In the late 1980s and 1990s authors such as George Marcus and James Clifford pondered ethnographic authority, in particular how and why anthropological knowledge was possible and authoritative.

Most of the craft detailed are from the 1980s or earlier, but the navy acquired new boats from Spain and France in the 1990s.

The Amiga is a family of personal computers marketed by Commodore in the 1980s and 1990s.

The best selling model, the Amiga 500, was introduced in 1987 and became the leading home computer of the late 1980s and early 1990s in much of Western Europe.

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

During the 1980s and 1990s, she became one of the first CCM artists to cross over into mainstream pop on the heels of her successful albums Unguarded and Heart in Motion, the latter of which included the No. 1 single " Baby Baby ".

When emulators of 1980s video game consoles began to appear on home computers in the late 1990s, the Atari 7800 was one of the last to be emulated.

Through the 1980s and 1990s, Brooks co-wrote ( with longtime collaborator Monica Johnson ), directed and starred in a series of well-received comedies, playing variants on his standard neurotic and self-obsessed character.

During the late 1980s and early 1990s, most BBSes used ANSI to make elaborate welcome screens, and colorized menus, and thus, ANSI support was a sought-after feature in terminal client programs.

For those more nostalgic for the true BBS experience, one can use NetSerial ( Windows ) or DOSBox ( Windows /* nix ) to redirect DOS COM port software to telnet, allowing them to connect to Telnet BBSes using 1980s and 1990s era modem terminal emulation software, like Telix, Terminate, Qmodem and Procomm Plus.

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 and early 1990s, numerous media reports emerged that plans were underway to do a biopic based upon Haley's life, with Beau Bridges, Jeff Bridges and John Ritter all at one point being mentioned as actors in line to play Haley ( according to Goldmine Magazine, Ritter attempted to buy the film rights to Sound and Glory ).

Carbamazepine became widely used to treat bipolar disorder in the late 1980s and early 1990s, but was displaced by sodium valproate in the 1990s.

A number of political scandals in the 1980s and 1990s created the impression of what was described in the British press as " sleaze ": a perception that the then Conservative government was associated with political corruption and hypocrisy.

Interest in business ethics accelerated dramatically during the 1980s and 1990s, both within major corporations and within academia.

Firms started highlighting their ethical stature in the late 1980s and early 1990s, possibly trying to distance themselves from the business scandals of the day, such as the savings and loan crisis.

Throughout his career, he went on to write many other songs primarily for children to achieve an iconic acceptance among Turkish children of 1980s and 1990s.

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

During a rise of " retro " games in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Steve Jackson Games entered negotiations with Dennis Sustare and Scott Robinson, the current owners of the Bunnies & Burrows copyright, to publish an official GURPS supplement.

In the 1970s Clannad made their mark initially in the folk and traditional scene, and then subsequently went on to bridge the gap between traditional Celtic and pop music in the 1980s and 1990s, incorporating elements from New Age, smooth jazz, and folk rock.

After robust growth rates in the 1980s ( average annual growth was 6. 1 %), economic performance in the 1990s was mixed: real GDP growth was 9. 7 % in 1992, 1. 7 % in 1993, 6. 0 % in 1994, 6. 0 % in 1995, 1. 9 % in 1996 and 2. 3 % in 1997.

Singin ' in the Rain is another film adopted by American gay culture which used to regularly be shown during the 1980s and early 1990s for extended runs.

In a 1995 interview with Kurt Loder, Love divulged that in the late 1980s, guitarist Joe Strummer of The Clash told her that she was " the worst guitar player he'd ever heard ", but she insisted she had improved by the early 1990s: " I'm fine ...

The use of cadmium in applications such as pigments, coatings, stabilizers and alloys declined due to environmental and health regulations in the 1980s and 1990s ; in 2006, only 7 % of total cadmium consumption was used for plating and coating and only 10 % was used for pigments.

Jan and Dean continued to tour on their own throughout the 1980s, 1990s, and into the new millennium — with 1960s nostalgia providing them with a ready audience, headlining oldies shows throughout North America, usually during the summer months.

Al Frazier, Sonny Harris, and Rocky Wilson played the oldies circuit extensively throughout the 1980s, Replacing White with Clay Hammond until 1987, then Andrew Butler into the 1990s.

On February 21, 2003, " Kiss 104. 1 " gravitated its hot urban AC format to an urban oldies format to protect its sister station WFOX ( now WSRV ) when that station experimented with a hot urban format consisting of R & B, hip hop and rap from the 1980s to present.

On November 22, 2010, the station changed its branding to " 106. 7 WYAY, Atlanta's Greatest Hits ", dropped Scott Shannon and The True Oldies Channel feed, and shifted from oldies to classic hits with an emphasis on 1970s and 1980s music.

A change in record companies in the early 1980s also required him to, for the first time in his career, record cover versions of other artists ' " oldies ".

Genres played on OSS included disco, funk, 1980s electronic music, dance music, Motown Sound, urban oldies, and 1970s R & B.

The two stations simulcast each other for much of the 2000s, but as of 2011, the FM station carries an adult hits format focusing on the 1980s and 1990s, while the AM station carries classic hits and oldies stretching from the 1950s through the 1970s.

Through the 1970s and 1980s, the Top 40 format diversified into a number of target-specific formats, including contemporary hit radio ( CHR ), oldies ( hits and memories ), adult contemporary ( AC ), album-oriented rock ( AOR ), easy listening, news / talk and sports / talk.

In the early 2000s ( decade ), 1970s music was increasingly included, and early 1980s music is beginning to also be called " oldies ", though the term " classic hits " is used to distinguish the " new " oldies ( the Generation X oldies ) from the " old " oldies ( the Baby Boomer oldies ).

These stations, however, did play current product sparingly ( one or two per hour ) throughout the 1970s and into the 1980s ; WCBS-FM, for example, played current hits under the moniker " Future Gold " as late as the late 1980s, and WLNG on nearby Long Island featured a roughly 50 / 50 mix of current hits and oldies from the early 1960s until about 1999.

In the early 1980s many Adult Contemporary stations began mixing in more oldies into regular rotation.

From 1986 to 1990 several solid gold stations evolved into full-time oldies stations by eliminating current and recent product, gradually eliminating 1980s songs, and even limited 1970s songs severely.

WCBS-FM New York slightly cut back on the pre-1964 oldies and slightly increased the 1970s and 1980s songs early in 2001.

In 2002, many oldies stations began dropping pre-1964 music from their playlists, since the earlier music tended to appeal to an older demographic that advertisers found undesirable — hence, the addition of music from the 1970s and early 1980s.

The oldies format returned to WCBS-FM on July 12, 2007 in an updated form featuring music from 1964 to 1989 ( and without the word " Oldies ", but rather " Greatest Hits " in the on-air positioning ), with songs such as " Girls Just Want to Have Fun " by Cyndi Lauper, " Gloria " by Laura Branigan, and " We Built This City " by Starship in rotation ( though it should be pointed out that the original WCBS-FM played current hits mixed in with its oldies as late as the late 1980s and the three songs mentioned here during most of their years ).

In North America, satellite radio broadcasters XM and Sirius launched in 2001 and 2002, respectively, with more than a dozen oldies radio channels, with XM offering separate stations for each decade from the 1940s to the 1990s, and Sirius doing the same for the 1950s through the 1980s.

Air talent then consisted of people such as Dave Supple, Tom Kennedy ( the DJ, not the game-show host ), Jim Sands ( who did a popular Saturday-night oldies show ), and Tom Doyle ( who by the early 1980s was Cain's co-host ).

GNR's output consisted of " golden oldies " from the 1950s through to the 1980s, with specialist programmes on an evening.