In 1982, the International Telecommunication Union ( ITU ) designated the types of amplitude modulation:

** Commodore 64 ( or C64 or C = 64 ), an 8-bit home computer released by Commodore International in August 1982, the single best-selling personal computer model of all-time

Before the DNS was invented in 1982, each computer on the network retrieved a file called HOSTS. TXT from a computer at SRI ( now SRI International ).

The first conference in the field, Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing ( PODC ), dates back to 1982, and its European counterpart International Symposium on Distributed Computing ( DISC ) was first held in 1985.

* International Co-ordination Committee of World Sports Organizations for the Disabled, 1982 – 1989

* 1982 – The International Whaling Commission decides to end commercial whaling by 1985-86.

1982 ; 1990 ; 1993. International Proverb Scholarship: An Annotated Bibliography, with supplements.

* Yezid Sayigh, “ Struggle Within, Struggle Without: the Transformation of PLO politics since 1982 ,” International Affairs vol.

The International Society of Cryptozoology ( ISC ) was founded in 1982 in Washington, D. C. to serve as a scholarly center for documenting and evaluating evidence of unverified animals ; that is, animal species or forms which have been reported in some manner but which have not been scientifically proven to exist.

Sergio Aragones at the 1982 San Diego Comic Con ( today called Comic-Con International ).

Since 1982, when the International Organization for Standardization adopted Pinyin as the standard romanization of Chinese, many Western languages have changed from spelling this loanword dao in national systems ( e. g., French EFEO Chinese transcription and English Wade – Giles ) to dao in Pinyin.

The International Mineralogical Association Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names ( CNMMN ) adopted the name titanite and ' discredited ' the name sphene as of 1982, although commonly papers and books initially identify the mineral using both names.

The Washington Times was founded in 1982 by News World Communications, an international media conglomerate associated with the Unification Church which also owns newspapers in South Korea, Japan, and South America, as well as the news agency United Press International.

In April 1981, the International BMX Federation was founded, and the first world championships were held in 1982.

* Margulis, Lynn, 1982, Early Life, Science Books International, ISBN 0-86720-005-7

* Shipman, D. The Great Movie Stars: The International Years, Angus & Robertson 1982.

A hot air balloon in her likeness was conceived in 1982 at the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta by Jacques Soukup and Kirk Thomas.

The International Cat Association ( TICA ), a registry of pedigreed and household pet cats worldwide and the organizing body for cat shows in over two dozen countries, has been based in Harlingen since 1982.

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.

In August 1982, after Mexico had announced its inability to service its debt, Argentina approached the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) for financial assistance, as it too was in serious difficulties.

On August 11, 1982, while operating under the registry N754PA for its original owner Pan Am and nicknamed " Clipper Ocean Rover ," it was assigned to fly from Narita International Airport in Tokyo, Japan to Honolulu International Airport in Honolulu, Hawaii as Flight 830.

On the basis of being able to organize the Paralympic Games more efficiently and to give the Paralympic Movement one voice, the four international organizations combined under the IOSD founded the International Co-ordination Committee of World Sports Organizations for the Disabled ( ICC ) in 1982.

In 1981, Bhutan joined the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, followed by the World Health Organization and UNESCO in 1982.

On January 8, 1982, just before the case was to be heard by the U. S. Supreme Court, President Ronald Reagan authorized his Treasury and Justice Departments to ask that the BJU case be dropped and that the previous court decisions be vacated.

The case was heard on October 12, 1982, and on May 24, 1983, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled against Bob Jones University in Bob Jones University v. United States ( 461 U. S. 574 ).

An example of convergence from the other direction is shown in Srl CILFIT and Lanificio di Gavardo SpA v Ministry of Health ( Corte suprema di Cassazione, Italy, 1982 ), in which Italy's Supreme Court held that questions it has already answered need not be resubmitted.

* John Joseph Ford ( 1907 – 1982 ), American jurist who served on Los Angeles County Courts ( 1943 – 59 ) and California Second District Court of Appeal ( 1959 – 77 ); elevated to Presiding Justice in 1966

They commenced proceedings in the High Court in 1982, in response to the Queensland Amendment Act 1982 establishing a system of making land grants on trust for Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders, which the Murray Islanders refused to accept.

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 ).

* Popper, Karl R., Unended Quest, An Intellectual Autobiography, Open Court, La Salle, IL, 1982.

Saddam's half brother, Barzan Ibrahim, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, head of Iraq's Revolutionary Court in 1982, were convicted of similar charges.

On June 28, 2010, the US Supreme Court held, in a 5 – 4 decision in McDonald v. Chicago, that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution was incorporated under the Fourteenth Amendment, thus protecting the right of an individual to " keep and bear arms " from local governments, and all but declared Mayor Jane Byrne's 1982 handgun ban unconstitutional.

" An Arkansas District Court previously held in a 1982 decision in McLean v. Arkansas that a similar " balanced treatment " statute violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.

These include Jonathan Miller's 1982 production for the English National Opera which is set amongst the Mafia in New York City's Little Italy during the 1950s and Doris Dorrie's 2005 production for the Bavarian State Opera where the Court of Mantua became The Planet of the Apes.

The last instance of the Supreme Court accepting a set of questions and answering them was in a case in 1982.

The Federal Circuit was created in 1982 by the merger of the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals and the appellate division of the United States Court of Claims.

* The United States District Court for the Canal Zone was abolished, effective March 31, 1982, as part of the process of returning the Canal Zone to Panama.

In 1982, the Supreme Court had struck down the one-house legislative veto, on separation of powers grounds and on grounds that the action by one house of Congress violated the Constitutional requirement of bicameralism.

The campaign failed when legislation was passed in 1982 as a result of the previous year's ruling by the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Dudgeon v United Kingdom.

Cox's many books include The Warren Court: Constitutional Decisionmaking as an Instrument of Reform ( Harvard University Press, 1969 ); The Role of the Supreme Court in American Government ( Oxford University Press, 1976 ), Freedom of Expression ( Harvard University Press, 1982 ), and The Court and the Constitution ( Houghton Mifflin, 1987 ).

* 1982: White Water Landing and Kid Arthur's Court open

The Court determined that the general nature of the data gathered by thermal imagers did not reveal personal information of the occupants and therefore was not in violation of Tessling's Section 8 rights afforded under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms ( 1982 ).

Employee headcount plunged from 44, 000 in 1982 to 16, 000 in 1995 ; one of the 1995 layoffs ultimately resulted in a landmark 2000 employment law decision of the Supreme Court of California, which noted that it was Bechtel who had presented evidence of its massive layoffs to the trial court.