In the 1980s and 1990s the Unification Church of the United States undertook an extensive public relations campaign against the use of the word by the news media, including hiring civil rights activist Ralph Abernathy to equate it with the word " nigger ".

During the 1970s and 1980s, he was a major leader in the church movement, leading projects such as newspapers ( notably the Washington Times ), schools, performing arts projects, political projects such as the anti-communist organization CAUSA International, and was president of the Unification Church International 1977-1991.

CNP also has membership links to the World Anti-Communist League, whose many other members included, among others, the Unification Church and backers of rightist paramilitary death squads in Latin America, particularly during the 1980s.

It should also be noted that the second largest of the three predecessor bodies of the ELCA, the American Lutheran Church, was a congregationalist body, with national and synod presidents before they were re-titled as bishops ( borrowing from the Lutheran churches in Germany ) in the 1980s.

* God's Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church by Caroline Fraser ( 2000 ), a biography of Mary Baker Eddy and a history of the Christian Science church from its founding to the present day, with a detailed section on the " child cases " of the 1980s.

Psychedelic rock began to be revived in the late 1970s / early 1980s by bands of the post-punk scene, including The Teardrop Explodes, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Church, the Soft Boys, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Cure, The Glove, and The Legendary Pink Dots.

In the 1980s the media reported concerns of criminal conspiracies within the Church of Satan.

In the 1980s and 1990s the Church of Satan and its members were very active in producing movies, music, films, and magazines devoted to Satanism.

Ignorance ') A compilation of many major 1980s media appearances by Zeena Schreck during her time as High Priestess of the Church of Satan.

Originally based in Dallas, Texas, the Church of the SubGenius gained prominence in the 1980s and 1990s and maintains an active presence on the Internet.

During the early 1980s, forger Mark Hofmann sold alleged Mormon materials to Mormon investors and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, including a sample of reformed Egyptian characters probably copied from the Caractors Transcript in a manner intended to make them more closely agree with the description given by Anthon.

However some other churches do not use the synod at all, and the Church of Scotland dissolved its synods in the 1980s, see List of Church of Scotland synods and presbyteries.

The underpinnings for the contemporary moral panic were found in a rise of five factors in the years leading up to the 1980s: The establishment of Fundamentalist Christianity and political organization of the Moral Majority ; the rise of the Anti-cult movement which spread ideas of abusive cults kidnapping and brainwashing children and teens ; the appearance of the Church of Satan and other explicitly Satanist groups that added a kernel of truth to the existence of Satanic cults ; the appearance of the child abuse industry and a group of professionals dedicated to the protection of children ; and the popularization of posttraumatic stress disorder, repressed memory and corresponding survivor movement.

Two months later, on August 19, 2005, The Choir played a 20th anniversary concert at Mariners Church in Irvine, California, along with 4-4-1, Altar Boys, Crumbächer and Undercover, in order to acknowledge the birth of the Christian alternative music scene under the aegis of Calvary Chapel in the early 1980s.

In the 1980s, St Giles ' church celebrated its 650th anniversary and formed a covenant with the neighbouring United Reformed Church.

The old Sainsbury's was closed in the early 1980s ( and has now been demolished as part of redevelopment plans by the congregation of Purley Baptist Church ).

Historic sites include Governor Eurith D. Rivers ' home, which was moved from its original spot on Banks Lake to West Main Street in Lakeland in the early 1980s ; Union Baptist Church, located near Georgia Highway 135 ; and Fender Cemetery, located east of Lakeland at the junction of U. S. 221 and Georgia Highway 37 on land that once belonged to David Fender.

Cartwright was raised a Roman Catholic but joined the Church of Scientology in the late 1980s.

Originally given to the Roman Catholic Church by the Duke of Devonshire in 1950 to commemorate Holy Year, it was replaced in the 1980s.

While he was held captive in the 1980s, many Church Army officers wore a simple badge with the letter H on it, to remind people that one of their members was still a hostage, and was being supported in prayer daily by them and many others.

From the 1980s to early 1990s, bands such as Pale Saints, Spoonfed Hybrid, Spirea X, early-period Seefeel, early-period The Verve, Kitchens of Distinction, The Church, The Sundays, Belly, The Ocean Blue, Bel Canto, Hum, Cranes, Frazier Chorus, Strange Boutique, Curve, The Dream Academy and No-Man were representatives of the genre.

These include the Free Church of Scotland ( formed of those congregations which refused to unite with the United Presbyterian Church in 1900 ), the United Free Church of Scotland ( formed of congregations which refused to unite with the Church of Scotland in 1929 ), the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland ( which broke from the Free Church of Scotland in 1893 ), the Associated Presbyterian Churches ( which emerged as a result of a split in the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland in the 1980s ) and the Free Church of Scotland ( Continuing ) ( which emerged from a split in the Free Church of Scotland in 2000 ).

Since the 1980s, various experiments have verified that it is possible for the group velocity of laser light pulses sent through specially prepared materials to significantly exceed the speed of light in vacuum.

Several short-lived Comets reunions were attempted in the 1970s and 1980s, including one contingent ( organized by Baltimore-based piano player Joey Welz who played piano for the Comets during the summer of 1965 ) that appeared on The Tomorrow Show, and another run by an Elvis Presley impersonator named Joey Rand ( this group later lost a legal action over the right to use the Comets name ), but only one group was officially sent out to perform by Haley himself, and his management / production company, which were the official Comets who played with Haley throughout the 1960s and 1970s and continued to perform as the Comets between gigs and during Haley's retirement.

Early 1980s impact printers used a simple form of internal raster image processing, using low-resolution built-in bitmap fonts to render raw character data sent from the computer, and only capable of storing enough dot matrix data for one printed line at a time.

During the 1980s and onwards, Factsheet Five ( the name came from a short story by John Brunner ), originally published by Mike Gunderloy and now defunct, catalogued and reviewed any zine or small press creation sent to it, along with their mailing addresses.

Before closing, the school sent its 9-man football team to the Minnesota State Finals twice in the 1980s.

At this point, Tatchell researched the Gukurahundi attacks in Matabeleland in the 1980s when Mugabe had sent the Fifth Brigade of the Zimbabwe army against supporters of the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union.

In the case of at least one line originating from the 1980s, the progenitors of that line were sent away to do the third degree initiation by themselves without any other third being present.

* The Double Exposure ( comedy series ) on CBC Radio repeatedly sent up the series with a number of ' Political Hinterland Who's Who ' sequences in the late 1980s and 1990s.

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, a mysterious man known in the media as the " Unabomber " sent mail bombs to figures in the academic and airline industries for various reasons.

Prior to the advent of low-cost digital audio gear in the late 1980s, the samples were typically sent to a DAC and recorded on analog tape.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Thailand and Cambodia sent exchange students to the school to study fish and rice production, and after graduating returned home where they began out-producing and out-exporting the Philippines in these commodities.

In the 1980s, following a short-lived third Big Chief, Robin Tucek, David Bellamy replaced Big Chief I-Spy as the person to whom completed books were sent, and the earlier Red Indian connections were quietly dropped.

Buckley's international studies programs sent the theatre department on tours of Australia and New Zealand in the 1980s.

During the 1980s he replaced Big Chief I-Spy as the figurehead of the I-Spy range of children's books and to whom completed books were sent in order to receive a reward.

Most of Tilton's books were published in the 1980s and distributed via promotion on Success-N-Life and through the many mailings Tilton's ministry sent his followers.

Most TVs made since the early 1980s also feature an infra-red sensor to detect the signals sent by remote controls.

The proportion of children leaving Korea for adoption amounted to about 1 % of its live births for several years during the 1980s ( Kane, 1993 ); currently, even with a large drop in the Korean birth rate to below 1. 2 children per woman and an increasingly wealthy economy, about 0. 5 % ( 1 in 200 ) of Korean children are still sent to other countries every year.

Also, a group of Rostock faculty members were sent to Cochin University of Science and Technology to improving the university's teaching facilities, remaining there until the late 1980s.

Until expansion in the 1980s, the organization only sent a few hundred students abroad each year.

A revaluation due in the early 1980s was scrapped by the Secretary of State for the Environment Michael Heseltine in June 1979, with Heseltine urging householders to tear up the forms already sent out by the Valuation Office.

The movement continued to grow throughout the 1970s and 1980s with the establishment of new churches in New Zealand and the South Pacific, and missionaries continued to be sent overseas.

Awdry later noted that it was sent away in the 1980s for a new motor and chassis and came back " completely transformed ".

The next victim is Stella Randolph, a depressed, unmarried, and impoverished seamstress, who is killed on St. Valentine's Day in February, after she has sent several Valentine's Day cards to herself from 1980s hearthrobs such as John Travolta and Ace Frehley.

This was largely due to the desire of several Canadian NHL franchises to continue to pay players sent down to the minors in Canadian dollars throughout the 1980s and 1990s.