The project was scheduled to be completed in 1998 at an estimated cost of $ 2. 8 billion ( in 1982 dollars, US $ 6. 0 billion adjusted for inflation ).

The project was not completed, however, until December 2007, at a cost of over $ 14. 6 billion ($ 8. 08 billion in 1982 dollars ).

After its brick-by-brick relocation to Stanley, the site was sold by the Government for " only HK $ 1 billion " in August 1982 amidst growing concern over the future of Hong Kong in the run-up to the transfer of sovereignty.

On 4 January 1982, Reagan signed the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 ( NSDD-17 ), giving the CIA the authority to recruit and support the contras with $ 19 million in military aid.

Another US $ 200 million were spent during the 1982 to 1986 advertising campaigns, where the " Datsun, We Are Driven!

E-mu Systems introduced the Emulator sampling synthesizer in 1982 at a retail price of $ 7, 900.

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, Morrison told Forbes magazine that he had received about US $ 2 million in royalty payments and said: " I wouldn't change the name of it for the world.

Military aid more than doubled to reach just under US $ 9 million by FY 1981, surged to more than US $ 31 million by FY 1982, and stood at US $ 48. 3 million in FY 1983.

None of this had been included on financial disclosure forms ; the non-reporting of loans under $ 10, 000 in liability was in violation of a voluntary agreement the White House had made in 1982, while not reporting more valuable loans or clothes not returned was a possible violation of the Ethics in Government Act.

Various international organizations eagerly assisted the Chinese in conducting the 1982 census, including the United Nations Fund for Population Activities, which donated US $ 15. 6 million for the preparation and execution of the census.

Reagan followed his 1981 tax cuts with the Tax Reform Act of 1986, which sought to eliminate deductions, lower marginal rates for the wealthy, and significantly raise taxes on those earning less than $ 50, 000 In 1982 Reagan agreed to a rollback of corporate tax cuts and a smaller rollback of individual income tax cuts.

The first phase was completed in 1982, and the second phase began in 1983, aided by a US $ 25-million World Bank credit.

David Foster, producer of the 1982 horror film The Thing, arranged for a private screening for some of Bryanston Pictures ' West Coast executives, and received 1. 5 percent of Vortex's profits and a deferred fee of $ 500.

The Deep Cameo versions of proofs from 1965 to 1971 and 1981 Type Two are highly valued because of their scarcity, high grade examples of quarters from certain years of the 1980s ( such as 1981 – 1987 ) because of scarcity in high grades due to high circulation and in 1982 and 1983 no mint sets were produced making it harder to find mint state examples, and any coin from 1981 – 1994 graded in MS67 is worth upwards of $ 1000.

This success translated into great profits for CBS ; advertising rates went from $ 17, 000 per thirty seconds in 1975 to $ 175, 000 in 1982.

The car used as KITT in the series was a customized 1982 Pontiac Trans-Am sports model that cost US $ 100, 000 to build.

The rights to the game were initially licensed to Selchow and Righter in 1982, then to Parker Brothers ( now part of Hasbro ) in 1988, after initially being turned down by the Virgin Group ; in 2008, Hasbro bought out the rights in full, for US $ 80 million.

In 1992 Licio Gelli was sentenced to 18 years and six months of prison after being found guilty of fraud concerning the collapse of Banco Ambrosiano in 1982 ( a " black hole " of $ 1. 4 billion was found ).

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

**** Priscilla García y Wittig ( b. 1982, Marbella, Spain )

* 1982 – Archibald MacLeish, American poet, writer, and Librarian of Congress ( b. 1892 )

* 1982 – Anderson Bigode Herzer, Brazilian writer and poet ( b. 1962 )

* 1982 – Ville Ritola, Finnish athlete ( b. 1896 )

* 1982 – Brenda Benet, American actress ( b. 1945 )

* 1982 – Harald Ertl, Austrian race car driver ( b. 1948 )

* 1982 – Homer S. Ferguson, American politician ( b. 1889 )

* 1982 – Marty Feldman, British comedian, writer and actor ( b. 1933 )

* 1982 – Freeman Gosden, American actor ( b. 1899 )

* 1982 – Hafeez Jullundhri, Pakistani writer, poet composer of the National Anthem of Pakistan ( b. 1900 )

* 1982 – Alex Harvey, Scottish musician ( b. 1935 )

* 1982 – Georg Konrad Morgen, German judge ( b. 1909 )

He was replaced by Helmut Schmidt ( b. 1918 ), of the SPD, who served as Chancellor in 1974 – 1982.

Helmut Kohl ( b. 1930 ) brought the conservatives back to power with a CDU / CSU-FDP coalition in 1982, and served as Chancellor until 1998.

* 1982 – Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1886 )

* 1982 – Ian McKay, English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient ( b. 1953 )

* 2012 – Mihai Pătraşcu, Romanian computer scientist ( b. 1982 )

* 1982 – Terry Higgins, English AIDS victim ( b. 1945 )

* 1982 – Satchel Paige, American baseball player ( b. 1906 )

* 2009 – Johnny Palermo, American actor ( b. 1982 )

* 1982 – Red Smith, American sports columnist ( b. 1905 )

* 1982 – Paul Lynde, American comedian ( b. 1926 )

The entry on cabullus in the Oxford Latin Dictionary ( Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982, 1985 reprinting ), p. 246, does not give a probable origin, and merely compare Old Bulgarian kobyla and Old Russian komoń < sub > b </ sub >.</ ref > From caballus arose terms in the various Romance languages cognate to the ( French-derived ) English cavalier: Old Italian cavaliere, Italian cavallo, Spanish caballero, French chevalier, Portuguese cavaleiro, Romanian cavaler.

* 2012 – Stephen Healey, English army officer ( b. 1982 )

* 1982 – Dorothy Eden, New Zealand-born English novelist ( b. 1912 )