During the late 1960s, the Baseball Players Union became much stronger and conflicts between owners and the players ' union led to major work stoppages in 1972, 1981, and 1994.

The group had no major hits in 1980, but by 1981 they released two Top Ten hits with " Oh No " (# 4 U. S .) and their first upbeat single in almost five years, " Lady ( You Bring Me Up )" (# 8 U. S .)

From 1976 to 1981, DARPA's major thrusts were dominated by air, land, sea, and space technology, tactical armor and anti-armor programs, infrared sensing for space-based surveillance, high-energy laser technology for space-based missile defense, antisubmarine warfare, advanced cruise missiles, advanced aircraft, and defense applications of advanced computing.

* 1981 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango departments

Spader's first major film role was in 1981 as Brooke Shields ' brother in Endless Love, and his first starring role was in Tuff Turf alongside good friend Robert Downey, Jr.

This piece is John Adams's second major composition on a text, after Harmonium ( 1981 ) for chorus and orchestra.

The Hyatt Regency walkway collapse was a major disaster that occurred on July 17, 1981 killing 114 people and injuring more than 200 others during a tea dance.

In 1981, Nancy directed a major renovation of several White House rooms, including all of the second and third floors and rooms adjacent to the Oval Office, including the press briefing room.

John C. Gonsiorek criticized their study on several grounds in 1981, pointing out that while Masters and Johnson stated that their patients were screened for major psychopathology or severe neurosis, they did not explain how this screening was performed, or how the motivation of the patients to change was assessed.

In the early IBM PC market ( 1981 – 83 ) the major programming tool vendors all made compilers that worked in a similar fashion.

In 1981, Queen travelled to South America as part of The Game Tour, and became the first major rock band to play in Latin American stadiums.

Today, awareness of the Rastafari movement has spread throughout much of the world, largely through interest generated by reggae music, especially the major international success of Jamaican singer / songwriter Bob Marley ( 1945 – 1981 ).

At major championships, the women's equivalent of the decathlon is the seven-event heptathlon ; prior to 1981 it was the five-event pentathlon.

Weir scored a major Australian hit and further international praise with his next film Gallipoli ( 1981 ).

On June 27, 1981, the Central Committee adopted the " Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party Since the Founding of the People's Republic of China " ( The Resolution ), an official assessment of major historical events since 1949.

Following Haley's death in February 1981, a number of major tributes involving " Rock Around the Clock " occurred.

His last major solo TV project was Rushton's Illustrated ( 1981 ).

* An autogyro was heavily featured in the second Mad Max ( The Road Warrior ) film, released in 1981, appearing in several scenes with its pilot, the Gyro Captain, as a major character.

During the summer of 1981 there was a major disruption of CBC programming as the technicians union, N. A. B. E. T.

Other major successes included Las Palmas 1981, Mar del Plata 1982, Bugojno 1984, and Sarajevo 1984.

The ensuing chaos had a major effect on both the Cavaliers ' on-court performance and lack of local support, going 28 – 54 in 1980 – 81 ( Stepien's first year as owner ), followed by an abysmal 15 – 67 mark in 1981 – 82.

His later biographer Sally Green ( 1981 ) noted that How Labour Governs was of particular significance at the time because it was published just as the British Labour Party was emerging as a major player in British politics, threatening the former two-party dominance of the Conservatives and Liberals.

After receiving more than 25 major commissions since 1981, Branca's music has finally begun to receive academic attention.

At a February 25, 1981, meeting chaired by Meese, Cabinet-level heads of the major foreign affairs agencies agreed on a plan to establish three Senior Interdepartmental Groups ( SIGs ) on foreign, defense, and intelligence problems, chaired respectively by the Secretaries of State and Secretary of Defense and the Director of Central Intelligence.

*( 1981 ) The McNamara years at the World Bank: major policy addresses of Robert S. McNamara, 1968-1981 ; with forewords by Helmut Schmidt and Léopold Senghor.

Following Lancashire's reign as One Day champions in the 1970s, a programme of renovation and replacement was initiated in 1981.

The theatre was purchased by local radio company Dick Broadcasting in 1981, who started a renovation effort to prepare it for the 1982 World's Fair.

During the renovation of the Martin's church in 1980 and 1981 the workers came upon a portion of a Roman villa.

A large-scale renovation was completed in 1981 with the construction of a two-story concourse capped by a new J. C. Penney anchor store ( relocated from the nearby Forest Park Plaza ).

The mall got another renovation after being heavily damaged by a tornado on 14 June 1981.

At the end of the 1970s, in preparation for the 1983 Mediterranean Games which were held in Casablanca, the stadium was closed for a major renovation ; with an increase of the seating capacity, installation of the electronic panel, and construction of the gymnasium and covered swimming pool around the stadium, it reopened in 1981 under its current name, Stade Mohamed V, and with an 80, 000 capacity.

For several decades it was one of 20th Century Fox's premiere theaters, serving as a movie palace until a 1981 renovation which converted it into a stage venue.

Later, the airport underwent renovation and upgrading to international standard, inaugurating its new name on 11 November 1981.

In 1981, Korner joined another " supergroup ", Rocket 88, a project led by Ian Stewart based on boogie-woogie keyboard players, which featured a rhythm section comprising Jack Bruce and Charlie Watts, among others, as well as a horn section.

Due to Loren ’ s unavailability, the project was shelved and resurrected twenty-five years later as Lovers and Liars ( 1981 ), a comedy directed by Mario Monicelli with Goldie Hawn and Giancarlo Giannini.

The ISA bus was developed by a team led by Mark Dean at IBM as part of the IBM PC project in 1981.

The first significant post-Led Zeppelin project was The Honeydrippers, formed in 1981 by Robert Plant and featuring Jimmy Page on lead guitar, along with studio musicians and friends of Plant and Page, including Jeff Beck, Paul Shaffer, and Nile Rodgers.

In January 1981, Steve Jobs completely took over the Macintosh project.

These projects have been criticized, particularly the Ferro Carajas project of Brazil, begun in 1981.

In 1981 the Center began its Klanwatch project to monitor the activities of the KKK.

It had invested in one energy project in 1966 and another in 1981, but in the six years between 1988 and 1994 it invested in a bulk of 32 energy projects.

After a brief and unsuccessful collaboration effort with McDonnell Douglas in 1981, Fokker began an ambitious project to develop two new aircraft concurrently.

In 1981, Prince formed a side project band called The Time.

Another furore occurred in 1981 when he faked his own death in preparation for the forthcoming project of paintings on the theme of death ( 1982 ): " I could not know what it was like to be dead ," said the artist, " but I could discover what it was like to be thought dead.

In 1981, Young became director of a project of the National Legal Aid and Defender Association ( NLADA ) designed to establish defense-based sentencing advocacy programs.

In 1981 Steve Jobs directed his attention to Raskin's Macintosh project, intending to marry the Xerox PARC-inspired GUI-based Lisa design to Raskin's appliance-computing, " computers-by-the-millions " concept.

The project was completed in 1981 with the recordings of Burlesque Variations on an Original Theme, and Two Herrick Songs, Requiem for the Rose and The Hag.

Other early users of the TR-808 include Australian producer Mark Moffatt, with his studio project, the Monitors ( 1981 ), and Indian musician Charanjit Singh, who used it alongside a Roland TB-303 bass synthesizer to produce music resembling acid house in his 1982 album Synthesizing: Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat.

Since 1981, the underground Almaty Metro construction project has been in development.

In 1981, after Ronald Reagan took office, she joined the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund ( LDF ) as an assistant counsel, eventually becoming head of its Voting Rights project.

The PLATO project, initiated at the University of Illinois in 1960, is an important landmark in the early development of CALL ( Marty 1981 ).

The protection of the Palace as a historical monument started in 1981, when the National Board for Monuments launched its Palace project.

The 1981 study was largely limited to developed societies, but interest in this project spread so widely that surveys were carried out in more than twenty countries, located on all six inhabited continents.

In 1981, Midler worked on the troubled comedy project Jinxed !.

Other notable ( recording / touring ) project involvements are: ( 1979 ) Jeff Beck, ( 1979 ) Ron Wood's New Barbarians, ( 1981, 1983, 1990 ) Clarke / Duke Project with George Duke, ( 1984 ) with Miroslav Vitouš, ( 1989 ) Animal Logic with Stewart Copeland, ( 1993 – 94 ), A group with Larry Carlton, Billy Cobham, Najee & Deron Johnson, ( 1995 ) The Rite of Strings with Jean-Luc Ponty and Al Di Meola and ( 1999 ) Vertu ’ with Lenny White and Richie Kotzen.

From 1981 to 1982 Perry had a new project, The Reflections, a band with Nag from The Door And The Window, Karl Blake ( of The Lemon Kittens ) and Grant Showbiz among others.

With Vos also in attendance, Rice met with the two in Stockholm for the first time in 15 December 1981 in order to discuss the concept, and they quickly signed on to the project.