Despite his ill health, Haley began compiling notes for possible use as a basis for either a biographical film based on his life, or a published autobiography ( accounts differ ), and there were plans for him to record an album in Memphis, Tennessee, when the brain tumor began affecting his behavior and he went back to his home in Harlingen, Texas, where he died early in the morning of February 9, 1981.

Parton's commercial success continued to grow during 1980, with three number-one hits in a row: the Donna Summer-written " Starting Over Again ", " Old Flames Can't Hold a Candle to You ", and " 9 to 5 ", which topped the country and pop charts in early 1981.

Many early players were introduced to the game by these sports journalists, especially during the 1981 Major League Baseball strike ; with little else to write about, many baseball writers wrote columns about Rotisserie league.

The following season again began well, with the Blues among the early promotion pace-setters before a dismal run set in, with Chelsea scoring in just three of their final 22 league matches, culminating in Hurst being sacked on 23 April 1981 and Chelsea finished 12th in the league.

However, it was not until the early 1981 that gothic rock became its own subgenre within post-punk, and that followers of these bands started to come together as a distinctly recognizable movement.

In early times, horror films such as My Bloody Valentine ( 1981 ), Halloween ( 1978 ), and Friday the 13th ( 1980 ) pertained mostly to a male audience in order to " feed the fantasies of young men ".< ref name = Nowell > Their main focus was to express the fear of women and show them as monsters ; however, this ideal is no longer prevalent in horror films .< ref name = Williams > Women have become not only the main audience and fans of horror films but also the main protagonists of contemporary horror films.

* 1981 – The Wonderland Murders occurred in the early morning hours, allegedly masterminded by businessman and drug dealer Eddie Nash.

Some of his early stage work included Getting Out performed at New York's Phoenix Theater, and Flux which he did at Second Stage Theatre during their 1981 – 1982 season.

Almost immediately after his election as leader he was faced with a serious crisis: the creation in early 1981 of a breakaway party by four senior Labour right-wingers, Roy Jenkins, Shirley Williams, David Owen and William Rodgers ( the so-called " Gang of Four "), the Social Democratic Party.

The SDP won the support of large sections of the media, and for most of 1981 and early 1982 its opinion poll ratings suggested that it could at least overtake Labour and possibly win a general election, as the Tories were proving unpopular because of the economic policies of Margaret Thatcher, which had seen unemployment reach a postwar high.

In the early 20th century, people like Ordway Tead ( 1891 – 1973 ), Walter Scott and J. Mooney applied the principles of psychology to management, while other writers, such as Elton Mayo ( 1880 – 1949 ), Mary Parker Follett ( 1868 – 1933 ), Chester Barnard ( 1886 – 1961 ), Max Weber ( 1864 – 1920 ), Rensis Likert ( 1903 – 1981 ), and Chris Argyris ( 1923-) approached the phenomenon of management from a sociological perspective.

The themes he developed in this early short fiction, the Sprawl setting of " Burning Chrome " ( 1982 ), and the character of Molly Millions from " Johnny Mnemonic " ( 1981 ) laid the foundations for the novel.

Penelope Spheeris ' first installment of the three-part documentary " The Decline of Western Civilization " ( 1981 ) details extensive footage of the early Los Angeles punk scene through interviews and early concert footage from Alice Bag Band, Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Germs, Fear, and Catholic Discipline, among others.

Stephen KingKing dedicated Bachman's early books — Rage ( 1977 ), The Long Walk ( 1979 ), Roadwork ( 1981 ), and The Running Man ( 1982 ) — to people close to him, and worked in obscure references to his own identity.

Other early critically received ( yet unbuilt ) projects included the Parc de la Villette, Paris ( 1982 ) and the residence for the President of Ireland ( 1981 ).

Relations between Sudan and Libya deteriorated in the early 1970s and reached a low in October 1981, when Libya began a policy of crossborder raids into western Sudan.

The 49ers ' success surprised many because they finished with a 6-10 record during the previous season, and a 2-14 record before that ( they even still had home blackouts early on in the 1981 season, the last blackouts for the 49ers to date ).

Up to version 3. 7 of vi, created in October, 1981, UC Berkeley was the development home for vi, but with Bill Joy's departure in early 1982, to join Sun Microsystems, and AT & T's UNIX System V ( January, 1983 ) adopting vi, changes to the vi codebase happened more slowly and in a more dispersed and mutually incompatible ways.

* In Europe, the winters of early 1947, February 1956, 1962 – 1963, 1981 – 1982 and 2009 – 2010 were abnormally cold.

MTV was launched in the United States in 1981 and had a profound impact on the music industry and popular culture further ahead, especially during its early run in the 1980s and early 1990s.

The modern conception of Asperger syndrome came into existence in 1981 and went through a period of popularization, becoming standardized as a diagnosis in the early 1990s.

In the early IBM PC market ( 1981 – 83 ) the major programming tool vendors all made compilers that worked in a similar fashion.

In the early technical literature, especially at Bell Telephone Laboratories, the laser was called an optical maser ; this term is now obsolete.

Though it was not intended, these new modes made the 68020 very suitable for page printing ; most laser printers in the early ' 90s had a 68EC020 at their core.

The initial focus of the strategic defense initiative was a nuclear explosion-powered X-ray laser designed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory by a scientist named Peter L. Hagelstein who worked with a team called ' O Group ', doing much of the work in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

* As an example of the impact of deep-ultraviolet excimer laser photolithography, in continuing the advances in semiconductor chip fabrication, IBM researchers announced in early 2006 that they had developed a technique to print circuitry only 29. 9 nm wide using 193 nm ArF excimer laser lithography.

Inertial confinement fusion using lasers rapidly progressed in the late 1970s and early 1980s from being able to deliver only a few joule s of laser energy ( per pulse ) to being able to deliver tens of kilojoules to a target.

These early light gun games, like modern laser tag, used small targets ( usually moving ) onto which a light-sensing tube was mounted ; the player used a gun ( usually a rifle ) that emitted a beam of light when the trigger was pulled.

These changes can act upon the brain ’ s early stages of information processing: Research using evoked brain potentials upon painful laser pulses, for example, finds placebo effects upon the N2 – P2, a biphasic negative – positive complex response, the N2 peak of which is at about 230 ms, and the P2 one at about 380 ms.

As early as 1998, Sun Microsystems provided a laser mouse with their Sun SPARCstation servers and workstations.

However, in the early days, even when specific instructions were sent, other labs failed to replicate the laser, it only being made to work in each case following a visit to or from the originating lab or very close contact and dialogue.

An early Pave Sword laser pod on a McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II | F-4D during the Vietnam War, 1971.

* Pave Knife-Ford Aerospace AN / AVQ-10 Pave Knife early laser targeting pod.

Often diabetic retinopathy is treated in early stages with a laser in the physician's office to prevent these problems.

LLNL decided early on to concentrate on glass lasers, while other facilities studied gas lasers using carbon dioxide ( e. g. Antares laser, Los Alamos National Laboratory ) or KrF ( e. g. Nike laser, Naval Research Laboratory ).

In addition to conventional weapons, some of these teams have man-portable laser rifles, and some have an early generation of no-nonsense, minimalist powered armor.

: Swedish Army designation for Stridsvagn 101 upgraded in early 1980s with laser range finder, etc.

: Swedish Army designation for Stridsvagn 102 upgraded in early 1980s with laser range finder, etc.

: Swedish Army designation for 80 Stridsvagn 102 modernised in early 1980s with laser range finder and diesel engine, etc.

A film recorder exposes film through various mechanisms ; flying spot ( early recorders ; photographing a high resolution video monitor ; electron beam recorder ( EBR ) Sony HDVS ; a CRT scanning dot ( Celco ); focused beam of light from an LVT ( Light valve Technology ) recorder ; a scanning laser beam ( ARRILASER ); or recently, full-frame LCD array chips ;

In the early 1980s, he started to lecture on radiative forces on atoms in laser light fields.

Semiconductor saturable absorbers ( SESAMs ) were used for laser mode-locking as early as 1974 when p-type germanium is used to mode lock a CO < sub > 2 </ sub > laser which generated pulses ~ 500 ps.

In the early 1980s, a few research groups ( mainly in the former USSR ) achieved remarkable results on manufacturing of thin film structures utilizing laser technology.