* American basketball player Michael Jordan bursts onto the scene in the NBA during the 1980s, bringing a surge in popularity for the sport and becoming one of the most beloved sports icons in the United States.

During the 1980s Jordan played with Quincy Jones, Michal Urbaniak, and Richie Cole.

Jordan witnessed some of the most severe protests and social upheavals in its history during the 1980s, protests in Jordanian universities especially Yarmouk University and urban areas protested inflation and lack of political freedom.

Jordan continued to have economic influence over the West Bank until the 1980s, when King Hussein unilaterally cut the link between his kingdom and its residents and the Palestinians of the West Bank.

During the 1980s and 1990s, Ritts photographed celebrities such as Diana Ross, Christopher Reeve, Belinda Carlisle, Michael Jackson, Britney Spears, Madonna, Mariah Carey, Michael Jordan, Dalai Lama, Mikhail Gorbachev, Francesco Clemente, George Clooney, Cher, Mel Gibson, Elizabeth Taylor, Brad Pitt, Ronald Reagan, Julia Roberts, Steven Hawking, Nicole Kidman, Edward Norton, Tom Cruise, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dizzy Gillespie, Elton John, Annette Benning, Antonio Banderas, Richard Gere, Jack Nicholson, Cindy Crawford, and Tina Turner.

In the late 1980s, JINSA underwent a profound repurposing of mission which, although retaining the interest in maintaining and strengthening the U. S .- Israeli defense relationship, widened its focus to general U. S. defense and foreign policy, with missions and meetings with national leaders and military officials from countries as diverse as Ethiopia, Belgium, South Korea, India, Bulgaria, Italy, the Republic of China, Uzbekistan, Costa Rica, Spain, Eritrea, Jordan, the People's Republic of China, Hungary, United Kingdom and Germany, to name a few.

During the 1980s two-handed tapping developed much further with many players such as Stanley Jordan and Enver Izmaylov using a 2 or more finger tapping technique.

It was designed by Luca Cardelli, James Donahue, Lucille Glassman, Mick Jordan ( before at the Olivetti Software Technology Laboratory ), Bill Kalsow and Greg Nelson at the Digital Equipment Corporation ( DEC ) Systems Research Center ( SRC ) and the Olivetti Research Center ( ORC ) in the late 1980s.

Gospel music became popular in Zimbabwe in the late 1980s with stars like Jordan Chataika Freedom Sengwayo, Mechanic Manyeruke and Jonathan Wutawunashe was the first star of Zimbabwean gospel, and the genre has continued to grow in popularity.

Other prominent conjoint analysis pioneers include professor V. “ Seenu ” Srinivasan of Stanford University who developed a linear programming ( LINMAP ) procedure for rank ordered data as well as a self-explicated approach, Richard Johnson ( founder of Sawtooth Software ) who developed the Adaptive Conjoint Analysis technique in the 1980s and Jordan Louviere ( University of Iowa ) who invented and developed Choice-based approaches to conjoint analysis and related techniques such as MaxDiff.

In addition, some Quebec artists also included from the 1960s to the 1980s Lewis Furey, Leonard Cohen, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Men Without Hats, Norman Iceberg, Rational Youth, Corey Hart, Julie Masse, Martine St-Clair, Nuance, Marjo, Offenbach, The Box, Gino Vannelli, Luba, Jacynthe, France Joli, Sass Jordan and Grimskunk, who have frequently recorded both English and French material.

Leroy " Lonnie " Jordan ( born November 21, 1948 in San Diego, California ) was a founding member of War, an American funk band in the 1970s and 1980s.

The Nike capture of soon-to-be superstar basketball protege Michael Jordan from rivals Adidas in 1984 proved to be a huge turning point, as Nike dominated the urban streetwear sneaker market in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

In Superman & Batman: Generations-an AU where all heroes are shown aging in real-time -, Sinestro attacks Earth to try and eliminate Hal Jordan-who here went into politics rather than heroism, rising to the position of President in the 1980s -, but is defeated when Jordan dons Alan Scott's ring, having realised that the rings actually have no vulnerabilities except what the user believes they possess.

More than 90 percent of population in Jordan adhered to Sunni Islam in the late 1980s.

For example, in the 1980s in a village in northern Jordan, two elderly shaykhs ( who also were brothers ) were famous for their abilities in specific areas: one was skilled in warding off illness among children ; the other was sought for his skills in curing infertility.

Jordan was a student of David E. Rumelhart and a member of the PDP Group at the University of California, San Diego in the 1980s.

The success translated into fan support — the team was averaging 7, 500 fans per game by the end of the 1980s, including such state and national leaders as future governor Ann Richards and US Congresswoman Barbara Jordan.

Land managers, laypeople, and stewards have been practicing ecological restoration or ecological management for many hundreds, if not thousands of years, yet the scientific field of " restoration ecology " was only first formally identified and coined in the late 1980s, by John Aber and William Jordan.

In the 1980s, Jordan was signed to RCA for two records.

*-20 supplied by Jordan in the late 1970s / early 1980s.

After Jordan gave up being Green Lantern in the 1980s, the Guardians selected Stewart for full time duty.

The rivalry originated in the late 1980s and was one of the most intense in NBA history for a couple of years, when Michael Jordan evolved into one of the league's best players and the Pistons became a major contender.

In the 1980s and 90 ’ s, as a cultural ambassador for the United States Information Agency, he traveled throughout South Asia, Egypt, Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian West Bank.

In the late 1980s, the warm up stretches performed by Merv Hughes would often be mimicked by the crowd at Bay 13.

Initially, as an armed guerrilla organization, the PLO was responsible for terrorist activities performed against Israel in the 1970s and early 1980s.

Rear engined models such as the Škoda 105 / 120, Estelle and Rapid sold steadily and performed well against more modern makes in races such as the RAC Rally in the 1970s and 1980s.

The best-documented creations of new species in the laboratory were performed in the late 1980s.

In the mid 1980s, Curry performed in The Rivals ( Bob Acres 1983 ) and in several plays with the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain, including The Threepenny Opera ( MacHeath 1986 ), Dalliance ( Theodore 1986 ), and Love For Love ( Tattle 1985 ).

* The Beiderbecke Trilogy, a three-part 1980s British ( Yorkshire Television ) television series ( The Beiderbecke Affair, The Beiderbecke Tapes and The Beiderbecke Connection ) with a jazz soundtrack in the Beiderbecke stye performed by Frank Ricotti and cornetist Kenny Baker, as the hero is a Beiderbecke fan.

During the 1980s he toured the United States extensively and performed a number of high profile television appearances.

By the mid 1980s, top gymnasts routinely performed flight series and multiple aerial elements on beam.

This can be seen in his television plays for LWT in the late 1970s and the BBC in the early 1980s and in the 1987 Talking Heads series of monologues for television which were later performed at the Comedy Theatre in London in 1992.

Bradman is immortalised in three popular songs from different eras, " Our Don Bradman " ( 1930s, by Jack O ' Hagan ), " Bradman " ( 1980s, by Paul Kelly ), and " Sir Don ", ( a tribute by John Williamson performed at Bradman's memorial service ).

In the 1970s and 1980s, industrial noise groups like Current 93, Hafler Trio, Throbbing Gristle, Coil, Laibach, Steven Stapleton, Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth, Smegma, Nurse with Wound, Einstürzende Neubauten, The Haters, and The New Blockaders performed industrial noise music mixing loud metal percussion, guitars, and unconventional " instruments " ( such as jackhammers and bones ) in elaborate stage performances.

* During the bands early 1980s concerts they often performed cover songs such as, " Can't You See-The Marshall Tucker Band, Honky Tonk Women-The Rolling Stones, and Sweet Home Alabama-Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Since the band was formed in the late 1980s, they have only performed about six or seven live concerts.

The trio were ardent followers of the punk rock and post-punk music scene during the late 1970s and early 1980s and often performed impromptu sets or backing vocals at gigs for such bands as The Monochrome Set, Iggy Pop, The Jam, Department S and The Nipple Erectors.

Archaeological excavations performed by Dr. David Moore, during the early 1980s, revealed the earliest inhabitants of McDowell County to be from the Mississippian and Woodland eras.

Beckley and Bunnell spent the latter half of the 1980s focusing on their live show, which they performed well over 100 times a year around the world.

On July 11, 2008, the band performed at the 1980s hard rock-themed Rocklahoma festival at Pryor, Oklahoma.

After occasional productions in the early 1980s, the play was revived for the Theatre Royal Hanley tour in 1984 and still is performed regularly in the U. K.

Stamos, who plays the drums, keyboards, guitar, bass and various percussion instruments, has occasionally performed with Mike Love's incarnation of The Beach Boys, dating back to the 1980s.

In 1999, the group performed on the A & E Network show Live by Request, and in that same year Maurice announced that the real reason for his ending his touring days in 1995 was because he had contracted Parkinson's disease in the late 1980s, which made it increasingly difficult for him over the years to handle comfortably the rigors of touring.

Before the 1980s, practically all typesetting for publishers and advertisers was performed by specialist typesetting companies.

In the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, the Communist regime in the country started to tolerate the Bulgarian " bards ", promoting the so-called " political songs ", performed usually by one-man bands.

In the early 1970s both Black Sabbath and Pentagram ( also as side band Bedemon ) composed and performed this heavy and dark music, which would in the 1980s begin to be known and referred to as doom metal by subsequent musicians, critics and fans.

Jump blues was revived in the 1980s by artists such as Joe Jackson and Brian Setzer, and is performed today by those including Roomful of Blues and Mitch Woods and His Rocket 88s.

A sketch featuring the character was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe in the early 1980s.