In the 1980s, companies had few people who understood the growing personal computer phenomenon, and so most technical people were given free rein to purchase whatever software they thought they needed.

Since the mid 1980s, the United States has had a growing deficit in tradeable goods, especially with Asian nations ( China and Japan ) which now hold large sums of U. S debt that has funded the consumption.

CND's growing support in the 1980s provoked opposition from several sources, including Peace Through Nato, the British Atlantic Committee ( which received government funding ), Women and Families for Defence ( set up by conservative journalist Lady Olga Maitland to oppose the Greenham Common Peace Camp ), the Conservative Party's Campaign for Defence and Multilateral Disarmament, the Coalition for Peace through Security, the Foreign Affairs Research Institute, and The 61, a private sector intelligence agency.

When the term first surfaced circa the late 1980s / early 1990s, it was used for adult sports such as skydiving, scuba diving, surfing, rock climbing, snow skiing, water skiing, snowboarding, mountain biking, mountaineering, storm chasing, hang gliding, and bungee jumping, many of which were then growing in popularity.

In the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, a growing number of composers ( many of them composer-performers who had grown up playing the instrument in rock bands ) began writing contemporary classical music for the electric guitar.

As a result, in part, of the popular and commercial resurgence of punk in the late 1980s and after, with the growing popularity of such bands as Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Fugazi, Bikini Kill, Green Day and The Offspring, a number of other punk zines have appeared, such as Punk Planet, Razorcake, Tail Spins, Sobriquet, Profane Existence and Slug and Lettuce.

The solutions relied on in the past — traditional export crops, the maquiladora assembly industry, and 1980s ' development schemes — appear unlikely to provide enough new jobs for a rapidly growing population.

In the 1980s, a number of manufacturers carefully researched thermal energy storage ( TES ) to meet the growing demand for air conditioning during peak hours.

Breakwater Construction in Seosan coast ( 1984 ) The result was that South Korean construction companies concentrated on the rapidly growing domestic market in the late 1980s.

In the 1980s, Canadian animation studios including Nelvana, began producing a growing proportion of the world market in animation.

By the late 1980s, structural flaws within the Soviet system, growing economic problems, the rise of anti-communist sentiment and the effects of the Afghan war made it increasingly impractical for the Soviet Union to impose its will on its neighbors.

Independent stations, even more than network affiliates, were feeling the growing pressure of audience erosion to cable television in the 1980s and 1990s, and there were unaffiliated commercial stations in most of the major markets, at least, even after the foundation of Fox in 1986.

During the 1980s, a phenomenon known as microburst became a growing concern due to aircraft accidents caused by microburst wind shear, such as Delta Air Lines Flight 191.

A major change in the town centre road infrastructure was the construction of the ring road in the 1970s and 1980s, which relieved the town's growing congestion problem.

The use of ECT declined until the 1980s, " when use began to increase amid growing awareness of its benefits and cost-effectiveness for treating severe depression ".

Due to the rapid pace of change, by the late 1980s, grievances over inflation, limited career prospects for students, and corruption of the party elite were growing rapidly.

The neighbourhood of Le Marais in Paris has experienced a growing gay presence since the 1980s, as evidenced by the existence of a large gay community and of many gay cafés, nightclubs, cabarets and shops, such as the largest Gay Club in Europe called Le Depot.

In the 1980s and 1990s, the economic center of the country continued to shift northwards to Flanders with investments by multinationals ( Automotive industry, Chemical industry ) and a growing local Industrial agriculture ( textiles, food ).

The era of import substitution ended in 1976, but the same time growing government spending, large wage increases and inefficient production created a chronic inflation that rose through the 1980s.

By the 1980s a growing manufacturing industry was seen as a considerable earner for the Barbados economy.

Responding to growing dependence on IT, the UK Government's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency in the 1980s developed a set of recommendations.

In Great Britain, small but growing numbers people were illegally using American CB radios during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Monsanto's application of this business model to agriculture, along with a growing movement to create a global, uniform system of plant breeders ' rights in the 1980s, came into direct conflict with customary practices of farmers to save, reuse, share and develop plant varieties.

During the 1980s and 1990s and demographic shifts, Evans gradually became the de facto county seat, as the Columbia County Government Center and the Government Complex Addition were built there to serve the growing population in the county's eastern areas.

Since the 1980s, however, there has been a big increase in straw quality as specialist growers have returned to growing older, tall-stemmed, ' heritage ' varieties of wheat such as Squareheads Master ( 1880 ), N59 ( 1959 ), Rampton Rivet ( 1937 ), Victor ( 1910 ) and April Bearded ( early 1800s )

In the 1980s books like Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter pondered anthropology's ties to colonial inequality, while the immense popularity of theorists such as Antonio Gramsci and Michel Foucault moved issues of power and hegemony into the spotlight.

Through the late 1970s and early 1980s, the group's popularity continued to grow ( although they were always more popular in North America and Continental Europe than in their home country, never achieving a UK Top 40 single or Top 20 album ).

Wine coolers gained popularity in the U. S. market in the 1980s when Bartles and Jaymes began advertising their brand of wine coolers, which were followed by other brands, including when Bacardi introduced the Breezer.

Speed improved with the introduction of 1200 bit / s modems in the early 1980s, and this led to a substantial increase in popularity.

Its rise in popularity occurred in the late 1980s at the same time as Rock en Español and Latin Pop reached continental-wide audiences.

The album remains as one of their most popular works and launched a boost of popularity for Barış Manço during 1980s.

Four years later, Dirk gained further popularity as con-man Lieutenant Templeton " Face " Peck in 1980s action television series, The A-Team.

During the 1980s, anime gained in popularity, with new animated movies released every summer and winter, often based upon popular anime television series.

Freestyle or Latin freestyle is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in the early 1980s, and experienced its greatest popularity from the mid-1980s through the early ' 90s.

Freestyle's popularity spread outward from the Greater Toronto Area's Italian and Greek populations in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

In the United Kingdom, game shows have had a more steady and permanent place in the television lineup and never lost popularity in the 1990s as they did in the United States, due in part to the fact that game shows were highly regulated by the Independent Broadcasting Authority in the 1980s and those restrictions were lifted in the 1990s, allowing for higher-stakes games to be played.

As in prior weak financial markets and prolonged economic slowdowns, hedge funds again lost popularity during the downturn of the 1970s but received renewed attention in the late 1980s, following the success of several funds profiled in the media.

Because of Netware's popularity through the late 1980s into the mid 1990s, IPX became a popular internetworking protocol.

Ratsiraka's dwindling popularity in the late 1980s reached a critical point in 1991 when presidential guards opened fire on unarmed protesters during a rally.

After Decade of Decadence was released, Neil left the band in February 1992, at a time when other bands in the 1980s glam metal scene ( Ratt, Stryper, White Lion, Winger, Europe & Britny Fox ) also broke up because of the rise in popularity of Grunge.

The popularity of MUDs of the Essex University tradition escalated in the USA during the late 1980s when affordable personal computers with 300 to 2400 bit / s modems enabled role-players to log into multi-line Bulletin Board Systems and online service providers such as CompuServe.

It was not until 1978 when Thomas and Christoph Cremer developed the first practical confocal laser scanning microscope and the technique rapidly gained popularity through the 1980s.

Such models enjoyed some popularity in the United States in the late 1980s and early 1990s, for example the Mitsubishi Expo and Nissan Axxess.

The explosive rise in popularity during the 1980s of rap music has led to a large number of radio stations specializing in rap / hip-hop and R & B music ( with the exception of classic R & B such as Motown, which is as often as not the province of Oldies stations ).

Since the late 1980s especially, prose poetry has gained increasing popularity, with entire journals, such as The Prose Poem: An International Journal, Contemporary Haibun Online and Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose devoted to that genre.

" By the end of the 1980s, these bands, who had largely eclipsed their punk rock forebears in popularity, were classified broadly as alternative rock.

In the 1980s, play-by-mail games reached their peak of popularity with the advent of Gaming Universal, Paper Mayhem and Flagship magazine, the first professional magazines devoted to play-by-mail games.

While invented long before, the practice of including music with the entrance gained rapid popularity during the 1980s, largely as a result of the huge success of Hulk Hogan and the WWF, and their Rock ' n ' Wrestling Connection.