After the mid-1960s, he became much less prolific, but his later work — including his final two epics, Kagemusha ( 1980 ) and Ran ( 1985 )— continued to win awards, including the Palme d ' Or for Kagemusha, though more often abroad than in Japan.

In September 1978, the company demonstrated an optical digital audio disc with a 150 minute playing time, 44, 056 Hz sampling rate, 16-bit linear resolution, and cross-interleaved error correction code — specifications similar to those later settled upon for the standard Compact Disc format in 1980.

1980 — Cook Islands – United States Maritime Boundary Treaty establishes the Cook Islands – American Samoa boundary

In his book he asked why, if Saudi Arabia had such an effect on Soviet oil prices, did prices not fall in 1980 when the production of oil by Saudi Arabia reached its highest level — three times as much oil as in the mid-eighties — and why did the Saudis wait till 1990 to increase their production, five years after the CIA's supposed intervention?

From 1950 to 1980, DDT was extensively used in agriculture — more than 40, 000 tonnes were used each year worldwide — and it has been estimated that a total of 1. 8 million tonnes have been produced globally since the 1940s.

In 1994 he compared model results to observed temperatures and found that the predicted temperatures for 1950 – 1980 deviated from the temperatures that had actually occurred, from which he concluded in his regular column in The Washington Times — with the headline that day " Climate Claims Wither under the Luminous Lights of Science "— that climate models are faulty.

Between 1980 and 1983, 20 percent of the work force was unemployed — double the percentage of the late 1970s.

) The number 802 was simply the next free number IEEE could assign, though “ 802 ” is sometimes associated with the date the first meeting was held — February 1980.

* 1980 Stock — Replacement stock

This idea of the infinite, of the unreal, of the innocence dying ..." — Robert Smith 2003 ( about the Peake character that inspired the early Cure song The Drowning Man in 1980 )

Marino Marini ( 27 February 1901 Pistoia — 6 August 1980 Viareggio ) was an Italian sculptor.

Burning Britain — The History of UK Punk 1980 – 1984 ( London: Cherry Red Books ).

Because of difficulties in human lookahead — peculiar to Reversi because of the apparent strategic meaninglessness of internal disks ( making blindfold games — if not virtually impossible without enormous dedication — more difficult than is the case in, say, chess ) and the attractiveness of the game to programmers — the best Othello computer programs have easily defeated the best humans since 1980, when the program The Moor beat the reigning world champion.

From 1975 to 1977, Skyhooks were — alongside Sherbet — the most commercially successful group in Australia, but over the next few years, Skyhooks rapidly faded from the public eye with the departure of key members, and in 1980 the band announced its break-up in controversial circumstances.

In January 1980, the production of Hypnotised was finished at Eden Studios in London, with the Undertones recording the three further songs written the previous December, plus two further songs — " Hypnotised " and a cover of " Under The Boardwalk " — which had been written that month.

" Wednesday Week "— the second single to be released from Hypnotised — was released in July, 1980.

Between September and December 1980, the Undertones performed two further tours: the ' Disaster Tour ( European Style )', which saw the band perform in continental Europe and — in December — the ' See No More ' tour of the UK.

Also noteworthy are Cheryl Lynn's " Got to Be Real " ( 1978 ), Evelyn " Champagne " King's " Shame " ( 1978 ), Cher's " Take Me Home " ( 1979 ), Sister Sledge's " We Are Family " ( 1979 ), Geraldine Hunt's " Can't Fake the Feeling " ( 1980 ), and Walter Murphy's various attempts to bring classical music to the mainstream, most notably his hit " A Fifth of Beethoven " ( 1976 ).

Subsequent remakes include Sorrowful Jones ( 1949 ; Bob Hope, Lucille Ball ), 40 Pounds of Trouble ( 1962 ; Tony Curtis ), and Little Miss Marker ( 1980 ; Walter Matthau, Julie Andrews, Bob Newhart, Tony Curtis ).

* Walter Shewring, 1980 ( ISBN 0-19-283375-8 ), Oxford University Press ( Oxford World's Classics ), prose

The country's first elected leader, Prime Minister Father Walter Lini, governed Vanuatu from 1980 to 1991, and shaped its initial foreign policy in distinct ways.

** Walter Susskind, Czech conductor ( d. 1980 )

* August 26 – Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor ( d. 1980 )

The award was presented to him at the ACM Annual Conference in Nashville, Tennessee, on 27 October 1980, by Walter Carlson, Chairman of the Awards committee.

* 1980 – Physicist Luis Alvarez, his son, geologist Walter Alvarez, and others propose that the impact of a large extraterrestrial object caused the extinction of the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous Period, about 65 million years ago.

In 1980, physicist Luis Alvarez ; his son, geologist Walter Alvarez ; and nuclear chemists Frank Asaro and Helen V. Michael from the University of California, Berkeley discovered unusually high concentrations of iridium in a specific layer of rock strata in the Earth's crust.

The film was remade in 1949 as Sorrowful Jones with Bob Hope and Lucille Ball and again as Little Miss Marker in 1980 with Walter Matthau, Julie Andrews, Tony Curtis, Bob Newhart, Brian Dennehy, and Lee Grant.

* The song " Babylon Sisters " by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen from the Steely Dan album " Gaucho " ( 1980 ) has the refrain " Here come those Santa Ana winds again.

The Shadow Magazine ceased publication with the Summer 1949 issue, but Walter B. Gibson wrote three new " official " stories between 1963 and 1980.

* Walter M. Lowrey ( 1921 – 1980 ), historian

Sanger was awarded his second Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1980 jointly with Walter Gilbert for " their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids ".

After Groves ' fourteen years ' tenure as principal conductor, each of his three successors remained in post for much shorter periods ; Walter Weller from 1977 to 1980, David Atherton from 1980 to 1983 and Marek Janowski from 1983 to 1987.

* May 1 – Walter Susskind, Czech conductor ( d. 1980 )

* Walter Weller ( 1980 – 1985, Principal Conductor )

One impetus for this change came from the publication of a historic paper by Walter and Luis Alvarez in 1980.

His other film work includes Walter Hill's The Long Riders ( 1980 ), Southern Comfort ( 1981 ), Brewster's Millions ( 1985 ), Johnny Handsome, Last Man Standing ( 1996 ), Hill's Trespass ( 1992 ) and Mike Nichols ' Primary Colors ( 1998 ).

* Walter Howell III ( 1980 ), international director of Jones Lang LaSalle, the world's largest commercial real estate development firm

* 1980 — Luis Alvarez, Walter Alvarez, Frank Asaro, and Helen Michel propose the Alvarez hypothesis, that a comet or asteroid struck the Earth 65 million years ago causing the Cretaceous – Paleogene extinction event, including the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs, and enriching the iridium in the K – T boundary.

* James Roland Walter Parker ( 1977 – 1980 )

The respected CBS Evening News anchor, Walter Cronkite, began ending each show in January 1980 by saying how many days the hostages had been captive.

Boethius and Consolatio Philosophiae are cited frequently by the main character Ignatius J. Reilly in the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Confederacy of Dunces ( 1980 ).

* Cults and Isms, by J. Oswald Sanders, pub. 1962, 1969, 1980 ( Arrowsmith ), ISBN 0-551-00458-4.

The Eagles gave nods to disco with " One of These Nights " ( 1975 ) and " Disco Strangler " ( 1979 ), Paul McCartney & Wings did " Goodnight Tonight " ( 1979 ), Queen did " Another One Bites the Dust " ( 1980 ), The Rolling Stones did " Miss You " ( 1978 ), Chicago did " Street Player " ( 1979 ), The Beach Boys did " Here Comes the Night " ( 1979 ), The Kinks did "( Wish I Could Fly Like ) Superman " ( 1979 ), and the J. Geils Band did " Come Back " ( 1980 ).

* 1980 – Kevin J. Boyle, American politician

1980 saw one of the best pitching lineups the Astros ever had, with the fastball of Ryan, the knuckleball of Joe Niekro and the terrifying 6 ft 8 in frame of J. R. Richard.

Four nationwide J & D headlined tours followed through 1980.

* J. Joseph Smith ( 1904 – 1980 ), U. S. Representative from Connecticut

* Interview with J. Fieschi and B. Villien, in Cinématographe ( Paris ), October 1980

* 1980 – L. J. Smith, American football player

* Isaacs J ( 1980 ) Australian Dreaming: 40, 000 Years of Aboriginal History, Lansdowne Press, Sydney, New South Wales, ISBN 0-7018-1330-X

* 1980 – J. F. A. McManus, Canadian pathologist ( b. 1911 )

* 1980 – On the season finale of the soap opera Dallas, the infamous character J. R. Ewing is shot by an unseen assailant, leading to the catchphrase " Who shot J. R .?

* 1980 – B. J.

While the original proofs of Hadamard and de la Vallée-Poussin are long and elaborate, and later proofs have introduced various simplifications through the use of Tauberian theorems but remained difficult to digest, a surprisingly short proof was discovered in 1980 by American mathematician Donald J. Newman.

Michael J. Flynn views the first RISC system as the IBM 801 design which began in 1975 by John Cocke, and completed in 1980.

* Van Riemsdijk, J. T. Pictorial History of Steam Power ( 1980 )

* Wertime, Theodore and Muhly, J. D .( 1980 ) eds. The Coming of The Age of Iron.

An anonymous novella Spalatro: from the notes of Fra Giacomo, published in the Dublin University Magazine in 1843, was added to the Le Fanu canon as late as 1980, being recognised as Le Fanu's work by W. J.

* Findling, J. E. ( 1980 ).

The first day of Thoth fell on 2 March in that year ( Prof. E. J. Bickerman, 1980: 115 ).

* Seldin, J. P., and Hindley, J. R., eds., 1980.