The company announced it would close the Herald American -- making Boston a one-newspaper town — on December 3, 1982.

McClary left in 1982 ( shortly after Richie left ) to pursue a solo career and to develop a gospel music company.

Compaq Computer Corporation was a company founded in 1982, that developed, sold and supported computers and related products and services.

INGKA Holding is not an independent company, but is wholly owned by the Stichting Ingka Foundation, which Kamprad established in 1982 in the Netherlands as a tax-exempt, not-for-profit foundation.

IKEA, is not, in fact, a Swedish company, but a company controlled by the Dutch stichting – a tax exempt, nonprofit foundation – to which Ingvar Kamprad transferred his ownership shares in 1982.

During the 1980s ( from 1982 to 1987 ,) the company was led by the charismatic John Harvey Jones.

The company was founded in May 1982 as the video game development group of Lucasfilm Limited, the film production company of George Lucas.

They founded the Kesmai company in 1982 and in 1985 an enhanced version of Dungeons of Kesmai, Island of Kesmai, was launched on CompuServe.

* 1982 – Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of their factory in Marysville, Ohio.

In 1982, Jenkins formed a company Nial Systems Ltd to market the language and the Q ' Nial implementation of Nial.

The Odyssey² was released in Japan in December 1982 by Kōton Trading Toitarii Enterprise ( コートン ・ トレーディング ・ トイタリー ・ エンタープライズ, a division of DINGU company ) under the name オデッセイ２ ( odessei2 ).

In 1982 Anni-Frid Lyngstad had sold all the shares in the Polar Music company given to her by Anderson, as she moved abroad.

Spaceship Earth was sponsored by Bell System from 1982 to 1984, then AT & T ( Bell System's parent company, following the Bell System Divestiture ) from 1984 until 2003.

The studios were operated by TVS in 1982 and home to ' Coast to Coast ', however they closed a year later when the company moved their operations to the newly complete Television Centre in Maidstone.

Its decline accelerated after the 1982 sale of UPI by the Scripps company.

Chandler continued to produce the toy until the company was purchased by TEDCO inc. in 1982.

Although never a big money-spinner, it remained in the repertoire until the company closed in 1982.

The Columbia company closely modeled the IBM PC and produced the first " compatible " PC ( more or less compatible to the IBM PC standard ) during June 1982, soon followed by Eagle Computer.

After initial success, On-Line Systems was renamed Sierra On-Line in 1982, and the company moved to Oakhurst, California.

In March 1982 the company made an £ 8. 55 million profit on turnover of £ 27. 17 million, including £ 383, 000 government grants for the TV80 flat-screen portable television.

The first reported use of the word " vaporware " was in 1982 by an engineer at the computer software company Microsoft.

Mateschitz was the international marketing director for Blendax, a toothpaste company, when he visited Thailand in 1982 and discovered that Krating Daeng helped to cure his jet lag.

In 1982, it was sold to the same family's Titan Sports company, which later changed its name to World Wrestling Federation Entertainment, before becoming World Wrestling Entertainment in 2002, and simplified to WWE in 2011.

Aon was created in 1982, when the Ryan Insurance Group ( founded by Pat Ryan in the 1960s ) merged with the Combined Insurance Company of America ( founded by W. Clement Stone in 1919 ).

In 1982, NCCM and RCM were merged into the giant Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines Ltd ( ZCCM ).

In 1982 NCCM and RCM were merged into the giant Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines Ltd ( ZCCM ).

* Federative Radical Movement, a dissenting Italian radical party formed in 1982 and later merged with the Italian Socialist Party

The African-American community staged a parallel event known as the Cotton Makers Jubilee from 1935 to 1982, when it merged with Carnival Memphis.

When, in 1982, the Ecologist Party merged with the Ecologist Confederation, les Verts were born.

In the 1982 elections, the PRD's Salvador Jorge Blanco defeated Balaguer, who had merged his party with the Social Christian Revolutionary Party to form the Social Christian Reformist Party two years earlier.

UMass / Boston is part of the Greater Boston Urban Education Collaborative, In 1982 it merged with Boston State College ( est.

Kirksville ’ s other railroad, the Wabash Railroad, which became the Norfolk and Western Railway in 1960 and later became the Norfolk Southern Railway in 1982 after N & W merged with Southern Railway, ran north and south.

The Bancroft and Rosalie schools merged into Bancroft-Rosalie Public Schools in 1982.

The label's numbering system was combined with those of Motown and Gordy in 1982, and the label was merged with Motown in 1988. Notable Tamla artists included Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, and The Marvelettes.

The label's numbering system was combined with those of Motown and Tamla in 1982, and the label was merged with Motown in 1988. Notable Gordy artists included The Temptations, Martha and the Vandellas, The Contours, Edwin Starr, Rick James, The Mary Jane Girls, Teena Marie, and DeBarge.

In 1982, 20th Century-Fox Video merged with CBS Video Enterprises ( which had demerged with MGM / CBS Home Video after MGM merged with UA ) giving birth to CBS / Fox Video.

In 1982, Control Data Corporation merged their current printer business unit, CPI, into Centronics and at the same time invested $ 25 million in the company, effectively taking control from Howard.

He attended Kingswood Upper School ( a secondary modern school which merged with the Grange School in 1982 to become Hainault Forest High School ) on Harbourer Road ( near Hainault Forest Country Park ) until the age of sixteen when he left school.

Originally established in 1964, it was merged with Boston State College in 1982.

The company merged with Morton International, Inc. in 1969 and later became a subsidiary of Procter & Gamble in 1982.

The Reformed Presbyterian Church, Evangelical Synod merged with the PCA in 1982.

In 1982, the papers were merged into the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, and in 1987 adopted the present name Star Tribune and the slogan " Newspaper of the Twin Cities ".

The acquisition also includes all past Diamond Shamrock assets, including the former Sigmor Petroleum assets founded by Thomas E. Turner, founder of TETCO Inc. ( the Sigmor brand name was the initials of Sigfried Moore, Turner's former employer ) which merged with Shamrock Oil and Gas in 1960 forming Sigmor Shamrock-which was merged into Diamond Shamrock in 1982.

Color television broadcasts began in the late 1970s, and in 1982, ERT and YENED merged, forming " ERT " ( Ellinikí Radiofonía Tileórasi ), with ERT becoming " ERT1 " and YENED becoming " ERT2.

In 1982 Old Hall High School, formerly Maghull Grammar School, was merged with Ormonde Drive High School to form Maghull High School, concentrating on Ormonde Drive site.

The British Aluminium Company was merged in 1982 with the Canadian company Alcan to form British Alcan.