By the 1970s the area was notorious for street robberies and drug dealing.

In August 2012, a swarm of earthquakes shook Southern California's Imperial Valley, showing the most recorded activity in the area since the 1970s.

Gold has been mined continuously in that area except for a hiatus in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

In the 1970s, an effort to open jazz clubs in the River Quay area of City Market along the Missouri ended in a gangland war in which three of the new clubs were blown up in what ultimately resulted in the removal of Kansas City mob influence in the Las Vegas casinos.

The forested land area has declined significantly since the 1970s as a result of commercial logging and expanded swidden, or slash-and-burn, farming.

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.

In the late 1970s, Lyon & Healy was purchased by Steinway & Sons ( then owned by CBS ), and consequently closed their retail stores in the Chicago area, that had been selling sheet music and musical instruments, and their education departments — to focus on the harp division.

The majority ( over 100 thousand ) gradually left and after the improvement of German-Polish relations by the German Ostpolitik of the 1970s 55, 227 persons from Warmia and Masuria moved to Western Germany in between 1971 and 1988, today approximately between 5, 000 and 6, 000 Masurians still live in the area, about 50 percent of them members of the German minority in Poland, the remaining half is ethnic Polish.

During the 1970s many Koreans came to the area following his example, but when house prices rose in Wimbledon, they moved to New Malden.

Territorial sea: irregular polygon extending up to 100 nautical miles ( 185 km ) from coastline as defined by 1898 treaty ; since late 1970s has also claimed polygonal-shaped area in South China Sea up to 285 nautical miles ( 528 km ) in breadth.

Comprehensive reforestation programs starting in the 1970s and continuing into the late 1990s aided in an acceleration of forest volume increase, and the forest cover reached a peak of 65 % of national land area in 1980 as opposed to a low of 35 % in 1955.

In the 1960s and 1970s, the wet cultivation area was expanding rapidly, as the government implemented large-scale irrigation projects to restore the dry zone to agricultural productivity.

In the 1970s, the area drained by the Mahaweli Ganga changed from a sparsely inhabited region to a wet rice area similar to the southwest.

The area underwent irrigation improvements during the 1960s and 1970s, and it provides substantial cereal and cotton crops.

In the late 1970s, 3M-Littmann introduced the tunable diaphragm: a very hard ( G-10 ) glass-epoxy resin diaphragm member with an overmolded silicone flexible acoustic surround which permitted increased excursion of the diaphragm member in a " z "- axis with respect to the plane of the sound collecting area.

From the 1970s onwards, the area went through urban decline, and many historical buildings fell into disrepair.

The turning point occurred in the 1970s, when notaphily was established as a separate area by collectors.

The north Pennines were also considered for designation as a national park in the 1970s but the proposal was thought to be administratively too difficult because the area was administered by 5 different county councils.

The following information applied to residential local telephone service in the Detroit, Michigan area during the 1970s and 1980s.

PRT was a major area of study in the 1960s and 1970s.

Although ' American Stores ' food divisions retained an operating presence in their geographical locations and other centralized marketing, merchandising and other staff functions were relocated between 1992 and 1998 from Oak Brook, Illinois to Salt Lake City to occupy the then-new American Stores Tower, pharmacy operations were relocated to Scottsdale Arizona with certain pharmacy systems-related resources continuing to operate from the Chicago area after being relocated to 3030 Cullerton Drive in Franklin Park, Illinois, the location that previously served as Osco Drug's divisional headquarters prior to its relocation to its new purpose-built office facilities at 1818 Swift Drive in Oak Brook, Illinois ' Windsor Office Park during the early 1970s.

* Robert Garrow, serial killer in the Syracuse area in the 1970s.

In the 1970s, Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky inaugurated the Vienna International Centre, a new area of the city created to host international institutions.

Over the years, many Cajuns and Creoles also migrated to the Beaumont and Port Arthur area of Southeast Texas, in especially large numbers as they followed oil-related jobs in the 1970s and 1980s, when oil companies moved jobs from Louisiana to Texas.

The first hints of glass cockpits emerged in the 1970s when flight-worthy cathode ray tubes ( CRT ) screens began to replace electromechanical displays, gauges and instruments.

In the early 1970s, following the revival of Asatru in Iceland, Stephen McNallen, a former U. S. Army Airborne Ranger, began publishing a newsletter titled The Runestone.

A wave of celebrity chefs began perhaps with Julia Child and Graham Kerr in the 1970s, with many more following after the rise of cable channels like Food Network.

In the 1970s, historians began to question the authenticity of Wirt's reconstruction.

In the 1970s many of these techniques began to be used together to achieve a complete characterization of samples.

He changed his surname from Einstein ( to avoid confusion with the famous physicist ) and began a comedy career that quickly made him a regular on variety and talk shows during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Brazil's push for nationalization of the computer-related industry in the 1970s also began with the navy, which could not decipher the " black box " computerized range-finding and firing mechanisms on the British frigates they had purchased, and did not want to be dependent on imported maintenance.

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 King-James-Only Movement — or more correctly, movements, since it has many variations — became a divisive force in fundamentalism only as conservative modern Bible translations, such as the New American Standard Bible ( NASB ) and the New International Version ( NIV ) began to appear in the 1970s.

The military junta began to change during the late 1970s.

The term began to be widely used during the Chicano Movement, mainly among Mexican Americans, especially in the movement's peak in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Mountain biking began in the 1970s, originally as a downhill sport, practised on customized cruiser bikes around Mount Tamalpais.

Since the 1970s Capoeira masters began to emigrate and teach it in other countries.

In the 1970s a mixed style began to take form, with practitioners taking the aspects they considered more important from both Regional and Angola.

In the early 1970s, efficient ab initio computer programs such as ATMOL, Gaussian, IBMOL, and POLYAYTOM, began to be used to speed up ab initio calculations of molecular orbitals.

" During the 1970s, widely different methods began to be seen as part of a new emerging discipline of computational chemistry.

The economy began to change visibly during the 1970s as tourism gained in importance.

Guest began his career in theatre during the early 1970s with one of his earliest professional performances being the role of Norman in Michael Weller's Moonchildren for the play's American premiere at the Arena Stage in Washington D. C. in November 1971.

When, in the 1970s and 1980s, Jürgen Habermas redefined critical social theory as a theory of communication, i. e. communicative competence and communicative rationality on the one hand, distorted communication on the other, the two versions of critical theory began to overlap or intertwine to a much greater degree than before.

In the 1970s, numerous companies began to sell miniature figures specifically for Dungeons & Dragons and similar games.

In the mid 1970s, Guinness began to list speed records achieved using any drinking vessel.

However, it would not be until the early 1970s that courses began to crop up in various places in the Midwest and the East Coast ( some perhaps through Sappenfield's promotion efforts, others probably independently envisioned ).

The D-Plan was instituted in the early 1970s at the same time that Dartmouth began accepting female undergraduates.

The third wave began in the 1970s as land shortages intensified and the pool of educated labor greatly exceeded job openings in Nepal.

Japanese Canadian taiko began in the 1970s with Katari Taiko and was inspired by the San Jose Taiko group.