The birth of the New Christian right, however, is usually traced to a 1979 meeting where televangelist Jerry Falwell was urged to create a " Moral Majority " organization.

During a 1979 meeting, they urged televangelist Jerry Falwell to found Moral Majority ( a phrase coined by Weyrich ).

Falwell and Weyrich founded the Moral Majority in June 1979.

The network was founded in 1979 as the National Christian Network, and took the name FamilyNet in 1988 under the ownership of Jerry Falwell.

The original companies that spawned Capcom's Japanese branch were I. R. M Corporation founded on May 30, 1979, as well as its subsidiary Japan Capsule Computers Co., Ltd., both of which were devoted to the manufacturing and distribution of electronic game machines.

The first Masorti communities in the State of Israel were founded in 1979 by North American olim.

Until her death in 1979 she participated in the Armstrong Memorial Research Foundation that she founded.

The Arlington campus was established in 1979 by the Virginia General Assembly for the newly founded law school.

In 1975 and 1979 respectively, Dr. Selye and eight Nobel Laureates founded the Hans Selye Foundation and the Canadian Institute of Stress.

Infocom was founded on June 22, 1979 by MIT staff and students led by Dave Lebling, Marc Blank, Albert Vezza, and Joel Berez and lasted as an independent company until 1986 when it was bought by Activision.

He founded Lynchburg Christian Academy ( now Liberty Christian Academy ) in 1967, Liberty University in 1971, and cofounded the Moral Majority in 1979.

* Talossa, a political simulation founded in 1979, with more than 130 members (" citizens ") and an invented culture and language, recently split into three separate groups.

The Basij militia founded by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in November 1979 is composed of 10, 000 regular soldiers, and ultimately draws from about 11 million members, and is subordinate to their Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution in Iran.

The late artist Margaret Gardiner spent a large part of her life on Rousay and founded, in 1979 the Pier Art Gallery in Stromness.

Crossing the lines between " classic " punk, post-punk, and hardcore, San Francisco's Flipper was founded in 1979 by former members of Negative Trend and The Sleepers.

L. Neil Smith established the award in 1979, but it was not awarded regularly until the newly founded Libertarian Futurist Society revived it in 1982.

The Rice School of Social Sciences was founded in 1979.

The Radical Faeries are a worldwide queer spiritual movement, founded in 1979 in the United States.

* Australia-In 1979 the Australian Society for Psychical Research was founded.

The French Institute of International Relations ( IFRI ) was founded in 1979 and is the third oldest think tank of western Europe, after the Chatam House ( UK, 1920 ) and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute ( Sweden, 1960 ).

Although the United States competed in every Olympic luge event from 1964 through 1976, it was not until 1979 that the United States Luge Association was founded.

Minardi was an automobile racing team and constructor founded in 1979 by Giancarlo Minardi.

Starting around 1979, gay men's choruses were founded within a period of months in many major U. S. cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Seattle and Dallas.

In 1979, a young Frenchman, Thierry Sabine, founded an institution when he organised the first " rallye-raid " from Paris to Dakar, in Senegal, the event now called the Dakar Rally.

Sierra Entertainment Inc. ( formerly Sierra On-Line ) was an American video-game developer and publisher founded in 1979 as On-Line Systems by Ken and Roberta Williams.

Sierra Entertainment was founded in 1979 as On-Line Systems in Simi Valley, California, by Ken and Roberta Williams.

In 1930, he founded the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and later ( 1978 ), as a trustee, he was awarded an American Institute of Architects Gold Medal and the first Pritzker Architecture Prize, in 1979.

* The Guardian Angels organization was founded February 13, 1979 in New York City by Curtis Sliwa and has chapters in 15 countries and 144 cities around the world.

*“ Virtue and Reason ”, The Monist lxii ( 1979 ), 331-50 ; reprinted in Stanley G. Clarke and Evan Simpson, eds., Anti-Theory in Ethics and Moral Conservatism ( SUNY Press, Albany, 1989 ), pp. 87 – 109

One example is the Defining Issues Test ( DIT ) created in 1979 by James Rest, originally as a pencil-and-paper alternative to the Moral Judgement Interview.

The college's first president was Robert J. Billings, a former Education Department official under Ronald Reagan who helped found the National Christian Coalition in 1978 and became the first executive director of the Moral Majority in 1979.

In 1979 the Iranian People's Fedâi Guerrillas split from the Organization of Iranian People's Fedaian ( Majority ).

Podesta held positions on Capitol Hill, including Counselor to Democratic Leader Senator Thomas Daschle ( 1995 – 1996 ); Chief Counsel for the Senate Agriculture Committee ( 1987 – 1988 ); Chief Minority Counsel for the Senate Judiciary Subcommittees on Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks ; Security and Terrorism ; and Regulatory Reform ; and Counsel on the Majority Staff of the Senate Judiciary Committee ( 1979 – 1981 ).

Hastings served in the Washington House of Representatives from 1979 to 1987, where he was selected by his colleagues to be Assistant Majority Leader and Republican Caucus Chairman.

Beasley served as a member of the House from 1979 until 1995, rising through the party ranks to become Majority Whip.

Spilotro's role as enforcer, however, was severely curtailed after he was blacklisted by the Nevada Gaming Commission, in December 1979 ( then chaired by future United States Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid ), a ruling that legally prevented Spilotro from being physically present in any Nevada casino.

Brearley retired from Test cricket in 1979 and was succeeded by Ian Botham, who started the 1981 series as England captain, by which time the WSC split had ended.

There are also sight-seeing overflights from Australia which fly nonstop over Antarctica and return, although overflights from New Zealand stopped after the fatal crash of Air New Zealand Flight 901 on Mount Erebus in late 1979.

In 1979, the USSR removed the term " Ainu " from the list of living ethnic groups of Russia, an act by which the government proclaimed that the Ainu as an ethnic group was extinct in its territory.

Having ascertained that an uprising against the Soviet-backed communists would be supported by the people, Massoud, on July 6, 1979, started an insurrection in the Panjshir which initially failed.

This revival was due to the dramatic and highly fictionalized depiction of Salieri in Peter Shaffer's 1979 play Amadeus, which was given its greatest exposure in its 1984 film version, directed by Miloš Forman.

When the Labour government fell in 1979, the Conservatives under Margaret Thatcher won a victory which served to push the Liberals back into the margins.

On 6 May 1997, following the 1997 general election which brought a Labour government to power for the first time since 1979, it was announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, that the Bank of England would be granted operational independence over monetary policy.

In 1979, the title to the landfill was transferred from the city to the Battery Park City Authority, which financially restructured itself and created a new, more viable master plan, designed by Alex Cooper and Stanton Eckstut.

In 1979, a guide called " Food " was published, which addressed the link between too much of certain foods and chronic diseases.

The People's Bank of China evolved its role as a central bank starting in about 1979 with the introduction of market reforms, which accelerated in 1989 when the country adopted a generally capitalist approach to its export economy.

" Even Thatcher herself wrote in her 1995 memoirs, which charted her beginnings in Grantham to her victory in the 1979 General Election, that she admired Attlee, writing: " Of Clement Attlee, however, I was an admirer.

Claudius has been portrayed in film on several other occasions, including in the 1979 motion picture Caligula, the role being performed by Giancarlo Badessi in which the character was depicted as an idiot, in contrast to Robert Graves ' portrait of Claudius as a cunning and deeply intelligent man who is perceived by others to be an idiot.

The rise of comic book specialty stores in the late 1970s created / paralleled a dedicated market for " independent " or " alternative comics " in the U. S. The first such comics included the anthology series Star Reach, published by comic book writer Mike Friedrich from 1974 to 1979, and Harvey Pekar's American Splendor, which continued sporadic publication into the 21st century and which Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini adapted into a 2003 film.

On television, the made-for-TV movie The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders ( which aired January 14, 1979 ) starring Jane Seymour was a highly-rated success, spawning the 1980 sequel The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders II.

A feature-length historical film Caligula was completed in 1979, in which Malcolm McDowell played the lead role.

All-Union Population Censuses were carried out in the USSR ( which included RSFSR and the other republics ) in 1920 ( urban only ), 1926, 1937, 1939, 1959, 1970, 1979, and 1989.

It was never listed for sale after this single brochure which was used for winter of 1979.

The Timeless Way of Building ( 1979 ) described the perfection of use to which buildings could aspire:

Jones also produced the 1979 film The Bugs Bunny / Road Runner Movie which was a compilation of Jones ' best theatrical shorts ; Jones produced new Road Runner shorts for The Electric Company series and Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales ( 1979 ), and even newer shorts were made for Bugs Bunny's Bustin ' Out All Over ( 1980 ).

Cronenberg has collaborated with composer Howard Shore on all of his films since The Brood ( 1979 ), ( see List of noted film director and composer collaborations ) with the exception of The Dead Zone ( 1983 ), which was scored by Michael Kamen.

The band has released two live albums of archival performances on Manifesto Records: Mutiny on the Bay, compiled from various live shows including a recording from their last show with Biafra in 1986, and Live at the Deaf Club, a recording of a 1979 performance at the Deaf Club in San Francisco which was greeted with more enthusiasm.

Progressive rock group Pink Floyd, when creating their rock opera The Wall, used disco-style components in their song, " Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2 " ( 1979 )— which became the group's only # 1 hit single ( in both the US and UK ).