The spills, most of which occurred during the 1980s, consisted of transformer oil, which contained PCBs in high concentrations ( 6, 200 Parts Per million ).

His music is inspired by his mentors Per Nørgård and Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, who were two of his composition teachers, and in the 1980s he became close both personally and stylistically ( partly through another period of study ) to György Ligeti.

* One Per Desk, an integrated personal computer and telecommunications terminal produced by ICL in the 1980s

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, more talented directors started graduating from the National Film School of Denmark, such as Thomas Vinterberg, Per Fly and Ole Christian Madsen.

“ 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.

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

Most of the current amateur clubs and leagues in existence have developed since the 1980s, when leagues began to be established in North America, Europe and Asia.

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

In 1980s Soviet Ministry of Agriculture had successfully developed variants of foot-and-mouth disease, and rinderpest against cows, African swine fever for pigs, and psittacosis to kill chicken.

Banknotes are mostly paper, but Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation developed the world's first polymer currency in the 1980s that went into circulation on the nation's bicentenary in 1988.

The close relationship Comoros developed with South Africa in the 1980s was much less significant to both countries in the 1990s.

A variant of Coral 66 was developed during the late 1970s / early 1980s by the British GPO, in conjunction with GEC, STC and Plessey, for use on the System X digital telephone exchange control computers, known as PO-CORAL.

Much of this technology is based on science developed in the 1980s and used to produce what may be some of the most impenetrable operating systems ever.

The concept of data warehousing dates back to the late 1980s when IBM researchers Barry Devlin and Paul Murphy developed the " business data warehouse ".

In the 1970s and 1980s, agricultural use was banned in most developed countries, beginning with Hungary in 1968 then in Norway and Sweden in 1970, Germany and the United States in 1972, but not in the United Kingdom until 1984.

A backlash developed in the 1980s as Bhutan's political elites realized that Bhutanese Buddhists were at risk of becoming a minority in their own country.

DPNSS was developed in the early 1980s by BT, or its forerunner, Post Office Telecommunications in recognition that the emerging Digital Private Circuit Primary Rate product ' Megastream ' had to address the market for both data and voice, the latter being significantly greater because of the market for PBXs.

* SAMPA: The Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet ( SAMPA ) is a computer-readable phonetic script originally developed in the late 1980s.

Freestyle music developed primarily in the Latino communities of New York City in the early 1980s.

Ralph L. Brinster and Richard Palmiter developed the techniques responsible for transgenic mice, rats, rabbits, sheep, and pigs in the early 1980s, and established many of the first transgenic models of human disease, including the first carcinoma caused by a transgene.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, however, the CGT leadership developed close ties to the National Party of Honduras ( Partido Nacional de Honduaras — PNH ), and several leaders served in the Callejas government.

Honduras significantly developed its shrimp industry during the 1980s and in the Latin American market was second only to Ecuador in shrimp exports by 1991.

* KMS-a 1980s successor to ZOG developed as a commercial product.

Hezbollah was largely formed with the aid of the Ayatollah Khomeini's followers in the early 1980s in order to spread Islamic revolution and follows a distinct version of Islamic Shi ' a ideology ( Valiyat al-faqih or Guardianship of the Islamic Jurists ) developed by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of the " Islamic Revolution " in Iran.

During the first decade of operation of the Internet ( by the late 1980s ), it became apparent that methods had to be developed to conserve address space.

Ion implantation was developed as a method of producing the p-n junction of photovoltaic devices in the late 1970s and early 1980s, along with the use of pulsed-electron beam for rapid annealing, although it has not to date been used for commercial production.

In many modern airliners aircraft, for example all Airbus aircraft developed from the 1980s, the joystick has received a new lease on life for flight control in the form of a " sidestick " — a controller similar to a games joystick, but which is used to control the flight, replacing the traditional yoke.

The KAB-500KR is an electro-optical TV-guided fire and forget bomb developed by the Soviet Air Force in the 1980s.

Before the 1980s, Chinese publishers hired teams of workers and selected a few thousand type pieces from an enormous Chinese character set.

A 1970s / 1980s type gas mask.

In the 1980s it was shown theoretically with the help of a disorder field theory, in which the vortex lines of the superconductor play a major role, that the transition is of second order within the type II regime and of first order ( i. e., latent heat ) within the type I regime, and that the two regions are separated by a tricritical point.

Since the 1980s or so, however, scripts of this type have been replaced with utilities like make which are specialized for building programs.

Word processor may also refer to a type of stand-alone office machine, popular in the 1970s and 1980s, combining the keyboard text-entry and printing functions of an electric typewriter with a dedicated processor ( like a computer processor ) for the editing of text.

The defined benefit plan had been the most popular and common type of retirement plan in the United States through the 1980s ; since that time, defined contribution plans have become the more common type of retirement plan in the United States and many other western countries.

With the development of human insulin and analogues in the 1980s and the decline in the use of animal insulins ( e. g., pork, beef ), this type of insulin resistance has become less common.

Another type of trail that was quite popular in the 1970s and 1980s but is less popular today is the exercise trail ( also known as trim trail ), which combines running with exercise stations.

* Magic Mushroom, a type of air freshener sold in the 1980s and 1990s under the Air Wick brand ( then owned by Reckitt and Colman, now Reckitt Benckiser )

With the rise of grunge, guitar-orientated instrumental rock of the type popular in the 1980s became less popular, and there were few artists who continued to thrive in that style.

Most Olympic air gun matches through the 1970s and into the 1980s were shot with spring-piston guns, often of the opposing-piston recoil-eliminating type.

Until the late 1980s, external defibrillators delivered a Lown type waveform ( see Bernard Lown ) which was a heavily damped sinusoidal impulse having a mainly uniphasic characteristic.

The German Volkswagen Polo crossed type divisions by offering a two-door station wagon shape ( not named as a wagon ) as the standard, main model in its range in some markets in the 1980s — despite the existence of two-door sedan and hatchback (" coupé ") variants.

Early minicomputer-based typesetting software introduced in the 1970s and early 1980s, such as Datalogics Pager, Penta, Atex, Miles 33, Xyvision, troff from Bell Labs, and IBM's Script product with CRT terminals, were better able to drive these electromechanical devices, and used text markup languages to describe type and other page formatting information.

This type of cancellation seemed strange in the early 1980s, but soon became a commonplace part of TV audience research.

The M1 Carbine was also used by various law enforcement agencies and prison guards, and was prominently carried by riot police during the civil unrest of the late 1960s and early 1970s ; until it was replaced in those roles by more modern. 223 caliber semi-automatic rifles such as the Ruger Mini-14 and the Colt AR-15 type rifles in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Lynn enjoyed enormous success on country radio until the early 1980s, when a more pop-flavored type of country music began to dominate the market.

Detroit techno is a type of techno music that generally includes the first techno productions by Detroit-based artists during the late 1980s and early 1990s.

During that time, San Francisco and New York were the centers for this type of activity ; however, Austin, Texas ( The Third Coast ) also had a thriving scene during the 1980s with a coterie of unique characters.

Miami bass ( also known as booty music or booty bass, a term that may also include other genres, such as dirty rap ) is a type of hip hop music, that became popular in the 1980s and 1990s.

The music in With Sympathy and the singles that Arista issued in association with it were a melodic type of synthpop and part of the new wave sound growing in populartiy in the early 1980s.