David Couzens Hoy states that Emmanuel Levinas's writings on the face of the Other and Derrida's meditations on the relevance of death to ethics are signs of the " ethical turn " in Continental philosophy that occurred in the 1980s and 1990s.

Years later, in the 1980s, with liberals in charge of the congress, they passed a resolution to turn the whole chamber in the Elliptic Room 90 degrees to put the main mural on the side and commissioned Alejandro Obregon to paint a non-partisan mural in the surrealist style.

In the 1970s and early 1980s, the establishment of diplomatic relations between the United States and China, the Soviet-backed Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia, and the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan created strains between China and the Soviet Union and, in turn, in North Korea's relations with its two major communist allies.

An economic downturn in the early 1980s caused discontent, which in turn led to demands for reform.

These were in turn replaced by the CD during the late 1980s and 1990s.

Up to the end of 1980s, it had considerable incomes mainly from managed properties and from the RSW company ‘ Press-Book-Traffic ’, which in turn had special tax concessions.

From the start of the 1980s, the city began to turn itself more towards the service sector.

The first-generation devices of the 1980s and early 1990s were relatively slow in switching, and prone to failure through such modes as latchup ( in which the device won't turn off as long as current is flowing ) and secondary breakdown ( in which a localized hotspot in the device goes into thermal runaway and burns the device out at high currents ).

The Wabash Railway merged in the mid 1960s with the Norfolk and Western Railway, which in turn merged with Southern Railway in the 1980s to become Norfolk Southern, officially bringing an end to the Wabash name.

From the 1980s to the turn of the new century Milan was one of the fastest-growing towns in Dutchess County.

Initially sensors were optical and acoustic devices developed during the First World War and continued into the 1930s, but were quickly superseded by radar, which in turn was supplemented by optronics in the 1980s.

Although the corrections-related terminology continued thereafter in US correctional practice, the philosophical view on offenders ' treatment took an opposite turn in the 1980s, when the " get tough " program was labeled by academics as " The New Penology ".

In 2005, she collaborated with the Mexican rock band Moderatto on their single Muriendo Lento, which is a cover of one of Timbiriche's songs, a Mexican pop group from the 1980s, which in turn was a cover of the record " Slowly ", written by ABBA members Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus for the album " Shine ", released by another former member of ABBA-Frida.

Chart House eventually spun off its Burger King operations in the early 1980s into a holding company called DiversiFoods, which in turn was acquired by Pillsbury in 1984 and absorbed into Burger King's operations.

Character-by-character, computer-aided phototypesetting was, in turn, rapidly rendered obsolete in the 1980s by fully digital systems employing a raster image processor to render an entire page to a single high-resolution digital image, now known as imagesetting.

From the 1980s forward, dub has been influenced by, and has in turn influenced, techno, Dubtronica / Dub techno, jungle, drum and bass, dubstep, house music, punk and post-punk, trip hop, ambient music, and hip hop, with many electronic dub or dubtronica tracks, as well as Ambient dub, produced by nontraditional rastafarian musicians from these other genres.

The Nature Park Association carried out work in the 1980s to try and turn it back to its natural waterlogged state.

During the 1970s and 1980s, social constructionist theory underwent a transformation as constructionist sociologists engaged with the work of Michel Foucault and others as a narrative turn in the social sciences was worked out in practice.

The Minority argued that this turn from work in the Labour Party was a " threat to 40 years work ", and that " only about 250 " supporters had been expelled, out of a membership which in the late 1980s had numbered 8000.

From the 1980s, however, they were increasingly criticized by proponents of the " cultural turn " for not incorporating culture in the history of society, for reducing politics to society, and for reducing individuals to structures.

This was taken over by Stevenson's of Spath in the mid 1980s and in turn was absorbed by Arriva.

Its influence can be judged from the fact that Ford adopted a very similar look for its Mk II RS2000 Escort and the 1982 Ford Sierra, which in turn were widely copied throughout the 1980s by others.

The electric chair became the dominant method of execution in the US around the turn of the century, and remained so until the 1980s, when lethal injection became widely accepted on the grounds that it was more humane.

Although Adam Kissiah was a full-time employee with NASA at the Kennedy Space Center, he participated as a consultant in an implantation program during the early 1980s through license agreement granted by Kissiah to Biostim, Inc., who in turn participated ( also by contractual agreement ) with Stanford University, Dr. Robert L. White and Dr. F Blair Simmons, principal investigators, during their program of cochlear implants ( See Stanford University Cochlear Implant Program ).

Top fusion artists, such as Weather Report, Chick Corea and Return to Forever, Herbie Hancock and The Headhunters, and the Mahavishnu Orchestra, achieved cross-over popularity, although public interest in the genre faded at the turn of the 1980s.

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

Since the 1980s, following the popularization of computer technology, it has become fashionable in marketing for names of products and companies, and for 1990s online video games where players use pseudonyms ( when spaces were not allowed ).

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.

Because Ethernet was able to adapt to market realities and shift to inexpensive and ubiquitous twisted pair wiring, these proprietary protocols soon found themselves competing in a market inundated by Ethernet products and by the end of the 1980s, Ethernet was clearly the dominant network technology.

3278 terminals continued to be manufactured in Hortolandia, near Campinas, Brazil as far as late 1980s, having its internals redesigned by a local engineering team using modern CMOS technology, while retaining its external look and feel.

Rapid improvements, innovations, and diversification in communications technology, including optical fiber cables, communications satellites, and fax machines, led to rapid growth of the communications industry in the 1980s.

These companies introduced the concept of directory services to information technology and computer networking, their input culminating in the comprehensive X. 500 specification, a suite of protocols produced by the International Telecommunication Union ( ITU ) in the 1980s.

Several major computer-related organizations have originated at MIT since the 1980s: Richard Stallman's GNU Project and the subsequent Free Software Foundation were founded in the mid-1980s at the AI Lab ; the MIT Media Lab was founded in 1985 by Nicholas Negroponte and Jerome Wiesner to promote research into novel uses of computer technology ; the World Wide Web Consortium standards organization was founded at the Laboratory for Computer Science in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee ; the OpenCourseWare project has made course materials for over 2, 000 MIT classes available online free of charge since 2002 ; and the One Laptop per Child initiative to expand computer education and connectivity to children worldwide was launched in 2005.

Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s, American politicians and business leaders accused MIT and other universities of contributing to a declining economy by transferring taxpayer-funded research and technology to international – especially Japanese — firms that were competing with struggling American businesses.

Microfluidics emerged in the beginning of the 1980s and is used in the development of inkjet printheads, DNA chips, lab-on-a-chip technology, micro-propulsion, and micro-thermal technologies.

Surface micromachining was created in the late 1980s to render micromachining of silicon more compatible with planar integrated circuit technology, with the goal of combining MEMS and integrated circuits on the same silicon wafer.

The creative possibilities brought about by MIDI technology have been credited as having helped to revive the music industry in the 1980s.

Since late 1980s, it has also been used to describe generations of the manufacturing technology in the semiconductor industry.

Overall, China's telecommunications services improved enormously during the 1980s, and, the pace of telecommunications growth and technology upgrading increased even more rapidly after 1990, especially as fiber-optics systems and digital technology were installed.

Beginning in the late 1980s, the city shifted its economic base to education, tourism, and services, largely based on healthcare / medicine, finance and high technology such as robotics.

With the arrival of commercially viable charge-coupled device ( CCD ) technology in the 1980s, first the pickup tubes were replaced with this kind of sensors.

Since the 1980s, South Korea, now in possession of more modern military technology than in previous generations, has actively began shifting its defense industry's areas of interest more from its previously homeland defense-oriented militarization efforts, to the promotion of military equipments and technology as mainstream products of exportation to boost its international trade.

It was originally developed in the late 1980s for six European languages by the EEC ESPRIT information technology research and development program.

* The Eighth Doctor Adventures novel, Father Time, features an amnesiac Doctor attempting to recreate the sonic screwdriver with 1980s technology, eventually producing a bulky device nicknamed the " sonic suitcase ".

Symbolics also made significant advances in software technology, and offered one of the premier software development environments of the 1980s and 1990s, now sold commercially as Open Genera for Tru64 UNIX on the HP Alpha.

The Xerox Network Systems Courier technology in the early 1980s influenced the first widely adopted standard.

Autotune technology has been around since the 1980s, but hasn't been used prominently since the late 1990s with artists such as Cher, which is known as the " Cher effect.

In the early 1980s, Philips worked with Sony to invent a standard for optical audio discs ( CDs ), using the technology developed for the " Laser Disc ".