The album itself proved to be a minor success and peaked at Number 14 on the UK Albums Chart, and was later certified gold by the BPI in 1982.

* Jinx – 1982 ( BPI: 60, 000 )

The awards began in 1977 and as annual event in 1982 under the auspices of the British record industry's trade association, the BPI.

As the new band then began to make a commercial impact the following year, Travelogue re-entered the chart in August 1981 for a further 33 weeks, eventually being certified Gold by the BPI in May 1982.

It was certified gold ( 100, 000 copies sold ) by the BPI in October 1982.

When Thomas became Chairman of the U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ( EEOC ) in 1982, Hill went along to serve as his assistant, leaving the job in 1983.

In 1982, in a move that heralded big changes within the sport, one of the original VFL clubs and now struggling, South Melbourne, relocated to Sydney and became known as the Sydney Swans.

During the mid-1980s, many sysops opted for the less expensive, ubiquitous Commodore 64 ( introduced in 1982 ), which became popular among software pirate groups.

After Habré consolidated his authority and assumed the presidency in 1982, his victorious army, the Armed Forces of the North ( Forces Armées du Nord — FAN ), became the nucleus of a new national army.

After the economic crisis of 1982, Hernan Buchi became Minister of Finance from 1985 to 1989.

In 1982, Vassar College became the first institution in the world to grant an undergraduate degree in Cognitive Science.

Canada became a kingdom in its own right on that date, but the British Parliament kept limited rights of political control over the new country that were shed by stages over the years until the last vestiges were surrendered in 1982 when the Constitution Act patriated the Canadian constitution.

Steve Carlton in 1982 became the first pitcher to win more than three Cy Young Awards, while Greg Maddux in 1994 became the first to win at least three in a row ( and received a fourth straight the following year ), a feat later repeated by Randy Johnson.

In an article on anti-CND groups, Steve Dorril reported that in 1982 Eugene V. Rostow, Director of the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, became concerned about the growing unilateralist movement.

In 1982, the post of Chairman was abolished, and the General Secretary, at this time held by the same man as the post of Chairman, once again became the supreme office of the Party.

Ecuador became a relatively heavy importer of arms in the late 1970s and early 1980s, averaging US $ 150 million annually and reaching a peak of US $ 280 million in 1982.

In 1982, shortly before Clannad became internationally renowned for " Theme From Harry's Game ", producer and manager Nicky Ryan left the group and Enya joined him to start her own solo career.

He became Transvaal provincial National Party leader in 1982.

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, Marrow met producer William Strong from Saturn Records, who recorded his first single, " Cold Wind Madness ", also known as " The Coldest Rap ", which became an underground success, becoming popular even though radio stations did not play it due to the song's hardcore lyrics.

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.

Its popularity became truly evident in 1982 during the Falklands War when sailors aboard the destroyer HMS Sheffield, severely damaged in an Argentinean Exocet missile attack on 4 May, started singing it while awaiting rescue.

He was sentenced to death at his first trial in July 1982, and his case became an international cause célèbre.

10 MHz chips became available during 1981, and 12. 5 MHz chips by June 1982.

During Yuri Andropov's tenure as General Secretary ( 1982 – 1984 ), Gorbachev became one of the Politburo's most visible and active members.

In 1982 Ranulph Fiennes and Charles R. Burton became the first people to cross the Arctic Ocean in a single season.

As a result of this journey, which formed a section of the three-year Transglobe Expedition 1979 – 1982, Fiennes and Burton became the first people to complete a circumnavigation of the world via both North and South Poles, by surface travel alone.

After more behind-the-scenes contract wrangling, Smith became a St. Louis Cardinal on February 11, 1982.

Smith became a father for the first time during the 1982 season with the birth of his son O. J., today known as Nikko, on April 28.

James Francis Ross in Portraying Analogy ( 1982 ), the first substantive examination of the topic since Cajetan's De Nominum Analogia, demonstrated that analogy is a systematic and universal feature of natural languages, with identifiable and law-like characteristics which explain how the meanings of words in a sentence are interdependent.

A universal quantum simulator is a quantum computer proposed by Richard Feynman in 1982.

In 1982 the Canadian Central Bank ’ s lending rates ran up to 14 % which drove chartered bank lending rates as high as 19 %.

On January 7, 1982, brothers Karl and Walter Bernhard LaGrand bungled an armed bank robbery in Marana, Arizona, United States, killing a man and severely injuring a woman in the process.

The replacement of Chief Economist Hollis B. Chenery by Anne Krueger in 1982 marked a notable policy shift at the bank.

The banking system consists of the Central Bank of the Comoros ( Banque Centrale des Comores ) established in 1981 that had three offices ( Moroni ( Grande-Comore ), Mutsamudu ( Anjouan ) and Fomboni ( Mohéli )); the Bank for Industry and Commerce ( Banque pour l ' Industrie et le Commerce — BIC ), a commercial bank established in 1990 that had six branches in 1993 and was a subsidiary of the National Bank of Paris — International ( Banque Nationale de Paris — Internationale ); the Development Bank of Comoros ( Banque de Développement des Comores ), established in 1982, which provided support for small and midsize development projects, the Federal Bank of Commerce ( Banque Fédérale de Commerce ) and the Exim Bank Comores Ltd.

Roberto Calvi was the chairman of Italy's second largest private bank, Banco Ambrosiano when it went bankrupt in 1982.

Banco Ambrosiano was an Italian bank which collapsed in 1982.

In 1982, it was discovered that the bank could not account for $ 1. 287 billion ( equivalent to $ in present day terms ).

During July 1982, funds to the off-shore interests were cut off, leading to their collapse, and in August the bank was replaced by the Nuovo Banco Ambrosiano under Giovanni Bazoli.

The first action by the MRTA occurred on 31 May 1982, when five of its members, including Victor Polay Campos and Jorge Talledo Feria ( members of the Central Committee ) robbed a bank in La Victoria, Lima.

According to " The Boone Family " book by Hazel Atterbury Spraker ( 1982 ), " was buried near the body of his wife, in a cemetery established in 1803 by David Bryan, upon the bank of a small stream called Teuque Creek about one and one-half miles southeast of the present site of the town of Marthasville in Warren County, Missouri, it being at that time the only Protestant cemetery North of the Missouri River.

In 1982, 15 Middle Eastern investors bought Financial General Bankshares, a large bank holding company headquartered in Washington, D. C. All the investors were BCCI clients, but the Fed received assurances that BCCI would be in no way involved in the management of the company, which was renamed First American Bankshares.

From 1982 to 1991, Clifford served as chairman of First American Bankshares, which grew to become the largest bank in Washington, D. C.

In 1982 the community, where World War II hero Audie Murphy once lived, had a bank, four churches, ten stores, and a school that enrolled 300 students.

Also in 1982 the OCC, under Comptroller C. Todd Conover, approved the mutual fund company Dreyfus Corporation and the retailer Sears establishing “ nonbank bank ” subsidiaries that were not covered by the Bank Holding Company Act.

By 1982, using the “ unitary thrift ” and “ nonbank bank ” “ loopholes ”, Sears had built the “ Sears Financial Network ”, which combined “ Super NOW ” accounts and mortgage loans through a large California-based savings and loan, the Discover Card issued by a “ nonbank bank ,” securities brokerage through Dean Witter Reynolds, home and auto insurance through Allstate, and real estate brokerage through Coldwell Banker.

Under a 1982 amendment to the Bank Holding Company Act bank affiliates had been prohibited from underwriting most forms of insurance.

Completed in 1982, it is sited on the eastern bank of the River Taedong, directly opposite Kim Il Sung Square which is situated on the other side of the river.

During 1982 the duo retreated to Chalk Farm in London, and used a bank loan to establish a small 8-track studio above a picture framing factory, giving them freedom to record without having to pay expensive studio fees.

MBNA was founded in 1982 by a group of MNC Financial ( regional bank holding company headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland ) executives headed by Charles Cawley.

The last version of CP / M released in 1982 supported bank switching to allow use of more than the 64K of memory that the 8080 or Z80 processor could address.

After studying at the École Polytechnique from 1976 to 1980, and then at the École nationale d ' administration between 1980 and 1982, Messier held several posts at the French Economy Ministry, including a post as technical counseler for privatization under Edouard Balladur, during the 1980s, before moving to investment bank Lazard Freres in 1989.

In 1982, the bank established a subsidiary, State Bank of India ( California ), which now has ten branches – nine branches in the state of California and one in Washington, D. C.

Government of Fujairah is major shareholder in National Bank of Fujairah, an UAE local bank, incorporated in 1982.

The bank retained a restricted branch in Port Moresby that it finally closed in 1982.