The SDP came second in many constituencies, including nearly 70 % of the Conservative-won seats, though the bulk of Labour's defectors to the SDP in 1981 lost their seats, but Britain's first past the post electoral system meant that this success did not translate into parliamentary seats.

Elected to the House of Commons in 1979 as a member of the Labour Party for the constituency of Stockport South, in 1981 he was one of the later defectors to the new Social Democratic Party.

Brearley retired from Test cricket in 1979 and was succeeded by Ian Botham, who started the 1981 series as England captain, by which time the WSC split had ended.

Having fallen from public notice, the tunnel was rediscovered in 1981 by then 18-year-old Robert " Bob " Diamond, who entered from a manhole he located at Atlantic Avenue and Court Street, crawled a distance of underground through a filled-in section of tunnel less than two feet high, and located the bulkhead wall that sealed off the main portion of the tunnel.

Also from 1981 is the horror film Wolfen making use of the rubble of the Bronx as a home for werewolf type creatures.

It is best known from the Cronquist system, of 1981, which placed this order in subclass Zingiberidae, of class Liliopsida.

** Big Dipper ( Luna Park Sydney ), a wooden roller coaster operating at Luna Park Sydney from 1935 until 1981

The 1981 season saw Walsh lead the 49ers to a Super Bowl championship ; the team rose from the cellar to the top of the NFL in just two seasons.

When Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield jumped together from a Houston skyscraper on 18 January 1981, they became the first to attain the exclusive BASE numbers ( BASE # 1 and # 2, respectively ), having already jumped from an antenna, spans, and earthen objects.

The four left the Labour Party as a result of policy changes enacted at the January 1981 Wembley conference which committed the party to unilateral nuclear disarmament and withdrawal from the European Economic Community.

His father, Béla Sr., considered himself thoroughly Hungarian, because on his father's side the Bartók family was a Hungarian lower noble family, originating from Borsod county ( Móser 2006a, 44 ; Bartók 1981, 13 ), though his mother was from a Roman Catholic Serbian family ( Bayley 2001, 16 ).

* Singer Songwriter Barry Manilow released a single " Bermuda Triangle " in 1981, taken from his 1980 album Barry

In 1981 Cambodia opened a newly repaired section of National Route 1 which runs southeast from Phnom Penh to the Vietnamese border.

An important initiative begun in 1981 and carried on until today, aimed at modernizing the use of Information and Communication technology, greatly contributed to disentangle the traditional bureaucratic and cumbersome clerical procedures in all dealings with branches of the government, from civil registry to import / export documentation, thereby fostering a more agile economy and a more efficient public administration.

Meier admits to " borrowing " many of the technology tree ideas from a board game also called Civilization, published in the United Kingdom in 1980 by Hartland Trefoil ( later by Gibson Games ), and in the United States in 1981 by Avalon Hill.

On the other hand, Steve McMichael holds the record for most consecutive games played by a Bear with 191 ; he accomplished the feat from 1981 to 1993.

After over a dozen more subpar seasons, in 1981 the Cubs hired GM Dallas Green from Philadelphia to turn around the franchise.

In 1985, Cathy Massiter, an MI5 officer who had been responsible for the surveillance of CND from 1981 to 1983, resigned and made disclosures to a Channel 4 20 / 20 Vision programme, " MI5's Official Secrets ".

From 1981 and each year onwards information that corresponds to a population and housing census is retrieved from registers.

Kane is perhaps best known for her portrayal of Simka Dahblitz-Gravas, wife of Latka Gravas ( Andy Kaufman ), on the American television series Taxi, from 1981 to 1983, and also for her role as Allison Portchnik in Woody Allen's Annie Hall.

In his book The Early Islamic Conquests ( 1981 ), Fred Donner argues that the standard Arabian practice at the time was for the prominent men of a kinship group, or tribe, to gather after a leader's death and elect a leader from amongst themselves.

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They are the Rassemblement Populaire Pour le Progres ( People's Rally for Progress ) ( RPP ) which was the only legal party from 1981 until 1992, the Parti du Renouveau Démocratique ( The Party for Democratic Renewal ) ( PRD ), and the Parti National Démocratique ( National Democratic Party ) ( PND ).

The first single, " Hey Nineteen ", peaked at # 10 on the pop chart in early 1981, and " Time Out of Mind " ( featuring Mark Knopfler from Dire Straits on guitar ) became a moderate hit in the spring.

Early in 1981, Owen and three other senior moderate Labour politicians – Roy Jenkins, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams – announced their intention to break away from the Labour Party to form a " Council for Social Democracy ".

Many of the opinion polls in late 1981 and early 1982 had shown the SDP with a comfortable lead over the Tories, who were proving unpopular largely due to high unemployment and the early 1980s recession and ahead of the Labour Party whose democratic-socialist policies were driving away moderate voters.

It is widely believed that his adventures had the implicit support of the French state, even after the 1981 election of the French Socialist Party candidate, François Mitterrand, despite moderate changes in France's policy in Africa.

This moderate opposition group sponsored demonstrations by students and academic staff at the Universite Omar Bongo in Libreville in December 1981, when the university was temporarily closed.

He was regarded as a member of the " wet " or moderate tendency of the Conservative Party, and despite this progressed well from the backbenches in Margaret Thatcher's government: He became a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department of Education and Science in 1981 before moving to the Department of the Environment in 1983.

In 1981, after the defeat of the conservatives in legislative elections, finding the RPR too moderate, and realizing that not being a graduate from the École Nationale d ' Administration like Jacques Toubon or Jean-François Mancel or Alain Juppé was slowing down his political career in the Rassemblement pour la République, he went on to create the Comités d ' Action Républicaine ( CAR ).

But later, he accused Jacques Chirac and the RPR lead to moderate their speech, and so, he was a dissident candidate in the 1981 presidential election.

But his uncompromising stance in the negotiations over Palestinian autonomy from 1979 to 1981 led to the resignations of the more moderate Moshe Dayan and Ezer Weizman, Foreign and Defense Ministers, respectively, both of whom left the Likud government.

Despite further moderate success, Tosh would later exit the label in 1981, citing lack of promotion and a personal feud with the Rolling Stones.

* Hurricane Dennis ( 1981 )-weak storm that caused moderate damage to Florida and the Carolinas due to heavy rainfall.

It was a moderate box-office hit, opening on May 1, 1981 in first place.

Subsequently the song has reached the U. S. Top 40 three times, most successfully by Carl Carlton, who peaked at # 6 in 1974, with more moderate success for remakes by Rex Smith and Rachel Sweet (# 32 / 1981 ) and Gloria Estefan (# 27 / 1995 ).

Many bands took left wing political stances and were vocally against Republican U. S. President Ronald Reagan, who served in office from 1981 to 1989.

It can be seen in the opening scene of The Golden Compass, Brideshead Revisited ( 1981 TV serial ), Another Country ( 1984 ), The Madness of King George III ( 1994 ), and the first two Harry Potter films, in which the Divinity School doubles as the Hogwarts hospital wing and Duke Humfrey's Library as the Hogwarts library.

The New Ulster Political Research Group ( NUPRG ) was initially the political wing of the UDA, founded in 1978, which then evolved into the Ulster Loyalist Democratic Party in 1981 under the leadership of John McMichael, a prominent UDA member killed by the IRA in 1987, amid suspicion that he was set up to be killed by some of his UDA colleagues.

As part of the establishment of the Fighter Weapons School in late 1981 the 57th wing was re-designated and reorganized:

Established in 1981, then re-established in 1991, the IYDU has 127 full and observer members from over 80 countries and is the youth wing of the International Democrat Union ( IDU ).

Among his other honors, he was made an honorary member of the U. S. Army's Golden Knights parachute demonstration team ; flew for several months with the U. S. Air Force Thunderbirds demonstration squadron ; and set the world record for the number of people deployed for a wing-walk — nineteen — on one wing of an airplane on November 14, 1981.

Richard Corbett's activities in the European Students at Oxford led on to him being elected first to the youth board of the European Movement in Britain and then to the international presidency of the youth wing of the European Movement and of the Union of European Federalists, the Young European Federalists ( JEF ), a post he held from 1979 to 1981, drafting their Manifesto which was the first to coin the phrase " democratic deficit " in relation to the European Parliament's then lack of any power over European legislation.

His career in the field of MHD is well-known: 1st method of eletrothermal instability control and 1st usable MHD generator with non-equilibrium ionized gas ( 1967 ); kinetic theory of non-equilibrium plasmas ( 1972 ); MHD aerodynes with ionization control ( 1975 ); Shock wave cancellation by MHD force field around a cylindrical profile imbedded in a liquid flow ( 1976 ); 2nd method of electrothermal instability control by magnetic pressure gradient in an MHD accelerator ( 1981 ); Thesis director about shock wave annihilation around a flat wing in a hot supersonic gas flow: Resolution of Navier-Stokes equations within an MHD force field by the method of characteristics ( 1987 ).

In 1980 and 1981, the wing upgraded to the Block 10 General Dynamics F-16A / B Fighting Falcon.

With the arrival of the F-16, the wing designation was changed to 56th Tactical Training Wing on 1 October 1981.

In 1969 a three-tier stand was constructed at the western end of the stadium, and in 1981 a two-tier stand on the members ' wing was completed.

* Baptised into the Anglican Church in 1981 before its sell out to left wing homosexual minority interests.

Indo-Canadian Talwinder Singh Parmar was put in charge of the international wing of the Babbar Khalsa in 1981.

The wing served with the Rapid Deployment Force until July 1981, when the tasking was transferred to the 1st Tactical Fighter Wing, Langley Air Force Base Virginia.

The reconnaissance training mission of the wing was terminated in 1981 and beginning in 1982, the wing would become 363d Tactical Fighter Wing ( 363d TFW ), being equipped with General Dynamics F-16 aircraft.

David Martyn Lloyd-Jones ( 20 December 1899 – 1 March 1981 ) was a Welsh Protestant minister, preacher and medical doctor who was influential in the Reformed wing of the British evangelical movement in the 20th century.

* In 1981 a Cessna 402C entered service as part of the air wing.

Horwood then went onto The Queen's College, Oxford to read Modern History in 1981, and was elected President of the Oxford Student Liberal Society and then Chair of the party ’ s national student wing, the Union of Liberal Students.

Sean Lamont ( born 15 January 1981 in Perth, Scotland ) is a Scottish international rugby union player who plays at centre and on the wing.

Thomas Michael Dunstan Voyce ( born 5 January 1981 in Truro, Cornwall ) is an English rugby union footballer who recently played at wing or fullback for Gloucester and England.

In 1981, Phase III saw the opening of Nordstrom and its first wing.

Only one other prisoner on the prison wing O ' Rawe and McFarlane were on, Anthony McIntyre, has backed up O ' Rawe's version of events in relation to the 1981 Hunger Strike.