Chamber works from the 1970s include the Third Piano Sonata, first performed by Paul Crossley at the 1973 Bath Festival ( Tippett was artistic director of the festival from 1969 – 1974 ) and the Fourth String Quartet, premiered by the Lindsay String Quartet at Bath in 1979.

After writing the gamelan-inspired Triple Concerto of 1979, Tippett concentrated on the composition of The Mask of Time, a large-scale, ambitious choral piece that was in some ways a summation of his life's work.

Tippett began playing with the Prince Albert Raiders of the SJHL in 1979 – 80.

* 1979: Maria Tippett, Emily Carr

Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, De Palma worked repeatedly with actors Jennifer Salt, Amy Irving, Nancy Allen ( his wife from 1979 to 1983 ), Gary Sinise, John Lithgow, William Finley, Charles Durning, Gerrit Graham, cinematographers Stephen H. Burum and Vilmos Zsigmond ( see List of noted film director and cinematographer collaborations ), set designer Jack Fisk, and composers Bernard Herrmann, John Williams and Pino Donaggio.

Later in 1979, Sony and Philips set up a joint task force of engineers to design a new digital audio disc.

In April 1979, he filed a suit to set aside the $ 6 million settlement with Day and recover damages from everybody involved in agreeing to the payment supposedly without his permission.

Also in 1979 Rhino Records released Devotees, a tribute album, containing a set of covers of the band's songs interspersed with renditions of popular songs in Devo's style.

In 1979, Massimo Pallottino, then president of the Istituto di Studi Etruschi ed Italici initiated the Committee of the Corpus Speculorum Etruscanorum ( CSE ), which resolved to publish all the specula and set editorial standards for doing so.

* The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed, a 1979 miniseries set in 1945.

However, there is a body of case law governing the civil commitment of individuals under the Fourteenth Amendment through U. S. Supreme Court rulings beginning with Addington v. Texas in 1979 which set the bar for involuntary commitment for treatment by raising the burden of proof required to commit persons from the usual civil burden of proof of " preponderance of the evidence " to the higher standard of " clear and convincing " evidence.

U. S. embassy staff members were withdrawn from Tripoli after a mob attacked and set fire to the embassy in December 1979.

* 1979 – The United States Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan is attacked by a mob and set on fire, killing four.

Grigorii Permjakov developed the concept of the core set of proverbs that full members of society know, what he called the " paremiological minimum " ( 1979 ).

Old school rap ( 1979 – 1984 ) was " easily identified by its relatively simple raps " according to Allmusic, " the emphasis was not on lyrical technique, but simply on good times ", one notable exception being Melle Mel, who set the way for future rappers through his socio-political content and creative wordplay.

* 1979 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to set foot on Irish soil with his pastoral visit to the Republic of Ireland.

* Rock band Toto's 1979 single release " 99 " is a song whose content is inspired by THX-1138s society, where people are given numbers instead of names, as well as having a music video featuring the band in an all-white room dressed in white, a set piece designed around the film.

The creation of the University for Peace was set in motion by resolution 34 / 111 of 14 December 1979 of the United Nations General Assembly.

In 1979 foreign owners were dispossessed and received compensation from their own governments and a date was set for full independence.

After moving to London, Vangelis signed with RCA Records, set up his own studio, Nemo Studios, and began recording a string of electronic albums, such as Heaven and Hell ( 1975 ), Albedo 0. 39 ( 1976 ), Spiral ( 1977 ), Beaubourg ( 1978 ), and China ( 1979 ).

An example of this was a set of thirty-two 4th-century spoons found near Thetford in England in 1979.

He ran customer cars in Formula Two under various names from 1972 to 1979 — even briefly running a customer Formula One Ferrari 312T as Scuderia Everest in 1976 — before gaining financial backing from well known Italian motor racing patron Piero Mancini in 1979 to set up the Minardi racing team as a constructor.

In July 1979 the specifications of this architecture, established by SC16, were passed under the name of " OSI Reference Model " to Technical Committee 97 " Data Processing " along with recommendations to start officially, on this basis, a set of protocols standardization projects to cover the most urgent needs.

By the end of the first season, the far more family-friendly tone of the series was firmly in place ; after the show returned for a second season in Fall of 1979, the template was set in place that would remain for the rest of the run.

In 1979 with support from the Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute ( MARDI ) and UPM, the government set up the Palm Oil Research Institute of Malaysia ( Porim ), a public-and-private-coordinated institution.

The Institute of Traditional Medicine was set up in 1979 with assistance from World Health Organization ( WHO ) to develop and popularise the herbal medicine, which has been used by the rural people in Bhutan for past many centuries.

A version of the song set to a disco beat was recorded by Ethel Merman for her infamous Ethel Merman Disco Album in 1979.

He also appeared in another 1983 film, the Hollywood production Under Fire set during the 1979 Nicaraguan Revolution, this time being portrayed by actor René Enriquez.

In response, a new subgenre of exploitation films suddenly sprang up with titles such as The Cheerleaders ( 1972 ), The Swinging Cheerleaders ( 1974 ), Revenge of the Cheerleaders ( 1975 ), The Pom Pom Girls ( 1976 ), Satan's Cheerleaders ( 1977 ), and Cheerleaders's Wild Weekend ( 1979 ).

Easy listening artist Barbra Streisand teamed up with Donna Summer to do " No More Tears ( Enough Is Enough )" in 1979, then with Barry Gibb to do " Guilty " the following year.

The rich orchestral accompaniment that became identified with the disco era conjured up the memories of the big band era — which brought out several artists that recorded and disco-ized some big band arrangements including Perry Como, who re-recorded his 1929 and 1939 hit, " Temptation ", in 1975, as well as Ethel Merman, who released an album of disco songs entitled The Ethel Merman Disco Album in 1979.

The band followed up with Duty Now for the Future in 1979, which moved the band more towards electronic instrumentation.

A presence was re-established on the mainland in 1979 following China's reform and opening up and a year later the firm established the Beijing Air Catering Company Ltd., the first foreign joint venture in the country.

During the 1970s, he became a Hollywood star with his portrayals of a businessman mixed up with murder in Deliverance ( 1972 ), a paraplegic Vietnam veteran in Coming Home ( 1978 ), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor, and a penniless ex-boxing champion in The Champ ( 1979 ).

The United States gave up its claims to 14 islands of the Line and Phoenix chains ( previously asserted under the Guano Islands Act ) in the 1979 Treaty of Tarawa.

Compared to 1979, the Daily Mail published " Blocked: The Arctic ice, showing as a pink mass in the 1979 picture, links up with northern Canada and Russia.

The league added the ABA's innovative three-point field goal beginning in 1979 to open up the game.

* Greiner, H. ' Operation Seelowe and Intensified Air Warfare Against England up to the 30 October 1940 ', in Detweiler, D. World War II German Military Studies, Volume 7 of 24 ( New York, 1979 )

Further support for these resting positions is given from experiments watching captive moths taking up resting positions in both males ( Mikkola, 1979 ; 1984 ) and females ( Liebert and Brakefield, 1987 ).

Two weeks later, on Thursday, 1 February 1979, Khomeini returned in triumph to Iran, welcomed by a joyous crowd of up to five million people ,< ref >

In a craft conference in Kyoto in 1979, a heated debate sprang up between Western raku artists Paul Soldner and Rick Hirsh and the youngest in the dynastic raku succession, Kichiemon, ( of the fourteenth generation of the " Raku " family of potters ) concerning the right to use the title " raku ".

In December 1979 special courts called " Tribunales Especiales " were established to speed up the processing of 7, 000-8, 000 National Guard prisoners.

In 1979, one of the Stranglers ' two managers advised them to break up as he felt that the band had lost direction, but this idea was dismissed and they parted company with their then current management team.

The download version of Decades Apart included an unreleased recording from 1978, " Wasting Time ", inspired by the band's ' Rock Goes To College ' experience earlier that year ; this track, originally titled " Social Secs " was never released, and the music ended up being reversed and released as " Yellowcake UF6 ", the B-side to " Nuclear Device " in 1979.

The group also picked up a cult following in Australia thanks to the support of the Sydney rock radio station 2JJ ( now Triple-J ) and the nationally broadcast weekly music TV show Countdown, which screened all of the band's early videos ( beginning with their first Australian single release-" This Is Pop "); thanks to this interest, the group made two well-received tours there in 1979 and 1980.

The instrument's development picked up speed in late 1978 / early 1979, when NED created system upgrades, advanced capabilities, and unique sounds that were tailored to fit the needs of the product for the commercial music industry.

* Increases in pensions, which went up in numerical terms by 11. 1 % ( 1975 ), 11. 0 % ( 1976 ), 9. 9 % ( 1977 ), 4. 5 % ( 1979 ), 4 % ( 1980 ), 4 % ( 1981 ), and 5. 8 % ( 1982 ).

Adjusted for changes in the annual price index, pensions went up in real terms by 5. 1 % ( 1975 ), 6. 7 % ( 1976 ), 6. 2 % ( 1977 ), 0. 4 % ( 1979 ), and 0. 6 % ( 1982 ).