The period since the 1980s saw many breweries absorbed by, or becoming by take-overs larger companies in the food, hotel or property sectors.

By the 1980s many anthropologists had absorbed the Boasian critique of moral relativism, were ready to reevaluate the origins and uses of cultural relativism.

The Alabama Midland was absorbed by the Atlantic Coast Line which merged in the 1980s with Seaboard Air Line to form the Seaboard Coast Line.

Chart House eventually spun off its Burger King operations in the early 1980s into a holding company called DiversiFoods, which in turn was acquired by Pillsbury in 1984 and absorbed into Burger King's operations.

By the mid 1970s and early 1980s, the original wave of singer-songwriters had largely been absorbed into a more general pop or soft rock format, but some new artists in the singer-songwriter tradition ( including Billy Joel, Stevie Wonder, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, Mark Heard, Lucinda Williams, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Patti Smith, Elvis Costello, Cyndi Lauper, Kate Bush, Rickie Lee Jones, Stevie Nicks, Cheryl Wheeler, Loudon Wainwright III, The Roches and Warren Zevon ) continued to emerge, and in other cases rock and even punk rock artists such as Peter Case, Paul Collins and Paul Westerberg transitioned to careers as solo singer-songwriters.

This was taken over by Stevenson's of Spath in the mid 1980s and in turn was absorbed by Arriva.

It was founded in 2001 by Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase as a power base ; it absorbed most of the Christian Democratic Alliance and other conservative groupings, and its endorsement by the Great Council of Chiefs ( Bose Levu Vakaturaga ) caused it to be widely seen as the successor to the Alliance, the former ruling party that had dominated Fijian politics from the 1960s to the 1980s.

By the late 1970s and early 1980s the original wave of singer-songwriters had largely been absorbed into a more general pop or soft rock format, but some new artists in the singer-songwriter tradition ( including Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, Mark Heard, Lucinda Williams, Patti Smith, Kate Bush, Rickie Lee Jones, Stevie Nicks, Cheryl Wheeler and Warren Zevon ) continued to emerge, and in other cases rock and even punk rock artists such as Peter Case, Paul Collins and Paul Westerberg transitioned to careers as solo singer-songwriters.

Originally a small village near Bromsgrove, it has been absorbed into Bromsgrove by new housing developments since the 1980s.

He absorbed jazz fusion at clubs such as Legends in Manchester, where the dancefloor in the early 1980s inspired him to study contemporary dance.

A shipbreakers yard ceased trading in the 1980s and has been absorbed into the naval base.

While it was absorbed into the larger suburban area of Dublin ( including becoming the postal district Dublin 24 in the late 1980s ), Tallaght has developed a distinctive identity, arising largely from its rapid growth during recent decades, and now has a thriving local arts, cultural, sports, and economic outlook.

Studies in the 1970s and 1980s resulted in several formerly separate genera being absorbed into Echinopsis:

The boom and bust of the 1980s was another turbulent time for banks, with some establishing leading market positions, and others being absorbed by the larger banks.

It was absorbed into the National Health Service ( NHS ) in 1948, and in the 1980s began pioneering work into the treatment of patients with HIV / AIDS, which it continues.

Large housing developments of the 1960s and 1970s around Giggetty and Brickbridge, to the west, were followed by a still larger westward extension in the Poolhouse estate of the 1980s, which absorbed the former Heath Mill.

St. Charles-Greenwood had its own neighborhood association in the 1980s, but was then absorbed into Virginia Highland.

In Hong Kong, those early think tanks established in the late 1980s and early 1990s focused on the political development including first direct Legislative Council members election in 1991 and the political framework of " One Country, Two Systems " manifested in the Sino-British Joint Declaration.

The Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway crossed the north-east part of the parish until the 1980s.

As the expiration date of the lease neared in the 1980s, talks between the United Kingdom and the People's Republic of China led to the signing of the Sino-British Joint Declaration ( 1984 ), in which the whole of Hong Kong would be returned, instead of only the New Territories.

The Joint Primary Aircraft Training System ( JPATS ) was an aircraft procurement program of the United States in the 1990s by the United States Air Force and United States Navy, a merger of 1980s era training aircraft programs.

Since the early 1980s the concept of combined operations had been referred to by NATO and in particular by the United States Department of Defence as joint operations, as exemplified by the NATO Joint Operations Centre previously located in Kanne ( Belgium ) north of Fort Eben-Emael.

Two of ESC's most well-known developments were the Airborne Warning and Control System ( AWACS ), developed in the 1970s, and the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System ( JointSTARS ), developed in the 1980s.

It was joined in the later 1980s by the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System ( Joint STARS ).

The Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force of the early 1980s led to this prototype desert livery shown on this Little Rock based C-130E 64-0557 assigned to the 314th TAW

Joint compound mixes manufactured prior to the 1980s often contained a complex mixture of several substances.

By the early 1980s there was increasing dissatisfaction among both fans and wrestlers with the direction of Joint Promotions ( which was increasingly centred around Big Daddy ), which resulted in a steady flow of top UK talent into All Star Wrestling ( as it was by then renamed ) and away from Joint and the TV spotlight.

The former Dearne Valley line was closed though a short link was preserved from the South Yorkshire Joint to the Edlington Colliery, though this was later closed when the colliery was closed in the 1980s.

Then in the 1980s the Gokongwei Group headed by taipan John Gokongwei entered the Joint Venture buying about 33 % of PCIBank shares then he appointed Rafael Buenaventura to head PCIBank as President and CEO.

At its peak size in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Project had a presence at around 30 sites, located at most of the UK universities with an astronomy department, plus facilities at the Joint Astronomy Centre, the home of UKIRT and the JCMT in Hawai ' i. The number of active developers fluctuated between five and more than a dozen.

In the 1980s the Soviet Union acknowledged the development of the Advanced Tactical Fighter in the USA and began the development of an equivalent fighter.

The Advanced Tactical Fighter program of the 1980s was the basis of the Project Supernova contest between the YF-19 and YF-21.

The Advanced Tactical Fighter ( ATF ) was a demonstration and validation program undertaken by the United States Air Force to develop a next-generation air superiority fighter to counter emerging worldwide threats, including Soviet Sukhoi Su-27 and Mikoyan MiG-29 fighters under development in the 1980s.

During the late 1980s, the 917 TFG group was upgraded to wing status and renamed the 917th Tactical Fighter Wing ( 917 TFW ).

In the late 1980s, the USAFE 303d Tactical Missile Wing was reactivated at Molesworth with BGM-109G Gryphon Ground Launched Cruise Missiles ( GLCMs ).

As staff officer in the 1980s, he studied and taught at Command and Staff College and National Defense University.

Throughout the 1980s the General Command actively cooperated with the nascent Hezbollah paramilitary group ( made mostly of Shia Muslims ) dedicated to armed struggle against Israel, as well as with Syria and Iran, both of whom fund and arm Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

The Dutchess County Airport in nearby Wappinger services general aviation, although it once had scheduled air carrier service by Colonial Airlines in the 1950s and commuter airline service by Command Airways and others in the 1960s – 1980s.

The only units known to have coins in the US Military prior to the creation of the United States Special Operations Command ( USSOCOM ) in the 1980s were the " green berets " or Army Special Forces.

The Canadian Forces continued to use Goose Bay for staging interceptor aircraft, however Canadian Forces Air Command concentrated on purchasing the new CF-18 interceptor in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

* USNS Maumee ( T-AO-149 ), a U. S. Navy fleet oiler in non-commissioned service with the Military Sea Transportation Service and Military Sealift Command from 1956 until the 1980s.

In the 1960s – 1980s, the airport had commuter airline service by Command Airways, Colgan Airways, Air North, and others.

Carrier Command is a landmark 1980s computer game available on Amiga, Atari ST, PC, ZX Spectrum, Apple Macintosh, Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC computers.

Through the 1980s Franks served with the Army Staff in the Pentagon, commanded 1st Squadron, 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment at Fort Bliss, served in the Office of the Army Chief of Staff, spent a year at the national War College, held several high-level positions in the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command, and, finally, commanded the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, assigned to the East German frontier as the V Corps covering force.

In the 1980s, he taught military history at the IDF Command and Staff College.