In the mid-1980s, demand for the plant's structural products began to diminish, and new competition entered the marketplace.

Meeting of a WJC delegation led by Edgar Bronfman with GDR leader Erich Honecker, in East Berlin, October 1988During the mid-1980s, the World Jewish Congress also entered into diplomatic talks with several Central and Eastern European countries, notably Communist East Germany, whose leadership the WJC urged to recognize its obligations to Jewish victims of Nazi Germany.

Then in the mid-1980s, Esalen entered into a joint publishing arrangement with Lindisfarne Press to publish a small library of Russian philosophical and theological books.

Waid entered the comics field during the mid-1980s as an editor and writer on Fantagraphics Books ' comic book fan magazine, Amazing Heroes.

Like his former mentor John Connally, he entered bankruptcy following the collapse of the real estate bubble in the mid-1980s.

In the late 1960s, Beksiński entered what he himself called his " fantastic period ", which lasted up to the mid-1980s.

Cohen entered the hip hop music business in the mid-1980s after booking a performance by seminal rappers Run-D. M. C.

Religious use in Brazil was legalized after two official inquiries into the tea in the mid-1980s, which concluded that ayahuasca is not a recreational drug and has valid spiritual uses.

Beginning in the mid-1980s, church executives undertook a controversial and ambitious foray into electronic broadcast media.

A $ 3. 5 million project to renovate and expand the Wabash Station, a rail depot built in 1910 and converted into the city's transit center in the mid-1980s, was completed in summer of 2007.

Mirroring the long downward trend in the popularity of variety shows in general that had taken place in the 1970s, ratings began to decline for Hee Haw by the mid-1980s, a trend that continued into the early 1990s.

The docklands area had become largely derelict by the 1980s, but was redeveloped into flats and offices from the mid-1980s onwards.

The economic recession went on into the mid-1980s until a reduce of public costs and spendings, tighter budgets and deficits, a steady economic growth, and a lowered inflation rate meant that by the recovery plan of 1983, Italy left recession.

For example, because Zork was available for years after its initial release in 1980, it continued to top charts in sales well into the mid-1980s.

In 1977 they upgraded and extended their Artist range and introduced a number of other top quality original designs made to match or surpass famous American brands ; the Performer and short-lived Concert ranges which competed with the Les Paul ; through neck Musicians ; Studios in fixed and through neck construction ; the radically shaped Iceman and the Roadster which morphed into the Roadstar range, precursor to the popular superstrat era in the mid-1980s.

The first began in earnest in 1868 and extended through to World War II ; the second began in 1945 and continued into the mid-1980s.

Several major computer-related organizations have originated at MIT since the 1980s: Richard Stallman's GNU Project and the subsequent Free Software Foundation were founded in the mid-1980s at the AI Lab ; the MIT Media Lab was founded in 1985 by Nicholas Negroponte and Jerome Wiesner to promote research into novel uses of computer technology ; the World Wide Web Consortium standards organization was founded at the Laboratory for Computer Science in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee ; the OpenCourseWare project has made course materials for over 2, 000 MIT classes available online free of charge since 2002 ; and the One Laptop per Child initiative to expand computer education and connectivity to children worldwide was launched in 2005.

Free love continued in different forms throughout the 1970s and into the early 1980s, but its more assertive manifestations ended abruptly ( or disappeared from public view ) in the mid-1980s when the public first became aware of AIDS, a deadly sexually transmitted disease.

Talkomatic was very popular among PLATO users into the mid-1980s.

The combination of CP / M and S-100 bus computers loosely patterned on the MITS Altair was an early " industry standard " for microcomputers, and this computer platform was widely used in business through the late 1970s and into the mid-1980s, expanding to include 16-bit CPUs and multiuser capability.

By the mid-1980s, most of the common previously external system components had been integrated into the same chip as the processor and this modern form of the microcontroller allowed an even more widespread use, which by the end of the decade were the norm rather than the exception for almost all electronics devices.

Spassky maintained a top ten world ranking into the mid-1980s.

However, progressive metal did not develop into a genre of its own until the mid-1980s.

Postgres ( Post Ingres ), a project which started in the mid-1980s, later evolved into PostgreSQL.

The Hanlin Group, Inc., which maintained a facility named " LCP Chemicals " in Glynn County just outside the corporate limits of Brunswick, was convicted of dumping 150 tons of mercury into Purvis Creek, a tributary of the Turtle River and surrounding tidal marshes between the mid-1980s and its closure in 1994.

Major tournament events were held at the club throughout the grass court era, and even into the mid-1980s professional events would occasionally be held there.

Beginning in the early to mid-1980s some elements of the combat support companies ( the mortar and scout platoons ) were merged into the Headquarters Company with the staff and support elements, others were moved to their parent type organization ( ground surveillance radar and air defense ), and in infantry battalions the heavy anti-tank missile platoon was organized as a separate company ( E Company ).

Harris is also the author of various children's books, a side career he stumbled into the mid-1980s: he returned to journalism because he could not find funding for a documentary he wanted to make.

Worldbeat as a coined genre emerged in the mid-1980s when popular, mainstream artists began incorporating world music influences into their sound.

Hillary Kincaid ( Bauer ), Bill's daughter ( and thus Ed and Mike's half-sister ) was also introduced during this period, and she would become a major character who would remain into the mid-1980s.

A couple of mid-1980s editions featured several home video clips: with the increasing private ownership of domestic camcorders, clips were spun off into the long-running You've Been Framed!

The Wang PACE ( Professional Application Creation Environment ) 4GL and database was used from the mid-1980s onward by customers and third party developers to build complex applications sometimes involving many thousands of screens, hundreds of distinct application modules, and serving many hundreds of users.

In the late 1990s James Kurth asserted, " y the mid-1980s the term had largely fallen out of public discussion ... whatever the power of arguments about the influence of the military – industrial complex on weapons procurement during the Cold War, they are much less relevant to the current era.

PONTIFEX ( Planning Of Non-specific Transportation by an Intelligent Fleet EXpert ) was a mid-1980s project that introduced a novel approach to complex aircraft fleet scheduling, partially funded by the European Commission ’ s Strategic Programme for R & D in Information Technology.

Nonetheless, the arrangements in place worked fairly well until the mid-1980s, when it be clear that with the passage of time, as the European economy steadily grew in size and anti-competitive activities and market practices became more complex in nature, the Commission would eventually be unable to deal with its workload.

Access to this beach is by way of a long boardwalk built in the mid-1980s by the producers of the film Glory, and it can be accessed from the soccer complex at the north end of the Jekyll Island 4-H center property.

Except for the now single track goods avoiding line, which still exists to serve the steelworks at Stocksbridge, all the track through the station was lifted in the mid-1980s and the station buildings were demolished in 1989 to make way for an extension to the adjacent Victoria Hotel complex.

In the mid-1980s, Bugis Street underwent major urban redevelopment into a retail complex of modern shopping malls, restaurants and nightspots mixed with regulated back-alley roadside vendors.

Johan Cruijff returned to the club in 1981, with the club producing some talented youngsters in the mid-1980s such as Marco van Basten and Frank Rijkaard.

In the mid-1980s, Grant began touring and recording with young up-and-coming songwriter Michael W. Smith.

The drop in commodity prices for its principal exports — petroleum, cocoa, coffee, and cotton — in the mid-1980s, combined with an overvalued currency and economic mismanagement, led to a decade-long recession.

From his first introduction in 1938 to the mid-1980s, " Clark Kent " was seen mostly as a disguise for Superman, enabling him to mix with ordinary people.

The NIAID reports that, " In the mid-1980s, clinical trials enrolling patients with AIDS found that AZT given as single-drug therapy conferred a modest survival advantage compared to placebo.

Starting in the mid-1980s, the wedding and banquet business changed dramatically with the introduction of DJ music, replacing the bands that had been the norm.

By the mid-1980s, her record sales were still relatively strong, with " Save the Last Dance for Me ", " Downtown ", " Tennessee Homesick Blues " ( all 1984 ); " Real Love " ( another duet with Kenny Rogers ), " Don't Call It Love " ( both 1985 ); and " Think About Love " ( 1986 ) all reaching the country-singles Top 10.

A few months later, the first eukaryotic genome was completed, with the 16 chromosomes of budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae being released as the result of a European-led effort begun in the mid-1980s.

Less than half of Honduras's cultivable land was planted with crops as recently as the mid-1980s.

Since the mid-1980s, there are some overlaps in ideas and members with the computer security hacking community.

Joysticks were commonly used as controllers in first and second generation game consoles, but they gave way to the familiar game pad with the Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega Master System during the mid-1980s, though joysticks — especially arcade-style one — were and are popular after-market add-ons for any console.

While monetary and military Libyan support for the Sahrawi cause dwindled in the mid-1980s, after a rapprochement with Morocco, the enemy of Polisario, some Sahrawi refugee students are still able to apply for higher education in Libya.

By the mid-1980s, falling production cost made the 68000 viable for use in personal and home computers, starting with the Apple Lisa and Macintosh, and followed by the Commodore Amiga, Atari ST, and Sharp X68000.

One 1941 property from the Waco, Texas-based Alamo Plaza Courts chain, the first US motel chain ( founded 1929, expansion stopped with the departure of the chain's founders in the 1950s ), still stands on U. S. Route 190 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, but has been declining steadily since a change of ownership in the mid-1980s.

Marked improvements occurred by the mid-1980s with an influx of foreign technology and increased domestic production capabilities.

In March 1985, the Apple LaserWriter was the first printer to ship with PostScript, sparking the desktop publishing ( DTP ) revolution in the mid-1980s.

The 3000 series made from the mid-1970s to mid-1980s were cheaper instruments with bolt-on 21 fret necks.

The influence that freestyle exerted upon street skating became apparent during the mid-1980s ; however, street skating was still performed on wide vert boards with short noses, slide rails, and large soft wheels.

The Coens co-wrote Crimewave and The Hudsucker Proxy with Raimi in the mid-1980s ( though Hudsucker was not produced for almost a decade ).

Trip hop may have originated in the mid-1980s in Bristol, UK, during a time when American hip hop started to gain increasing popularity there along with the then exploding popularity of the house music and dance scene.

From independence in 1961 until the mid-1980s, Tanzania was a one-party state, with a socialist model of economic development.

In the late 1960s to mid-1980s, several mainstream films were released with an X rating such as Midnight Cowboy, A Clockwork Orange, Fritz the Cat, Last Tango in Paris and The Evil Dead.