In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the U. S. had experienced high inflation and Friedman's policy positions tended to defend the stronger dollar at that time.

The population's rate of growth was a relatively high 3. 5 percent per annum in the mid 1980s, up substantially from 2. 0 percent in the mid-1970s and 2. 1 percent in the mid-1960s.

In the early 1980s, Mimer introduced transaction handling for high robustness in applications, an idea that was subsequently implemented on most other DBMS.

Gas production has dropped from a high of 8. 2 million cubic metres per day in the 1980s to a low of about 600, 000 cubic meters in 2001.

Tourism has been limited by the short summers and high costs: the only settlements in Greenland connected by road are Ivigtut and Grønnedal and Ivigtut has been abandonned since the 1980s.

In the late 1980s and 1990s, Pioneer Electronics dominated the international karaoke music video market, producing high quality karaoke music videos ( inspired by the music videos such as those on MTV ).

Preferential access to sugar and clothing markets amounted to 7 % of GDP in the 1980s and 4. 5 % in the 1990s, capital and current accounts were liberalised, contributing to an investment and employment boom and the high inflow of FDI brought with it managerial skills.

Other forms of Wicca have also attracted queer people, for instance, the theologian Jone Salomonsen noted that there was an unusually high number of LGBT, and particularly bisexual individuals within the Reclaiming tradition of San Francisco when she was doing her fieldwork there in the 1980s and 1990s.

As the worldwide implications of Nuclear Winter began to be taken seriously in the late 1980s Much interest by military analysts shifted to fusing of nuclear warheads to explode at low, rather than high altitude.

Red Dawn ( 1984 ) depicts an alternate 1980s in which the United States is invaded by the Soviet Union, Cuba, Nicaragua, and other Latin American allies of the U. S. S. R. and a group of small-town high school students engage in guerrilla warfare in their resistance of the occupation, eventually beating the communists.

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.

In the late 1980s Moog repaired the original theremin of Clara Rockmore, an accomplishment he considered a high point of his professional career.

During the 1980s, perhaps as a reaction to the evening drama series that were gaining high ratings, daytime serials began to incorporate action and adventure storylines, more big-business intrigue, and an increased emphasis on youthful romance.

The high cost per launch of the Space Shuttle sparked interest throughout the 1980s in designing a cheaper successor vehicle.

In the 1970s and early 1980s, as many listeners abandoned AM music formats for the high fidelity sound of the FM radio dial, the Talk Radio format began to catch on in more large cities.

The high oil prices of the 1970s and early 1980s led to an oil boom which resulted in a large increase in salaries, standards of living, and corruption.

Several Japanese companies produced turbocharged high performance motorcycles in the early 1980s.

The Deep Cameo versions of proofs from 1965 to 1971 and 1981 Type Two are highly valued because of their scarcity, high grade examples of quarters from certain years of the 1980s ( such as 1981 – 1987 ) because of scarcity in high grades due to high circulation and in 1982 and 1983 no mint sets were produced making it harder to find mint state examples, and any coin from 1981 – 1994 graded in MS67 is worth upwards of $ 1000.

Prices remained high through the early 1980s despite the introduction of Indonesian vanilla.

During the mid to late 1980s this was the dominant 10 Mbit / s Ethernet standard, but due to the immense demand for high speed networking, the low cost of Category 5 Ethernet cable, and the popularity of 802. 11 wireless networks, both 10BASE2 and 10BASE5 have become increasingly obsolete, but still exist in some locations.

This trend received an extra boost in the 1980s and 1990s, when influential wine writer Robert M. Parker, Jr. started to award very high scores, up to the " perfect " score of 100 points, to wines of some Rhône producers.

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

From the 1950s to around the 1980s, using phantoms on star-quad trunk carrier circuits was a popular method of deriving a high quality broadcast audio circuit.

In the 1980s, there was a dramatic growth in research and applications of Bayesian methods, mostly attributed to the discovery of Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, which removed many of the computational problems, and an increasing interest in nonstandard, complex applications.

However, in the second half of the 1980s, rising stock and real estate prices caused the Japanese economy to overheat in what was later to be known as the Japanese asset price bubble caused by the policy of low interest rate by Bank of Japan.

Growth slowed markedly in the late 1990s also termed the Lost Decade, largely due to the Bank of Japan's failure to cut interest rates quickly enough to counter after-effects of over-investment during the late 1980s.

NEOs have become of increased interest since the 1980s because of increased awareness of the potential danger some of the asteroids or comets pose to the Earth, and active mitigations are being researched.

The 1980s and 1990s also saw an increasing interest in serious academic research and reconstructionist pagan traditions.

Economic reform during the 1980s and the devolution of much central government decision making, combined with the strong interest of local Communist Party officials in enriching themselves, has made it increasingly difficult for the central government to assert its authority.

The strong interest of the Swedish Government and people in international cooperation and peacemaking has been supplemented in the early 1980s by renewed attention to Nordic and European security questions.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, advances in cognitive psychology and cognitive linguistics renewed interest in the Sapir – Whorf hypothesis.

The ACM had a professional certification program in the early 1980s, which was discontinued due to lack of interest.

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.

After being essentially unstudied for many decades, a small revival of critical interest in Scott's work began in the 1970s and 1980s.

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.

In the 1980s, there was a dramatic growth in research and applications of Bayesian methods, mostly attributed to the discovery of Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, which removed many of the computational problems, and an increasing interest in nonstandard, complex applications.

By the start of the 1980s most politicians had lost interest in the concept and the project was repeatedly de-funded in the early 1980s.

Clubmans provided much entertainment at club-racing level from the 1960s into the 1990s and John Webb revived interest in big sports prototypes with Thundersports in the 1980s.

There was even enough interest in Group C to sustain a C2 championship for a few years ; at ' club ' level Modified Sports Car (" ModSports ") and Production Sports Car (" ProdSports ") races remained a feature of most British race meetings into the 1980s, evolving into a " Special GT " series that was essentially Formula Libre for sports or saloon cars.

During the late 1980s some extreme sportsmen took an interest in the unicycle and started off-road unicycling (" MUni ", or " mountain unicycling ").

With the maturing and miniaturization of applicable technologies as seen in the 1980s and 1990s, interest in UAVs grew within the higher echelons of the U. S. military.

Renewed interest in tango since the 1980s has also seen interest in the " Bandoneón " increase.

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.

The " Sleepy Floyd Game " was a catalyst for increased interest in the NBA in the Bay Area, which was furthered by new coach Don Nelson who engineered another successful string of wins in the late 1980s to early 1990s with the high scoring trio of point guard Tim Hardaway, guard Mitch Richmond, and forward Chris Mullin ( collectively known as " Run-T. M. C.