Watanabe's main inspiration for Cowboy Bebop was Lupin III, a crime anime series from the late 1970s through the mid -' 80s.

Watanabe, however, made no secret that, in addition to Lupin III, the series paid subtle tribute to his favorite American films and series, which were shown in Japan during the 1970s and ' 80s including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ( the relationship between Spike and Jet ), Bruce Lee films ( Spike's martial-arts practice ), films with blues or jazz soundtracks ( the music of the series ), as well as Blaxploitation films ( the series has a very racially diverse supporting cast ).

In the 1970s and 80s, The Alan Parsons Project was a British progressive rock group which specialized entirely in concept albums.

The 1970s and ' 80s saw an increased interest in improved fuel economy which brought in a return to smaller V-6 and four-cylinder layouts, with as many as five valves per cylinder to improve efficiency.

During the 1970s and ' 80s, Cassandra B. Whyte did significant educational research studying locus of control as related to the academic achievement of students pursuing higher education coursework.

Although it had been funding British experimental films as early as 1952, the British Film Institute's foundation of a production board in 1964 — and a substantial increase in public funding from 1971 onwards — enabled it to become a dominant force in developing British art cinema in the 1970s and 80s: from the first of Bill Douglas's Trilogy My Childhood ( 1972 ), and of Terence Davies ' Trilogy Childhood ( 1978 ), via Peter Greenaway's earliest films ( including the surprising commercial success of The Draughtsman's Contract ( 1982 )) and Derek Jarman's championing of the New Queer Cinema.

* Simon Dik's Functional discourse grammar, originally developed in the 1970s and 80s, has been influential and inspired many other functional theories.

Leaders of the lesbian and gay movement of the 1970s, 80s and 90s often attempted to hide masculine lesbians, feminine gay men, transgendered people, and bisexuals from the public eye, creating internal divisions within LGBT communities.

During the 1970s and ‘ 80s rural poverty did decline, particularly in the Malayan Peninsula, but critics of the government ’ s policy contend that this was mainly due to the growth of overall national prosperity ( due in large part to the discovery of important oil and gas reserves ) and migration of rural people to the cities rather than to state intervention.

Ehrlich was wrong about higher natural resource prices, about " famines of unbelievable proportions " occurring by 1975, about " hundreds of millions of people starving to death " in the 1970s and ' 80s, about the world " entering a genuine age of scarcity.

* Jamming ( fanzine ), a UK music fanzine of the 1970s – 80s

During the 1970s and ' 80s, Loach's films were less successful, often suffering from poor distribution, lack of interest and political censorship.

Once memory theories like the Atkinson-Shiffrin memory model and Baddeley's working memory model were established as a theoretical framework in cognitive psychology, new cognitive frameworks of learning began to emerge during the 1970s, 80s, and 90s.

The most successful period in Liverpool's history was the 1970s and ' 80s when Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley led the club to eleven league titles and seven European trophies.

* The Manhattans, an R & B group from the 1970s and 80s.

Another major publishing standard is TeX, created and continuously refined by Donald Knuth in the 1970s and ' 80s.

In the 1970s and ' 80s, evidence suggesting that opiate drug addicts show increased risk of infection ( such as increased pneumonia, tuberculosis, and HIV ) led scientists to believe that morphine may also affect the immune system.

During a period ( the 1970s and 80s ) when nativist Transformational Generative Grammar was becoming dominant in Linguistics, and called " Standard Theory ", linguists who questioned these tenets were disenfranchised and Cognitive Linguistics and Computational Psycholinguistics were born and the more general term Emergentism developed for the anti-nativist view that language is emergent from more fundamental cognitive processes that are not specifically linguistic in nature.

" The church statement at the time noted that " divestment is one of the strategies that U. S. churches used in the 1970s and 80s in a successful campaign to end apartheid in South Africa.

In the 1970s and 80s, Ft. Lauderdale swimming champion Charkie Phillips revived water ballet on television with The Krofftettes in The Brady Bunch Hour ( 1976 – 77 ), NBC's The Big Show ( 1980 ), and then on screen with Miss Piggy in The Great Muppet Caper ( 1981 ).

The combination of acknowledged corruption at the border and high import tariffs led smugglers in the 1970s and ‘ 80s to fly electronic equipment such as stereos and televisions in cargo planes from one country to clandestine landing strips in another, thereby circumventing encounters at the frontier between countries.

Slasher films of the 1970s and 80s such as John Carpenter's Halloween ( 1978 ), Sean S. Cunningham's Friday the 13th ( 1980 ), and Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street ( 1984 ) " owe much to the original Night of the Living Dead ", according to author Barry Keith Grant.

" Video gaming would not reach mainstream popularity until the 1970s and 80s, when arcade video games, gaming consoles and home computer games were introduced to the general public.

The strips always end with Elton being beaten at his own game by one or more of his musical contemporaries from the 1970s and 80s.

There is no public transport owned by the government at the moment in Zanzibar, but the Daladala ( as it is officially known in Zanzibar ) is the only kind of public transport owned by private owners ; the term Daladala originated from the Swahili word DALA or five shillings during the 1970s and 80s ( at that time public transport cost five shillings ).

In the early 1970s, however, the New York Convention and Visitors Bureau ( now NYC & Company, the official marketing and tourism organization for New York City ), under the leadership of its president, Charles Gillett, began promoting " the Big Apple " for the city.

The droughts of the late 1960s, early 1970s, and mid-1980s caused Lake Chad to shrink once again, however.

The known Spanish manuscript was lost in the 18th or 19th centuries ; however, an 18th-century copy of it was discovered in the 1970s in the University of Sydney's Fisher Library among the books of Charles Nicholson, labelled in English " Transcribed from ms. in possession of the Revd Mr Edm.

In the 1970s and 1980s, however, tourism was an important industry, drawing an average of 150, 000 visitors annually.

" In the 1960s and 1970s however there were still periodic border clashes.

In the early 1970s Radio Kabul began to broadcast in other languages besides Pashtun which helped to unify those minorities that often felt marginalized, however this was put to a stop with Daoud's revolution in 1973.

In 1969 the revolutionary government officially changed the regional designation of Tripolitania to Western Libya, of Cyrenaica to Eastern Libya, and of Fezzan to Southern Libya ; however, the old names were intimately associated with the history of the area, and during the 1970s they continued to be used frequently.

Since the early 1970s, however, the dominant scholarship has noted dissimilarities between Persian Mithra-worship and the Roman Mithraic mysteries, and the mysteries of Mithras are now generally seen as a distinct product of the Roman Imperial religious world.

In the years immediately following 1949, telecommunications — by telegraph or telephone — mainly used wire ; by the 1970s, however, radio telecommunications equipment were increasingly used and began to replace wire lines.

As both the British invasion and the 1960s came to an end, Rickenbacker guitars fell somewhat out of fashion ; however Rickenbacker basses remained highly in favor through the 1970s and on.

The phenomenon of refraction of sound in the atmosphere has been known for centuries ; however, beginning in the early 1970s, widespread analysis of this effect came into vogue through the designing of urban highways and noise barriers to address the meteorological effects of bending of sound rays in the lower atmosphere.

Upon his debut, Roger sported the usual school boy shorts, however he began wearing trousers during the 1970s.

Asau, with the Potlatch sawmillers and Samoa Forest Products, was one of the busiest parts of Savai ' i in the 1960s and 1970s ; however, the departure of Potlatch and the scaling down of the sawmill has left Asau a ghost town in recent years.

The population of polar bears are locally recovering from the major culls of the 1960s and 1970s that came about due to the availability of snow scooters ; however, the Polar bear remains threatened at a global level, due to unsustainable levels of killing by humans and due to marine water pollution.

From the 1970s to 1984, however, Thailand had suffered from many economic problems-ranging from decreasing American investment, current account deficit, a sudden rise in oil price to inflation.

Since the late 1970s and early 1980s, however, laissez-faire ideology, as explained especially by Milton Friedman, has once more become a powerful force in American politics.

The term " artificial reality ", coined by Myron Krueger, has been in use since the 1970s ; however, the origin of the term " virtual reality " can be traced back to the French playwright, poet, actor, and director Antonin Artaud.

The V bombers were to carry the GAM-87 Skybolt, an air-launched ballistic missile, to update their strike potential as new innovations in the Cold War made their early style of operation less viable ; however Skybolt was cancelled by the US and the Royal Navy became Britain's main provider of the nuclear deterrent, using UGM-27 Polaris intercontinental ballistic missiles from nuclear submarines in the 1970s.

Harding's legacy began to improve during the 1970s ; however, the truth behind the many presidential scandals and his personal controversies may never be known.

Gombrowicz wrote in Polish, however, in view of his decision not to allow his works to be published in his native country until the ban on the unabridged version of Dziennik, in which he described the Polish authorities ' slanderous attacks on him, was lifted he remained a largely unknown figure to the general reading public until the first half of the 1970s.

The economic boom was however overshadowed in the late 1960s and early 1970s during the so-called Years of Lead, when Milan witnessed an unprecedented wave of street violence, labour strikes and political terrorism.

however, by the 1970s the term was generally recognized as racist, offensive and potentially illegal along with the unambiguously offensive " nig-nog ", and " golliwog ".

Under a different leadership, however, the Daughters of Bilitis came under attack in the early 1970s for " siding " with Mattachine groups rather than with the new separatist feminist organizations.

In the 1970s, however, American Indian groups protested the display of the monument, and it was removed.