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 ).

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 1983 general election, Powell had to face a DUP candidate in his constituency and Ian Paisley denounced Powell as " a foreigner and an Anglo-Catholic ".

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.

As a member of the Oikya Front the CPB accorded active support to General Mohammad Ataul Ghani Osmany in the Presidential election in 1979. The CPB joined the 15-party alliance in 1983 against the military rule of Hussain Muhammad Ershad.

In unionism, PCdoB initially adopted a policy of alliance with trade unionists linked to the PCB, adhering to CONCLAT in 1983, which included moderate and non-Marxists.

In 1983, Hasina formed the 15-party alliance to launch a movement to oust him from power.

The following twelve years, first under Spadolini and then under La Malfa's son Giorgio, saw the PRI as a stable member of the so-called Pentapartito, an alliance between DC, the PSI, the PRI, the Italian Liberal Party ( PLI ) and the Italian Democratic Socialist Party ( PSDI ) which governed Italy from 1983 to 1991.

For the 1983 federal election, the CDP formed an alliance with the Victoria-based Democratic Labor Party.

In 1983 Whitesmiths formed a technical and business alliance with France-based COSMIC Software.

In 1983 Kyprianou's Democratic Party ( Cyprus ) forged an alliance with AKEL based on an agreed agenda: the so called minimum program.

The Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov encouraged the idea of a triple alliance between Russia, the PRC and India first formulated by Indian strategist Madhav Das Nalapat in 1983, and supported the idea of a multipolar world.

* 1983: Conservative Party, led by Margaret Thatcher, " We believe Mrs Thatcher and her colleagues should be given a second chance to deliver them, with the fewest possible Labour ( as distinct from alliance ) MPs elected against her.