The company received unwanted media publicity in the 1980s when rumors spread that the moon-and-stars logo was a satanic symbol.

Freestyle's popularity spread outward from the Greater Toronto Area's Italian and Greek populations in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

In the early 1980s, rumors spread of a flaw in the Appel-Haken proof.

Hezbollah was largely formed with the aid of the Ayatollah Khomeini's followers in the early 1980s in order to spread Islamic revolution and follows a distinct version of Islamic Shi ' a ideology ( Valiyat al-faqih or Guardianship of the Islamic Jurists ) developed by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of the " Islamic Revolution " in Iran.

The first Jain temple to be built outside India was constructed and consecrated in the 1960s in Mombasa, Kenya by the local Gujarati Jain community, although Jainism in the West mostly came about after the Oswal and Jain diaspora spread to the West in the late 1970s and 1980s.

After becoming popular in Japan, karaoke spread to East and Southeast Asia during the 1980s and subsequently to other parts of the world.

The activity spread internationally during the 1980s, and has diversified into a wide variety of styles.

Between 1940, till the 1980s worldwide spread of neo-liberalism through the Washington Consensus, the Mexican unions did not operate independently, but instead as part of a state institutional system, largely controlled by the ruling party.

Plantings have increased substantially since the 1980s, and cultivation has spread into the nearby areas of Ojos Negros and Santo Tomás.

With the growth and spread of large, pagan gatherings and festivals in the 1980s, public varieties of Neo-Wicca continued to further diversify into additional, eclectic sub-denominations, often heavily influenced by the New Age and counter-culture movements.

The emergence of HIV / AIDS in the 1980s caused a dramatic shift in sexological research efforts towards understanding and controlling the spread of the disease.

* Faludi's 1991 book Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women argued that the 1980s saw a backlash against feminism, especially due to the spread of negative stereotypes against career-minded women.

Software which is deliberately released as open source once experienced a security debacle in the late 1980s ; for example, the Morris worm of 1988 spread through some obscure — though widely visible to those who looked — vulnerabilities.

Cable television spread rapidly during the 1980s.

According to scholar Ervand Abrahamian, although there were several decades of prohibition of torture that spread from Europe to most parts of the world, by the 1980s, the taboo against torture was broken and torture " returned with a vengeance ," propelled in part by television and an opportunity to break political prisoners and broadcast the resulting public recantations of their political beliefs for " ideological warfare, political mobilization, and the need to win ' hearts and minds.

During the 1980s, independent parties began to spread to other parts of the Netherlands.

Since the late 1980s, however, the city began a rapid spread north to where Yangon International airport now stands.

In the 1980s and early 1990s, its comprehensive reviews ( literally thousands in each issue ) made it the most important publication in its field, heralding the wider spread of what would eventually be called fanzine or zine culture.

The underpinnings for the contemporary moral panic were found in a rise of five factors in the years leading up to the 1980s: The establishment of Fundamentalist Christianity and political organization of the Moral Majority ; the rise of the Anti-cult movement which spread ideas of abusive cults kidnapping and brainwashing children and teens ; the appearance of the Church of Satan and other explicitly Satanist groups that added a kernel of truth to the existence of Satanic cults ; the appearance of the child abuse industry and a group of professionals dedicated to the protection of children ; and the popularization of posttraumatic stress disorder, repressed memory and corresponding survivor movement.

Nevertheless, during the 1980s video surveillance began to spread across the country specifically targeting public areas.

Hemophiliacs, who require injections of blood clotting factor as a course of treatment, during the late 1970s and 1980s also contracted HIV in large numbers worldwide through the spread of contaminated blood products.

A sociolect associated with Valley Girls termed “ Valspeak ” spread across the United States during the 1980s and 1990s, heavily populating high-school teenage female slang throughout.

In the 1970s and 1980s, commercial development from neighboring Portsmouth spread into Newington.

Beginning in the 1980s, as the comic's fandom spread throughout Latin America, the quotes were changed ranging from the silly ( Shake that ugly dandruff of yours, just not here ) to the more useful ( Do not puncture the ozone layer ).

The Amiga is a family of personal computers marketed by Commodore in the 1980s and 1990s.

The Clintons ' personal and business affairs during the 1980s included transactions that became the basis of the Whitewater investigation that dogged his later presidential administration.

In the 1980s, companies had few people who understood the growing personal computer phenomenon, and so most technical people were given free rein to purchase whatever software they thought they needed.

A personal influence on Costas has been legendary ABC Sports broadcaster Jim McKay, who hosted many Olympics for ABC from the 1960s to the 1980s.

Attempts at introducing a census in West Germany sparked strong popular resentment in the 1980s since many quite personal questions were asked.

In the 1980s, Japanese personal computers such as the NEC PC-88 came installed with FM synthesis sound chips and featured audio programming languages such as Music Macro Language ( MML ) and MIDI interfaces, which were most often used to produce video game music, or chiptunes.

Commodore played a vital role in the development of the home – personal computer industry in the 1970s and 1980s.

By the late 1980s, the personal computer market had become dominated by the IBM PC and Apple Macintosh platforms.

As the 1980s began, hard disk drives were a rare and very expensive additional feature on personal computers ( PCs ); however by the late ' 80s, their cost had been reduced to the point where they were standard on all but the cheapest PC.

The Charlotte Observer reported that the Internal Revenue Service ( IRS ) still holds Bakker and Roe Messner, Tammy Faye's husband from 1993 until her death in 2007, liable for personal income taxes owed from the 1980s when they were building the PTL empire, taxes assessed after the IRS revoked the PTL ministry's nonprofit status.

Kermit is a computer file transfer / management protocol and a set of communications software tools primarily used in the early years of personal computing in the 1980s ; it provides a consistent approach to file transfer, terminal emulation, script programming, and character set conversion across many different computer hardware and OS platforms.

The popularity of MUDs of the Essex University tradition escalated in the USA during the late 1980s when affordable personal computers with 300 to 2400 bit / s modems enabled role-players to log into multi-line Bulletin Board Systems and online service providers such as CompuServe.

Next to that, the release also contains a bonus disc of footage from the band's personal archive including 1980s footage from Glastonbury, Rome, Cork, Rotterdam and Toronto.

Somewhat earlier, exploration of mathematical practice and quasi-empiricism in mathematics from the 1950s to 1980s had sought alternatives to metamathematics in social behaviours around mathematics itself: for instance, Paul Erdős's simultaneous belief in Platonism and a single " big book " in which all proofs existed, combined with his personal obsessive need or decision to collaborate with the widest possible number of other mathematicians.

Early personal computers of the late 1970s and early 1980s, such as those from Apple, Atari and Commodore, did not use RGB as their main method to manage colors, but rather composite video.

With the increase in access to personal computers in the 1980s, spaced repetition began to be implemented with computer-assisted language learning software-based solutions.

From the late 1980s through the 1990s, consumer-grade personal computers became powerful enough to display various media.

Consequently, older operating systems, such as those for the mainframes of the 1960s, and those for personal computers of the early to mid 1980s ( e. g. DOS ), generally have no virtual memory functionality, though notable exceptions for mainframes of the 1960s include:

The Apple Lisa is an example of a personal computer of the 1980s that features virtual memory.

* The triode tube ( Audion ), transistor and integrated circuit revolutionized computers, leading to the proliferation of the personal computer in the 1980s and cell phones and the public-use Internet in the 1990s.

A number of other MUDs were created, but remained a computer science novelty until the late 1980s, when personal computers with dial-up modems began to be more common in homes, largely through the use of multi-line Bulletin Board Systems and online service providers.

By the end of the 1980s, word processors and personal computers had largely displaced typewriters in most of these uses.

Set in a chat-show studio in the 1980s, it focuses on Moore's comic and personal relationship with Peter Cook and how their careers took off after the split of the partnership.

In the early 1980s, Le Pen's personal security was assured by KO International Company, a subsidiary of VHP Security, a private security firm, and an alleged front organisation for SAC, the Service d ' Action Civique ( Civic Action Service ), a Gaullist organisation.