According to the SEC, Aon ’ s subsidiaries made improper payments of over $ 3. 6 million to government officials and third party facilitators in Costa Rica, Egypt, Vietnam, Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, Myanmar and Bangladesh, between 1983 and 2007, in order to obtain and retain insurance contracts.

The first series, made in 1983, was called The Black Adder ( set in the fictional reign of " Richard IV ").

Its membership, which had fallen to 32, 000 from a peak of 110, 000 in 1983, increased threefold after Prime Minister Tony Blair made a commitment to nuclear energy.

" The re-election of a Conservative government in 1983 and the defeat of left-wing parties in continental Europe " made the deployment of Cruise missiles inevitable and the movement again began to lose steam.

In 1985, Cathy Massiter, an MI5 officer who had been responsible for the surveillance of CND from 1981 to 1983, resigned and made disclosures to a Channel 4 20 / 20 Vision programme, " MI5's Official Secrets ".

He received accolades for his portrayal of Sydney Carton in a made for television version of A Tale of Two Cities ( 1980 ), co-starred with Dennis Hopper in The Osterman Weekend ( 1983 ), which was based on the Robert Ludlum novel of the same name, and co-starred with Goldie Hawn in Protocol ( 1984 ).

Between 1967 and 1983, Detroit only made the playoffs twice, winning one series.

In addition, as part of the first commercial implementation of DPNSS ( in the Government Telephone Network or GTN in 1983 ), BT insisted that the core of the network be made from PBXs of different manufacture to prove the interoperability in real life.

However, new trade policies have made agricultural production much more responsive to market demands, putting global food reserves at their lowest since 1983.

In 1983 DIF I started to integrate the territory of the new city of Maracanaú, which, just some years ago, was made again part of the Greater Fortaleza ( the city's Metropolitan area ).

* Style Wars ( 1983 ), an early documentary on hip hop culture, made in New York City

Hagi made his debut for the Romania national team at the age of 18 in 1983 in a game against Norway played in Oslo.

Through nudism, Gardner made a number of notable friends, including James Laver ( 1899 – 1975 ), who became the Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and Cottie Arthur Burland ( 1905 – 1983 ), who was the Curator of the Department of Ethnography at the British Museum.

The team made its first European appearance in 1983 – 1984 in the UEFA Cup and were knocked out in the second round of the tournament by Sturm Graz.

The Irish player John Rea ( 1915 – 1983 ) used hammers made of thick steel wire, wound with wool.

1971 / 2084 ) made thereunder, as amended and modified by the Indictments ( Procedure ) ( Amendment ) Rules 1983 ( S. I.

Modern drug therapy for ED made a significant advance in 1983, when British physiologist Giles Brindley, Ph. D. dropped his trousers and demonstrated to a shocked Urodynamics Society audience his papaverine-induced erection.

* Cocaine: One Mans Seduction ( 1983 ) ( made for TV )

However in Superman III ( 1983 ) it is said that Kryptonite is an alloy made up of 15. 08 % plutonium, 18. 06 % tantalum, 27. 71 % xenon, 24. 02 % promethium, 10. 62 % dialium, 3. 94 % mercury, and 0. 57 % of an unknown substance.

In 1983, a local shipping businessman, Reeko Ibrahim Maniku made a bid to win the parliamentary nomination by offering bribes to members of parliament and to High Court judges.

Jack Little, an engineer, was exposed to it during a visit Moler made to Stanford University in 1983.

In 1974 and April 1983, Sultan Qaboos of Oman made state visits to the United States.

The Phillies made the playoffs twice more in the 1980s after their Series win, in 1981 and 1983, where they lost to the Baltimore Orioles in the World Series, but they would soon follow these near-misses with a rapid drop back into the basement of the National League.

In 1983, the Central Conference of American Rabbis passed a resolution waiving the need for formal conversion for anyone with at least one Jewish parent who has made affirmative acts of Jewish identity.

After seeing an early film of this event, French skiers / surfers Augustin Coppey, Olivier Lehaneur, Olivier Roland and Antoine Yarmola made their first successful attempts during the winter of 1983 in France ( Val Thorens ), using primitive, home-made clones of the Winterstick.

The etiologic agent of the illness was identified as a rare O157: H7 serotype of E. coli in 1983.

Earlier, such videos had been rare: according to MTV, this was because it initially conceived itself as a rock-music-oriented channel, although musician Rick James was outspoken in his criticism of the cable channel, claiming in 1983 that MTV's refusal to air the music video for his song " Super Freak " and clips by other African-American performers was " blatant racism ".

Prior to the Code of Canon Law of 1983, the Catholic Church expected in rare cases ( known as excommunication vitandi ) the faithful to shun an excommunicated member in secular matters.

Jones had a stellar turn in a rare revival of Noël Coward's operetta Bitter Sweet at the Long Beach Civic Light Opera in 1983.

The collection is a complete record of the band's appearances on UK radio programs from 1983 to 1996, with rare and unreleased material included.

This definition is essentially like that of the Orphan Drug Act of 1983, a federal law that was written to encourage research into rare diseases and possible cures.

When Clarke started using synthesisers, they were predominantly analogue ( digital synthesisers were rare, and would remain that way until the launch of the Yamaha DX7 in 1983 ).

She has made few films since, the best-known being Don Siegel's The Black Windmill ( 1974 ), Nijinsky ( 1980 ), Priest of Love ( 1981 ), Peter Greenaway's The Draughtsman's Contract ( 1982 ), Federico Fellini's E la Nave Va ( And the Ship Sails On 1983 ), A Dry White Season ( 1989 ) with Marlon Brando and Nuns on the Run ( 1990 ; a rare comedic role ).

By 1983 waistcoats had become a rare sight.

Mike Squires, who played fourteen games at third base in 1982 and 1983, is a very rare example of a third baseman who threw lefty.

* Australian federal election, 1983: This was a rare example of a snap election backfiring on the prime minister who called it.

In a very rare move, French singer Léo Ferré released a four-disc studio concept album named L ' Opéra du pauvre in 1983.

" What About Me " managed to make Billboard's year-end Hot 100 list for 1983, at # 88-a rare feat for a single with such a low peak position.

As well as numerous high profile real life auctions being held at Sotheby's, the auctioneers has also been used in various films, including the 1983 James Bond film Octopussy in which Bond ( played by Roger Moore ) unsuccessfully tried to bid for a rare Fabergé egg, which he had cleverly exchanged for a fake that was finally sold to the villainous Afghan prince, Kamal Khan ( Louis Jourdan ).

* Picture of 05001 at Ryde Pier Head during a rare trip out from Sandown in 1983.

Girardot ( 1983: 129 ) contrasts these rare Confucian usages of hundun pejoratively suggesting the forces thwarting civilization, " the " birds and beasts ," barbarian tribes, banished ministers, and legendary rebels )" with the common Daoist usages in a " paradise lost theme ".

In a rare case of an explicit calendar date being applied to the UNIT timeline, the Brigadier indicates that Benton left UNIT in 1979 and became a used-car salesman, and that Sullivan had been seconded into doing secret government work at some point prior to 1983.

The 1983 model is extremely rare and the only Black Magic to receive the compound rear window.

The technique uses the well known fact that an electrical signal known as P300 is emitted from an individual's brain beginning approximately 300 milliseconds after it is confronted with a stimulus of special significance, e. g. a rare vs. a common stimulus or a stimulus the subject is asked to count ( see P300, Gaillard and Ritter 1983, and Picton 1988 for a comprehensive discussion of this effect ).

This magazine states that the starter's defect exists in early Viragos models, and will catch the rider on fire in rare cases, models made in year 1982 and 1983.

On 15 April 1983 some 200 items, including paintings and dozens of rare clocks and watches, were stolen when the museum was burgled.

Of the 106 rare timepieces stolen in 1983, 96 have now been recovered.

The Supreme Court of India ruled in 1983 that the death penalty should be imposed only in " the rarest of rare cases.