Through the late 1970s and early 1980s, the group's popularity continued to grow ( although they were always more popular in North America and Continental Europe than in their home country, never achieving a UK Top 40 single or Top 20 album ).

A flood of mentalité studies based on these approaches appeared during the 1970s and 1980s.

Annales historians in the 1970s and 1980s turned to urban regions, including Pierre Deyon ( Amiens ), Maurice Garden ( Lyon ), Jean-Pierre Bardet ( Rouen ), Georges Freche ( Toulouse ), and Jean-Claude Perrot ( Caen ).

In the 1970s and 1980s, the ACLU ventured into new legal areas, defending homosexuals, students, prisoners, and the poor.

Only during the 1970s and 1980s did television chefs such as James Beard and Jeff Smith shift the focus towards home-grown cooking styles, particularly those of the different ethnic groups within the nation.

Most of the other light aircraft acquired by the FABF in the 1970s and 1980s have also now been retired along with the Mi-4 helicopters, but some recent acquisitions have been made, including a Beechcraft King Air, a Piper PA-34 Seneca, a CEAPR Robin light training aircraft, and a single Air Tractor AT-802 aerial sprayer aircraft for spraying insecticides, purchased after the northern part of the country suffered heavy crop damage from a 2004 invasion of swarming locusts.

The language and its variants became widespread on microcomputers in the late 1970s and 1980s, when it was typically a standard feature, and often part of the firmware of the machine.

Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, De Palma worked repeatedly with actors Jennifer Salt, Amy Irving, Nancy Allen ( his wife from 1979 to 1983 ), Gary Sinise, John Lithgow, William Finley, Charles Durning, Gerrit Graham, cinematographers Stephen H. Burum and Vilmos Zsigmond ( see List of noted film director and cinematographer collaborations ), set designer Jack Fisk, and composers Bernard Herrmann, John Williams and Pino Donaggio.

The cabal was created in an effort to facilitate reliable propagation of new Usenet posts: While in the 1970s and 1980s many news servers only operated during night time to save on the cost of long distance communication, servers of the backbone cabal were available 24 hours a day.

The B5500 came a few years later ; followed by the B6500 / B6700 in the later 1960s, the B7700 in the mid 1970s, and the A series in the 1980s.

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, the site hosted Creative Time's landmark Art on the Beach sculpture exhibitions.

After becoming New York's de facto Red Light District in the 1960s and 1970s ( as can be seen in the films Taxi Driver and Midnight Cowboy ), since the late 1980s Times Square has emerged as a family tourist center, in effect being Disneyfied following the company's purchase and renovation of the New Amsterdam Theatre on 42nd Street in 1993.

Particularly in the 1970s and 1980s, there was a significant push to understand the relationships between these climatic parameters and properties of ecosystem energetics because such discoveries would enable the prediction of rates of energy capture and transfer among components within ecosystems.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the U. S. had experienced high inflation and Friedman's policy positions tended to defend the stronger dollar at that time.

Bubbles, who also sketched and painted privately, is best known for his distinctive contribution to the design practices associated with the British independent music scene of the 1970s and 1980s.

The show made Bixby a pop icon of the late 1970s and 1980s.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Brabham introduced innovations such as the Gordon Murray designed " fan car "— which won its only race before being withdrawn — in-race refuelling, carbon brakes, and hydropneumatic suspension.

British businessman Bernie Ecclestone owned Brabham during most of the 1970s and 1980s, and later became responsible for administering the commercial aspects of Formula One.

In the 1970s Clannad made their mark initially in the folk and traditional scene, and then subsequently went on to bridge the gap between traditional Celtic and pop music in the 1980s and 1990s, incorporating elements from New Age, smooth jazz, and folk rock.

A major reason for the motorway construction " mania " of the 2000s is a previous political halt of the major Croatian highway project, today's A1, in the 1970s and 1980s under former Yugoslavia.

In the 1970s and 1980s Cuba stepped up its military presence abroad, especially in Africa.

In the 1970s and early 1980s, much cognitive science research focused on the possibility of artificial intelligence.

The stabilizing effect of cadmium-containing chemicals like the carboxylates cadmium laureate and cadmium stearate on PVC led to an increased use of those compounds in the 1970s and 1980s.

* Capitol Air Lines, a U. S. charter airline in the 1970s and 1980s

The Commodores is an American funk / soul band of the 1970s and 1980s.

The town centre was extensively remodelled in the 1970s, a scheme financed by the Showerings family who owned the town's cider manufactories.

In the 1970s, the company financed the making of the film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, obtaining in return a license to use a number of the product names mentioned in the movie for candy bars.

In the 1970s, the Hatfield government financed the manufacture of the Bricklin SV-1 in hope of creating an auto industry in the province.

A government inquiry would subsequently establish that Sutherland's candidacy had been encouraged, financed and organized by leading figures in the riding's Progressive Conservative network, in the hopes that Sutherland would take enough votes away from the NDP to allow a PC victory ( the aboriginal communities of northern Manitoba have generally supported the NDP, at least since the early 1970s ).

The local Church of Ireland church, St. Kevin's ( whose construction, in 1883, was financed by a bequest from a Miss Jane Shannon, of Rathgar, architect, Thomas Drew ), was closed in the 1970s and tastefully converted to apartments, while the adjacent church buildings became a community centre.

In the 1970s Johnny and June Cash donated property and financed the construction of a family house in Jamaica for SOS, and after their deaths the family established a memorial fund to benefit their work.

Stephen Bantu Biko ( 18 December 1946 – 12 September 1977 ) was an anti-apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1960s and 1970s.

He came to the UK from South Africa as a teenager, and was a noted anti-apartheid campaigner in the 1970s.

IPS members played key roles in the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s, in the women's and environmental movements of the 1970s, and in the peace, anti-apartheid, and anti-intervention movements of the 1980s.

Social criticism was tackled throughout the 1970s (" Black and Blue " on Messin ' dealt particularly with slavery, and " Chicago Institute " on Watch with mental institutions and science as a mean of social control ) a trend which grew throughout the 1980s, with songs such as Lies ( through the 80s ) on technological progress vs. social setbacks on Chance, and with Mann's growing involvement with the anti-apartheid movement which spawned the 1982 album Somewhere in Afrika.

In the 1970s and 1980s, the outlawed African National Congress allied with overseas anti-apartheid movements succeeded in getting South Africa isolated from sporting contact with the rest of the world.

He became involved in anti-apartheid activities by joining the South African Students ' Organisation ( SASO ) in the early 1970s, an organisation founded by Steve Biko in order to defend the rights of black students.

* Nkwenkwe Nkomo, an anti-apartheid student activist in the 1970s

Several theatres which showed anti-apartheid plays were located on the street during the 1970s and 1980s, although most have now closed and been replaced by restaurants or stores.

Beit Knessett Shalom was initially established as a Liberal Congregation in the 1970s, and later affiliated to the Union for Progressive Judaism.

The creation of the New Progressive Party polarized the political arena to a great degree as radical independence groups were formed in the 1970s and the Puerto Rican Socialist Party ( PSP ), a Marxist and Cuba-friendly party, was created.

After a failed attempt in the 1930s to start an Israeli movement, the World Union for Progressive Judaism tried again in the 1970s and created the movement now known as the Israeli Progressive Movement.

Because the first rabbis in the 1970s were trained in the United States, the Israeli press and public often refers to the Israeli Progressive Movement as " Reform ".

By the 1970s the Progressive Conservative Party was a Keynesian-consensus party.

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada () ( PC ) ( 1942 – 2003 ) was a Canadian federal political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues.

However in the 1970s, candidates to the Legislative Yuan would run as Tangwai or outside the party and in 1985, candidates began to run under the banner of the Democratic Progressive Party.

Progressive rock and art rock performers of the 1960s and 1970s deserve some mention.

Other well-known trios from the 1970s and 1980s include The James Gang ; Glass Harp ; Raven ; Budgie ; Grand Funk Railroad ; Triumph ; Blue Cheer ; Johnny Winter's Progressive Blues Experiment ; Motörhead ; The Minutemen ; West, Bruce and Laing ; The Jam ; The Police ; Rush ; Zebra ; ZZ Top ; Robin Trower Band and, until the album Nightlife, Thin Lizzy.

His father, Robert Layton, was a Liberal Party activist in the 1960s and 1970s, and served as a Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament ( MP ) and Cabinet minister in the 1980s under Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.

Progressive rock groups and musicians during the 1970s in particular experimented with program music, among which was Rush's " Jacob's Ladder " ( 1980 ), which shows clear influences of Smetana's Má vlast (" My Homeland ") ( 1874-1879 ).

In the late 1970s, the provincial Conservatives ( now the Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan ) re-emerged as a political force, forming government under Grant Devine for most of the 1980s.

Progressive music formed by the 1970s, when jazz, blues and other genres were combined with socially aware lyrics, outlandish solos and macho posturing.

* Social Progressive Party of South Tyrol, Germany, 1966-late 1970s

In the late 1970s and 1980s, the federal Progressive Conservative Party suffered a string of electoral defeats under Red Tory leaders Robert Stanfield and Joe Clark.

In the 1970s Burnside served as Press Officer for the Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party, and he unsuccessfully contested North Antrim for the party at the Northern Ireland Assembly election, 1973.

In the 1970s, the Social Credit Party of Saskatchewan merged into the Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan.

* Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party, a unionist political party in Northern Ireland during the 1970s

Progressive Labor would come to play a role in many of the numerous Maoist organizations of the mid-1960s and early 1970s.

Over the years, its opposition has been The Electors ' Action Movement ( TEAM ) in the 1970s, the left-of-centre Coalition of Progressive Electors ( COPE ) in the 1980s, and left-of-centre Vision Vancouver in the 2000s.

He was an aide to federal Progressive Conservative Leader of the Opposition Robert Stanfield in the early 1970s, while still a university student.

As a member of the Big Blue Machine, Segal was a senior aide to Ontario Progressive Conservative Premier Bill Davis in the 1970s and 1980s and was named Deputy Minister at age 29.

Subsequently the PRP merged with another breakaway group from the United Party, which was in sharp decline in the mid 1970s, to become the Progressive Federal Party in 1977.