Being behind the technological curve was not entirely surprising ; the chipset used in the 400 and 800 was designed because they were aware the 2600 would be obsolete by the 1980 time frame.

For example, because Zork was available for years after its initial release in 1980, it continued to top charts in sales well into the mid-1980s.

* 1980 – The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad operates its final train after being ordered to liquidate its assets because of bankruptcy and debts owed to creditors.

This National League pennant was notable because it was the only NL East title between 1970 and 1980 that wasn't won by either the Philadelphia Phillies or the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Because of difficulties in human lookahead — peculiar to Reversi because of the apparent strategic meaninglessness of internal disks ( making blindfold games — if not virtually impossible without enormous dedication — more difficult than is the case in, say, chess ) and the attractiveness of the game to programmers — the best Othello computer programs have easily defeated the best humans since 1980, when the program The Moor beat the reigning world champion.

Pirsig discusses this incident in an afterword to subsequent editions of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, writing that he and his second wife, Kimball, decided not to abort the child she conceived in 1980, because he had come to believe that this unborn child was a continuation of the life pattern that Chris had occupied.

It was recognized in the Manila Declaration on World Tourism of 1980 as " an activity essential to the life of nations because of its direct effects on the social, cultural, educational and economic sectors of national societies and on their international relations.

The state argued that the IRA did not apply because the Narragansett did not receive federal recognition as a tribal nation until 1980, after the 1934 passage of the IRA.

They would, however, through the draft acquire such standout players such as high-scoring forward Purvis Short ( 1978 ), former Georgetown Hoyas point guard Eric " Sleepy " Floyd ( 1982 ) ( who would later become an All-Star before being traded to the Houston Rockets ), and former Purdue University standout center Joe Barry Carroll, ( 1980 ) whose once promising career would be short-circuited because of injury, as well as center Robert Parish ( 1976 ).

In 1980, Lucy Dawidowicz noted that although Hitler's War was strongly sympathetic to the Third Reich, because Irving argued that Hitler was unaware of the Holocaust as opposed to denying the Holocaust, that his book was not part of the " anti-Semitic canon ".

Morales didn't go to the Montreal Olympics because, as a minor in 1976, he still couldn't join the national team, the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, because Puerto Rico's Olympic committee decided to join the United States in the boycott, and the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games because the national team didn't qualify for those.

In 1980, Reyes quit Black Flag mid-performance at the Redondo Beach venue The Fleetwood because of escalating violence.

The P-Funk All Stars included many of the same members as the late-1970s version of the Parliament-Funkadelic collective, and was so named because of various legal issues concerning use of the names Parliament and Funkadelic after 1980.

The instrument has never been of any practical importance – the few attempts at recall so far have failed, usually because the required number of signatures was not collected – and it was abolished in the course of constitutional revisions in Aargau ( 1980 ), Baselland ( 1984 ) and Lucerne ( 2007 ).

Population reached a high of 960 in 1980, largely because the lakes increased tourism.

The number of inhabitants declined to 336 in 1970, 304 in 1980, and 277 in 1990, mainly because of its accessibility to larger communities like Dalhart and Amarillo.

Actor Robert Stack claimed in his 1980 biography that Chaney and drinking buddy Broderick Crawford were known as " the monsters " around the Universal Pictures lot because of their drunken behavior that frequently resulted in bloodshed.

This is because in the future it may be the consensus view that depleted uranium projectiles breaches one or more of the following treaties: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights ; the Charter of the United Nations ; the Genocide Convention ; the United Nations Convention Against Torture ; the Geneva Conventions including Protocol I ; the Convention on Conventional Weapons of 1980 ; the Chemical Weapons Convention ; and the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material.

The dissolution was declared unconstitutional in 1979 because it violated the rights of the former State of Oldenburg, and the District was re-established in its old boundaries in 1980.

John Russell Taylor in 1980 thought it a mistake to link This Sporting Life with the ' kitchen sink ' films released in the preceding few years, because its " emotionalism " made it " unique ", apart from Anderson's other work:

The 1979 contest remained inconclusive because, no candidate having received the necessary 50 % of the vote, Congress had to determine the president, and it could not agree on any one candidate ; the 1980 election would have led to the possession of Hernán Siles, was it not for the bloody coup of July 17, 1980, which installed a reactionary ( and cocaine-tainted ) dictatorship led by general Luis García Meza.

Gong Show and Dating Game also ended otherwise successful syndicated runs in 1980 because of the Three's a Crowd and Newlywed controversies, likely because stations were fearful of community and advertiser retribution on account of Barris ' reputation.

The inflationary hypothesis was originally proposed in 1980 by American physicist Alan Guth, who named it " inflation ".

The Tory government was dividing the country and proving highly controversial as its monetarist economic policies to reduce inflation were contributing to a significant rise in unemployment which had helped plunge Britain's economy into recession earlier in 1980.

The inflation rate declined from 10 % in 1980 to 4 % in 1988.

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 ).

In the political arena, one measure of stagflation, termed the Misery Index ( derived by the simple addition of the inflation rate to the unemployment rate ), was used to swing presidential elections in the United States in 1976 and 1980.

Wholesale price inflation averaged 2. 1 percent per year from 1980 through 1988 ; consumer prices increased by an average of 4. 7 percent annually.

These policies dramatically reduced inflation rates in both countries ( the United States ' inflation rate fell from almost 14 % in 1980 to around 3 % in 1983 ), allowing liberalization of credit and the reduction of interest rates, which led ultimately to the inflationary economic booms of the 1980s.

Eastwood's only comedies have been Every Which Way but Loose ( 1978 ) and its sequel Any Which Way You Can ( 1980 ), which are his two most commercially successful films after adjustment for inflation.

Demand for the real 808 sound is so great that street prices for a used machine have remained close to what the cost of a new TR-808 was upon its initial release in 1980 when adjusted for inflation.

Having peaked at 21. 9 % in 1980, inflation ( as measured by the 12-month increase in the Retail Prices Index ) fell to 3. 3 % at the beginning of 1988.

In 1980, the Jamaica Labour Party led by Edward Seaga overwhelmingly defeated the PNP, after several years characterised by inflation and rising unemployment, and in a campaign noteworthy for an alarming level of violence.

By late 1980 the Irish Pound had fallen in value to less than 80 British pence, and Irish inflation was higher than British.

In inflation adjusted 2004 dollars, the year the NEP took effect ( 1980 ) per capita fiscal contributions by Alberta to the federal government increased 77 % over 1979 levels-from $ 6, 578 in 1979 to $ 11, 641 in 1980.

In 1980, however, the inflation adjusted average price of oil was only 5 % higher than the previous year yet the per capita contributions from Alberta rose 77 % ( see graph Fluctuations: Oil Prices & Alberta Per Capita Federal Contributions 1975-1981 ).

In 1980 and 1981 Saskatchewan was a net per capita contributor to the federal government with their peak in 1981 at a mere $ 514 in comparison to Alberta's peak of $ 12, 735 that same year, both values being 2004 inflation adjusted dollars.

However, rising unprecedented inflation generally made the public frustrated with the government, leading to a series of Opposition-led strikes, culminating in a general strike in 1980, which was crushed by the police and armed members of the UNP ’ s trade union wing.

As a junior particle physicist, Guth first developed the idea of cosmic inflation in 1979 at Cornell and gave his first seminar on the subject in January 1980.

Guth first made public his ideas on inflation in a seminar at SLAC on January 23, 1980.

In March 1980, Maryland officials worried that high inflation would leave Metro without enough funds to complete the Green Line, forcing Maryland to pay these construction costs alone.

These fears were confirmed in part in September 1980 when Metro announced that inflation had created a $ 16 million shortfall in its $ 271 million budget.

This inflexibility and the existence of surplus money due to constant economic decline in the 1980s, mixed with the need for more foreign currency and the refusal of the Ceauşescu regime to accept inflation as a phenomenon in order to attain convertibility, led to one of the greatest supply side crises in Romanian history, culminating with the introduction of partial food rationing in 1980 and full rationing for all basic foods in 1986 / 87.

After a promising beginning, Belaúnde's popularity eroded under the stress of inflation, economic hardship, and terrorism: per capita income declined, Peru's foreign debt burgeoned, and violence by leftist insurgents ( notably Shining Path ) rose steadily during the internal conflict in Peru, which was launched the day before Belaúnde was elected in 1980.