By the 1980s, several independent publishers, such as Pacific, Eclipse, First, Comico, and Fantagraphics had started releasing a wide range of styles and formats — from color superhero, detective, and science fiction comic books to black-and-white magazine-format stories of Latin American magical realism.

In the 1980s, geologists found evidence that an earthquake, powerful enough to send a tsunami all the way to Japan, hit the American Pacific Northwest in 1700.

Health-related work continued to be a focus at Pacific Northwest well into the 1980s.

* The US Navy continued to use a 7094 at Pacific Missile Test Center, Point Mugu, California through much of the 1980s, although a " retirement " ceremony was held in July 1982.

During the 1980s, Dubai was a stopping point for airlines such as Air India, Cathay Pacific, Singapore Airlines, Malaysia Airlines and others travelling between Asia and Europe that needed a refuelling point in the Persian Gulf.

Farnsworth became well known in the Pacific Northwest for portraying the groundskeeper who saw the mythical " Artesians " in the 1980s Olympia Beer ad campaign.

During the 1980s and 1990s, a network of buoys in the central and eastern tropical Pacific ocean helped study the El Niño-Southern Oscillation.

In the early 1980s, Pacific Bearing's founder, Robert Schroeder, invented the first bi-material plain bearing which was size interchangeable with linear ball bearings.

It was later discovered that Cathay Pacific was concentrating on a boom in travel elsewhere in the 1980s, and left the undeveloped mainland China market to Dragonair.

CN's railway network in the late 1980s consisted of the company's Canadian trackage, along with the following U. S. subsidiary lines: Grand Trunk Western Railroad ( GTW ) operating in Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois ; Duluth, Winnipeg and Pacific Railway ( DWP ) operating in Minnesota ; Central Vermont Railway ( CV ) operating down the Connecticut River valley from Quebec to Long Island Sound ; and a former GT line to Portland, Maine, known informally as the Grand Trunk Eastern, sold to a short-line operator in 1989.

Following the transfer of VMFAT-101 to MCAS El Toro, California in the 1980s, MCAS Yuma became the principal Fleet Marine Force Pacific operating base for the AV-8 Harrier and AV-8B Harrier II under the cognizance of Marine Aircraft Group 13 ( MAG-13 ).

Anchorage was a common stopover for passengers flying to East Asia from the 1960s to the 1980s because Chinese and Soviet airspace were off-limits and because the first generation of jets and widebody airliners did not have the range to fly nonstop across the Pacific Ocean.

In the 1980s, Lavender expanded his focus as an historian, writing about the Pacific Northwest in Fort Vancouver ( 1981 ), Wyoming in Fort Laramie ( 1984 ), Utah and Arizona in Colorado River Country ( 1982 ) and River Runners of the Grand Canyon ( 1985 ), California in California: A Place, a People, a Dream ( 1986 ) and California: Land of New Beginnings ( 1987 ), and Colorado in The Telluride Story ( 1987 ).

Train order traffic control was used in Canada until the late 1980s on the Algoma Central Railway and some spurs of the Canadian Pacific Railway.

Pacific Northwest Wrestling ( PNW ) was one of the main NWA territories into the 1980s, but, due to the aging of promoter Don Owen and dwindling profit, it closed down in 1992.

This led in one direction to the blues-rock tradition of the Robert Cray Band and Curtis Salgado, and in another direction to the hardcore punk scene of the early 1980s Pacific Northwest, led by the Wipers in Portland and like-minded bands in Seattle and Vancouver, BC.

The company was taken over by Adelaide Steamship Company ( AdSteam ) in the late 1980s, and then Pacific Dunlop ( now known as Ansell ) upon AdSteam's collapse.

In the 1980s, Fijian stars like Laisa Vulakoro and Lagani Rabukawaqa became popular across the Pacific.

Although Canadian Pacific was not allowed scheduled routes to many European countries, they developed extensive charter flights ( operated mainly in summertime ) beginning in the mid 1960s and through the 1970s and 1980s to Britain, France, Germany and other European points which permitted them to make some access to these markets.

Canada's national intercity passenger railway, VIA Rail Canada, does not currently operate any bilevel cars in its rolling stock fleet although during the late 1980s and early 1990s it had examined purchasing Superliner II equipment ; this did not occur as the company endured a significant budget cut in 1990 and opted to instead rebuild the former Canadian Pacific Railway stainless steel passenger car fleet produced by the Budd Company.

Grunge music, and the culture marketed around it, was born out of the Pacific Northwest American states of Washington and Oregon in the 1980s.

The 1980s saw the rise of " dolphin-friendly " tuna capture methods in order to save millions of the species in the eastern Pacific Ocean and it is now one of the most abundant dolphin species in the world.

It is an extremophile found only at hydrothermal vents in the Pacific Ocean, discovered in the early 1980s off the Galápagos Islands by French marine biologists.

Pacific Science Center grew dramatically in the 1980s.

During the 1970s and 1980s, gang activity was also centered in the western neighborhoods of Rose Park, Poplar Grove, and Glendale.

Even streets which were down at heel in the 1980s are now top-end retail avenues, including parts of Westbourne Grove and Ledbury Road, while Portobello Road has become one of London's prime tourist attractions.

Since the mid 1980s, there have been teen comedies and teen dramas such as in the UK ; Byker Grove ( 1989-2006 ) and Grange Hill ( 1978-2008 ) and that are geared toward older children ( typically between the ages of 12 and 15 ).

With Grove managing development and promotion of Intel's microprocessors, they would, in the 1980s, be used to power all IBM PCs as well as those of IBM's competitors.

Walnut Grove may be the most recognized name of all the towns Wilder wrote about in her books ( although it is the only town she did not mention by name ) because Michael Landon's television series Little House on the Prairie of the 1970s and 1980s was set here.

The company made gorgeous Bisbee Blue and Villa Grove inlay Turquoise Jewelry up until the 1980s.

The freeway was completed in the late 1980s to connect I-270 to the Shady Grove Metro station.

The I-370 freeway opened in the late 1980s to connect I-270 to the Shady Grove Metro station.

As one of the first ambient house albums, The Grove Dictionary of Music describes it as " a 1980s pop culture version of musique concrète ".

The Saxon Grove and Tailby Drive residential estate was built on the site in the late 1980s ( Named after Percy Tailby, co-owner of The Blue Bus Service )

The " Ooh Gary Davies on your radio " jingle, was by the 1980s band Kane Gang, and was developed into the Byker Grove theme tune for BBC Television.

In 2007, The Members were reunited at The Inn on the Green, Ladbroke Grove, London, MC'd by Phill Jupitus under his 1980s performance poet stage name of “ Porky The Poet ”.

In the early 1980s, Fernandez briefly coached amateur boxers at the Elizabeth Virrick Gym in Coconut Grove, Florida

Prior to dereliction, some of the buildings on the campus previously hosted Wrexham & East Denbighshire War Memorial Hospital up until the late 1980s, and another dating back to 1902 was previously Grove Park Grammar School, which again closed in the 1980s.

The series is set in Los Angeles in the 1980s and opens with Dagmar Laine, a transsexual prostitute and lover to former 1950s film star Beverly Grove, searching for a reel of film taken from the Vatican's collection of pornography.

The land enclosed by the Grand Union Canal, Midland Main Line and former Wigston to Rugby line started to be developed around Lansdowne Grove at the start of the twentieth century with town houses becoming a conservation area in the late 1980s early 1990s, and later a sizeable council estate, industrial estate and in the 1990s another large housing estate.

In the late 1980s and 1990s authors such as George Marcus and James Clifford pondered ethnographic authority, in particular how and why anthropological knowledge was possible and authoritative.

During the 1960s the use of manual sign language grew greatly, but it was not until the 1980s that AAC began to emerge as an area in its own right.

Amber DRPG was created in the 1980s, and is much more focused on relationships and roleplaying than most of the roleplaying games of that era.

“ Baby Signs ” was developed by Dr. Linda Acredolo and Dr. Susan Goodwyn in the early 1980s, and has become a persistent trend in child development.

It was also used as the entrance theme for Ricky Steamboat in pro wrestling of the mid 1980s.

Casa Milà was in poor condition in the early 1980s.

The Delta was developed in the 1980s for commercialization by British marine manufacturer Simpson-Lawrence.

When the valley was flooded by the Haditha Dam at Haditha in 1984-85, the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities cut it into sections, and removed it to the new ' Anah where it was re-erected at the end of the 1980s.

The best selling model, the Amiga 500, was introduced in 1987 and became the leading home computer of the late 1980s and early 1990s in much of Western Europe.

Many states have Arbor Day although only Victoria has Arbor Week, which was suggested by Premier Dick Hamer in the 1980s.

This was notably an issue in the 1980s, when the Asatru Free Assembly disintegrated as a result of tensions between the folkish and the non-folkish factions.

AppleTalk was released for the original Macintosh in 1985, and was the primary protocol used by Apple devices through the 1980s and 90s.

The company received unwanted media publicity in the 1980s when rumors spread that the moon-and-stars logo was a satanic symbol.

The company was badly hit by the economic contraction of the early 1980s as worldwide sales of Aston Martin shrank to three per week and chairman Alan Curtis together with fellow shareholders American Peter Sprague and Canadian George Minden came close to shutting down the production side of the business, to concentrate on service and restoration.

ATM was developed to meet the needs of the Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network, as defined in the late 1980s.

During the 1980s, Grant was also a backup singer for Bill Gaither.

When emulators of 1980s video game consoles began to appear on home computers in the late 1990s, the Atari 7800 was one of the last to be emulated.

* During the 1980s, the block of 16th Street NW between L and M streets, in front of the Soviet embassy, in Washington, D. C. was renamed " Andrei Sakharov Place " as a form of protest against his 1980 arrest and detention.

It was the primary analog mobile phone system in North America ( and other locales ) through the 1980s and into the 2000s.

Another 1980s group was the Osdorp Posse, who first started to record tracks in Dutch.

This portability feature, however, requires a portable television, which was extremely rare in the early 1980s.

The club was ridiculed during the 1980s with a milk advert on television, in which a young boy boasted that Ian Rush had told him that " if didn't drink lots of milk, when up, only be good enough to play for Accrington Stanley ".

In the 1980s, risk arbitrage was common.