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.

Students and school administrators agreed that there was an atmosphere of racial tension brewing at Manual in the 1970s that lead to the riot.

The 1970s in Lebanon were characterized by rapidly building tension between the Christian-dominated government and Muslim and leftist opposition forces, demanding better representation in the government apparatus and a stronger Lebanese commitment to the Arab world.

Many note that the events of 1970s showed clearly how terrorism may be used to influence politics in the frame of the " strategy of tension " by a state and its secret services, through agents provocateurs and false flag terrorist attacks.

In the 1970s, string manufacturers responded and introduced the now standard non-wound G-string which has lower tension and can be stretched more easily, but which produces much higher output.

As a stronghold of the Third Battalion of the Provisional IRA's Belfast Brigade, rioting and gun battles between the IRA and the British Army and loyalist paramilitaries were almost daily occurrences during the early 1970s and other periods of high political tension such as the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike, and occurred sporadically during the rest of that period.

* Operation Gladio, a NATO clandestine structure during the Cold War, engaged in Italys strategy of tension during the 1970s and 1980s.

There was always a creative tension between a growing general climate of liberalisation-culminating in legal liberalisation in the late 1960s and early 1970s, for example on abortion, gay rights and equal pay in the UK ; what was termed a ' second wave ' of liberalising feminism, perhaps best characterised by the formation of the National Organization of Women ( NOW ) and the Equal Rights Amendment ( ERA ) in the USA ; and a more ' liberation ' inspired movement with strong roots in the US Civil Rights Movement-and, it must be said, as much reacting against as working with the more radical political groups of the late 1960s.

* The strategy of tension in Italy during the 1970s, when right-wing Italian, Spanish, Greek, and CIA agents caused various terrorist acts in Italy, which were publicly laid to Communist terrorist groups that were actually fakes, and to the Red Brigades who were actually innocent of these particular crimes

The term " strategy of tension " recurred during the trials that followed in the 1970s and 1980s Years of Lead ( " anni di piombo "), during which terror attacks and assassinations were committed by apparently neofascist terrorists ( with such names as Ordine Nuovo, Avanguardia Nazionale or Fronte Nazionale ).

The impact of valence theory declined during the 1960s and 1970s as molecular orbital theory grew in usefulness as it was implemented in large digital computer programs.

During the 1970s the " small press " culture grew and diversified.

Demand in the United States for higher education rapidly grew each decade after World War II into the 1970s.

In 1970s and early 1980s, a subculture of C / SCSC analysis grew, but the technique was often ignored or even actively resisted by project managers in both government and industry.

Anti-nuclear protests reached a peak in the 1970s and 1980s and grew out of the environmental movement.

Its GDP per capita soared by 351 % in the 1970s, and after only a slight decline of 30 % in the 1980s, grew once again by 36 % in the 1990s.

The development and proliferation of personal computers using the CP / M operating system in the late 1970s, and later DOS-based systems starting in 1981, meant that many sites grew to dozens or even hundreds of computers.

During the 1970s, CPU speeds grew more quickly than memory speeds and numerous techniques such as memory block transfer, memory pre-fetch and multi-level caches were used to alleviate this.

In addition, stations devoted to the pop music of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s on their own have developed as the audiences that grew up with that music grew older and nostalgic for the sounds of their youth.

Its economy grew at the fastest pace of all the Latin American countries during most of the 1970s as the Paraguayan-Brazilian project, the Itaipu Dam, the world's largest hydroelectric plant, was constructed.

In the 1970s, when approximately 20 percent of the defense budget was allocated to naval forces, the Navy grew dramatically.

SMTP grew out of these standards developed during the 1970s.

The fortunes of Sears & Roebuck declined in the 1970s as the company lost market share ; its management grew more cautious.

The industry grew during German rule and peaked in the 1970s under the People's Republic of Poland.

Vietnam ’ s economy continues to expand at an annual rate in excess of 7 %, one of the fastest growing in the world, but it grew from an extremely low base, as it suffered the crippling effect of the Vietnam War from the 1950s to the 1970s, as well as the austerity measures introduced in its aftermath.

PLO cross-border raids against Israel grew during the late 1970s.

At first the plan worked out and the economy grew steadily, but in the mid 1970s the economy started to decline drastically.

The Viking program grew from NASA's earlier, and more ambitious, Voyager Mars program, which was not related to the successful Voyager deep space probes of the late 1970s.

However, as estimates of the energy required to reach ignition grew dramatically during the 1970s and ' 80s, these hopes were abandoned.

From the 1970s, the popularity of modern digital circuitry rapidly grew.

In the late 1970s, Estonian society grew increasingly concerned about the threat of cultural Russification to the Estonian language and national identity.

Porsche started to evolve a line of sports prototypes from the late 1950s ; noted for their toughness and reliability they started to win in races of attrition such as the Targa Florio and as they grew bigger ( via the Porsche 910 to the Porsche 908 and finally the Porsche 917 ) the Stuttgart marque became first a competitor for overall wins and then came to dominate sports car racing – both they and Mercedes have made intermittent returns to the top level of the sport through the 1970s, 80s and 90s.

Interest grew in the 1970s with the commercialisation of the nickel – hydrogen battery for satellite applications.

Pequot numbers grew appreciably — the Mashantucket Pequot especially — during the 1970s and 1980s when tribal chairman Richard A. Hayward persuaded Pequot to return to their tribal homeland.