But far from being concerned about whether or not Russia will have achieved Utopia by 1980, the world is watching Moscow today primarily for clues as to whether or not there will be nuclear Armageddon in the immediate future.

And there must be many Soviet citizens who know what is going on and who realize that before they can hope to enjoy the full life promised for 1980 they and their children must first survive.

and, though he repeated, over and over again, the spectacular figures of industrial and agricultural production in 1980, the `` ordinary '' people in Russia are still a little uncertain as to how `` communism '' is really going to work in practice, especially in respect of food.

Existing americium is concentrated in the areas used for the atmospheric nuclear weapons tests conducted between 1945 and 1980, as well as at the sites of nuclear incidents, such as the Chernobyl disaster.

* 1980 – Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is elected President of Iceland and becomes the world's first democratically elected female head of state

* 1980 – The Montevideo Treaty, establishing the Latin American Integration Association, is signed.

Alexios is a character in the historical novel Agnes of France ( 1980 ) by Greek writer Kostas Kyriazis.

He is among the main characters of the historical novel Agnes of France ( 1980 ) by Greek writer Kostas Kyriazis ( b. 1920 ).

La Longue Marche à travers la théorie de Galois Long March Through Galois Theory is an approximately 1600-page handwritten manuscript produced by Grothendieck during the years 1980 – 1981, containing many of the ideas leading to the Esquisse d ' un programme ( see below, and also a more detailed entry ), and in particular studying the Teichmüller theory.

Signed on August 12, 1980, the Montevideo Treaty is an international legal framework that establishes and governs the Latin American Integration Association.

Arianespace SA is a French company founded in 1980 as the world's first commercial space transportation company.

Jane Chance ( Professor of English, Rice University ) in her 1980 article " The Structural Unity of Beowulf: The Problem of Grendel's Mother " argued that there are two standard interpretations of the poem: one view which suggests a two-part structure ( i. e., the poem is divided between Beowulf's battles with Grendel and with the dragon ) and the other, a three-part structure ( this interpretation argues that Beowulf's battle with Grendel's mother is structurally separate from his battle with Grendel ).

Since 1980, each voter names three rookies: a first-place choice is given five points, a second-place choice three points, and a third-place choice one point.

Alice Munro has a unique place in Booker Prize history ; The Beggar Maid is the only short story collection to have been shortlisted, doing so in 1980.

26, 000 individuals remain, it began a sudden population decline from around 1980 and is now classified as vulnerable.

The field of modern biotechnology is thought to have largely begun on June 16, 1980, when the United States Supreme Court ruled that a genetically modified microorganism could be patented in the case of Diamond v. Chakrabarty.

However this account is questionable as Bill Haley never performed in the United States in 1980.

Chaplin is also a supporting character in several other films, such as The Cat's Meow ( 2001 ), in which he was played by Eddie Izzard and The Scarlett O ' Hara War ( 1980 ), in which he was played by Clive Revill.

Similar regulations are in place in Germany, where anyone who has spent six months or more living in the UK between January 1980 and December 1996 is permanently banned from donating blood.

In Poland, anyone who cumulatively spent six months or longer between 1 January 1980 and 31 December 1996 in the UK, Ireland or France is permanently barred from donating.

In the Czech Republic, anyone who spent more than six months in the UK or France between the years 1980 and 1996 or received transfusion in the UK after the year 1980 is not allowed to donate blood.

One of the best examples of a local currency is the original LETS currency, founded on Vancouver Island in the early 1980 ’ s.

The science-fiction editor Gardner Dozois is generally acknowledged as the person who popularized the use of the term " cyberpunk " as a kind of literature, although Minnesota writer Bruce Bethke coined the term in 1980 for his short story " Cyberpunk ," which was published in the November 1983 issue of Amazing Science Fiction Stories.

Kain is a subject of The Portraits of Andy Warhol, c. 1980.

** Talpiot Tomb, discovered in 1980, subject of the controversial documentary The Lost Tomb of Jesus

* The subject was also featured on an episode of Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World entitled " Strange Skies ", originally broadcast on November 18, 1980.

Schiele has been the subject of a biographical film, Excess & Punishment ( aka Egon Schiele Exzess und Bestrafung ), a 1980 film originating in Germany with a European cast that explores Schiele's artistic demons leading up to his early death.

The public right of way along Downing Street has not been extinguished or subject to a gating order under the Highways Act 1980.

* Donald Redford's excavation of one Akhenaten's temples was the subject of a one-hour 1980 National Film Board of Canada documentary, The Lost Pharaoh: The Search for Akhenaten.

On 29 November 1980 police officer Alan Godfrey allegedly experienced an alien abduction and was the subject of Jenny Randles ' book The Pennine UFO Mystery.

Bill was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1980 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews in Trafalgar Square.

* The Romans in Britain by Howard Brenton, directed by Michael Bogdanov, subject of a private prosecution by Mary Whitehouse ( 1980 )

It was also subject to limited video release at that time by Sun Video ( 1978 ) and Danton Video ( 1980 ).

Dag Henrik Esrum-Hellerup was the subject of a hoax entry in the 1980 New Grove.

Guglielmo Baldini was the name of a non-existent composer who was the subject of a hoax entry in the 1980 edition.

Initial discussions were held with double World Champion Niki Lauda and McLaren on the subject of a 1980 campaign, but the BMW board denied Neerpasch's request for the programme.

Because of the massive payoff for a successful cheat ( especially after the 1980 Pennsylvania Lottery scandal where drawing balls were rigged to draw a certain number of results ), lottery machines are subject to strict security measures.

* Bill Lee is the subject of the 1980 song " Bill Lee " on Warren Zevon's " Bad Luck Streak In Dancing School ".

As a junior particle physicist, Guth first developed the idea of cosmic inflation in 1979 at Cornell and gave his first seminar on the subject in January 1980.

Shikasta reappears in the fourth book in the series, The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 ( 1982 ), and the Zones, briefly mentioned in Shikasta, are the subject of the second book in the series, The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five ( 1980 ).

In 1980, he released a single written by Mike Croft with musical arrangement by Dave Grosse to coincide with the release of the I-Spy title I Spy Dinosaurs, a title exploring the subject of dinosaur fossils.

Prior to the ACT gaining self-government in 1989, ACT and NT casual Senate vacancies were the subject of a different law: section 9 of the Senate ( Representation of Territories ) Act 1973, as amended by the Senate ( Representation of Territories ) Amendment Act 1980.

The subject was originally and simultaneously developed by Nachman Aronszajn ( 1907 – 1980 ) and Stefan Bergman ( 1895 – 1977 ) in 1950.

A 1980 episode of the public television program Alaska Review ( currently held in the collections of the Alaska Film Archives ) prominently featured an edited " debate " between Hammond and Randolph on the subject, centered on the fact that Alaska faced a one-billion-dollar budget surplus that year.

Star Fire appeared in the 1980 film Midnight Madness, while Mouse Trap was the subject of a song on the 1982 Pac-Man Fever album.

in physics at Princeton University, summa cum laude, in 1975, he received his Ph. D. in the same subject from Harvard University in 1980.

She spent many years translating Medieval Latin scripts before deciding, in 1980, to pursue art, her favourite subject.