It was initially intended to be a next generation video game machine, but was redesigned as a general purpose computer after the North American video game crash of 1983.

She contested the seat of Burnley in Lancashire in the 1979 general election and then, against David Owen, the Plymouth Devonport seat in the 1983 general election.

This seat was abolished in the 1983 general election and replaced with the present constituency of Hyndburn ( UK Parliament constituency ).

In the 1983 general election, the alliance took 25 % of the popular vote, but this only translated into 23 seats ( out of a total of 650 ).

However, they were later overtaken in the polls by the Conservatives and at the 1983 general election the Conservatives triumphed by a landslide, with Labour once again forming the opposition, while the SDP-Liberal Alliance came close to Labour in terms of votes ( a share of more than 25 %) although it only had 23 MPs compared to Labour's 209.

It lost the 1983 general election " in which, following the Falklands war, foreign policy was high on the agenda.

" In the 1983 Code of Canon Law, " The Latin words sacerdos and sacerdotium are used to refer in general to the ministerial priesthood shared by bishops and presbyters.

Following boundary changes, Major became Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Huntingdon in 1983 and retained the seat in the 1987, 1992 and 1997 general elections.

Their mixture of heavy metal and glam rock stylings produced several best-selling albums during the 1980s, including Shout at the Devil ( 1983 ), Theatre of Pain ( 1985 ), and Girls, Girls, Girls ( 1987 ), which showcased their love of motorcycles, whiskey and strip clubs, and which told tales of substance abuse, sexual escapades, and general decadence.

A passionate orator, he was Labour leader at the 1983 general election when the party received its lowest share of the vote since 1918.

Critically, Labour held on in a subsequent by-election in Darlington and Foot remained leader for the 1983 general election.

The Daily Mirror was the only major newspaper to back Foot and Labour at the 1983 general election, urging its readers to vote Labour and " Stop the waste of our nation, for your job your children and your future " in response to the mass unemployment that had resulted from Conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher's monetarist economic policies to reduce inflation.

Foot took a back seat in Labour politics after 1983 and retired from the House of Commons at the 1992 general election, when Labour lost to the Tories ( now led by John Major ) for the fourth election in succession, but remained politically active.

# Finds that the United States of America, by producing in 1983 a manual entitled ' Operaciones sicológicas en guerra de guerrillas ', and disseminating it to contra forces, has encouraged the commission by them of acts contrary to general principles of humanitarian law ; but does not find a basis for concluding that any such acts which may have been committed are imputable to the United States of America as acts of the United States of America ;

Despite the economy's general expansion after 1983, however, inflation threatened its modest gains, as did serious fiscal and balance-of-payments deficits and the growing debt.

He led the new party from March 1982 until after the 1983 general election, when Owen succeeded him unopposed.

Later ( in 1983 ) a general availability implementation, known as Smalltalk-80 Version 2, was released as an image ( platform-independent file with object definitions ) and a virtual machine specification.

The final national Nielsen rating was a 49. 1 ( a 73 share ), which is still a Super Bowl record, and ranks second only to the final episode of M * A * S * H in 1983 among television broadcasts in general.

* July 29 – Sir Neil Ritchie, British WWII general ( d. 1983 )

In the successive 1983 general election DC suffered one of its largest declines in terms of votes at that point, receiving only 32. 5 % of the vote cast (- 5. 8 %).

In the 1983 general election the party suffered a dramatic decrease in term of votes and its electoral geography was very different from 30 or even 10 years before, as the region where it obtained the best result was Apulia ( 46. 0 %).

In the debate on the address shortly after the general election of 1983, Powell picked up on Thatcher's willingness, when asked, to use nuclear weapons as a " last resort ".

In the April 12, 1983, mayoral general election, Washington defeated Epton by 3. 7 %, 51. 7 % to 48. 0 %, to become mayor of Chicago.

After a decade as president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, he entered parliament as a Labor MP at the 1980 federal election and became Prime Minister within three years, leading Labor to victory at four consecutive federal elections: 1983, 1984, 1987 and 1990.

After some success at state-level elections, the party won 27 seats with 5. 7 % of the vote in the Bundestag, the lower house of the German parliament, in the 1983 federal election.

After three election victories, he was defeated by Bob Hawke in the 1983 election and ended his career alienated from his own party.

On 3 February 1983, Fraser called a double dissolution election for 5 March, several months before it was due.

Robinson's early political career included election to Dublin City Council in 1979, where she served until 1983.

Shortly after Labour's hefty election defeat in June 1983, the almost 70-year-old Michael Foot resigned as leader and from the outset it was expected that Kinnock would succeed him.

He came to prominence as the reformist Treasurer of the government of Bob Hawke, which came to power at the 1983 election.

Following the Labor Party's victory in the March 1983 election, Keating was appointed treasurer, a post he held until 1991.

In 1982 he won a famous by-election in a Conservative seat and returned to parliament ; but after disappointment with the performance of the SDP in the 1983 election he resigned as SDP leader.

During the 1983 election campaign his position as the prime minister designate for the SDP-Liberal Alliance was questioned by his close colleagues, as his campaign style was now regarded as ineffective ; the Liberal leader David Steel was considered to have a greater rapport with the electorate.

In the 1983 election, more than 60 % of those registered participated and gave President Kaunda a 93 % " yes " vote.

The Orioles experienced their greatest success from 1964 – 1983, as well as 1996-1997, winning eight Division Championships ( 1969 – 1971, 1973 – 1974, 1979, 1983, 1997 ), six pennants ( 1966, 1969 – 1971, 1979, 1983 ), three World Series Championships ( 1966, 1970, 1983 ), one wild card berth ( 1996 ), and five Most Valuable Player awards ( 3B Brooks Robinson 1964, OF Frank Robinson 1966, 1B Boog Powell 1970 and SS Cal Ripken Jr. 1983 & 1991 ).

During their most productive years, the Orioles saw three of its players named MVP: ( Frank Robinson in 1966 ; Boog Powell in 1970 ; and Cal Ripken, Jr. in 1983 ).

Speaking to the Aldershot and North Hants Conservative Association on 4 February 1983, Powell blamed the United Nations for the Falklands War by the General Assembly resolution of December 1967 that stated " its gratitude for the continuous efforts made by the Government of Argentina to facilitate the process of decolonisation " and further called on Britain and Argentina to negotiate.

Powell voted against the reinstitution of the death penalty in 1969, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1979, 1983 and 1987.

Gene Palmer, Randle Walker ; 1971, Mike Buchanan, Lindsey Roberts ; 1972, Rueben Bussey, Bobby Price, Avery Downing ; 1973, Maurice Jones ; 1974, Coach Ben Pannel, Roy Green, Bobby Hunt, Stanley Lawrence ; 1975, James Brack, Bobby Mowrey, Jerry Malone ; 1976, Pres Young, Rex Scroggins, Dick Ford ; 1977, Robert Knight ; 1979, Jackie Walker, Gregg McNeal ; 1980, Windy Haggard, Syd Keasler, Zell Roberts, Wilber Ingram ; 1981, Kenny Rowe, Martin Luther King Jr, Danny Malone ; 1982, Jimmy Killion, Gene Grammer ; 1983, David Powell, Jerry Bunt ; 1984, Doug Floyd, Ken Jones ; 1985, Mike Trice, Scooter Taylor ; 1986, Brian Koechel, Bryon Lawrence ; 1987, Donald Taylor ; 1988, Jimmie Tallant ; 1989, Tommy Roberts ; 1990, Chris Shafer, Larry Gideon ; 1991, Randy Clark, Clifford Shaw ; 1992, Jimmy Lynn Grimes, Ricky Lawrence ; 1993, Linty Ingram ; 1995, Jeff Brownlee, Ron Gideon ; 1996, John Martin ; 1997, Rob Floyd ; 1998, Steve Green, Patrick Gill ; 1999, J. B. Rodgers ; 2000, Les Langley ; 2001, Rodney Flake ; 2002, Donnie Muckleroy

From 1 July 1943 until her death on 5 July 1983, Powell was married to Frances " Frankie " May Reidy, the daughter of medical practitioner Jerome Reidy ; they had two sons: Kevin Michael Powell ( b. 1945 ) and Columba Jerome Reidy Powell ( b. 1951 ).

He was asked to guest on albums by friends George Harrison ( Gone Troppo from 1982 ) and Pink Floyd's David Gilmour ( 1983's About Face ), Cozy Powell ( Octopus in 1983 ) and to play on an adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's classic, Wind in the Willows.

* Cozy Powell ( 1982 – 1983 )

* Ray Powell ( joined the front bench, 1983 )

The group dissolved in 1983, though Thorgerson still works on album designs, and Powell works in video, most notably with The Who.

Aubrey Powell and Richard Evans of Hipgnosis also designed the cover of the 1983 album " Voyager ".

* William Rhys Powell, barrister, Member of Parliament for Corby ( 1983 – 1997 )

Authors like Paul DiMaggio and Walter W. Powell consciously revisited Weber's iron cage in the early 1980s ( DiMaggio and Powell 1983, 1991 ).

In 1983 Noorda assembled the SuperSet team whose members included Drew Major, Dale Niebaur and Kyle Powell.

The concept attracted little interest from television executives until incoming BBC Head of Drama Series & Serials Jonathan Powell picked it up in 1983, assigning experienced producer Michael Wearing to the project.