In 1981, they became Dutch champions and UEFA Cup finalists.

Ideas were plotted to design a new model and they revealed to the press their approach to an updated 1981 model MGB.

Although Baltimore had the best overall record in the AL East in 1981, they finished second in each half.

When Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield jumped together from a Houston skyscraper on 18 January 1981, they became the first to attain the exclusive BASE numbers ( BASE # 1 and # 2, respectively ), having already jumped from an antenna, spans, and earthen objects.

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 .)

This paid off, as in August 1981, they found commercial success in Australia when their Devo Live E. P.

Some of the first examples were created ca 1981 by graffiti artist Blek le Rat in Paris ; by 1985 stencils had appeared in other cities including New York City, Sydney and Melbourne, where they were documented by American photographer Charles Gatewood and Australian photographer Rennie Ellis.

The right-wing newspapers nevertheless lambasted him consistently for what they saw as his bohemian eccentricity, attacking him for wearing what they described as a " donkey jacket " ( actually he wore a type of duffel coat ) at the wreath-laying ceremony at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Day in November 1981, for which he was likened to an " out-of-work navvy " by one of Labour's own MPs.

The Brewers won the second half of the 1981 season ( divided because of a players ' strike ) and played the Yankees in a playoff mini-series they ultimately lost.

She remarked in 1981 that " Understanding what drugs can do to your children, understanding peer pressure and understanding why they turn to drugs is ... the first step in solving the problem.

The scanning tunneling microscope, an instrument for imaging surfaces at the atomic level, was developed in 1981 by Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer at IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, for which they received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986.

Available information suggests that they have existed as a community in the Horn of Africa for several millenia ( Prouty et al., 1981 ).

The Popeye cartoons passed on to United Artists in 1958 after its purchase of a. a. p., then to MGM in 1981 after they purchased UA.

The Phillies made the playoffs twice more in the 1980s after their Series win, in 1981 and 1983, where they lost to the Baltimore Orioles in the World Series, but they would soon follow these near-misses with a rapid drop back into the basement of the National League.

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.

Late that year they were replaced by such successful new shows as the Crawfords Produced Cop Shop ( 1977 – 1984 ) on Channel Seven, which was a meld of soap opera and police drama, and The Restless Years ( 1977 – 1981 ) on Channel Ten, which was another teen soap produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation.

Until 1981, they shared all the source code with MIT and kept it on an MIT server.

The 49ers ' success surprised many because they finished with a 6-10 record during the previous season, and a 2-14 record before that ( they even still had home blackouts early on in the 1981 season, the last blackouts for the 49ers to date ).

The two had become the NFL's most famous broadcast duo since they were paired together in 1981 on CBS.

By this stage in their career, the band were acutely aware of the pressure they were under from EMI, who were unhappy with the lack of chart success of much of the material the band had released since their Positive Touch LP in 1981.

The more modest goals of the Third Five-Year Plan ( 1981 – 85 ) were a compromise between ideological and pragmatic factions ; they emphasized the development of agriculture and industry.

He married attorney Lisa Hoffman ( née Gottsegen ) in October 1980 ; they have four children – Jacob Edward ( born March 20, 1981 ), Rebecca Lillian ( b. March 17, 1983 ), Maxwell Geoffrey ( born August 30, 1984 ), and Alexandra Lydia ( born October 27, 1987 ).

The Keyboard Component's repeated delays became so notorious around Mattel headquarters that comedian Jay Leno, when performing at Mattel's 1981 Christmas party, got his biggest titter of the evening with the line: " You know what the three big lies are, don't you?

* 1981 – 1983: " Pepsi's got your taste for life "

In 1981, Ze ' evi was appointed director of what was then the Israel Museum in Tel Aviv and got its name changed to the Eretz Israel Museum – the change having political connotations, given the associations with Eretz Israel.

The Islanders got their revenge, however, eliminating the Rangers in four consecutive playoff series starting in 1981 en route to their second of four consecutive Stanley Cup titles.

Their first two cassette albums, Musical Destruction ( 1980 ) and Crime Pays ( 1981 ) were only ever released in very small quantities, and it was only when they finally got the money together to release an EP in April 1982 ( There's No Government Like No Government ) did they make the jump to a wider audience, the EP completely selling out within three weeks.

The only country to have their entire teams score perfectly on the IMO were the United States, which won IMO 1994 when it accomplished this, coached by Paul Zeitz, and Luxembourg, whose 1-member team got a perfect score in IMO 1981.

In 1981, while singing in a local New York bar, Lauper met David Wolff, who took over as her manager ( and at some point became romantically involved with her ) and got her signed with Portrait Records, a subsidiary of Epic Records.

Dassault Systèmes thus got started in 1981 with only one customer ( Avions Marcel Dassault ).

Another big change was that the newspaper got a new home, moving into the building formerly occupied by Young's Department Store in 1981.

The Economist wrote in its 21 February 1998 issue, " Tilt technology, to be sure, got off to a disastrous start in 1981.

While, in 1981, a worker got splashed with phosgene.

In February 1981, under the advice of music promoter Freddy Couseart, Gaye relocated to Couseart's apartment in Ostend, Belgium where he briefly was able to back away from drug usage and got his confidence back.

O ' Rear got 86-DOS to run on the prototype PC in February 1981.

In November 1981, Don Michaels got promoted to the position of publisher, a position he would hold for over two decades.

The Swiss anthem finally got its definitive statutory status in April 1981, the Federal Council maintaining that it was purely a Swiss song suitably dignified and solemn.

Richard Rudolph wrote the song, " Now That I Have You " for Riperton, but she never got the chance to record it ; he gave the song to Teena Marie, who recorded it ( and coproduced it with Rudolph ) on Marie's second LP, Lady T. Finally, in 1981, Capitol Records released The Best of Minnie Riperton, a greatest hits collection.

" After a pair of failed pilots for NBC — Rodeo Drive in October 1980 ( later picked as a series for Lifetime ) and Duel in the Daytime in August 1981, both produced by Jay Wolpert — Tomarken got his first network job as host of Hit Man for NBC ; it lasted just thirteen weeks, from January 3 to April 1 of 1983.

The 1981 Public Image Ltd song “ The Flowers of Romance ”, from the album of the same title, includes the line “ I ’ ve got binoculars on top of Box Hill ”.

In 1981, Hilda Hilst got the Grande Prêmio da Crítica para o Conjunto da Obra, by the same Associação Brasileira de Críticos de Arte.

The airline got its permission to fly in November 1981 from the Civil Aviation Administration of Finland.

After being launched in 1981, sales of the Reliant and Aries got off to a bad start ; this can be attributed to Chrysler's inadequate preparation.

In 1981, Veltman left Utrecht University for the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, frustrated by the exclusive recognition his student't Hooft got for his PhD thesis.

On the last night of their stake-out, May 22, 1981, detectives got the first major break in the case when an officer heard a splash in the water beneath the bridge.

The 1981 model saw very few changes from the 1980 restyle but it got a modified grille, new powertrains ( the Buick 350 V8 was dropped in favor of a standard Buick produced 252 in³ V6, and an optional Oldsmobile 307 in³ V8 ).