The treaty was undisturbed until Ronald Reagan announced his Strategic Defense Initiative ( SDI ) on March 23, 1983.

He also received numerous other awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom presented to him on February 23, 1983 by President Ronald Reagan.

US − Soviet relations deteriorated rapidly beginning in March 1983, when US President Ronald Reagan dubbed the Soviet Union an " evil empire ".

Sinatra was honored at the Kennedy Center Honors in 1983 and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Ronald Reagan in 1985 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 1997.

After Korean Air Lines Flight 007, carrying 269 people, was shot down in 1983 after straying into the USSR's prohibited airspace, in the vicinity of Sakhalin and Moneron Islands, President Ronald Reagan issued a directive making GPS freely available for civilian use, once it was sufficiently developed, as a common good.

On October 1983, during the U. S. invasion of Grenada, U. S. President Ronald Reagan maintained that US Marines arrived on the island of Grenada, which was considered a Soviet-Cuban ally that would export communist revolution throughout the Caribbean.

* a proclamation by President Ronald Reagan marking 1983 the " Year of the Bible "

One unusual link between Falwell and Conservative rabbi Arnold Resnicoff, a Navy chaplain, was created when President Ronald Reagan surprised the participants at Falwell's " Baptist Fundamentalism ' 84 " convention in Washington, D. C., by choosing to read Resnicoff's on-site report of the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing as his keynote address.

Mr. T portrays Santa Claus at the White House with First Lady Nancy Reagan in 1983.

* 1979 – Six-year-old Etan Patz disappears from the street just two blocks away from his New York City home, prompting an international search for the child, and causing U. S. President Ronald Reagan to designate May 25th as National Missing Children's Day ( in 1983 ).

* 1983 – U. S. President Ronald Reagan calls the Soviet Union an " evil empire ".

* 1983 – Strategic Defense Initiative: President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles.

* 1983 – U. S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

In 1983, Democrats Bill Bradley and Dick Gephardt had offered a proposal ; in 1984 Reagan had the Treasury Department produce its own plan.

During the Reagan administration, the American economy went from a GDP growth of-0. 3 % in 1980 to 4. 1 % in 1988 ( in constant 2005 dollars ), which reduced the unemployment rate by 1. 6 %, from 7. 1 % in 1980 to 5. 5 % in 1988, but with peaks of around 10. 8 % in 1983.

Comparing the recovery from the 1981 – 82 recession ( 1983 – 1990 ) with the years between 1971 ( end of a recession ) and 1980 shows that the rate of growth of real GDP per capita averaged 2. 77 under Reagan and 2. 50 % under Nixon, Ford and Carter.

The Strategic Defense Initiative ( SDI ) was proposed by U. S. President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983, to use ground and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles.

Ronald Reagan was told of Hagelstein's breakthrough by Teller in 1983, which prompted Reagan's March 23, 1983, " Star Wars " speech.

President Reagan delivering the March 23, 1983 speech initiating SDI

After the U. S. Congress prohibited federal funding of the Contras in 1983, the Reagan administration continued to back the Contras by raising money from foreign allies and covertly selling arms to Iran ( then engaged in a vicious war with Iraq ), and channelling the proceeds to the Contras ( see the Iran-Contra Affair ).

By the early 1980s there was no clear neoconservative in the Tory leadership cadre, but Brian Mulroney, who became leader in 1983, eventually came to adopt many policies from the Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan governments.

President Ronald Reagan watched the film several days before its screening, on November 5, 1983.

* October 6 – Germantown, Pennsylvania is founded ( in 1983 U. S. President Ronald Reagan declares a 300th Year Celebration, and in 1987, it becomes an annual holiday, German-American Day ).

Quality System requirements for medical have been internationally recognized as a way to assure product safety and efficacy and customer satisfaction since at least 1983, and were instituted as requirements in a final rule published on October 7, 1996.

He instituted the Governor General's Conservation Awards in 1981 and, in 1983, created the Edward Schreyer Fellowship in Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto.

In 1983, an arrangement was instituted whereby Kingdom Halls are financed by loans from the Watch Tower Society.

Averaging was instituted in 1983, two years after San Lorenzo de Almagro were relegated in 1981.

In this round, instituted April 25, 1983, the winning contestant was joined by five of the children who were appearing in the film clips and had to describe seven words to them.

Along with the " Friday Enrichment Schedule ," a program was instituted in 1983 that allowed junior or senior students to take courses at Texas Tech University or South Plains College for dual credit.

Charter members of the team were at the forefront of the civilian formation certification program instituted by the T-34 Association in 1983, and eventually adopted by all civilian warbird organizations.

With the entry of law 123 of 1983 into effect on 27 April 1983, Italy instituted a requirement of selecting a single citizenship among those Italians with multiple citizenship reaching the age of majority on or after 27 April 1983.

The changes to federal law enacted in 1983 and signed by President Reagan and pursuant to the recommendations of the Greenspan Commission advanced the time frame for previously scheduled payroll tax increases ( though it raised slightly the payroll tax for the self-employed to equal the employer-employee rate ), changed certain benefit calculations, and raised the retirement age to 67 by the year 2027.

Alain Juppé, former secretary-general of the RPR ( 1988 – 1995 ) and former deputy mayor in charge of finances of the City of Paris ( 1983 – 1995 ) was convicted along with accomplices Louise-Yvonne Casetta and Patrick Stefanini of abuse of public funds when he employed people on the city's payroll to perform tasks wholly for the benefit of his party.

After finishing the 1983 season making a small profit, the Gold went into the 1984 campaign with a bare-bones payroll.

In 1992 the IRS determined the Reagans had failed to include some $ 3 million worth of fashion items between 1983 and 1988 on their tax returns ; they were billed for a large amount of back taxes and interest, which was subsequently paid.

Afterwards revenue from the capital gains tax increased 50 % by 1983 from $ 12. 5 billion in 1980 to over $ 18 billion in 1983.

Until the end of 1983, Douglas saw exchange rate, tax and protection policies as means of actively shaping the business environment.

Smithville is also the nearest town for the final shoot-out between law enforcement and the famous tax fugitive Gordon Kahl on June 2, 1983, in which Lawrence County Sheriff Gene Matthews was also killed.

* 1983 recall of Michigan state senators Phil Mastin and David Serotkin due to their support for a state income tax hike.

The town had no formal government until it was incorporated in 1983 to prevent possible annexation by neighboring cities which would bring higher tax rates and more strict regulations.

Following the economic recovery that began in 1983, the medium-term fiscal effect of Reaganomics was a soaring budget deficit as spending continually exceeded revenue due to tax cuts and increased defense spending.

He was a business owner and corporate tax manager for a Portland cement company before becoming a California State Senator in 1983, serving in that post until his election to the U. S. House of Representatives.

In 1983, he challenged the constitutionality of the state's 1. 1 % sales tax hike.

The Tax Court of Canada ( TCC ), established in 1983 by the Tax Court of Canada Act, is a federal superior court which deals with matters involving companies or individuals and tax issues with the Government of Canada.

In February 1983, Tony is arrested for tax evasion and money laundering $ 1, 300, 000 by Mel Seidenbaum, a local money launderer who turns out to be an undercover cop.

From April 1983 to March 1997 the small companies ' rate was pegged to the basic rate of income tax.

Although the Welsh Liberal Party and Plaid Cymru became committed to a Welsh parliament ( with full law making and tax raising powers ) by 1983 it was not until 1992 that a Welsh Assembly with executive powers was put into the Labour Party's manifesto.

The 1983 Act also enacted various tax and trade incentives to encourage economic development in the Caribbean Basin countries.

In January, 1983, Judy Erola, who was the federal cabinet minister for the status of women in Canada, issued a proposal to scrap the tax exemption for dependent spouses.

Newhouse, Jr. and Donald Newhouse, were accused of tax evasion by the IRS in 1983.

The 1981, 1984, and 1986 tax acts and the 1983 Social Security act were some of the most important legislation initiated by the Ways and Means Committee during the 1980s.

In 1983, Glistrup was sentenced to three years in prison for tax fraud.

The 1983 Flick Affair revealed that German politicians had been bribed to allow the Flick family to reduce its tax liabilities, and after becoming an Austrian citizen to further reduce his tax obligations, in 1985 Friedrich Karl Flick sold most of his industrial holdings to Deutsche Bank for $ 2. 5 billion (£ 1. 4 billion ), retiring until his 2006 death.

Claiborne was indicted by a federal grand jury for bribery, fraud, and tax evasion in December 1983.