The 1980s saw the decline of the major Japanese film studios and their associated chains of cinemas, with major studios Toho and Toei barely staying in business, Shochiku supported almost solely by the Otoko wa tsurai films, and Nikkatsu declining even further.

However, whilst the mid 1980s GDP per capita shrank by 23 % amid the Iran-Iraq War, GDP has now almost doubled since 2005.

According to Frances FitzGerald in an April 1987 New Yorker article, " They epitomized the excesses of the 1980s ; the greed, the love of glitz, and the shamelessness ; which in their case was so pure as to almost amount to a kind of innocence ".

Throughout the 20th century, PRI had an almost hegemonic power at the state and federal level, which slowly began to recede in the late 1980s.

This is, however, quibbling, as Drexel was for all intents and purposes unchallenged as essentially the only underwriter and trader of high-yield bonds throughout almost the entire decade of the 1980s.

During the 1980s, a house was occupied by squatters in almost every town, and the booming punk movement used them to organize concert tours and expositions.

Vertical shutters became very common in the 1980s ( though Konica, Mamiya, and Copal first pioneered their use in the 1950s and 1960s, and are almost exclusively used for new cameras.

This serve was invented and employed almost exclusively by the Brazilian team in the early 1980s and is now considered outdated.

In the mid-late 1980s, however, there was a repositioning from being a general periodical covering all aspects and publishers within the hobby niche to a focus almost exclusively on Games Workshop's own products and publications.

** Soviet war in Afghanistan ( 1979 – 1989 )-Although taking place almost entirely throughout the 1980s, the war officially started on December 27, 1979.

Perhaps most notably of all, in his 1958 resignation over public spending and what he saw as an inflationary economic policy, he anticipated almost exactly the views that during the 1980s came to be described as " monetarism ".

When the event debuted in the 1980s, the event was a 3 x 10 km team event, but that changed following Japan's successes at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1993 in Falun and the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer where the country won by almost four minutes and almost five minutes respectively.

The total length of Albania's roads more than doubled in the first three decades after World War II, and by the 1980s almost all of the country's remote mountain areas were connected, at least by dirt roads, with the capital city of Tirana and ports on the Adriatic and Ionian Sea.

These policies dramatically reduced inflation rates in both countries ( the United States ' inflation rate fell from almost 14 % in 1980 to around 3 % in 1983 ), allowing liberalization of credit and the reduction of interest rates, which led ultimately to the inflationary economic booms of the 1980s.

By the end of the 1980s, the influence of the successful action film could be felt in almost every genre-hybrids were becoming the norm ; war-action hybrids ( like First Blood and Missing in Action ), science fiction action ( like The Terminator, and RoboCop ), horror-action ( like Aliens and Predator ), and even the occasional musical-action-comedy hybrid ( like The Blues Brothers ).

In the 1980s, the Supreme Court of India for almost a decade had been encouraging public interest litigation on behalf of the poor and oppressed by using a very broad interpretation of several articles of the Indian Constitution.

This band played Williams ' compositions almost exclusively ( the Lennon – McCartney song " Blackbird ," the standard " Poinciana ," and the Freddie Hubbard blues " Birdlike " being the exceptions ) and toured and recorded throughout the remainder of the 1980s and into the early 1990s.

The manufacturing sector in Barbados has yet to recover from the recession of the late 1980s when bankruptcies occurred and almost one-third of the workforce lost their jobs.

Explosive reactive armour has been valued by the Soviet Union and its now-independent component states since the 1980s, and almost every tank in the eastern-European military inventory today has either been manufactured to use ERA or had ERA tiles added to it, including even the T-55 and T-62 tanks built forty to fifty years ago, but still used today by reserve units.

The Lake Constance trout ( Salmo trutta ) was almost extinct in the 1980s due to pollution, but thanks to protective measures has made a significant return.

It is increasingly the primary driver of the Southern California economy: industrial growth in the Inland Empire is almost entirely attributable to increased port traffic since the 1980s.

The shotgun was adopted more teams throughout the 1980s, and was part of almost every team's offense in the pass-happy 1990s.

In the late 1980s, however, the oil activities decreased almost to a standstill.

Short films such as The Critic, Bambi Meets Godzilla, Lupo the Butcher, and many others were almost unknown to mainstream audiences ; however, these independent animated films continued to keep the yearly category of the Academy Award for Animated Short Film alive, as well as introducing a number of new names into the field of animation — names that would begin to bring change to the industry in the 1980s.

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 ).

The Fairlight CMI and the Synclavier were both expensive systems, retailing for more than $ 20, 000 in the early 1980s.

Honduran defense spending rose throughout the 1980s until it consumed 20 to 30 percent of the national budget.

For instance, in the wake of well-publicised health concerns associated with saturated fats in the 1980s, the fat content of UK beef, pork and lamb fell from 20 – 26 percent to 4 – 8 percent within a few decades, both due to selective breeding for leanness and changed methods of butchery.

For example, with a 20 MHz 68000 processor ( typical of late 1980s ), task switch times are roughly 20 microseconds.

The first version of the catalog was produced in the late 1980s by digitizing photographic plates and contained about 20 million stars, out to about magnitude 15.

In the 1980s, the Polish archaeologist Marek Jagodziński resumed excavations and cleared a c. 20 hectare site, in which a series of structures were burnt down around the year 1000 AD.

Several Latin American countries had severe downturns in the 1980s: by the Kehoe and Prescott definition of a great depression as at least one year with output 20 % below trend, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico experienced great depressions in the 1980s, and Argentina experienced another in 1998 – 2002.

World War II saw the beginning of a mass Māori migration to the cities, and by the 1980s 80 % of the Māori population was urban, in contrast to only 20 % before the war.

81 % of college graduates, over 26 years of age, who wed in the 1980s, were still married 20 years later.

65 % of college graduates under 26, who married in the 1980s, were still married 20 years later.

49 % of high school graduates under 26 years old, who married in the 1980s, were still married 20 years later.

Average tariff levels fell to about 20 % in the region by the end of the 1980s.

While the region is predominantly French-speaking, it also has two significant minority language communities: the western Flemings, whose presence is evident in the many Dutch placenames in the area and who speak West Flemish, a dialect of Dutch ( perhaps 20, 000 inhabitants of Nord-Pas-de-Calais use Flemish daily and an estimated 40, 000 use it occasionally, both, primarily in and around the arrondissement of Dunkirk ); and the Picards, who speak the Picard language, or Ch ' ti ( speakers, " chitimi ", have been working to revive the nearly-extinct regional speech since the 1980s ).

By the 1980s, fewer than 20 % of Māori spoke the language well enough to be classed as native speakers.

ABC's daytime lineup became strong throughout the 1970s and 1980s with the soap operas General Hospital, One Life to Live, The Edge of Night ( which had moved to ABC from CBS in late 1975 ), All My Children, and Ryan's Hope, and the game shows The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, Let's Make a Deal, Split Second, The $ 20, 000 Pyramid and Family Feud.

It became an object of media and popular ridicule during 1980s Britain and was a commercial disaster, selling only around 17, 000 units, although according to Sinclair, it was " the best selling electric vehicle " until November 2011 when the Nissan Leaf had sold over 20, 000 units.

The basic design of the transputer included serial links that allowed it to communicate with up to four other transputers, each at 5, 10 or 20 Mbit / s – which was very fast for the 1980s.

It doubled again to over 20 million by the late 1980s.

As the century progressed leisure boating on the canals began to expand, with numbers reaching 20, 000 by the early 1980s.

Eastborough's location near a major shopping center in Wichita ( Towne East Square ) caused a bit of friction between residents of Wichita and Eastborough in the 1980s through the 1990s as traffic to and from Towne East Square often would go through Eastborough ( and be ticketed for exceeding Eastborough's 20 mile per hour speed limit ).

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.

However, most economic metrics ( unemployment, median income rates, and city gross domestic product ) initially dropped sharply during economic recessions, reaching their " low points " in the late 1980s and / or early 1990s, with the unemployment rate in particular peaking at approximately 20 % in 1982.