The new owners pushed the company into modernising its line, producing the V8 Vantage in 1977, the convertible Volante in 1978, and the one-off William Towns-styled Bulldog in 1980.

A new Constitution was approved by plebiscite characterized by the absence of registration lists, on September 11, 1980, and General Pinochet became president of the republic for an 8-year term.

In the Netherlands, conservatives merged into a new Christian democratic party in 1980.

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 ).

Following the fall of the Shah of Iran and the Iran Hostage Crisis in 1979 – 1980, the West became concerned with ensuring the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz, and the US received permission for a $ 400 million expansion of the military facilities on Diego Garcia consisting of two parallel runways, expansive parking aprons for heavy bombers, 20 new anchorages in the lagoon, a deep water pier, port facilities for the largest naval vessels in the US or British fleet, aircraft hangars, maintenance buildings and an air terminal, a fuel storage area, and billeting and messing facilities for thousands of sailors and support personnel.

In the 1970s and 1980s, new concerti included Nino Rota's Divertimento for Double Bass and Orchestra ( 1973 ), Jean Françaix's Concerto ( 1975 ), Einojuhani Rautavaara's Angel Of Dusk ( 1980 ), Gian Carlo Menotti's Concerto ( 1983 ), Christopher Rouse's Concerto ( 1985 ), and Henry Brant's Ghost Nets ( 1988 ).

* The Making of the English Working Class London: Victor Gollancz ( 1963 ); 2nd edition with new postscript, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968, third edition with new preface 1980.

The peak of these incidents would occur in 1980 with new recruit Phil Carman making headlines for head-butting an umpire.

Pioneers such as Horace Ové had been working in 1970s ( Pressure, 1975, funded by the British Film Institute ), but the 1980s saw a wave of new talent, with films like Babylon ( 1980 ), Burning an Illusion ( 1981 ), Majdhar ( 1985 ) and Ping Pong ( 1986-one of the first films about Britain's Chinese community ).

The new Holden WB commercial vehicles and the Statesman WB limousines were introduced in 1980.

In 1980 a new Vadstena Municipality was split off.

The West Stand was opened in 1977 and the new East Terrace was completed by March 1980.

However, his government lost a vote of confidence in 1980 and was replaced by a new cabinet headed by Sir Julius Chan as prime minister.

The term " paraphilia " was introduced in the DSM-III ( 1980 ) as a subset of the new category of " psychosexual disorders ".

After Higson graduated in 1980, he moved in with Whitehouse, working by day as a decorator and performing at night and the weekends with his new punk-funk group The Higsons.

After a seven-year hiatus brought on by poor health, Heinlein produced five new novels in the period from 1980 ( The Number of the Beast ) to 1987 ( To Sail Beyond the Sunset ).

Permanent Waves ( 1980 ) dramatically shifted Rush's style of music via the introduction of reggae and new wave elements.

* The Illuminati Papers ( 1980 ) collection of essays and new material

In September 1980, President Choi Kyu-ha was forced to resign from president to give way to the new military leader, Chun Doo-hwan.

* 1980 – Voters approve a new Constitution of Chile, later amended after the departure of president Picochet.

Iraq invaded Iran, first attacking Mehrabad Airport of Tehran and then entering the oil-rich Iranian land of Khuzestan, which also has a sizable Arab minority, on 22 September 1980 and declared it a new province of Iraq.

In 1980 Richman again formed a new Modern Lovers, with Keranen, drummer Michael Guardabascio and backing singers Ellie Marshall and Beth Harrington.

A new constitution, drafted by the military, was rejected in a November 1980 referendum.

In fact, it was the success of the compilation film, The Bugs Bunny / Road Runner Movie in 1980, featuring the archived film of these characters that prompted Warner Brothers to organize Warner Brothers Animation as a new production division to restart production of original material.

The inflation rate, 13. 5 % in 1980, fell to 4. 1 % in 1988, which was achieved by applying high interest rates by the Federal Reserve ( peaked at 20 % in June 1981 ).

During the period 1980 – 1988, the percentage of the total population below the poverty level ranged from a low of 13. 0 % in 1980 and 1988 to a high of 15. 2 % in 1983.

Also intersting to note is that there was no major recession during the high tax years from 1945 to 1980.

Production in the 16-year " CBS period " reached as high as 50 units per day around 1978-79, but sales declined as 1980 approached, and the Mark II Stage Piano was introduced in an attempt to revitalize the product.

According to the Grupo Gay da Bahia, Brazil's oldest gay rights NGO, the rate of murders of homosexuals in Brazil is particularly high, with a reported 3, 196 cases over the 30-year period of 1980 to 2009 ( or about 0. 7 cases per 100, 000 population per annum ).

Coleman and Hoffer collected quantitative data of 28, 000 students in total 1, 015 public, Catholic and other private high schools in America from the 7 years ' period from 1980 to 1987.

In recent years, average temperatures in the county seat of Carlyle have ranged from a low of in January to a high of in July, although a record low of was recorded in January 1994 and a record high of was recorded in July 1980.

In 1980, physicist Luis Alvarez ; his son, geologist Walter Alvarez ; and nuclear chemists Frank Asaro and Helen V. Michael from the University of California, Berkeley discovered unusually high concentrations of iridium in a specific layer of rock strata in the Earth's crust.

In 1980, Iowa Test of Basic Skills scores ranked Manual 23rd out of the 24 high schools in the county.

The Firebird continued to fly high on the success of the ' Smokey and the Bandit ' film, still offering Formula and Trans Am packages, plus a Pontiac first-a turbocharged V-8, for the 1980 and 1981 model years.

Daisy wheel printers from Diablo and Lee's 1973 company Qume were the dominant high-end output technology for computer and office automation applications by 1980, though high speed non-impact techniques were already entering the market ( e. g. IBM 6640 inkjet, Xerox 2700 and IBM 6670 laser ).

In the years since the first edition of A People's History was published in 1980, it has been used as an alternative to standard textbooks in many high school and college history courses, and it is one of the most widely known examples of critical pedagogy.

A notable high school level scholarship is the Alexander Rutherford Scholarship which was introduced by the Government of Alberta in 1980.

In recent years, average temperatures in Rochester have ranged from a low of in January to a high of in July, although a record low of was recorded in January 1985 and a record high of was recorded in July 1980.

In 1980 during the re-ordering works carried out in the aftermath of the Second Vatican Council, the caen stone side altars, marble altar rails, carved pulpit, original high altar and Telford Pipe Organ were removed.

In 1970, Vigor High School on Wilson Avenue, which had been Prichard's white high school during segregation was 70 % white, by 1980, it was 80 % black, even considering the fact that most of Prichard's remaining white areas were in its district.

By 1980, it had grown to 30, 000, and it has since paced the Phoenix metropolitan area's high rate of growth, with vast suburban residential areas swallowing former agricultural plots.

In the last two decades, Gilbert has grown at an extremely high rate, increasing in population from 5, 717 in 1980 to 208, 453 as of a 2010 Census Bureau estimate.

The High School was returned to Newton as for the 2007-2008 School Term. For every school term since 1980 the High School Students traveled from Newton to Camilla for high school formerly Mitchell-Baker High School.

Jamestown maintained a public school until the junior high school and high school was closed in 1980.

The population of Lawrence declined from over 80, 000 residents in 1950 ( and a high of 94, 270 in 1920 ) to approximately 64, 000 residents in 1980, the low point of Lawrence's population.