He soon started to write short stories, although his career did not take off until 1982, when, through Harlan Ellison's help, his short story " The River Styx Runs Upstream " was published and awarded first prize in a Twilight Zone Magazine story competition.

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.

Around 1982, Pavel Curtis started work on a freeware clone of the Bell Labs curses, named pcurses, which was maintained by various people through 1986.

Hamilton's program was started in his 1982 paper in which he introduced the Ricci flow on a manifold and showed how to use it to prove some special cases of the Poincaré conjecture.

After they completed high school and started college in 1982, Simmons and McDaniels finally convinced Russell to let them record as a duo, and they recruited Mizell ( who now called himself Jam-Master Jay ) to be their official DJ.

As a result of the 1982 television contract signed by the NFL with the three networks, this game was the first Super Bowl to be televised in the United States by ABC, as they earned their first turn at the Super Bowl, with a new alternation process started for the 1983 game.

Production of the AGM-114A started in 1982.

Close started her professional stage career in 1974, and her film work in 1982.

The new Marvel series started in December, 1981 and ended in November, 1982.

NR started working with statistics in 1952, remote sensing in 1982, geostatistics and petroleum in 1983, marine resources in 1988 and electricity prices and finance in 1994.

This shifted into a different approach during the 1982 Falklands / Mavinas war, when Bell started to concentrate on two central characters-Royal Navy officer Kipling and the Penguin he befriends.

Following extensive testing at different sites, including Siberia, the type T815 was introduced in 1982 and production started in 1983.

In 1982, TSR Hobbies decided to terminate Grenadier Miniatures's license and started producing its own AD & D miniatures line, followed by a line of toys, while licensing part of the AD & D toy line to LJN.

* 1980s: DAF trucks started competing in the Dakar Rally, winning in 1982, 85 and 87.

* VELUX 5 Oceans Race – formerly known as the BOC Challenge and later the Around Alone, this race started in 1982 with 17 entries.

Programming started in 1978 and the first version was delivered in 1982.

In order to address international market requirements for a lower-cost system, BAC started development of the " Rapier Laserfire " in 1982.

She started living at the reservation for the first time in 1982, after graduating from college, and worked as a principal of a high school.

* 1982: BCal started to operate a small fleet of Boeing 747 – 200s at Gatwick.

The Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame, started in 1982, recognizes Canadians in broadcasting or entertainment related industries who have " achieved outstanding success in helping raise industry standards from a material or humanitarian standpoint.

Following the commercial success of the film in June 1982, Steve Ross, chief executive officer ( CEO ) of Atari's parent company Warner Communications, started negotiations with Steven Spielberg and Universal Pictures to acquire the license to produce a video game based on the film.

Mirkin started out as a stand-up comedian in 1982 and performed across the United States, including at The Comedy Store, where he became a regular, and at The Improv.

In 1980 The Fire Department of Birdsall was started by William Timberlake, the future Undersherrif of Allegany County ( 1982 – 2001 ).

* Swamp Thing ( 1982 ), based the long running comic that started in DC comics and had ended its run in Vertigo Comics created by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson.

Starck's career started to climb in earnest in 1982 when he designed the interior for the private apartments of the French President François Mitterrand.

* 1980 – 1982: Heartattack and Vine touring

The last major hit of XTC's touring phase was " Senses Working Overtime ", the first single from their double album English Settlement ( February 1982 ) and their first top 10 hit in the UK.

From then on, it was always present in the D ' Oyly Carte touring repertory, being included in some part of every season until the company's closure in 1982.

They played as a quintet from early 1975 and always as a quartet from mid-1976 ( Bill Hurd ( keyboardist ) became an out-of-staff member ; during his retirement years, he joined Suzi Quatro's band, touring and playing on a number of worldwide hits, which included the Top 20 hit " She's in Love with You " in 1979, before re-joining the Rubettes in 1982.

Regrouping as a regular touring unit, after a five-year lay-off between releases which saw a solo album apiece by Stills and Nash, they hit the top ten one more time with Daylight Again in 1982.

Drivers used obsolete Grand National ( now Sprint Cup ) cars on larger tracks but by the inception of the touring format in 1982, the series used older compact cars.

The first English provincial tour opened in 1888, and from then on it was a fixture in the D ' Oyly Carte repertory, with at least one official touring company playing it somewhere in almost every season until the company's closure in 1982.

Allman quickly formed the Gregg Allman Band with the Toler brothers Dan and David (" Frankie ") ( drums ) in 1982 and began touring small venues and clubs.

Leavell opted to go on tour again with the Rolling Stones, with whom he has been a touring member since 1982.

In August 1982, however, Australia received the England touring team at Perth, where Gower made 72 and 28.

This success, along with other stresses, contributed to a deterioration of relations with Townshend, and the Who retired from active touring in 1982 when Townshend felt he was no longer able to write for the band.

In 1982, she was touring with Sir Ralph Richardson in Angela Huth's The Gathering and the play's West End run had been announced.

The band split up in late 1982, Steve Lake disaffected with the Anarchist music scene in general and the band worn out from touring.

The band spent the spring of 1982 touring in Sweden, and also had their first Japanese breakthrough with " Tragedy ".

In 1982, the band's touring line up was Small, guitarist Paul Warren, bassist John Trivers, keyboardist Robyn Robbins and Doug Maddick on drums.

Group A was introduced by the FIA in 1982 to replace the outgoing Group 2 as " modified touring cars ", while Group N would replace Group 1 as " standard touring cars ".

Returning to Australia, the band began work on their third album ; with new guitarist Robin Riley replacing Cocks, who went on to join Heaven, they issued Scarred for Life in 1982, subsequently touring the US in support of Aerosmith and ZZ Top.

Ongoing improvements to the ground and buildings enabled West to continue hosting Senior and International matches and a visit by a Pakistan touring side in 1982 was followed by a series of Benson and Hedges One Day matches between Scotland and Gloucestershire, Leicestershire, Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Northamptonshire.

Thompson became the touring drummer in 1977, playing on their tours in that year and in 1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983 / 4, 1986 / 7, 1992 and the 2007 reunion Turn It On Again Tour.

During 1982, the band added keyboardist / guitarist Scott Thurston formerly of Iggy and The Stooges to their touring line-up.

From then on, it was never absent from the touring repertory until it was omitted from the final two seasons ( September 1980 – February 1982 ) before the closing of the D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company.

The band's touring lineup was set, and Petra went on the road for 300 days in 1982, playing 162 shows, stopping only for the five weeks it took to record the follow-up album, More Power To Ya, that summer.