The port of Alicante has been reinventing itself since the industrial decline the city suffered in the 1980s ( with most mercantile traffic lost to Valencia's harbour ).

The city has been an epicenter for rave culture since the 1980s.

Since the 1980s, many motion pictures have been filmed in the city, most notably The Blues Brothers ; Ferris Bueller's Day Off ; Home Alone ; The Fugitive ; I, Robot ; Wanted ; Batman Begins ; The Dark Knight ; and Transformers: Dark of the Moon.

The 1970s, 1980s and 1990s saw large-scale housing developments in the districts of Woensel-Zuid and Woensel-Noord, making Eindhoven the fifth-largest city in the Netherlands.

The city is west of the former site of Times Beach, the site of dioxin contamination discovered in the 1980s ; the area was cleaned up and became Route 66 State Park.

In the 1980s, Fortaleza exceeded Recife in population terms, becoming the second most populous city in Northeastern Brazil, with 1, 308, 919 inhabitants.

Management of city growth patterns became a political priority during the 1980s, as well as the revitalization of Fort Collins ' Old Town with the creation of a Downtown Development Authority.

In the 1980s, Haring opened his first Pop Shop: a store that offered everyone access to his works — which until then could only be found spray-painted on city walls.

House music is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the American city of Chicago in the early 1980s.

In the late 1980s, city leaders put on a more concerted effort to convince Houston Oilers owner Bud Adams to move to Jacksonville.

Public and private schools in the city have reopened since 2002 after they were shut down or destroyed during fighting in the 1980s to the late 1990s.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, ethnic and political violence broke out across the city between Muhajir followers of the Mohajir Quami Movement, ethnic Sindhis and Punjabis and state forces.

After the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, thousands of Biharis and Bengalis from Bangladesh arrived in the city, and today Karachi is home to 1 to 2 million ethnic Bengalis from Bangladesh ( see Bangladeshis in Pakistan ), many of whom migrated in the 1980s and 1990s.

Although the economy of Moncton was traumatized twice — by the collapse of the shipbuilding industry in the 1860s and by the closure of the CNR locomotive shops in the 1980s — the city was able to rebound strongly on both occasions.

The late 1970s and the 1980s again saw a period of economic hardship hit the city as several major employers closed or restructured.

A series of ring roads were constructed ( Isa al Kabeer avenue in the 1930s, Exhibition avenue in the 1960s and Al Fateh highway in the 1980s ), to push back the coastline and extend the city area in belt-like forms.

The Mazari Sharif Airport in the city has been heavily used during the 1980s Soviet war and the latest 2001-present war in Afghanistan.

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.

The city rebounded, but the slump of American manufacturing in the second half of the 20th century, along with the nationwide epidemic of white flight from cities to suburbs, led to a depressed city by the time of the 1980s national recession.

In the 1980s, the Carnival of Venice was revived and the city has become a major centre of international conferences and festivals, such as the prestigious Venice Biennale and the Venice Film Festival, which attract visitors from all over the world for their theatrical, cultural, cinematic, artistic, and musical productions

In the 1980s, as several fashion firms based in the city became internationally successful ( such as Armani, Versace and Dolce & Gabbana ), Milan started to be recognized as one of the world's fashion capitals.

The phrase " I have seen the fnords " was famously graffitied on a railway bridge ( known locally as Anarchy Bridge ) between Earlsdon and Coventry ( U. K .) city centre throughout the 1980s and 1990s, until the bridge was upgraded.

The total length of Albania's roads more than doubled in the first three decades after World War II, and by the 1980s almost all of the country's remote mountain areas were connected, at least by dirt roads, with the capital city of Tirana and ports on the Adriatic and Ionian Sea.

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 ".

In the 1980s, risk arbitrage was common.