Ultimately, the name change campaign lasted for a three year period from 1982 to 1984 ( Datsun badged vehicles had been progressively fitted with small " Nissan " and " Datsun by Nissan " badges from the late 1970s onward ) until the Nissan name was given prominence in 1983-although in some export markets vehicles continued to wear both the Datsun and Nissan badges until 1986.

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.

Although writing had begun in the late 1970s, Chapman was finally able to secure funding for his much cherished pirate project Yellowbeard in 1982.

The War can be divided broadly into several periods: The initial outbreak in the mid-1970s, the Syrian and then Israeli intervention of the late 1970s, escalation of the PLO-Israeli conflict in the early 1980s, the 1982 Israeli invasion, a brief period of multinational involvement, and finally resolution which took the form of Syrian occupation.

The black cut-stone masonry wall, with the names of 58, 195 fallen soldiers carved into its face, was completed in late October 1982 and dedicated on November 13, 1982.

Coffman's assistant Eric Greif set up a tour of Canada, while Coffman and Greif used Mötley Crüe's success in the Los Angeles club scene to negotiate with several record labels, eventually signing a recording contract with Elektra Records in late spring 1982.

Through late 1982 and early 1983, there was constant speculation that Labour MPs would replace Foot with Healey as leader.

Canada gradually gained greater and greater autonomy over a considerable period of time through inter imperial and commonwealth diplomacy, including 1867's British North America Act, 1931's Statute of Westminster, and even as late as the patriation of the British North America Act in 1982 ( see Constitution of Canada ).

Aragonés had created the humorous barbarian comic book Groo the Wanderer with Mark Evanier in the late 1970s, but the character did not appear in print until 1982.

* Pentastar: From 1982 to 1995, Dodge used Chrysler's Pentastar logo on its cars and trucks to replace the Dodge crest, although it had been used for corporate recognition since late 1962.

Numan supported the album with a concert tour in America in late 1982 ( where he was living as a tax exile ), which were his first series of live shows since his farewell at Wembley.

In late 1976, Robertson predicted that the end of the world was coming in October or November 1982.

Andropov was the longest-serving KGB chairman and did not resign as head of the KGB until May 1982, when he was again promoted to the Secretariat to succeed the late Mikhail Suslov as secretary responsible for ideological affairs.

Their recorded studio output since 1982 is composed of seventeen albums generally regarded in two distinct eras, delineated by the departure of original frontman Fish in late 1988, and the subsequent arrival of replacement Steve Hogarth in early 1989.

One of his better known roles was in the 1982 science fiction cult classic Tron, in which he played Kevin Flynn, a video game programmer ( a role he reprised in late 2010 with the sequel Tron: Legacy ).

In late 1982, Prince released a double album, 1999, which sold over three million copies.

" With Tolhurst now playing keyboards instead of drums, the duo released the single " Let's Go to Bed " in late 1982.

Starting in late 1982, a number of IRA and Irish National Liberation Army ( INLA ) men were shot dead by the RUC.

During the 1980s in Argentina, the Trotskyist party founded in 1982 by Nahuel Moreno, MAS, ( Movimiento al Socialismo, Movement Toward Socialism ), claimed to be the " largest Trotskyist party " in the world, before it broke into a number of different fragments in the late 1980s, including the present-day MST, PTS, MAS, IS, PRS, FOS, etc.

By late 1982, Joe Clark's leadership of the Progressive Conservatives was being questioned in many party circles and among many Tory members of Parliament, despite his solid national lead over Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in opinion polls, which stretched to 19 percent in summer 1982.

Then, in the 1982 playoffs, the Penguins held a 3 – 1 lead late in the fifth and final game of their playoff series against the reigning champions, the New York Islanders.

In late 1982, the Disney Channel was formed under the leadership of its first president, Alan Wagner.

They managed to get enough local backing to record a mini-album in late 1982, entitled It ( the title was a pun on pulp-it, as if the band were preaching to the audience ), which was released in April 1983 by Red Rhino Records.

The north, including the Basque country fell in late 1937 and the Aragon front collapsed shortly afterwards.

The child, Jerry White, later learns of his true parentage during his late teens, shortly before being killed by a local street gang he is associated with.

Columbia Records signed the band shortly thereafter and re-released the album in late July 1995.

They scored another hit with songwriter, Alan O ' Day's " Rock and Roll Heaven ", a paean to several deceased rock singers: Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Otis Redding, Jim Croce and Bobby Darin are among the mentioned ( Croce and Darin died within three months of each other in late 1973, shortly before the song was released ).

Under Emperor Arnulf of Carinthia, Carantania, now ruled by a mixed Bavarian-Slav nobility, shortly emerged as a regional power, but was destroyed by the Hungarian invasions in the late 9th century.

Even as late as 1970, the British Protectorate did not envisage independence for Solomon Islands in the foreseeable future but shortly thereafter, the financial costs of supporting the Protectorate became more trying, as the world economy was hit by the first oil price shock of 1973.

After sending more than 20, 000 troops to try to regain the colony in 1802, France withdrew its 7, 000 surviving troops in late 1803, shortly before Haiti declared independence.

While an " underground railroad " running south toward Florida, then a Spanish possession, existed from the late 17th century until shortly after the American Revolution, the network now generally known as the Underground Railroad was formed in the early 19th century, and reached its height between 1850 and 1860.

As late as 1946, shortly before his death, Keynes declared eugenics to be " the most important, significant and, I would add, genuine branch of sociology which exists.

Byrne sought Washington's support, yet shortly before his sudden death in late 1987 the Mayor endorsed Aurelia Pucinski, daughter of longtime Alderman Roman Pucinski, as part of a bid to reconcile with white machine politicians.

This model has generally been successful in modeling the behavior of many observed afterglows at late times ( generally, hours to days after the explosion ), although there are difficulties explaining all features of the afterglow very shortly after the gamma-ray burst has occurred.

A visitor apologizes for being late to the meeting as her husband had died shortly before and she had to make the proper arrangements for the funeral, which consists in burial at sea.

By 1862, shortly after a failed crop the year before and a winter starvation, the federal payment was late.

The UNTSO's HQ was moved, shortly after its creation, to Haifa ( British enclave in this time ), in late June 1948.

The group was assembled by vocalist / guitarists Dion Palmer and Jimmy Christmas, who put together a collection of songs and built a four-piece combo, featuring founding members English Jake and Rich Mixture, during late 1998 and started playing at the Frisbee Leisure Lounge parties along Symonds Street, followed shortly thereafter by inner city pub gigs.

Very shortly before Tom's death, George Shelby ( Arthur Shelby's son ) arrives to buy Tom ’ s freedom but finds he is too late.

He had been associated with his father on the throne late in 1059, together with or shortly before his newly born brother Konstantios Doukas.

By this point, the network was split into three programming blocks: Playhouse Disney, comprising shows aimed at preschoolers ; Vault Disney, featuring classic Disney material such as Zorro, The Mickey Mouse Club, the Walt Disney anthology television series, older television specials and features such as The Love Bug ; and the most distinct one, running from afternoon to late evening for teenagers, called Zoog Disney ( which was introduced in August 1998, shortly after the Toon Disney cable channel was launched ), that used anthropomorphic robot-like characters with human voices called " Zoogs " as its hosts.

He was killed in battle late in 406, shortly before his people forced a crossing of the Rhine River into the territory of the Roman Empire.

The law's promulgator, L. Domitius Ahenobarbus, was shortly afterwards elected Pontifex Maximus after the death of the incumbent Metellus Dalmaticus: something of a personal revenge because, the previous year, he had expected to be co-opted as a pontiff to replace his late father, but the pontifical college had appointed another candidate in his place.

In late c. 210 BC, Agathoclea may have given birth to a son from her affair with Ptolemy IV, who may have died shortly after his birth.

In the election of 1912, Vice President Sherman died shortly before the election, too late for any state to remove his name for its ballot, thus causing Sherman to be listed posthumously.

He was less successful from the late 1940s onwards, when he attempted to move from studio direction into production and freelance work, but he continued working until shortly before his death.

The present house was built shortly before 1717, and was given a number of additions in the late 18th and very early 19th centuries by the architect George Dance the younger.

In late August 1939, shortly before war was declared, Joyce and his wife Margaret fled to Germany.