it was obvious that the popular former trade union leader Bob Hawke was going to replace Hayden as Labor leader.

By 1982, increased income from the " coca boom " allowed them to expand into an irregular army, which would then stage large-scale attacks on Colombian troops.

By then, a neo-Campbellian revival of hard science fiction after 1982 at the hands of David Brin, Gregory Benford, Greg Bear and others had emerged.

By 1982, however, Peckinpah's health was in poor shape.

* 1982 – Jesse Blaze Snider, American singer-songwriter, illustrator, and writer ( Baptized By Fire )

By 1982, Iraq was on the defensive and looking for ways to end the war.

By the 1960s, tracks of 333. 3m length were commonly used for international competitions ( eg: the Agustín Melgar Olympic Velodrome used for track cycling events at the 1968 Summer Olympics, and Leicester's Saffron Lane velodrome used at the 1970 and 1982 Track Cycling World Championships ).

By 1963 a quarter of Venezuelan households had television ; a figure rising to 45 % by 1969 and 85 % by 1982.

By 1963 a quarter of Venezuelan households had television ; a figure rising to 45 % by 1969 and 85 % by 1982.

By the time Washington faced re-election in 1982, he had cemented his popularity in the 1st Congressional District.

By the end of 1982 Doe Maar notched up their first number 1-hit with De Bom, a joint Ernst -/ Henny-composition with the underlying message ' What's the point of making a career / doing your homework when the ( atomic ) bomb can drop at any moment?

By 1982, they were jumping from mobile cranes and hot air balloons.

By the 1980s, Māori leaders began to recognize the dangers of the loss of their language, and initiated Māori-language recovery-programs such as the Kōhanga Reo movement, which from 1982 immersed infants in Māori from infancy to school age.

By 1982, a number of hip hop radio stations had appeared, including Rapper Dapper Snapper and BA Crew, and the future star DJ Dee Nasty made his first appearance.

By the end of 1981, Kelly had replaced Jelliman, with Trewavas replacing Minnett in 1982.

By the second day Michelangelo began to worry ; ;

By the mid-19th century scientists began to arrive en masse to study the geology and ecology of the region.

By the age of twenty, Ferdinando I, Duke of Mantua, began commissioning works from him, and he was also employed by local jewelers for figurative designs.

By 1946, as the growing fellowship quarreled over structure, purpose, and authority, as well as finances and publicity, Wilson began to form and promote what became known as AA's Twelve Traditions, guidelines for an altruistic, unaffiliated, non-coercive, and non-hierarchical structure that limited AA's purpose to only helping alcoholics on a non-professional level while shunning publicity.

By the 1960s, as VFL clubs increasingly recruited the best players from other states, they began to dominate the competition and the last match was played in 1976, with North Adelaide being the last non-Victorian winner in 1972.

By 1906, he was studying music full-time ; by 1907, he began composition lessons.

By the 16th century, a cappella polyphony had further developed, but gradually, the cantata began to take the place of a cappella forms.

By the 3rd century BC, the rival armies of Carthage and Rome began to invade and fight for control of the Iberian Peninsula.

By the age of 64 after forty years imprisonment ` Abdu ’ l-Bahá was freed by the Young Turks and he and his family began to live in relative safety.

By the time World War I began, attempts to use anthrax were directed at animal populations.

By the early 20th century the Liberals stance began to shift towards " New Liberalism ", what would today be called social liberalism: a belief in personal liberty with a support for government intervention to provide minimum levels of welfare.

By the age of four, he was able to play 40 pieces on the piano ; his mother began formally teaching him the next year.

By the early 1910s, Jefferson began traveling frequently to Dallas, where he met and played with fellow blues musician Lead Belly.

By the 1890s, the portion from 23rd Street to 34th Street was so brightly illuminated by electrical advertising signs, that people began calling it " The Great White Way.

By winning operationally, strategically it could not keep up the momentum as the superiority of the Soviet Union's industrial base and economy began to take effect.

By the early 2000s ( decade ), however, the university quietly reexamined its position on accreditation as degree mills proliferated and various government bureaucracies, such as law enforcement agencies, began excluding BJU graduates on the grounds that the university did not appear on appropriate federal lists.

By then, early dance camps, retreats, and weekends had emerged, such as Pinewoods Camp, in Plymouth, Massachusetts, which became primarily a music and dance camp in 1933, and NEFFA, the New England Folk Festival, also in Massachusetts, which began in 1944.

By the 16th century, Spanish conquistadors began to subdue and colonize the region of present-day Chile, and the territory became a colony from 1540 to 1818, when it gained independence from Spain.

By the end of the 2nd millennium BC, the Zhou Dynasty began to emerge in the Yellow River valley, overrunning the territory of the Shang.

By the fourth century, however, " confessors "— people who had confessed their faith not by dying but by word and life — began to be venerated publicly.

By this time his interest in writing fiction began to lessen and he turned to creating sculptures from soft rock such as soapstone.

By the 1990s Conservative Judaism continued to flourish, yet dichotomies of practice and belief, which had been present for years, began to formulate.

By the 1960s, college cheerleaders began hosting workshops across the nation, teaching fundamental cheer skills to high-school-age girls.

By 1906, Beaux began to live year-round at Green Alley, in a comfortable colony of " cottages " belonging to her wealthy friends and neighbors.

By August 1954 Malenkov's role as de facto head of government was over ; Nikolai Bulganin began signing Council of Ministers decrees ( a right beholden to the Chairman ) and the Presidium gave in to Khrushchev's wishes to replace Malenkov.