The district was one of the seats that the Democrats lost to the Republicans during the election ; before the 2010 election, congressman John M. Spratt had represented the district since 1983 but was defeated 55 % to 45 % in 2010.

After service as a Royal Marine and as an intelligence officer for the UK security services, Ashdown was a Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Yeovil from 1983 to 2001, and leader of the Liberal Democrats from 1988 until August 1999 ; later he was the international High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina from 27 May 2002 to 30 May 2006, following his vigorous lobbying for military action against Yugoslavia in the 1990s.

The cabinet depended on the support of the Christian Democrats and Centre Party, and in 1983 these joined the cabinet to become a coalition government.

In 1983, the non-election of the first official female candidate, Lilian Uchtenhagen and again in 1993 the non-election of Christiane Brunner ( both SP / PS ), was controversial and the Social Democrats each time considered withdrawing from the Council altogether.

Following his time as deputy chairman of the Mittelstandsausschuß ( similar to the US Small Business Committee ) of the Bundestag in 1981 and 1982, he wrote an article on the " Mierscheid Law " in the Social Democrats ' central journal Vorwärts published on 14 July 1983.

On the day of his release in 1983, he became a member of Tasmania's parliament for the House of Assembly seat of Denison after the Democrats MP Norm Sanders resigned to successfully stand for the Australian Senate ; Brown was elected to replace him on a countback.

The Democratic Party was formed with the merger of the two largest pro-democracy political groups at the time, the United Democrats of Hong Kong which was formed in April 1990, and the Meeting Point which was formed in 1983.

She worked as an advocate with the Community Law Office in Brussels, before becoming a political advisor to the European Democrats group in the European Parliament in 1983 until 1989.

He was the Conservative Party Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Solihull from 1983 to 2005, before losing his seat to Lorely Burt of the Liberal Democrats by a margin of 279 votes in the 2005 general election.

* Michael DiMarco, candidate in 1983 for New Jersey's 7th legislative district, in 1984 for New Jersey's 13th congressional district, in 1992 for New Jersey's 4th congressional district ( with LaRouche's " Democrats for Economic Recovery " party ).

Since then, the district — renumbered the Seventh District in 1983 — has become the state's most Republican region outside of East Tennessee, and Democrats made only three serious bids for the seat so far.

Since the seat's re-creation in 1983, it has been held successively by each of the three main political parties ; the Liberal Democrats gained it at the 2005 election after 13 years of Labour representation.

After Finnish presidential election, 1982 and the 1983 parliament election the Social Democrats had secured a hegemony in Finnish politics holding both the President and Prime Minister chairs.

Since the Second World War, it was generally a safe Labour seat, but the Conservative Party came within 770 votes of taking the seat in 1983, and it swung heavily to the Liberal Democrats in 2005, and following controversy regarding outgoing MP Kitty Ussher's personal expenses, they gained the seat in 2010.

However since then the seat has always been held by a member of the Liberal Party or their successors, the Liberal Democrats: firstly former leader Paddy Ashdown ( 1983 – 2001 ) and then former Chief Secretary to the Treasury David Laws ( 2001 onwards ).

Even if the PSI never became a serious electoral challenger either to the PCI or the Christian Democrats, its pivotal position in the political arena allowed it to claim the post of Prime Minister for Craxi after the 1983 general election.

His political career spans over three decades, as councillor and Leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats on Cardiff City Council between 1983 – 1996 and joint leader of the Council from 1987 to 1991 ; he was elected to the National Assembly for Wales in 1999 and re-elected in 2003 and 2007.

* Liberal = Liberal Party ( UK ) ( 1885 – 1950 ); SDP-Liberal Alliance ( 1983 – 1987 ); Liberal Democrats ( UK ) ( 1992 – present ).

* Liberal = Liberal Party ( UK ) ( 1974 – 1979 ); SDP-Liberal Alliance ( 1983 – 1987 ); Liberal Democrats ( UK ) ( 1992 – present ).

* Liberal = Liberal Party ( UK ) ( 1885 – 1979 ); SDP-Liberal Alliance ( 1983 – 1987 ); Liberal Democrats ( UK ) ( 1992 – present ).

* Liberal = SDP-Liberal Alliance ( 1983 – 1987 ); Liberal Democrats ( UK ) ( 1992 – present ).

The first BBS using the Apple Macintosh platform was the Austin Arts BBS, which was a dial-up system developed by Bill Hood of the School of Screenprinting in 1983.

Phyllis Pearce ( Jill Summers ) was hailed as the new Ena Sharples in 1982, the Duckworths moved into No. 9 in 1983 and slipped into the role once held by the Ogdens, while Percy Sugden ( Bill Waddington ) appeared in 1983 and took over the grumpy war veteran role from Albert Tatlock.

* Chimera, a 1983 solo album by Bill Nelson

Defenseman Brad Park, acquired from the Boston Bruins in the 1983 free-agent market, also helped the Wings reach the postseason and ended up winning the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy the same season.

The band embarked on their first tour of the U. S. in April 1983, joined by Bill Sullivan, a young security guard, as roadie, who approached the band after a show at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

Up to version 3. 7 of vi, created in October, 1981, UC Berkeley was the development home for vi, but with Bill Joy's departure in early 1982, to join Sun Microsystems, and AT & T's UNIX System V ( January, 1983 ) adopting vi, changes to the vi codebase happened more slowly and in a more dispersed and mutually incompatible ways.

Warriors ( 1983 ) further developed Numan's jazz-influenced style and featured contributions from avant-garde musician Bill Nelson ( who fell out with Numan during recording and chose to be uncredited as the album's co-producer ) and saxophonist Dick Morrissey ( who would play on most of Numan's albums until 1991 ).

In a ceremony on January 18, 1983, the IOC presented two of Thorpe's children, Gale and Bill, with commemorative medals.

In April 1983, Joseph Bonanno and his son, Bill Bonanno appeared on the CBS News TV program 60 Minutes to be interviewed by correspondent Mike Wallace.

In 1983, Bill Owen suggested to returning producer Alan J. W. Bell that Roy Clarke's novelisation of the show should be made into a feature length special.

* In 1983, real-life escape artist Bill Shirk played himself in a film called The Escapist.

Lamb County was the home of the Texas House Speaker Billy Wayne " Bill " Clayton, who served from 1975 until 1983.

* The Greatest American Hero ( 1981 – 1983 ): Most of Ralph Hinkley, Bill Maxwell, and Pam Davidson's encounters with the aliens, or " little green guys ", take place in Palmdale, with the exception of the episode " Don't Mess Around with Jim ".

* Bill Saul and his twin brothers Rich Saul and Ron Saul, professional football players during the 1960s and 1970s, were born and raised in Butler – Bill played 9 years ( 1962 – 1970 ) as a linebacker for the Colts, Steelers, Saints and Lions, Rich played 12 years ( 1970 – 1982 ) at center for the Los Angeles Rams and Ron played 13 years ( 1970 – 1983 ) for the Houston Oilers and Washington Redskins.

Wizards ed Bill Fawcett, Mayfair Games, 1983 contains the character biography entitled " Shadowjack ".

* In 1983, Labour MP John Golding talked for over 11 hours during an all-night sitting at the committee stage of the British Telecommunications Bill.

* Bill Gaither ( 1983 )

The first Boland Amendment was to the House Appropriations Bill of 1982, which was attached as a rider to the Defense Appropriations Act of 1983, named for the Massachusetts Democrat, Representative Edward Patrick Boland, who authored it.

In 1983, during his final year as a student at UCL ( University College London ), Gervais and Bill Macrae formed the New Wave pop duo, Seona Dancing.

At the suggestion of the National Viewers ' and Listeners ' Association, the Conservative MP Graham Bright introduced a Private Member's Bill to the House of Commons in 1983.

A list of past honorary degree recipients, include: Beverly Sills ( 1975 ), Roy Lichtenstein ( 1977 ), Twyla Tharp ( 1978 ), Gordon Davidson ( 1980 ) Haskell Wexler ( 1981 ) Mischa Schneider ( 1981 ), Bella Lewitzky ( 1981 ), Henry Mancini ( 1983 ), Jan de Gaetani ( 1983 ), Ravi Shankar ( 1985 ), John Cage ( 1986 ), Frank O. Gehry ( 1987 ), Trisha Brown ( 1988 ), Donn B. Tatum ( 1989 ), Luis Valdez ( 1989 ), Paul Taylor ( 1989 ), Ornette Coleman ( 1990 ), Beatrice Manley ( 1990 ), Lulu May Von Hagen ( 1990 ), Ustad Ali Akbar Khan ( 1991 ), Pearl Primus ( 1991 ), Adrian Piper ( 1992 ), Ray Bradbury ( 1992 ), Yvonne Rainer ( 1993 ), Steven Bochco ( 1993 ), Stan Brakhage ( 1994 ), Vija Celmins ( 1994 ), Betye Saar ( 1995 ), Carolyn Forche ( 1995 ), Laurie Anderson ( 1996 ), Elvin Jones ( 1996 ), Chantal Akerman ( 1997 ), Lee Breuer ( 1998 ), Ed Ruscha ( 1999 ), Bill Viola ( 2000 ), Steve Reich ( 2000 ), Ry Cooder ( 2001 ), Faith Hubley ( 2001 ), Bruce Nauman ( 2001 ), Alice Coltrane ( 2002 ), Roy E. Disney ( 2003 ), Anna Halprin ( 2003 ), Carolee Schneemann ( 2003 ), Christian Wolff ( 2004 ), Daniel Nagrin ( 2004 ), James Newton ( 2005 ), Harrison “ Buzz ” Price ( 2005 ), Julius Shulman ( 2005 ), Rudy VanderLans ( 2006 ), Rudy Perez ( 2006 ), Alonzo King ( 2007 ), Harry Belafonte ( 2008 ), Herbert Blau ( 2008 ), Terry Riley ( 2008 ), Elizabeth LeCompte ( 2009 ), Morton Subotnick ( 2009 ), William M. Lowman ( 2010 ), Trimpin ( 2010 ), Annette Bening ( 2011 ), Donald McKayle ( 2011 ), and Peter Sellars ( 2012 ).