Catalytic RNA molecules ( ribozymes ) were discovered in the early 1980s, leading to a 1989 Nobel award to Thomas Cech and Sidney Altman.

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.

Butragueño contributed to the side's transformation, and was a prominent member of the team during the 1980s, winning numerous honours: he received the European Bronze award for best footballer in two consecutive years, and won the Pichichi Trophy in 1991, while also being instrumental in the capital club's five national leagues, two domestic cups and two ( consecutive ) UEFA Cups.

Drake turned to straight acting in the 1980s, winning acclaim for his role as Touchstone in Shakespeare's As You Like It ( at the Ludlow Festival ), and an award for his part in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker at the Royal Exchange, Manchester, along with Michael Angelis (' The Boys from the Blackstuff ').

Morley is one of the main settings for the critically acclaimed and award winning David Peace's Red Riding Quartet novel and 2009 television series which explore West Yorkshire police corruption during the 1970s and 1980s.

After eight previous nominations during the 1980s and 1990s, Khan received his first Filmfare Award for Best Actor for his performance in the major grosser Raja Hindustani ( 1996 ) and later earned his second Best Actor award for his performance in the Academy Award-nominated Lagaan, which also marked the debut of his own production company.

Not only were there questions regarding the way the NS spent the subsidies, but, after the neo liberal reforms of the 1980s, it was also considered not done to award generic subsidies to companies.

Siobhan Fahey ( born Máire Siobhan Deirdre Fahey, 10 September 1958, Dublin, Ireland ) is an Irish musician and founding member of the 1980s British girl group Bananarama, and later formed the BRIT Award and Ivor Novello award winning musical outfit Shakespears Sister.

During the 1980s and early 90s, those of Harryhausen's growing legion of fans who had graduated into the professional film industry, started lobbying the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to acknowledge Harryhausen's contribution to the film industry and he was finally awarded a Gordon E. Sawyer Award for " technological contributions have brought credit to the industry " in 1992, with Tom Hanks as the Master of Ceremonies and Bradbury, a friend from when they were both just out of high school, presenting the award.

Such positions have been funded by the various Norwegian research councils since the 1980s, mostly by grants to individual award holders.

Terry Steinbach won the MVP award in 1986 solidifying the base of the A's Championship teams of the late 1980s.

He started his career at Brøndby IF, and was an important part of the team which won several Danish championships in the late 1980s, crowned by a call-up to the Denmark national team and the Danish Player of the Year award in 1987.

The rereleased film won an array of awards including the critics ' award at the Berlin International Film Festival, first place at the Sundance Film Festival in the 1980s, then called the USA Film Festival, and a Special Critics ' Award from the 2007 New York Film Critics Circle.

In the 1980s, the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame instituted an award in Graney's name, presented periodically to journalists deemed to have made notable contributions to promoting baseball in Canada.

The badge was issued until the 1980s, at which time the United States Army declared the award discontinued in favor of the standard Recruiter Badge used by both active duty and reserve recruiters.

In the 1980s, Governor Chuck Robb came to his home and presented him with an award recognizing his contributions to Virginia life and culture.

Until the 1980s, the College only awarded its students the qualification Certificate of Advanced European Studies ( the programme also then included several shorter theses ), that was considered equivalent to a master's degree ( although it was not a degree in the strictest sense, as the College of Europe was inspired by the tradition of French elite schools such as ENA which did not award formal degrees ).

The Combat Recognition Ribbon was a tentative military award of the United States Army which was first proposed in the mid 1980s as an Army equivalent to the United States Navy ’ s Combat Action Ribbon.

While the award lost much of its prestige in the 1980s — due to lack of media coverage and interest from record companies — the number of categories continued to grow to a record number of 35 in 1991.

Strauss became chairman of Airbus Industries, a European consortium, in the 1980s, and saw Air Canada award a large contract of C $ 1. 8 billion ( CDN ), for new planes, to Airbus, winning over the bid from Boeing ( theretofore the supplier for Air Canada ), shortly before his death in 1988.

Kwitny also had in the 1980s a PBS series entitled The Kwitny Report which during its four year run won the George Polk award ( in 1990 ) for best investigative reporting on television.

By the end of the 1980s, Fernández had been famous more than 22 years, yet he had never earned a major award and was beginning to think he would have to die before he was recognized.

In the 1980s, La Rosa received a non-contract, recurring role in the NBC soap opera Another World, for which he was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Daytime Emmy award.

At the beginning of the 1980s the award money was 1 million SEK but in 2008 the award money had increased to 10 million SEK.

She appeared on the television series Taxi in the early 1980s, as the wife of the character played by Andy Kaufman, winning two Emmy Awards for her work.

The Brabham team continued in Formula One, winning two further drivers ' championships in the early 1980s under Bernie Ecclestone's ownership.

A second wave of success came in the late 1980s and early 1990s, led by Kent Hrbek, Bert Blyleven, Frank Viola, and Kirby Puckett, winning the franchise's second and third World Series ( and first in Minnesota ).

After winning Super Bowl II after the 1967 regular season, the Packers became a losing team for much of the 1970s and 1980s, only making the playoffs in 1972 and the strike-shortened 1982 season.

After a brief winning era in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the team suffered through 14 consecutive losing seasons.

Despite ZZ Top's popularity and success in the 1970s, it wasn't until the 1980s that they started winning major awards and honors.

ZZ Top's music videos won awards throughout the 1980s, winning once each in the categories Best Group Video, Best Direction, and Best Art Direction.

The men's first boat has held the headship several times in the 1980s and 1990s ( for example in 1994 to 1996 ) while gaining the Mays headship in 1996, on each occasion recognising the tradition of " burning the boat " ( using an old wooden 8 oared boat ), while the rowers of the winning boat jump the flames.

By the 1980s, Asper seemed eager to grow his chain of stations, launching two stations in Saskatchewan and winning a legal battle for a station in Vancouver during that decade, and acquiring a fledgling system in the Maritimes in the early 1990s.

* 1980s: DAF trucks started competing in the Dakar Rally, winning in 1982, 85 and 87.

They peaked in the mid-to-late 1980s, winning their only playoff series in 1986 over the Nordiques before bowing out in the second round to the Montreal Canadiens, taking the Habs to overtime of Game 7 in the process.

De Havilland continued acting on film until the late 1970s, afterward continuing her career on television until the late 1980s, highlighted by her winning a Golden Globe and earning a Emmy Award nomination for her performance as the Dowager Empress Maria in the 1986 miniseries Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna.

* dc Talk, Grammy-awarding winning Christian rock band formed in the late 1980s by Toby McKeehan, Kevin Max, and Michael Tait

Several other newspapers launched in the 1980s, including the Sunday Correspondent, had collapsed without winning enough readers to be profitable, and The Independent was experiencing similar problems.

In the 1980s, Mercersburg had a dominant swimming program, with two of its students, Betsy Mitchell and Melvin Stewart, winning olympic medals.

Valenzuela was a Dodgers mainstay throughout the 1980s, winning 21 games in 1986 and pitching a no-hitter in 1990, though he was injured during the 1988 championship run.

Among the most notable are the Eagle Mk1 Formula One car, which won the 1967 Belgian Grand Prix ; the winning cars at the 1968, 1973, and 1975 Indianapolis 500s ; and the Toyota-Eagle IMSA GTPs of the late 1980s / early 1990s.

The “ Miracle of Chile ” was a term used by free market Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman to describe liberal and free market reorientation of the economy of Chile in the 1980s and the purported benefits of his style of economic liberalism.

Dion had first gained international recognition in the 1980s by winning both the 1982 Yamaha World Popular Song Festival and the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest.

He made a series of albums in the early 1980s, released on Greensleeves Records with titles themed around Scientist's fictional achievements in fighting Space Invaders, Pac-Men, and Vampires, and winning the World Cup.

She first achieved success in the 1980s as the frontwoman and lead vocalist of the Brit and Grammy Award winning English group Sade.