In the 1980s, Crowe and friend Billy Dean Cochran formed a band, " Roman Antix ", which later evolved into the Australian rock band 30 Odd Foot of Grunts ( abbreviated to TOFOG ).

During the 1980s NZ also had the services of one of its best ever batsman, Martin Crowe and a number of good players such as John Wright, Bruce Edgar, John F. Reid, Andrew Jones, Geoff Howarth, Jeremy Coney, Ian Smith, John Bracewell, Lance Cairns, Stephen Boock, and Ewen Chatfield, who were capable of playing the occasional match winning performance and consistently making a valuable contribution to a Test match.

Crowe represented New Zealand from the early 1980s until his retirement in 1996 as a right-handed batsman.

" Nobody who saw him at the crease would dispute his own assessment that he could have increased his batting average by half again if he had played in the 1980s side with Richard Hadlee and Martin Crowe.

Style Wars is still recognized as the most prolific film representation of what was going on within the young hip hop culture of the early 1980s.

For example decades later in the 1980s, the myth was still going strong.

* In Japan the sport was widely popular and was regularly broadcasted on television before going into a dark period during the 1980s.

The 1980s saw the rise of more general-purpose wearable computers that fit the modern definition of " computer " by going beyond task-specific hardware to more general-purpose ( e. g. reprogrammable by the user ) devices.

In addition to being an actor, Villechaize became an active member of a movement in 1970s and 1980s California to deal with child abuse and neglect, often going to crime scenes himself to help comfort abuse victims.

The proposal was seen as going beyond the Sagebrush Rebellion of the 1970s and 1980s and the liberalized permitting policies of the George W. Bush administration in the 2000s.

According to Terri McLean, author of New Harmonies, old-guard churches ( United Methodist is given as an example ) of the late 1990s were experiencing a rapid decline in membership and were under threat of disbandment within the next decade, a trend that has been going on since the 1980s.

In the mid 1980s the oil market was in a terrible slump, with prices going lower daily.

Suburban sprawl got going post WWII to boost Exeter's population and the Route 422 Bypass to King of Prussia was completed in the 1980s.

He later became one of the most important members of the anime studio Sunrise, going on to direct numerous anime through the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.

Yet, according to the popular press, by the 1980s Chrysler's reputation was totally shot, and by Lutz's view only dramatic action was going to change that.

The Swiss military actually redesigned their 5. 56 mm assault rifle bullet to prevent this, to more fully comply with the spirit of the Hague Convention, though according to some sources the present GP90 5. 56x45mm Swiss assault rifle ammunition was actually designed as an armor-piercing bullet, because in the 1980s it was perceived that the Soviets and their Warsaw Pact allies were going to issue soft body armor to infantry units on a wide basis, but after the end of the Cold War, the Bofors corporation, having spent a great deal of money on developing the new bullet, changed the sales pitch in order to sell it to the Swiss government.

The O ' Reillys separated in the late 1980s, having remained together through years of many rumours of O ' Reilly affairs but apparently going their separate ways over O ' Reilly's hectic social life, and Susan O ' Reilly settled in London, where she remains, in a house bought for her by O ' Reilly.

The 1987 and 1989 games were two of four straight matchups of teams ranked in the AP Top 10 going into the bowl season to close out the 1980s.

The modern trend of exposing the navel has usually been confined to women, apart from a 1980s fashion male belly-button shirt fad, although males have long exposed their navels when going shirtless, such as when swimming.

The band was initially fronted by Peter Barton, who has a long history, going back to the early 1980s, of playing with resurrected famous acts, including The Animals, The Hollies and Lieutenant Pigeon.

During the 1980s, the station would remain on air during morning / afternoon academic hours, going off air in the evening and weekends unless DJs were willing to volunteer.

Pete was heavily involved in the seventies reggae scene before going on to become a major pop producer in the 1980s.

Success came in the late 1980s when promotion to the Premier League was achieved in 1986 and 1988, going up as First Division champions on each occasion, but like the previous promotions the spell in the top division was for one season only.

This writing partnership was successful with Naylor and Grant going on to co-write and produce numerous BBC television series throughout the 1980s and 1990s.

During the 1970s and early 1980s, while going strong with his announcing duties on Price and Match, he announced nine other shorter-lived game shows, including Now You See It, Mindreaders, Double Dare, and a revival of Tattletales, all of which shows were Goodson-Todman productions.

The Marx assets were liquidated in the early 1980s, with some trademarks and molding tools going to a few other toy manufacturers of the time, including the Mego Corporation.

Yes, its decision to focus on the pornography business in the San Fernando Valley in the 1970s and 1980s is nerviness itself, but more impressive is the film's sureness of touch, its ability to be empathetic, nonjudgmental and gently satirical, to understand what is going on beneath the surface of this raunchy Nashville-esque universe and to deftly relate it to our own ... Perhaps the most exciting thing about Boogie Nights is the ease with which writer-director Anderson ... spins out this complex web.

In the 1980s the band began performing shows for local charities, known as the " Strike up the Band " shows and this continues today, albeit under the guise of the " Music at Midday " shows which the band performs six times a year, with proceeds going to local charities.

) In the late 1980s, a handful of BBS developers implemented multitasking communications routines which, although run under MS-DOS, allowed multiple phone lines and multiple users to connect to the same physical BBS computer.

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.

Harvard Square was originally the northwestern terminus of the Red Line and a major transfer point to streetcars that also operated in a short tunnel — which is still a major bus terminal, although the area under the Square was reconfigured dramatically in the 1980s when the Red Line was extended.

However, in the 1980s, under the leadership of Margaret Thatcher, and the influence of Keith Joseph, there was a dramatic shift in the ideological direction of British conservatism, with a movement towards free-market economic policies.

Election defeats under, first, Michael Foot, then Neil Kinnock, led Labour to abandon the policy in the late 1980s.

Ecuador's foreign policy goals under the Borja government in the late 1980s were more diversified than those of the Febres Cordero administration, which closely identified with the United States.

Developed in the 1960s, tourism declined greatly during the later 1970s and the 1980s under the military government.

This has been popularized by the CNN Headline News TV channel, which, during the 1980s and 1990s, used to frequently include such a fact under the heading " factoid " during newscasts.

No really adequate recording has been made of Schmidt's second and last opera Fredigundis, of which there has been but one " unauthorized " release in the early 1980s on the Voce Label of an Austrian Radio broadcast of a 1979 Vienna performance under the direction of Ernst Märzendorfer.

The alliance was especially close in the late 1980s and early 1990s under the leadership of Christian Democrat Helmut Kohl and Socialist François Mitterrand.

In the late 1980s, the Soviet government came under increased criticism, as did Leninist ideology ( which Gorbachev had attempted to preserve as the foundation for reform ), and members of the Soviet population were more outspoken in their view that the Soviet government had become a failure.

Allegations emerged of drug trafficking reaching into the upper echelons of government, as it had done under the military regimes of the 1980s and early 1990s ( illegal drug trade in Haiti ).

The Brabham team continued in Formula One, winning two further drivers ' championships in the early 1980s under Bernie Ecclestone's ownership.

VAZ-2105, still based on the 2101 but updated to 1980s styling, was introduced in 1980 and was marketed outside the Soviet Union under the Riva or Laika names, depending on country.

Only 0. 93m hectares ( ha ) were under irrigation in the late 1980s.

* The Integral Fast Reactor ( IFR ) was built, tested and evaluated during the 1980s and then retired under the Clinton administration in the 1990s due to nuclear non-proliferation policies of the administration.

For example, before the 2007 federal election, which Labor won, he criticised the then opposition industrial relations spokesperson Julia Gillard, saying she lacked an understanding of principles such as enterprise-bargaining set under his government in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

However, it was in the 1980s under the leaderships of Margaret Thatcher in the UK and Ronald Reagan in the USA, that privatization gained worldwide momentum.

The United Kingdom's largest public-share offerings were privatizations of British Telecom and British Gas during the 1980s under the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher, when many state-run firms were sold off to the private sector.

In the 1980s, under the leadership of Chief Naval Commander Liu Huaqing, the navy developed into a regional naval power, though naval construction continued at a level somewhat below the 1970s rate.

In the 1980s, the group was broken up by Italian investigators, with the aid of several leaders under arrest who turned pentito and assisted the authorities in capturing the other members.

Much of the credit for the resolution of the stagflation is given to two causes: a three year contraction of the money supply by the Federal Reserve Board under Paul Volcker, initiated in the last year of Carter's presidency, and long term easing of supply and pricing in oil during the 1980s oil glut.

It phased out the politicised stories of the 1980s, shifting the emphasis to controversial and sensationalist stories such as child rape, sibling incest, religious cults, and drug addiction, including the infamous ' body under the patio ' storyline which ran from 1993 – 95, and gave the serial its highest ever viewing figures of 9 million.

The follow-up test in November 1980s " Dauphin " appeared to be a success, and plans were made for a major series of experiments in the early 1980s under " Excalibur ".