In the mid-1980s, debate arose about the establishment of a national training institution for discussing and disseminating information on security policy issues similar to institutes that already existed in other countries ( such as the National Defense University in Washington, the Institut des Hautes Etudes de Défense Nationale in Paris or the Royal College of Defence Studies in London ).

Afghanistan's timber has been greatly depleted, and since the mid-1980s, only about 3 % of the land area has been forested, mainly in the east.

From the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, commodity CPUs grew in performance at a rate of about 60 % a year, but the speed of memory access grew at only 7 % a year.

A series of graphic novels followed in the mid-1980s, and several other authors, including Andrew J. Offutt and David Drake, published novels about their characters.

The site, named after John Topper, a local resident who discovered it, has been under excavation by archeologists from the University of South Carolina for about one month a year since 1999, after an initial exploratory dig in the mid-1980s.

As late as the mid-1980s about 85 percent of the town's residents were Catholics, and church activities helped to bond the community together.

Non-competitive classic-style corps ( often and sometimes inaccurately known as " alumni corps ") saw a renaissance beginning in the mid-1980s and they continue to organize in the 21st Century ; members often remain vigilant about the traditions and virtues of the drum corps activity before the advent of more modern influences.

mid-1980s set about a building boom for Downtown Midland.

She first spoke in public about autism in the mid-1980s at the request of Ruth C. Sullivan, one of the founders of the Autism Society of America.

* In addition, after the removal of 54 Titan IIs from alert status as ICBMs in the mid-1980s, about 50 of them were used as satellite launchers by the U. S. Air Force.

During the mid-1980s, she began a factual book about an Alabama serial murderer, but also put it aside when she was not satisfied.

In the late 1990s James Kurth asserted, " y the mid-1980s the term had largely fallen out of public discussion ... whatever the power of arguments about the influence of the military – industrial complex on weapons procurement during the Cold War, they are much less relevant to the current era.

Super Gran, based on a series of books about a grandmother with superhuman powers, was also successful in the mid-1980s.

On December 14, 2006, Time published an article about MEK and reported: " By the mid-1980s, the group ( MEK ) had cozied up to Saddam Hussein, who provided them with funds and a compound, Camp Ashraf, north of Baghdad.

Abroad, Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre ( EMLL ), All Japan Pro Wrestling ( AJPW ), and New Japan Pro Wrestling ( NJPW ) all seceded from the NWA in the mid-1980s, but not many American fans followed or even knew about these promotions.

The ETA10 successfully met the company's initial goals ( 10 GFLOPS ), with some models achieving a cycle time of about 7 ns-considered rapid by mid-1980s standards.

Articles about the tiles began appearing in the mid-1990s, though references may have started to appear in the mid-1980s.

The name change in the mid-1980s was brought about by Gregory Liemandt, placed as CEO by the majority stockholder, a Swiss citizen named Walter Haefner through Careal Holding AG of Zurich.

During the period from about 1930 to the mid-1980s, the western part of the suburb between Homebush Bay and the railway line was taken up by chemical manufacturing.

In the mid-1980s, he appeared in the play Soul Survivor, a comedy about a gay man whose lover has died of AIDS.

In the mid-1980s, Baxter's interest in music recording technology led him to wonder about hardware and software that was originally developed for military use, i. e. data-compression algorithms and large-capacity storage devices.

In the mid-1980s they infiltrated, without masks to maintain anonymity, the Guggenheim Museum bathrooms, placing stickers they had created about female inequality on the walls.

From about 1978 until the mid-1980s, it declared itself to be " Capitol Hill's living room.

The last major development which brought about a change in Rajawadi's demography and topography took place in the 1970s and continued till the mid-1980s.

In 1995 the DHA began implementing a U. S. District Court order that came about after a mid-1980s challenge to desegregate the city's public-housing units.

By the mid-1980s, however, the study of rhetorical criticism began to move away from precise methodology towards conceptual issues.

Strips begun during the mid-1980s or after ( such as Get Fuzzy, Over the Hedge, Monty, and others ) are known for their heavy use of storylines, lasting between one and three weeks in most cases.

By the mid-1980s, observers estimated there were between 300, 000 and 350, 000 Brazilians in the eastern border region.

However, since the mid-1980s, as part of a joint effort between the cruise ship industry that serves Puerto Rico and Puerto Rican politicians such as then Resident Commissioner, U. S. non-voting Representative Baltasar Corrada del Río, obtained a limited-exception since no U. S. cruise ships that were Jones Act-eligible were participating in said market.

It was developed primarily for research purposes as the successor to Unix by the Computing Sciences Research Center at Bell Labs between the mid-1980s and 2002.

The standard " Olympic Distance " of 1. 5 / 40 / 10 km (. 93 / 24. 8 / 6. 2 miles ) was created by long time triathlon race director Jim Curl in the mid-1980s, after he and partner Carl Thomas produced the U. S. Triathlon Series ( USTS ) between 1982 and 1997.

The capital's principal artery, 18 July Avenue, was long the principal shopping street of Montevideo, but it has been hurt since the mid-1980s by the construction of a modern shopping mall strategically located between Pocitos and Carrasco.

Of Spirit was also one of Derrida's first publications on the relationship between philosophy and nationalism, on which he had been teaching in the mid-1980s.

While the French party system had been dominated by polarisation and competition between the clear-cut ideological alternatives of two political blocks in the 1970s, the two blocks had largely moved towards the centre by the mid-1980s.

Oxley and Walters left early on ; Parker and Bailey continued as co-directors until the mid-1980s, when friction between the men led to Parker's departure.

The Hanlin Group, Inc., which maintained a facility named " LCP Chemicals " in Glynn County just outside the corporate limits of Brunswick, was convicted of dumping 150 tons of mercury into Purvis Creek, a tributary of the Turtle River and surrounding tidal marshes between the mid-1980s and its closure in 1994.

Walters and Oxley left the label shortly after its founding, after which it continued as a partnership between Bailey and Parker until a falling-out between the two men in the mid-1980s.

* Gonsoulin Insurance Agency, located on main street between Ed Broussard Road and Gonsoulin street, this 1970s architectural style building was the home of the family-owned Gonsoulin Insurance Agency which operated from the late 1960s until the mid-1980s.

Cuney was the only " wet " town in Cherokee County, between the mid-1980s and 2009, then voters in Rusk came out in favor of beer / wine sales.

Nevertheless, Riverton's population more than tripled between 1970 when it totaled 2, 820 inhabitants, and the mid-1980s when it reached around 10, 000.

During the mid-1980s Hüsker Dü became SST's star attraction, their strong songwriting and increasingly melodic music becoming the key link between hardcore and the developing sound of college rock.

From the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, Congress granted the NEA an annual funding of between $ 160 and $ 180 million.

Although the RAAF contemplated disbanding the mustering in the mid-1980s, the years between the Vietnam War and the 1999 deployment to East Timor were spent consolidating tactics and techniques such as reconnaissance skills and Quick Reaction Force ( QRF ) operations.

Slamming became a more visible issue after the deregulation of the telecommunications industry in the mid-1980s, especially after several brutal price wars between the major telecommunications companies.

River transport between Kosti and Juba ( 1, 436 km, 892 miles ) had no overland alternative as of the mid-1980s ".

Hernandez, however, was determined to prove Herzog wrong, helping to fuel a rivalry between the two teams in the mid-1980s.

For several years from 1942 to the mid-1980s, particularly during the 1960s Silver Age of Comic Books era, DC Comics began to make a distinction between the " real " continuity of the most popular characters and the stories with even wilder flights of fancy which did not need to fit that continuity.

Progress in doing so was slow until the mid-1980s, when relations between the U. S. and Vietnam began to improve and more cooperative efforts were undertaken.