By May 1984, Ken Barlow stood as the only original cast member, after the departures of Ena Sharples ( in 1980 ), Annie Walker ( in 1983 ), Elsie Tanner ( in 1984 ) and Albert Tatlock ( also 1984 ).

By the beginning of 1984, quarterly sales of the ColecoVision had dramatically decreased.

By the mid-1980s, her record sales were still relatively strong, with " Save the Last Dance for Me ", " Downtown ", " Tennessee Homesick Blues " ( all 1984 ); " Real Love " ( another duet with Kenny Rogers ), " Don't Call It Love " ( both 1985 ); and " Think About Love " ( 1986 ) all reaching the country-singles Top 10.

By 1970 the national census registered 8. 5 million people, about a 27 percent increase, while the most recent official census in 1984 recorded a figure of 12. 3 million — almost double the 1960 figure ( see table 2, Appendix ).

By early 1984, after the Colts ' lease on the dilapidated 64, 124 seat Memorial Stadium had expired, Irsay wanted the city of Baltimore to upgrade the stadium or build a new one.

By the end of 1984, Chernenko could hardly leave the Central Clinical Hospital, a heavily guarded facility in west Moscow, and the Politburo was affixing a facsimile of his signature to all letters, as Chernenko had done with Andropov's when he was dying.

By the time the final South Stand had been completed and the Stadium officially opened on 7 April 1984, the South Stand had cost £ 4. 5M.

By 1984, with the success of the PC, MultiMate had more than $ 1 million in orders a month and the company had more than 150 employees.

By 1984 there were over 2, 600 wired broadcasting stations, extending radio transmissions to rural areas outside the range of regular broadcasting stations.

By 1980, Berlusconi had established a relationship with the actress Veronica Lario ( born Miriam Bartolini ), with whom he subsequently had three children: Barbara ( b. 1984 ), Eleonora ( b. 1986 ) and Luigi ( b. 1988 ).

By the late 1980s, the capacity of the South Korean motor industry had increased more than fivefold since 1984 ; it exceeded 1 million units in 1988.

By 1984, a combination of factors, including drought, inflation, and confused application of Islamic law, reduced donor disbursements and capital flight led to a serious foreign-exchange crisis and increased shortages of imported inputs and commodities.

By 1984, before the Southern Reach was closed, the number of passengers had declined to less than 60, 000 per year and the tonnage to less than 150, 000.

By the early 1980s, Jennings was struggling with a cocaine addiction, which he quit in 1984.

By 1984, UPI had descended into the first of two Chapter 11 bankruptcies.

By 1984, General Dynamics had four divisions: Convair in San Diego, General Dynamics-Fort Worth, General Dynamics-Pomona, and General Dynamics-Electronics.

By 1984, PRC and ROC had public contacts with each other and cross-straits trade and investment has been growing ever since.

By the 1984 season, the word " wet " had then no longer triggered the water to spray down, thus leaving the job to just the word " water " itself.

* The Ffrench Letters By Godwyn Ainsley Ffrench-A Young Englishman's Letters From Abroad Giving His Very Personal And Somewhat Peculiar View Of Paris In The Year 1900 ( Printfine, 1984.

By the start of 1984, the Tories had taken a substantial lead in opinion polling, as Mulroney began learning the realities of parliamentary life in the House of Commons.

* Chan Is Missing: A Film By Wayne Wang, With Introduction and Screen Notes by Diane Mei Lin Mark ( Honolulu: Bamboo Ridge Press, 1984 ), ISBN 0-910043-06-X

By early 1984, work on Mir had ground to a halt while all resources were being put into the Buran programme in order to prepare the Buran spacecraft for flight testing.

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.

By then, the Texas Playboys were virtually two bands: one a fiddle-guitar-steel band with rhythm section and the second a first-rate big band able to play the day's swing and pop hits as well as Dixieland.

By running DNA through an EtBr-treated gel and visualizing it with UV light, any band containing more than ~ 20 ng DNA becomes distinctly visible.

By 1968 Parsons had come to the attention of The Byrds ' bassist, Chris Hillman, via Larry Spector ( The Byrds ' business manager ), as a possible replacement band member following the departures of David Crosby and Michael Clarke from the group in late 1967.

* In 2003, Danish rock band Blindstone recorded a song titled " By Grabthar's Hammer " for their album Manifesto.

He released Come By Me, his first album of big band music in eight years in 1999, and embarked on a world tour visiting the United States, Europe, Japan and Australia.

In the early 1980s, Jarmusch was part of a revolving lineup of musicians in Robin Crutchfield's Dark Day project, and later became the keyboardist and one of two vocalists for The Del-Byzanteens, a No Wave band whose sole LP Lies to Live By was a minor underground hit in the United States and Britain in 1982.

By 1971, Friedman had formed his second band, Kinky Friedman and The Texas Jewboys, which many took to be a play on the name of the famous band Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys.

By 1890 most of the Coyote band rejoined the Quakers on their reservation.

By early 1986, the band was defunct and Hay was working on his first solo album, Looking for Jack, which would feature participation from Alsop and Wackerman.

By the 1930s, talkies brought in a range of powerful new draws: Miriam Hopkins, Marlene Dietrich, Mae West, Gary Cooper, Claudette Colbert, the Marx Brothers, Dorothy Lamour, Carole Lombard, Bing Crosby, the band leader Shep Fields and the famous Argentine tango singer Carlos Gardel among them.

By Bossanova, the band had developed a severe aversion to recording music videos, and Francis refused to lip-sync to them.

Following quickly on the heels of Fly By Night, the band released Caress of Steel ( 1975 ), a five-track hard rock / heavy metal album featuring two extended multi-chapter songs, " The Necromancer " and " The Fountain of Lamneth.

By the early 15th century at the latest, Robin Hood had become associated with May Day celebrations, with revellers dressing as Robin or as members of his band for the festivities.

By the late 1950s, the contest exchange was expanded to include band used.

By 1931, the band theory of conduction had been established by Alan Wilson and the concept of band gaps had been developed.

By 2001, the flat band slingshot had disappeared from commercial production in favour of the tubular band.

By 1965, while attending Hilltop High School within the Sweetwater Union High School District, Chula Vista, Waits was playing in an R & B / soul band called The Systems and had begun his first job at Napoleone Pizza House in National City ( about which he would later sing on " I Can't Wait to Get Off Work ( And See My Baby on Montgomery Avenue )" from Small Change and " The Ghosts of Saturday Night ( After Hours at Napoleone's Pizza House )" on The Heart of Saturday Night ).

By the time the band broke up, all of us had had enough.

By 1977 the band were performing their own three-chord pop punk material, which was performed alongside cover versions at concerts, primarily at The Casbah, where the band began to perform in February.

By this stage in their career, the band were acutely aware of the pressure they were under from EMI, who were unhappy with the lack of chart success of much of the material the band had released since their Positive Touch LP in 1981.