In the early-to-mid 1980s, Thorn EMI Video Programmes released a number of games for several home computer formats, initially under their own name.

Prism Micro Products was owned by Thorn EMI for a short period in the 1980s.

In the U. S., Thorn EMI released films on video from various film companies including Orion Pictures ( First Blood, The Terminator ) and New Line Cinema ( The Evil Dead, Xtro ), and Universal ( Bad Boys and Frances ) in the 1980s.

" Jagdish Bhagwati argues that reforms that opened up the economies of China and India contributed to their higher growth in 1980s and 1990s.

His experimentation with electronic instruments in the late 1980s contributed to the 1990s sound of Turkish popular music.

According to the CIA World Factbook, Chile's " sound economic policies ," maintained consistently since the 1980s, " have contributed to steady economic growth in Chile and have more than halved poverty rates.

Economic malaise in the 1980s, along with resentment of Soviet oppression, contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union, the associated end of the Cold War, and the democratization and liberalization of the former Eastern bloc countries.

On July 23, 1996, a North Carolina jury threw out a class action suit brought on behalf of more than 160, 000 onetime supporters who contributed as much as $ 7, 000 each to Bakker's coffers in the 1980s.

Following the " kung fu wave " in Hong Kong action cinema in the 1970s, a number of mainstream films produced during the 1980s contributed significantly to the perception of martial arts in western popular culture.

Utilizing Paraguay's rich endowment of hardwood trees, the wood subsector represented about 15 percent of all industrial activity and contributed over 8 percent of exports in the 1980s.

Relations with the United States were tense until the late 1980s, when a State visit to Washington by Lini and Foreign Affairs Minister Sela Molisa contributed to a lessening of tensions.

In the 1980s UK broadcasters Steve Wright and Kenny Everett used voice over artists to create a virtual " posse " or studio crew that contributed to the programmes.

Sales of the ZX80 reached about 50, 000 — an unheard of number for the day which contributed significantly to the UK leading the world in home computer ownership through the 1980s.

William Jolitz had considerable experience with prior BSD releases while at the University of California at Berkeley ( 2. 8 and 2. 9BSD ) and both contributed code to Berkeley developed at Symmetric Computer Systems during the 1980s.

Heinz Heger, Gunter Grau and Richard Plant all contributed greatly to the early Holocaust discourse which emerged throughout the 1970s and early 1980s.

This co-existence did not long survive his leadership, and the factionalism that followed contributed greatly to the Labour Party's electoral weakness during the 1980s.

This may have contributed to the end of the real estate boom of the early-to-mid 1980s as well as to the savings and loan crisis.

With manufacturing then being led by companies such as Intel Corporation and others, the Manufacturing industry contributed greatly to the economy during the 1980s and early 1990s.

Butragueño contributed to the side's transformation, and was a prominent member of the team during the 1980s, winning numerous honours: he received the European Bronze award for best footballer in two consecutive years, and won the Pichichi Trophy in 1991, while also being instrumental in the capital club's five national leagues, two domestic cups and two ( consecutive ) UEFA Cups.

The intervention, along with other events, such as the Iranian revolution and the US hostage stand-off that accompanied it, the Iran – Iraq War, the 1982 Lebanon War, the escalating tensions between Pakistan and India, contributed to making the Middle East and South Asia extremely violent and turbulent regions during the 1980s.

In the mid-1970s, he contributed to the Arcade anthology, and in the 1980s, to Weirdo ( which he created and co-edited ).

The design studies for precast concrete units or for the moulds for in situ shuttering, prompted by the need to obtain a large number of different forms from the combination of a very limited number of units contributed, in the 1980s, to the Taller ’ s affirmation of the validity of classical forms and geometry in contemporary architecture.

The principal factors are location and transport, but other factors which may have contributed include the widening of the corporate-professional employment sector in central London, starting in the 1980s and the effect of rising property prices in districts north of the river, and ( more recently ), nearby Clapham and Battersea, causing Kennington to be " rediscovered ".

Barris also claims that the advent of multiple cable channels in the 1980s and early 1990s ( in Canada and the United States ) presented another challenge to the staff of Front Page Challenge and contributed to its demise.

The loss of Piper Aircraft contributed to an unemployment rate of more than 20 % in Lock Haven in the early 1980s, though the rate had declined to about 9 % by 2000.

The economy of Galena Park began to suffer in the early 1980s, when cranes used to haul ship cargo were reduced ; prior to the early 1980s a team of workers who took up to one week to load cargo off of a ship stayed in the port city and contributed to its local economy, but the new technology lead to ships unloading all cargo in less than one day.

Many other countries contributed as well ; since Iraq's nuclear program in the early 1980s was officially viewed internationally as for energy production, not weapons, there were no UN prohibitions against it.

He has appeared in a large variety of films, most notably in the 1980s and 1990s in major action releases such as Lethal Weapon, Point Break, and Under Siege, as well as making guest appearances on Gunsmoke, Walker, Texas Ranger, Law & Order, and Entourage.

Starting in the early 1980s, Mills, using the name " The Wizard ", was a recurring guest DJ on " The Electrifying Mojo " radio show on WJLB.

During the 1970s and 1980s he had guest roles on The Mod Squad and Mannix and The Highwayman, and starred in the 1978 feature films Laserblast and Corvette Summer.

* Going abroad for temporary work as " guest workers " and " resident aliens " who stayed in their new homelands during the turbulent 1960s and 1970s ( to Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom ), however some Serbians returned to Yugoslavia in the 1980s.

In the 1980s, the guest houses and hotels again became fashionable and many were restored to their former glory.

It had a number of owners over the years and later served as a guest house, but deteriorated somewhat until the late 1980s, when a new owner opened it as the Lurline Cottage Tea Room.

When his character was dismissed from the soap, Frakes moved to Los Angeles, California and played guest spots in many of the top television series of the 1970s and 1980s, including The Waltons, The Dukes of Hazzard, Matlock, and Steven Bochco's Hill Street Blues.

She guest starred in an episode of the 1980s TV-series Robin of Sherwood, as Lady Margaret of Gisbourne.

Bad Voltage, a 1980s cyberpunk novel by Jonathan Littell that also dealt with themes of bisexuality and violence, features guest appearances by a decidedly has-been Jerry Cornelius and a substance-abusing ' Shaky ' Mo Collier.

He first became known as a guest comic on the BBC Radio 1 comedy show The Mary Whitehouse Experience in the late 1980s.

By the early-to-mid 1980s Worth was forced to retire early from his shows by health problems but he continued working in radio ( and made TV guest appearances time-to-time for either interviews or pop-up guest appearances on some shows ) until a few months before he died.

In the 1980s, she guest starred in three episodes of Murder that she Wrote with Angela Lansbury.

The El Pardo Palace itself has served as the " guest house " for visiting heads of state since the 1980s.

In the late 1980s, the progressive media criticism organization Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting ( FAIR ) conducted a 40-month study of 865 editions of Nightline and concluded, " On shows about international affairs, U. S. government policymakers and ex-officials dominated the Nightline guest list.

In the 1980s he was a regular broadcaster for the BBC, including the BBC Radio 4 science series Spectrum ; he wrote and presented The Food Connection ; he made one-off documentaries and guest appearances.

During the 1980s, after a brief attempt at an English album produced directly by Berry Gordy ( José was also a guest on the famous 1983 CBS TV show Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever ), record companies recognized his primary affinity for the Latin market, and he began recording an impressive number of hit records for that market, including the Motown albums Escenas de Amor and Me Enamoré, as well as others from RCA, EMI, and Capitol, garnering four more

In 2011, Tel Aviv hosted its first Fashion Week since the 1980s, with Italian designer Roberto Cavalli as a guest of honor.

He made a number of guest appearances in episodic television in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including spots on Laverne and Shirley ; B. J.

At the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s she also had a regular guest spot on Growing Pains ( playing Alan Thicke's mother ).

The 13 June 2003 edition of the BBC One satirical news quiz, Have I Got News for You, featured a set of the playing cards in one round, spoofing guest host Bruce Forsyth's 1980s game show Play Your Cards Right.

After some guest appearances in late 1980s television, it was his intention to enroll at the University of Southern California, but when he was offered the lead role of Chazz Russell in Second Chance he became noticed on the acting scene.

Through the 1980s Welch played several small featured roles in several Australian television movies and feature films, including Undercover ( 1983 ), and guest starred in two episodes of A Country Practice.

Vandross released a series of successful R & B albums during the 1980s and continued his session work with guest vocals on groups like Charme in 1982.

Rivers has spoken of her primary Tonight Show life as having been Johnny Carson's daughter, a reference to his longtime mentoring of her and, during the 1980s, establishing her as his regular guest host by August 1983.