) In the late 1980s, a handful of BBS developers implemented multitasking communications routines which, although run under MS-DOS, allowed multiple phone lines and multiple users to connect to the same physical BBS computer.

A major reason for the motorway construction " mania " of the 2000s is a previous political halt of the major Croatian highway project, today's A1, in the 1970s and 1980s under former Yugoslavia.

Harvard Square was originally the northwestern terminus of the Red Line and a major transfer point to streetcars that also operated in a short tunnel — which is still a major bus terminal, although the area under the Square was reconfigured dramatically in the 1980s when the Red Line was extended.

However, in the 1980s, under the leadership of Margaret Thatcher, and the influence of Keith Joseph, there was a dramatic shift in the ideological direction of British conservatism, with a movement towards free-market economic policies.

Election defeats under, first, Michael Foot, then Neil Kinnock, led Labour to abandon the policy in the late 1980s.

Ecuador's foreign policy goals under the Borja government in the late 1980s were more diversified than those of the Febres Cordero administration, which closely identified with the United States.

Developed in the 1960s, tourism declined greatly during the later 1970s and the 1980s under the military government.

This has been popularized by the CNN Headline News TV channel, which, during the 1980s and 1990s, used to frequently include such a fact under the heading " factoid " during newscasts.

No really adequate recording has been made of Schmidt's second and last opera Fredigundis, of which there has been but one " unauthorized " release in the early 1980s on the Voce Label of an Austrian Radio broadcast of a 1979 Vienna performance under the direction of Ernst Märzendorfer.

The alliance was especially close in the late 1980s and early 1990s under the leadership of Christian Democrat Helmut Kohl and Socialist François Mitterrand.

In the late 1980s, the Soviet government came under increased criticism, as did Leninist ideology ( which Gorbachev had attempted to preserve as the foundation for reform ), and members of the Soviet population were more outspoken in their view that the Soviet government had become a failure.

Allegations emerged of drug trafficking reaching into the upper echelons of government, as it had done under the military regimes of the 1980s and early 1990s ( illegal drug trade in Haiti ).

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

VAZ-2105, still based on the 2101 but updated to 1980s styling, was introduced in 1980 and was marketed outside the Soviet Union under the Riva or Laika names, depending on country.

Only 0. 93m hectares ( ha ) were under irrigation in the late 1980s.

* The Integral Fast Reactor ( IFR ) was built, tested and evaluated during the 1980s and then retired under the Clinton administration in the 1990s due to nuclear non-proliferation policies of the administration.

For example, before the 2007 federal election, which Labor won, he criticised the then opposition industrial relations spokesperson Julia Gillard, saying she lacked an understanding of principles such as enterprise-bargaining set under his government in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

However, it was in the 1980s under the leaderships of Margaret Thatcher in the UK and Ronald Reagan in the USA, that privatization gained worldwide momentum.

The United Kingdom's largest public-share offerings were privatizations of British Telecom and British Gas during the 1980s under the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher, when many state-run firms were sold off to the private sector.

In the 1980s, under the leadership of Chief Naval Commander Liu Huaqing, the navy developed into a regional naval power, though naval construction continued at a level somewhat below the 1970s rate.

In the 1980s, Crowe, going under the name of " Russ le Roq ", recorded a song titled " I Want To Be Like Marlon Brando ".

In the 1980s, the group was broken up by Italian investigators, with the aid of several leaders under arrest who turned pentito and assisted the authorities in capturing the other members.

Much of the credit for the resolution of the stagflation is given to two causes: a three year contraction of the money supply by the Federal Reserve Board under Paul Volcker, initiated in the last year of Carter's presidency, and long term easing of supply and pricing in oil during the 1980s oil glut.

It phased out the politicised stories of the 1980s, shifting the emphasis to controversial and sensationalist stories such as child rape, sibling incest, religious cults, and drug addiction, including the infamous ' body under the patio ' storyline which ran from 1993 – 95, and gave the serial its highest ever viewing figures of 9 million.

The follow-up test in November 1980s " Dauphin " appeared to be a success, and plans were made for a major series of experiments in the early 1980s under " Excalibur ".

" In the 1970s and 1980s Israel tolerated and supported the group as preferable to the secular and then more powerful al-Fatah and the PLO.

The Five Gospels says that the non-apocalyptic view gained ground in the 1970s and 1980s when research into Jesus shifted out of religious environments and into secular academia.

Before Kurtz embraced the term " secular humanism ," which had received wide publicity through fundamentalist Christians in the 1980s, humanism was more widely perceived as a religion ( or a pseudoreligion ) that did not include the supernatural.

This is however interpreted in very many ways: socialism and Marxism as a guide to adapting Islam to the modern world was in decline by the 1980s as the USSR invaded Afghanistan and polarized attitudes against Communism and other secular variants of socialism.

Benefits that are commonly quoted include: the GDP of Tibet Autonomous Region ( TAR ) today is 30 times that before 1950 ; it has 22, 500 km of highways, all built since 1950 ; all secular education in the region was created after integration into the PRC ; there are 25 scientific research institutes, all built by the PRC ; infant mortality has dropped from 43 % in 1950 to 0. 661 % in 2000 ; life expectancy has risen from 35. 5 years in 1950 to 67 in 2000 ; the collection and publishing of the traditional Epic of King Gesar, which is the longest epic poem in the world and had only been handed down orally before ; allocation of 300 million Renminbi since the 1980s to the maintenance and protection of Tibetan monasteries.

During the 1970s and 1980s, Islam experienced a kind of political rehabilitation because right-of-center secular leaders perceived religion as a potential bulwark in their ideological struggle with left-of-center secular leaders.

Although Juju music, like apala, sakara, fuji, and waka was created by Muslim Yoruba ( NOTE: Tunde King was a Muslim and an alhaji until his death in the 1980s ); however, the music itself remains secular.

The quaker influence was particularly pronounced in the Anti-nuclear movement of the 1980s and in the North American anti-globalization movement, both of which included many thousands of Anarchists and self-consciously adopted secular, consensus-based aspects of Quaker decision making.

During 1980s, the secular Russian-backed Pashtun leaders and members suffered the Great purged by President General Zia-ul-Haq, and with the members of Pakistan Peoples Party, the Pashtun leaders escaped and took political asylum in Moscow, Russia.

In the 1980s and early 1990s, more and more of the members of Egypt's leading professional associations were economically disadvantaged university graduates ; their votes helped Brotherhood candidates gain large majorities on the executive boards of several of these associations, such as those representing lawyers, doctors, pharmacists, scientists and engineers, defeating government, secular, and militant Islamic candidates in open, competitive elections.

By the early 1980s, curriculum changes at RRC included more Hebrew, classic texts, and electives, reducing the time available for secular graduate studies.

Its lineup remained largely religious through the 1980s, but a few " family-friendly " secular shows had been added to its schedule.

In the early 1980s, WHME cut back the secular shows to the 2 p. m. to 7 p. m. timeslots on weekdays.

It " developed an extremely effective and profitable corporate structure ", and " by the 1980s, the movement had evolved into a complex, interlocking network of corporations, with an astonishing number of both spiritual and secular businesses worldwide, offering everything from yoga and psychological counselling to cleaning services.

By the mid 1980s, a low-level insurgency against Ba ' athist drainage and resettlement projects had developed in the area, led by Sheik Abdul Kerim Mahud al-Muhammadawi of the Al bu Muhammad under the nom de guerre Abu Hatim.

After General Ne Win ( 1910 – 2002 ) took over power in 1963 Ba Maw was again imprisoned ( like many of the Burmese luminaries of the period who were detained during the time of Ne Win regime, from the 1960s to the 1980s, his imprisonment was without charge or trial ) from about 1965 or 1966 to February 1968.