One way of reducing the risk is through the illegal use of inside information, and in fact risk arbitrage with regard to leveraged buyouts was associated with some of the famous financial scandals of the 1980s such as those involving Michael Milken and Ivan Boesky.

A backlash developed in the 1980s as Bhutan's political elites realized that Bhutanese Buddhists were at risk of becoming a minority in their own country.

Elizabeth Heger Boyle reported several studies during the 1980s and 1990s where the women said they were able to enjoy sex, though with Type III the risk of sexual dysfunction was higher.

During the late 1970s and the 1980s, the Pentagon began to adopt strategies for limited nuclear options to make it possible to control escalation and reduce the risk of all-out nuclear war.

By the early 1980s, it had become easier for stations to record and relay messages from a primary station, and the risk of hostile bombers using broadcast signals to navigate lessened due to the development of ICBMs.

Kuttner acknowledged “ de facto enroads ” before Glass-Steagall “ repeal ” but argued the GLBA ’ s “ repeal ” had permitted “ super-banks ” to “ re-enact the same kinds of structural conflicts of interest that were endemic in the 1920s ”, which he characterized as “ lending to speculators, packaging and securitizing credits and then selling them off, wholesale or retail, and extracting fees at every step along the way .” Stiglitz argued “ the most important consequence of Glass-Steagall repeal ” was in changing the culture of commercial banking so that the “ bigger risk ” culture of investment banking “ came out on top .” He also argued the GLBA “ created ever larger banks that were too big to be allowed to fail ”, which “ provided incentives for excessive risk taking .” Warren explained Glass-Steagall had kept banks from doing “ crazy things .” She credited FDIC insurance, the Glass-Steagall separation of investment banking, and SEC regulations as providing “ 50 years without a crisis ” and argued that crises returned in the 1980s with the “ pulling away of the threads ” of regulation.

* In the 1980s NASA studied evidence of past strikes on planet Earth, and the risk of this happening at our current level of civilization.

During the 1980s there was concern about the levels of UDMH in various foods being a cancer risk, especially for apple juice.

In his 2006 book, America's Financial Apocalypse, Mike Stathis also warned about the risk of Fannie Mae helping to trigger the financial crisis: “ With close to $ 2 trillion in debt between Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae alone, as well as several trillion held by commercial banks, failure of just one GSE or related entity could create a huge disaster that would easily eclipse the Savings & Loan Crisis of the late 1980s.

In the 1970s and early 1980s, studies published on prenatally DES-exposed males investigated increased risk of testicular cancer, infertility and urogenital abnormalities in development, such as cryptorchidism and hypospadias.

Due to the risk of severe complications and availability of lasers for controlled delivery of energy, Ignipuncture became obsolete procedure, superseded by much safer techniques like endophotocoagulation using a laser system, since 1980s.

Since the 1980s, the growing field of population health has broadened the focus of public health from individual behaviors and risk factors to population-level issues such as inequality, poverty, and education.

The many volumes of the German sociologist Ulrich Beck first argued from the late 1980s that our risk society is potentially being transformed by the environmental social movements of the world into structural change without rejecting the benefits of modernization and industrialization.

Despite being the most popular sporting model in Britain for most of its production life, the third generation Capri was also one of the most stolen cars in Britain during the 1980s and early 1990s, being classified as " high risk " of theft in a Home Office report.

* the conducting of large studies in the 1970s and 1980s which established that aspirin can decrease the risk of cardiovascular disease ;

In the mid 1980s, members calling themselves the " scientific faction ", and warning of the evils of electromagnetic waves ( which the group claimed were causing catastrophic environmental destruction and climate change ) built the Pana-Wave Laboratory in Fukui Prefecture in an area they believed was less at risk from electromagnetic pollution.

In the late 1980s, both the famous old fun house and the " Haunted Shack ", a walk-through freaky fright attraction, were closed, victims of escalating maintenance costs, safety concerns and increased risk of litigation.

The number of children known to have autism has increased dramatically since the 1980s, at least partly due to changes in diagnostic practice ; it is unclear whether prevalence has actually increased ; and as-yet-unidentified environmental risk factors cannot be ruled out.

Fredriksen made his fortune during the Iran-Iraq wars in the 1980s when his tankers picked up oil at great risk and huge profits.

Since the 1980s, bi-metal blades have been used to give the advantages of both forms, without risk of breakage.

Based on an affidavit sworn by Christopher Headdon, on 28 June 1999 “ from the 1980s onwards, Equitable was aware of the GAR risk.

Later, in the 1980s, The Bong Game, a radio call-in show created by UK ’ s Capital FM, tested contestants by offering them increasing returns in tandem with increasing risk.

At Salomon, Meriwether rose to become the head of the domestic fixed income arbitrage group in the early 1980s and vice-chairman of the company in 1988.

One of the more notable areas of arbitrage, called risk arbitrage, evolved in the 1980s.

Long time industrial giants that called Pittsburgh headquarters such as Gulf Oil and Koppers both were victims of the 1980s arbitrage and hostile takeover climate.

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.

During the 1960s the use of manual sign language grew greatly, but it was not until the 1980s that AAC began to emerge as an area in its own right.

Amber DRPG was created in the 1980s, and is much more focused on relationships and roleplaying than most of the roleplaying games of that era.

“ Baby Signs ” was developed by Dr. Linda Acredolo and Dr. Susan Goodwyn in the early 1980s, and has become a persistent trend in child development.

It was also used as the entrance theme for Ricky Steamboat in pro wrestling of the mid 1980s.

Casa Milà was in poor condition in the early 1980s.

The Delta was developed in the 1980s for commercialization by British marine manufacturer Simpson-Lawrence.

When the valley was flooded by the Haditha Dam at Haditha in 1984-85, the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities cut it into sections, and removed it to the new ' Anah where it was re-erected at the end of the 1980s.

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.

Many states have Arbor Day although only Victoria has Arbor Week, which was suggested by Premier Dick Hamer in the 1980s.

This was notably an issue in the 1980s, when the Asatru Free Assembly disintegrated as a result of tensions between the folkish and the non-folkish factions.

AppleTalk was released for the original Macintosh in 1985, and was the primary protocol used by Apple devices through the 1980s and 90s.

The company received unwanted media publicity in the 1980s when rumors spread that the moon-and-stars logo was a satanic symbol.

The company was badly hit by the economic contraction of the early 1980s as worldwide sales of Aston Martin shrank to three per week and chairman Alan Curtis together with fellow shareholders American Peter Sprague and Canadian George Minden came close to shutting down the production side of the business, to concentrate on service and restoration.

ATM was developed to meet the needs of the Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network, as defined in the late 1980s.

During the 1980s, Grant was also a backup singer for Bill Gaither.

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.

* During the 1980s, the block of 16th Street NW between L and M streets, in front of the Soviet embassy, in Washington, D. C. was renamed " Andrei Sakharov Place " as a form of protest against his 1980 arrest and detention.

It was the primary analog mobile phone system in North America ( and other locales ) through the 1980s and into the 2000s.

Another 1980s group was the Osdorp Posse, who first started to record tracks in Dutch.

This portability feature, however, requires a portable television, which was extremely rare in the early 1980s.

The club was ridiculed during the 1980s with a milk advert on television, in which a young boy boasted that Ian Rush had told him that " if didn't drink lots of milk, when up, only be good enough to play for Accrington Stanley ".