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.

She was also the first African-American woman to serve on the federal judiciary ( 1966 ), as well as the first African-American and the first woman to become Chief Judge of the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ( 1982 ).

In a 1982 judgment delivered under such a referral, Chief Justice Tom O ' Higgins bemoaned the crude strictures of the prescribed process ; especially the fact that, if the court finds that a bill does not violate the Constitution, this judgment can never subsequently be challenged.

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

* Sir William Gladstone, 7th Baronet ( born 1925 ), Chief Scout of the United Kingdom, 1972 – 1982

Kapor served as the President ( later Chairman ) and Chief Executive Officer of Lotus from 1982 to 1986 and as a Director until 1987.

During 1982 Sykes played the Chief Constable in the slapstick police comedy film The Boys in Blue, which starred the comedy duo Cannon and Ball, with Jon Pertwee.

These included the defection to the SIS Tehran Station in 1982 of KGB officer Vladimir Kuzichkin, the son of a senior Politburo member and a member of the KGB's internal Second Chief Directorate who provided SIS and the British government with warning of the mobilisation of the KGB's Alpha Force during the 1991 August Coup which briefly toppled Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

The saga of Chief Joseph and his people is also depicted in the 1982 poem " Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce " by Robert Penn Warren.

* Code Red ( 12 episodes, 1981 – 1982 ) — Battalion Chief Joe Rorchek

Major-General Erskine ( Ghana ), Chief of Staff of UNTSO reported to the Secretary-General and the Security Council ( S / 14789, S / 15194 ) that from August 1981 to May 1982, inclusive, there were 2096 violations of Lebanese airspace and 652 violations of Lebanese territorial waters.

In November 1982 she left Thames, but remained as Chief Executive at Euston until leaving in November of the following year to take up her first post in the film industry, as Director of Production for Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment.

In 1982, conservative activists Howard Phillips, founder of The Conservative Caucus, and Clymer Wright of Houston joined in an unsuccessful effort to convince Reagan to dismiss Baker as Chief of Staff.

" In 1982, he was elected Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, a national representative body for Canadian aboriginals.

* Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Williamson 1980 – 1982

* Air Chief Marshal Sir David Craig 1982 – 1985

He was named Chief Executive Officer in 1975 and Chairman in 1982, and still remains in those positions as of May 2012.

* Thomas B. Hayward, U. S. Chief of Naval Operations ( 1978 – 1982 )

In October 1982, the military convened a Congress elected in 1980 to lead choose a new Chief Executive.

He served as Second Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1965, and as unofficial Chief Ideologue of the Party until his death in 1982.

Sattar was ineffective, however, and Army Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. H. M. Ershad assumed power in a bloodless coup in March 1982.

During the rule of Nicolae Ceauşescu he worked at the Ministry of Finances between 1972 and 1977 as an economist in the State Budget Department, then between 1978 and 1982 as Chief of Accountancy of State Budget and then as deputy director of the Department for Foreign Exchange and International Financial Relations until the 1989 Romanian Revolution.

In Parliament, Hogg served as a member of the Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Select Committee from 1979, until he was appointed as the Parliamentary Private Secretary ( PPS ) to the Chief Secretary to the Treasury Leon Brittan in 1982.

In 1980 he joined Cooperative Development Services, and in 1982 was appointed the Chief Executive at the Walm Cooperative Centre.

In another case, Chief Constable of the North Wales Police v. Evans ( 1982 ), a chief constable required a police probationer to resign on account of allegations about his private life which he was given no fair opportunity to rebut.