* In Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's collaboration Oath of Fealty ( 1982 ), much of the action is set in and around Todos Santos, an arcology built in a burnt-out section of Los Angeles that has evolved a separate culture from the city around it.

Because the DIX proposal was most technically complete and because of the speedy action taken by ECMA which decisively contributed to the conciliation of opinions within IEEE, the IEEE 802. 3 CSMA / CD standard was approved in December 1982.

* 1982 – The Argentine base ( Corbeta Uruguay ) on Southern Thule surrenders to Royal Marine commandos in the final action of the Falklands War.

Following successful legal action against it, on 21 March 1982 London Buses fares were subsequently doubled and London Underground fares increased by 91 %.

With the Labour left still strong – in 1981 Benn decided to challenge Healey for the deputy leadership of the party, a contest Healey won narrowly – Foot struggled to make an impact and was widely criticised for it, though his performances in the Commons, most notably on the Falklands war of 1982, won him widespread respect from other parliamentarians, though he was criticised by some on the left who felt that he should not have supported the Thatcher government's immediate resort to military action.

The first action plan of the CEPT Group GSM, approved in December 1982, requested " The services and facilities offered in the public switched telephone networks and public data networks ... should be available in the mobile system ".

Several action games also focused on mental challenges, including the action-puzzle hybrid Q * bert from 1982.

In the followup 1982 novel, 2010: Odyssey Two, and the accompanying 1984 film, 2010, it is revealed that this action was caused by the computer having been programmed with two conflicting objectives: to fully disclose all its information, and to keep the true purpose of the flight secret from the crew ; this conflict caused HAL to become paranoid and eventually homicidal.

From 1982 to 1986, Treasure Trap, one of the world's first live action role-playing games took place on the site.

* Killer ( role-playing game ), an official live action role-playing game set of rules, derived from the precedent and first published by Steve Jackson Games in 1982

The first action by the MRTA occurred on 31 May 1982, when five of its members, including Victor Polay Campos and Jorge Talledo Feria ( members of the Central Committee ) robbed a bank in La Victoria, Lima.

In 1982, the Supreme Court had struck down the one-house legislative veto, on separation of powers grounds and on grounds that the action by one house of Congress violated the Constitutional requirement of bicameralism.

While Disney had made the film Tron — which extensively mixed live action, traditional animation, and CGI — in 1982, and introduced the CAPS system to enhance traditional animation in 1990s The Rescuers Down Under, a completely computer-animated feature film had yet to be made.

This unique jail was used until 1982, when a court action forced it to close.

They funded a political action committee ( PAC ) in 1982 to lobby Congress.

Public awareness of the availability of these videos began in early 1982, when Vipco ( Video Instant Picture Company ), the UK distributors of The Driller Killer, a 1979 slasher film, took out full-page advertisements in a number of specialist video magazines, depicting the video's explicit cover ; an action which resulted in a large number of complaints to the Advertising Standards Agency.

He is credited with about ten scripts between 1982 and 1987, covering an array of genres from romantic comedy to action drama, but claims to have worked to some extent or another on about fifty more without official credit.

Similar ideas were discussed before the 1982 elections but were never put into action.

In 1982, he directed Burst City (), a stylish action film about a wild gang of quasi-mutant bikers who ride into a town staging protests against the construction of a nearby nuclear reactor plant.

The Constitution Act, 1982 created a mechanism by which Canada's constitution could be amended by joint action of federal and provincial governments ; prior to 1982, it could be amended only by the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

An in-depth study of Wright's action formed a part of Dr Tom Bergin's 1982 MA thesis at the University of New England.

All human cultures are therefore a collection of " choice making individuals whose every action involves conscious or unconscious selections among alternatives means to alternative ends " ( Burling, 1962, quoted from Prattis, 1982: 207 ), whereby the ends are culturally defined goals.

During 1982, the SANE political action committee was formed for the political election year.

* 1982 – Archibald MacLeish, American poet, writer, and Librarian of Congress ( b. 1892 )

The Boland Amendment had first been passed by Congress in December 1982.

Congress included text in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994 ( passed in 1993 ) requiring the military to abide by regulations essentially identical to the 1982 absolute ban policy.

* 1892 – Archibald MacLeish, American poet, writer, and Librarian of Congress ( d. 1982 )

* Avalon Blues: The Library of Congress Recordings – Volume Two ( 1982 )

During the re-ignition of Cold War tensions in 1982, the U. S. Congress during Reagan Administration established the Baltic Freedom Day to be remembered every June 14 in the United States.

In December 1982, the fifth National People ’ s Congress revised the State Constitution to provide that the State Central Military Commission leads all the armed forces of the state.

In 1978, the NASA SETI program was heavily criticized by Senator William Proxmire, and funding for SETI research was removed from the NASA budget by Congress in 1981, however, funding was restored in 1982, after Carl Sagan talked with Proxmire and convinced him of the program's value.

In 1982, the Congress, passed the Boland Amendment.

While in exile, his brother Jama Mbeki, a supporter of the rival Pan Africanist Congress, was killed by agents of the Lesotho government in 1982 while attempting to assist the Lesotho Liberation Army.

In 1978, Congress extended the previously-agreed-upon seven-year limit on the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment by more than three years from a March 22, 1979, original deadline to a June 30, 1982, revised deadline.

* The Equal Rights Amendment ( proposed in 1972 and expired in either 1979 or 1982, depending on whether a 1978 extension was constitutional ; some supporters argue for Congress or the courts nullifying or extending the deadline, with previous state ratifications still counting )

In 1982, the National People's Congress adopted a new state constitution that emphasized the rule of law under which even party leaders are theoretically held accountable.

Given Rickover's single-minded focus on naval nuclear propulsion, design and operations, it came as a surprise to many when in 1982, near the end of his career, he testified before the U. S. Congress that, were it up to him, he " would sink them all.

Li joined the Central Committee at the Twelfth National Congress in 1982.

In 1982, Wheeler and Ridlon established the Jim Thorpe Foundation and gained support from the U. S. Congress.

Congress amended this section in 1982, prohibiting any voting practice or procedure that has a discriminatory result.

The ERA failed to receive the requisite number of ratifications before the final deadline mandated by Congress of June 30, 1982 expired and so it was not adopted.

According to an Associated Press report, " a coalition of women's groups ," operating under the name " ERA Summit ," planned " to ask Congress to nullify 1982 deadline for ratification.

The amendment has been reintroduced in every session of Congress since 1982.

In 1982 Congress produced a report recommending changes called " Proposals for Revision of the Communications Act of 1934: Telecommunications Issues ".

On 4 December 1982, the National People's Congress resolved to restore the original 1935 version by Tian Han as the official national anthem.

Due to different treatment of federal patent rights in different parts of the country, in 1982 the U. S. Congress created a new court ( the Federal Circuit ) to hear patent cases.