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As of the end of 1980 and the beginning of 1981, Nintendo's efforts to sell in the North American video game market had failed, culminating with the flop Radar Scope in 1980.
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* 1980 – Eight U. S. servicemen die in Operation Eagle Claw as they attempt to end the Iran hostage crisis.
* At Consett the closure of the British Steel works in 1980 marked the end of steel production in the Derwent Valley and the decline of the area.
In the end the Constitutional Court stopped the census in 1980 and 1983.
Towards the end of the year, Bowie and Angela initiated divorce proceedings, and after months of court battles the marriage was ended in early 1980.
Davis resigned at the end of the 1980 season after missing out on a finals appearance.
At the end of the Zimbabwe Liberation War there was a transition to majority rule in 1980.
However, the political process from Liberia's founding in 1847, despite widespread corruption, was very stable until the end of the First Republic in 1980.
These goals, conceived in 1980, were to be fulfilled by the end of the decade.
By circa 1980 the use of a " record changer ", which might scuff up or otherwise damage the discs, was widely disparaged, so the " turntable " emerged triumphant and retained its position to the end of the 20th Century and beyond.
Comparing the recovery from the 1981 – 82 recession ( 1983 – 1990 ) with the years between 1971 ( end of a recession ) and 1980 shows that the rate of growth of real GDP per capita averaged 2. 77 under Reagan and 2. 50 % under Nixon, Ford and Carter.
Restructuring of the economy and the rebuilding immediately following the end of the civil war caused the GDP to jump about 5 percent in 1980 and 1981.
They played several gigs in 1980 and recorded a demo tape, but towards the end of that year decided on a change of direction.
At the end of 1980 he visited the United States and started to work with the U. S. Justice Department which would result in “ some of the biggest international law enforcement operations in history ” such as the Pizza Connection.
Inspired by the history and legend Rich Nardin wrote " Piper's Refrain ", about the end of Campbell's story, circa 1980.
In a May 1980 broadcast of The 700 Club he stated, " I guarantee you by the end of 1982 there is going to be a judgment on the world.
The Office was authorized $ 200, 000, 000 during 1980 and 1981 and that number is now decided at the beginning of each fiscal year based on the results received at the end of each year.
In the growing crisis atmosphere of 1979 and 1980 due to the Iranian hostage situation, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and a deepening economic crisis, Brzezinski's anti-Soviet views gained influence but could not end the Carter administration's malaise.
* 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.
Match Game PM ran until the end of the 1980 – 1981 TV season.
After this revival series, the Hallden and CBS comics run came to an end in 1980.
After a tough, five-game preliminary round series win against the Quebec Nordiques, the team's 1980 – 81 season came to an end as they lost in the quarterfinals to the Calgary Flames in seven games.
At the end of 1980, Wells was awarded Scottish sports personality of the year.
* Part of a speech detailing the " Short, sharp shock " concept of juvenile offender incarceration given by Whitelaw during 1979 is excerpted in the fadeout at the end of Gerry Rafferty's 1980 song " The Garden of England ", from the album Snakes and Ladders:
Henry Rojas performed for the Suns from the Gorilla's inception in 1980 until the end of the 1987-88 NBA season.
The series was brought to an enforced end by Hattie Jacques's death from a heart attack in October 1980.
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At the beginning of the play she has partial illumination and at the end she has complete illumination, but there has been no question but that she moves toward the dark.
And yet -- a year to a child is an eternity, and in the memory that phase of one's being -- a certain mental landscape -- will seem to have endured without beginning and without end.
`` I thought the entire report was going to be confidential from beginning to end.
There was a finality in the rhythm of the prayer -- it was the end of a life, the end of hope, and the wondering if there would ever be another beginning.
At the end of World War 2,, free Europe was ready for a new beginning.
Declarative statements are never executed in the object program and should be separated from the program instruction area, placed preferably at its beginning or end.
In 1890 when the trip to Europe and the Holy Land was arranged for Miss Packard, it was Miss Upton who planned the trip, and `` with rare executive ability '' bore the brunt of `` the entire pilgrimage from beginning to end ''.
In a series of fairy tales and fantasies, Melies demonstrated that the film is superbly equipped to tell a straightforward story, with beginning, middle and end, complications, resolutions, climaxes, and conclusions.
Now time is also the concern of the fictional narrative, which is, at its simplest, the story of an action with, usually, a beginning, a middle, and an end -- elements which demand time as the first condition for their existence.
The physical film is cut with a knife at the end of one complete sequence, and the cut edge is joined physically, by cement, to the cut edge of the beginning of the next sequence.
He splashed on, mud sucking at his feet with each step, until he reached the end of the drainage ditch and the beginning of the fence that enclosed the farm.
As Origen interprets the end of history on the basis of its beginning, so Irenaeus portrays the story of Adam on the basis of the story of Christ.
His interpretation of the beginning on the basis of the end prompts him to draw these parallels between the Virgin Eve and the Virgin Mary.
By the end of the century the Roman Catholic Church was beginning to make itself felt, mainly through such institutions as hospitals but also through its attitude towards organized labour.
Note the use of zero at the beginning an end of the two cycles.
Most historians, including Edward Gibbon, date the defeat at Manzikert as the beginning of the end of the Eastern Roman Empire.
The New Testament has God declaring himself to be the " Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
Its exponentially larger development at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th occurred among various people over decades, as other aspects of technology allowed.
Incantations by mystic names were characteristic of the hybrid Gnosticism planted in Spain and southern Gaul at the end of the fourth century and at the beginning of the fifth, which Jerome connects with Basilides, and which ( according to his Epist., lxxv.
Throughout her life, Agrippina always prized her descent from Augustus, upbraiding Tiberius for persecuting the blood of his predecessor ; Tacitus, in writing of the occasion, believed this behaviour to be part of the beginning of " the chain of events leading to Agrippina's end.
He showed that, although matter can change its state in a chemical reaction, the total mass of matter is the same at the end as at the beginning of every chemical change.
Affixation is, thus, the linguistic process speakers use to form different words by adding morphemes ( affixes ) at the beginning ( prefixation ), the middle ( infixation ) or the end ( suffixation ) of words.
This action marks the end of the Persian invasion, and the beginning of the next phase in the Greco-Persian wars, the Greek counterattack.
It would signal the beginning of the end of the British monarchy.
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