By late 1983 it was clear that IBM's Token Ring would not be ready in time for the launch of the Mac, and might miss the launch of these other products as well.

By May 1984, Ken Barlow stood as the only original cast member, after the departures of Ena Sharples ( in 1980 ), Annie Walker ( in 1983 ), Elsie Tanner ( in 1984 ) and Albert Tatlock ( also 1984 ).

By 1983, Bowie had emerged as one of the most important video artists of the day.

By 1983 Bevan was expressing a desire to join Black Sabbath permanently and Lynne and Tandy were recording tracks for the Electric Dreams soundtrack under Jeff Lynne's name.

By the time of the Jupiter project cancellation in 1983, Foonly's proposal to build another F-1 was eclipsed by the Mars computer, and the company never quite recovered.

By the time of the January 1983 Winter NAMM Show, Smith was able to demonstrate a MIDI connection between his Prophet 600 analog synthesizer and a Roland JP-6.

By January 1983, Men at Work had the top album and single in both the US and the UK-a feat never achieved previously by an Australian act.

By 1983, St. Paul's Hüsker Dü, Willful Neglect, Chicago's Naked Raygun and D. C .' s The Faith were taking the hardcore sound in experimental and ultimately more melodic directions.

By the time shooting wrapped in January 1983 in Los Angeles, Peckinpah and the producers were hardly speaking.

Side By Side By Sondheim ( 1976 ), Marry Me A Little ( 1980 ), You're Gonna Love Tomorrow ( 1983 ) Putting It Together ( 1993 ), and Sondheim on Sondheim ( 2010 ) are anthologies or revues of Sondheim's work as composer and lyricist, featuring both songs performed and cut from productions.

By the early 1980s there was no clear neoconservative in the Tory leadership cadre, but Brian Mulroney, who became leader in 1983, eventually came to adopt many policies from the Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan governments.

By 1983 there was regular ferry, freight, and passenger services from Durrës to Trieste, Italy.

By 1967, the independent candidates had gained traction within the black community, winning several aldermanic seats ; by 1983, the League of Negro Voters would be instrumental in Washington's run for Mayor.

By 1983 it was accepted that the speed of light was constant and that this provided a more reproducible procedure for measuring length, the metre was redefined in terms of the speed of light.

By 1983 the band name had officially become Psyche named after the B-Side of Killing Joke's " Wardance " single as well as being chosen for the meaning of the word.

By 1983, Elite developed its own contest titled the Elite Model Look Competition.

By 1983, unemployment rates should be not more than 3 % for persons aged 20 or over and not more than 4 % for persons aged 16 or over, and inflation rates should not be over 4 %.

By the time of her death in 1983, she was largely remembered at best for her " noble " roles in The Women, Marie Antoinette, and Romeo and Juliet.

By the time of the 1983 North American crash, the European video game industry was mostly computer-based and most games were made by European publishers.

By 1983, the government decided to renounce dirigisme and start an era of rigueur (" rigour ") or corporatization.

By 1983 Data-I / O introduced ABEL, to fill that need.

By the early 80s, the Kinks revived their commercial fortunes considerably by adopting a much more mainstream arena rock style ; and the band's four remaining studio albums for Arista — Low Budget ( 1979 ), Give the People What They Want ( 1981 ), State of Confusion ( 1983 ) and Word of Mouth ( 1984 )— showcased a decidedly canny and opportunistic approach.

By 1983, the number of political prisoners in the Sandinistas ' ruthless tyranny were estimated at 20, 000.

Zinc metal was also becoming more commonplace By 1513 metallic zinc ingots from India and China were arriving in London and pellets of zinc condensed in furnace flues at the Rammelsberg in Germany were exploited for cementation brass making from around 1550.

By far the longest canal was the Grand Canal of China, still the longest canal in the world today, and the oldest extant one.

By Dr. Patrick E McGovern, University of Pennsylvania archaeochemist and colleagues from China, Great Britain and Germany.

By the time of the Tang Dynasty five-hundred years after Buddhisms arrival into China, it had transformed into a thoroughly Chinese religious philosophy dominated by the school of Zen Buddhism.

By the time of the Xinhai Revolution in 1911, there were many calls, such as the May Fourth Movement, to completely abolish the old imperial institutions and practices of China.

By 1340, Cairo had a population of close to half a million, making it the largest city west of China.

By manufacturing the aircraft in China, Cessna reports it saved USD $ 71, 000 in production costs per aircraft, or about 40 % of the cost.

By the end of World War II, Chiang had come to believe that democracy was impossible for China to achieve.

By the 200s BC, the crossbow () was well developed and quite widely used in China.

" By assuming the mantle of the legitimate dynasty, the ethnic groups that established such non-Han dynasties are thus regarded as having forfeited their right to remain politically distinct from China.

By the mid-20th century, it was increasingly clear to historians that the notion of " changeless China " was untenable.

( By comparison, the ratio in twelfth-century China was one bureaucrat for every 15, 000 people.

By the 1890s, German colonial expansion in Asia and the Pacific ( Kiauchau in China, the Marianas, the Caroline Islands, Samoa ) led to frictions with Britain, Russia, Japan and the United States.

By 1958 Albania stood with the People's Republic of China in opposing Moscow on issues of peaceful coexistence, de-Stalinization, and Yugoslavia's " separate road to socialism " through decentralization of economic life.

By 1516, the first Portuguese ships had reached Canton on the southern coasts of China.

By 1557, the Portuguese gained a permanent base in China at Macau, which they held until 1999.

By 1980 the firm had operations in southern Africa, Australia, China, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, as well as the United States, and employed 37, 000 people.

By April 1938, Ribbentrop had ended all German arms shipments to China and had all of the German Army officers serving with the Kuomintang government of Chiang Kai-shek recalled ( with the threat that the families of the officers in China would be sent to concentration camps if the officers did not return to Germany immediately ).

By January 1944, Germany had diplomatic relations with only a handful of countries: Argentina, Ireland, Vichy France, the Salo Republic in Italy, Occupied Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Croatia, Bulgaria, Switzerland, the Holy See, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Thailand, Japan, and the Japanese puppet states of Manchukuo and the Wang Jingwei regime in China.

By that date, the following nations had deposited instruments of definitive adherence to the pact: Afghanistan, Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, China, Cuba, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, Guatemala, Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Liberia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Romania, the Soviet Union, the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, Siam, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey.

By the 8th century first Iranians and then Arabs had imported the craft of papermaking from China, with a paper mill already at work in Baghdad in 794.

By 1279, the Mongols conquered the Song Dynasty and brought all of China under control of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty.

By October 1934, he had them surrounded, prompting them to engage in the " Long March ", a retreat from Jiangxi in the southeast to Shaanxi in the north west of China.

By the early 1900s, the movement included England, Canada, Croatia, France, Denmark, Italy, America, the Philippines, China, and Hungary.