GOTO telescopes have become more popular since the 1980s as technology has improved and prices have been reduced.

Through the late 1970s and early 1980s, the group's popularity continued to grow ( although they were always more popular in North America and Continental Europe than in their home country, never achieving a UK Top 40 single or Top 20 album ).

A movement began during the 1980s among popular leading chefs to reclaim America's ethnic foods within its regional traditions, where these trends originated.

The stolen base remained a popular tactic through the 1980s, perhaps best exemplified by Vince Coleman and the St. Louis Cardinals, but began to decline again in the 1990s as the frequency of home runs reached unprecedented heights and the steal-friendly artificial turf ballparks began to disappear.

In the 1980s aluminum alloy frames and other components became popular due to their light weight, and most mid-range bikes are now principally aluminum alloy of some kind.

Originally invented in the 1980s in the Eastern Asia region, bubble tea has since become popular in Australia, USA and Europe.

Bronski Beat were a popular British synthpop trio who achieved success in the mid 1980s, particularly with the 1984 chart hit " Smalltown Boy ".

The album remains as one of their most popular works and launched a boost of popularity for Barış Manço during 1980s.

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

His lyrics with diverse themes, mostly following a somewhat modernized version of the " aşık " ( wandering folk poets ) tradition were heavily marginal in the popular music scene of 1980s which was mostly dominated by love-themed lyrics.

In the early 1980s, Tod Whittemore started the first Saturday dance in the Peterborough Town House, which remains one of the more popular regional dances.

The " minicomics " form, an extremely informal version of self-publishing, arose in the 1980s and became increasingly popular among artists in the 1990s, despite reaching an even more limited audience than the small press.

These portable devices first became popular with the wearable computer movement in the 1980s.

In the early 1980s Elsie and Frances admitted that the photographs were faked using cardboard cutouts of fairies copied from a popular children's book of the time, but Frances maintained that the fifth and final photograph was genuine.

Attempts at introducing a census in West Germany sparked strong popular resentment in the 1980s since many quite personal questions were asked.

In the 1980s, concept albums also became popular among rock bands like Kiss, with their album, 1981's Music from " The Elder ", which went on to become the group's poorest selling and charting album in their history, primarily because of its radical departure in musical style compared to Kiss's previous offerings.

In the 1980s, cocktails again became popular, with vodka often substituted for gin in drinks such as the martini.

Dungeons & Dragons is known beyond the game for other D & D-branded products, references in popular culture and some of the controversies that have surrounded it, particularly a moral panic in the 1980s falsely linking it to Satanism and suicide.

Of the handful of groups not taken down by disco's fall from favor, The Jacksons — and Michael Jackson in particular — stand out: In spite of having helped define the disco sound early on, they continued to make popular and danceable, if more refined, songs for yet another generation of music fans in the 1980s and beyond.

By the 1980s, widely popular drummers like Billy Cobham, Carl Palmer, Nicko McBrain, Phil Collins, Stewart Copeland and perhaps most notably Neil Peart were using large numbers of drums and cymbals and had also begun using electronic drums.

Devo remained popular in countries such as Australia, where the nationally broadcast 1970s – 1980s pop TV show Countdown was one of the first programs in the world to broadcast their video clips.

Using explosives for fishing, called dynamite fishing, became popular in the 1980s and is still practiced by some even though it is illegal today.

During the 1980s, anime gained in popularity, with new animated movies released every summer and winter, often based upon popular anime television series.

Forth became very popular in the 1980s because it was well suited to the small microcomputers of that time, as it is compact and portable.

As a result, in part, of the popular and commercial resurgence of punk in the late 1980s and after, with the growing popularity of such bands as Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Fugazi, Bikini Kill, Green Day and The Offspring, a number of other punk zines have appeared, such as Punk Planet, Razorcake, Tail Spins, Sobriquet, Profane Existence and Slug and Lettuce.

( Such Baby Doe Rules cases were then a major concern of the pro-life movement of the early 1980s, which viewed selective treatment of those infants as disability discrimination.

Environmental issues helped form the basis of the nationalist independence movement when environmental demonstrations subsequently merged with those for other political causes in the late 1980s.

However, in the 1980s, under the leadership of Margaret Thatcher, and the influence of Keith Joseph, there was a dramatic shift in the ideological direction of British conservatism, with a movement towards free-market economic policies.

Since the feminist movement of the 1980s, some writers and publishers have been using the feminine title suffixes-in ( singular ) and-innen ( plural ) to emphasize the inclusion of females ; but written with a capital ' I ', to indicate that males are not excluded.

When direct action came to the fore again in the 1980s, it was generally accepted by the peace movement as a normal part of protest.

The band became part of the American hardcore punk movement of the early 1980s.

The gay and lesbian rights movement in the 1970s and 1980s raised the issue by publicizing several noteworthy dismissals of gay servicemembers.

He was a vociferous left-wing socialist critic of the Labour governments of 1964 – 70 and 1974 – 79, and during the 1980s, he was the leading intellectual light of the movement against nuclear weapons in Europe.

* Sustainability movement which started in the 1980s focused on Gaia theory, value of Earth and other interrelations between human sciences and human responsibilities.

* Environmental justice is a movement that began in the U. S. in the 1980s and seeks an end to environmental racism.

Anti-nuclear protests reached a peak in the 1970s and 1980s and grew out of the environmental movement.

Japanese cinema later became one of the main inspirations behind the New Hollywood movement of the 1960s to 1980s.

In 1977, he created the CINEL for " new spaces of freedom " before joining in the 1980s the ecological movement with his " ecosophy ".

Feminism has driven the creation of a considerable body of action-oriented science fiction with female protagonists: Wonder Woman ( actually originally created in 1941 ) and The Bionic Woman during the time of the organized women's movement in the 1970s ; Terminator 2 and the Alien tetralogy in the 1980s ; and Xena, Warrior Princess, comic book character Red Sonja and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

The recent genre as a more concentrated design movement began in the late 1970s and early 1980s in Germany.

Some historians consider that a new era of the gay rights movement began in the 1980s with the emergence of AIDS, which decimated the leadership and shifted the focus for many.

The Solidarność movement in the 1980s weakened the Communist government in Poland.

By the late 1980s Solidarity, a Polish reform movement, became crucial in causing a peaceful transition from a communist state to the capitalist system and parliamentary democracy.

From the early 1980s, a civil disobedience movement encouraged refusal of the fingerprinting that accompanied registration every five years.

According to epidemiologist David Michaels, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environment, Safety, and Health in the Clinton Administration, the tobacco industry invented the " sound science " movement in the 1980s as part of their campaign against the regulation of second-hand smoke.

In the late 1980s the primary seminary of the Reform movement, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, changed its admission requirements to allow gay people to join the student body.

Since the early 1980s, a global dark-sky movement has emerged, with concerned people campaigning to reduce the amount of light pollution.

During the 1980s, further scientific evidence to confirm the existence of lucid dreaming was produced as lucid dreamers were able to demonstrate to researchers that they were consciously aware of being in a dream state ( again, primarily using eye movement signals ).