Notable in the late ' 80s were All Star Fresh of King Bee topping charts with: " Back by Dope Demand " in early 1990 and Rudeboy of Urban Dance Squad who, at the time, were arguably more widely known in New York City than the Netherlands.

Garfield and Mutts were known during the mid-to-late 80s and 1990s respectively for their throwaways on their Sunday strips, however both strips now run " generic " title panels.

Watanabe, however, made no secret that, in addition to Lupin III, the series paid subtle tribute to his favorite American films and series, which were shown in Japan during the 1970s and ' 80s including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ( the relationship between Spike and Jet ), Bruce Lee films ( Spike's martial-arts practice ), films with blues or jazz soundtracks ( the music of the series ), as well as Blaxploitation films ( the series has a very racially diverse supporting cast ).

Other key executives responsible for the company's meteoric growth in the late 80s and early 90s were Ross A. Cooley, another former IBM associate, who served for many years as SVP of GM North America ; Michael Swavely, who was the company's chief marketing officer in the early years, and eventually ran the North America organization, later passing along that responsibility to Mr. Cooley, when Swavely retired.

Mainly prevalent in the 70s and 80s, all music styles were covered, whether the bands were playing rock, punk, metal, futurist, ska or dance.

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.

During the 1970s and ' 80s, Loach's films were less successful, often suffering from poor distribution, lack of interest and political censorship.

Once memory theories like the Atkinson-Shiffrin memory model and Baddeley's working memory model were established as a theoretical framework in cognitive psychology, new cognitive frameworks of learning began to emerge during the 1970s, 80s, and 90s.

Most important, though, were his skills as a beatmaker ; Marl was among the first to mine James Brown records for grooves and also learned how to craft his own drum loops through sampling, which decreased hip-hop's reliance on tinny-sounding drum machines and gave his ' 80s productions a fresh, modern flavor.

During a period ( the 1970s and 80s ) when nativist Transformational Generative Grammar was becoming dominant in Linguistics, and called " Standard Theory ", linguists who questioned these tenets were disenfranchised and Cognitive Linguistics and Computational Psycholinguistics were born and the more general term Emergentism developed for the anti-nativist view that language is emergent from more fundamental cognitive processes that are not specifically linguistic in nature.

Bowie, whose own music had inspired Francis and Santiago while they were at university, has said that the Pixies made " just about the most compelling music of the entire 80s ".

These were eclipsed by more successful implementations of the concept from the late 1960s through the early ' 80s.

Golden age hip hop ( cited as either just the late ' 80s or the late 80s to early 90s ) was the time period where hip-hop lyricism went through its most drastic transformation – writer William Jelani Cobb says " in these golden years, a critical mass of mic prodigies were literally creating themselves and their art form at the same time " and Allmusic writes, " rhymers like PE's Chuck D, Big Daddy Kane, KRS-One, and Rakim basically invented the complex wordplay and lyrical kung-fu of later hip-hop ”.

Though such laws were instituted shortly after fighting ended in many cases, they only became formalized after the end of Republican-enforced Reconstruction in the 1870s and 80s during a period known as the nadir of American race relations.

" Video gaming would not reach mainstream popularity until the 1970s and 80s, when arcade video games, gaming consoles and home computer games were introduced to the general public.

The 80s also spawned the Brat Pack films, many of which were directed by John Hughes.

The three areas of business of the MESC operation during the late ' 80s and early ' 90s were C-Cubed ( Command, Control, and Communication ), Electronic Warfare, and Sonobuoys.

However, as estimates of the energy required to reach ignition grew dramatically during the 1970s and ' 80s, these hopes were abandoned.

DIPs were the mainstream of the microelectronics industry in the 1970s and 80s.

Publicly-accessible X. 25 networks ( Compuserve, Tymnet, Euronet, PSS, Datapac, Datanet 1 and Telenet ) were set up in most countries during the 1970s and 80s, to lower the cost of accessing various online services.

As the hip hop scene matured in Bristol and musical trends evolved further toward acid jazz and house in the late ' 80s, the golden era of the soundsystem was ending.

Political support was particularity strong in states with large concentrations of aerospace companies ; with the ending of Project Apollo and the winding down of the Vietnam War, there was concern that these companies would be left with few projects in the 1970s and 80s.

After leaving Slave Raider, he headed the bands " Chainsaw " and " UKI ( Unstoppable Kamikaze Idiots )" before ending his career performing with the 80s metal cover band " Hairball ".

The tracks feature samples from each of their major ' 80s albums but run in reverse chronological order, starting with songs from the band's 1988 masterwork Daydream Nation and ending with a track from their eponymous first album from 1982.

Jim Henson produced two iconic fantasy films in the 80s, that being the solemn and grave The Dark Crystal and the more whimsical and lofty Labyrinth.

He thought that it had " aged in as timeless a manner as many other first-party Nintendo games from the NES era ", and described Kid Icarus as " one of those games that made a lot more sense back in the ' 80s, accompanied by a tips and tricks strategy sheet ".

Also in the early ' 80s, the NBA added one more expansion franchise, the Dallas Mavericks, bringing the total to 23 teams.

By the beginnings of the 80s, lowering of costs in microcontroller electronics made direct drive turntables more affordable.

In fact, the Maxinquaye album review by the Rolling Stone magazine read, " Tricky devoured everything from American hip-hop and soul to reggae and the more melancholic strains of 80s British rock.

Since the 80s usage of the phrase has become more widespread, but is still often viewed as an exotic and unwelcome commercialised import, with the BBC referring to it as " the Japanese knotweed of festivals " and " making demands with menaces ".

The strips always end with Elton being beaten at his own game by one or more of his musical contemporaries from the 1970s and 80s.

DID became a popular diagnosis in the 1970s, 80s and 90s but it is unclear if the actual incidence of the disorder increased, if it was more recognized by clinicians, or if sociocultural factors caused an increase in iatrogenic presentations.

Two more essay collections were later published as books, Friendly Fire ( Autonomedia, 1992 ) and Beneath the Underground ( Feral House, 1994 ), the latter devoted to the do-it-yourself / fanzine subculture of the ' 80s and ' 90s which he called " the marginals milieu " and in which he had been heavily involved.

Many of the significant living writers during the 80s have written one or more biographies of deceased artist or other colleagues.

However, they tend to receive the fog later in the evening, the fog tends to be more short-lived, and mid-day tempertatures are significantly higher than they are on the coast, typically in the low 80s F. This is particularly true for Petaluma, Cotati and Rohnert Park, and, only slightly less so, Santa Rosa, Windsor, and Sebastopol.

By the early 80s, the Kinks revived their commercial fortunes considerably by adopting a much more mainstream arena rock style ; and the band's four remaining studio albums for Arista — Low Budget ( 1979 ), Give the People What They Want ( 1981 ), State of Confusion ( 1983 ) and Word of Mouth ( 1984 )— showcased a decidedly canny and opportunistic approach.

The north portion of the west side was established in the 1960s with homes, and saw more overall growth up until the ' 80s.

" History "), in the ' 70s and particularly the ' 80s, contact by the company to collectors and sponsors led to the release of a small number of highly collectible models designed for a limited, but more profitable market base.

More remarkably, he completed 14 of these symphonies in his 80s, and seven more in his early 90s.

In the late 70s and early 80s, there was a new sound emerging with up and coming groups like McAllen's Espejismo, led by songwriter / lead singer Rudy Valdez, and more notably Brownsville natives Joe Lopez, Jimmy Gonzalez y El Grupo Mazz introduced the keyboard sound to Tejano which was influenced by the Disco sound of the era, and during that period, La Mafia became the first Tejano band to put on Rock Style shows for their generation.

Star-News considered Culture Club as a ' new rock ' band of the 1980s, the newspaper said, " Now you see the more rhythm-oriented, ' new rock of the 80s ,' like Culture Club and the Eurythmics, fitting in more easily with urban contemporary formats ".

The term was first used in the middle of the 80s and refers to two different but related styles: the first pioneered and largely practiced in North America with a harder sound similar to speed metal, and a later more widespread and popular style based in Europe ( especially Germany, Finland, Italy, Scandinavia ), Latin America ( Argentina, Brazil ) and Japan, with a lighter, more melodic sound and frequent use of keyboards.