In the mid-1980s, Grant collaborated with co-writer Doug Naylor on radio programmes such as Cliché and its sequel Son Of Cliché, Wrinkles for Radio 4 and television programmes such as Spitting Image, The 10 Percenters, and various projects for Jasper Carrott.

The show originated from a recurring sketch, Dave Hollins: Space Cadet part of the mid-1980s BBC Radio 4 comedy show Son of Cliché, also scripted by Grant and Naylor.

In the mid-1980s, the most successful CCM artist at the time, Amy Grant, crossed over into secular music with the 1985 single " Find a Way ," which became a Top Ten AC hit and a # 1 Christian single simultaneously.

CCM had become the most popular form of gospel by the mid-1980s, especially with artists like Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, and Kathy Troccoli.

A broad public discussion of environmental problems began in the mid-1980s, when the first " green " groups formed in opposition to Yerevan's intense industrial air pollution and to nuclear power generation in the wake of the 1986 reactor explosion at Chernobyl '.

Mineral production has stagnated since a slump began in the mid-1980s.

The upright bass began making a modest comeback in popular music in the mid-1980s, in part due to a renewed interest in earlier forms of rock and country music.

By the mid-1980s food writers stated that the style of cuisine had reached exhaustion and many chefs began returning to the haute cuisine style of cooking, although much of the lighter presentations and new techniques remained.

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.

From French, it began to migrate to the English language in the mid-1980s, and in recent years has largely displaced the term Islamic fundamentalism in academic circles.

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.

Beginning in the mid-1980s, and particularly around the end of the decade, North Korea began slowly to modify its rigid self-reliant policy.

By the mid-1980s, however, the study of rhetorical criticism began to move away from precise methodology towards conceptual issues.

Crowe began his performing career as a musician in the mid-1980s, under guidance from his good friend Tom Sharplin, when he performed as a rock ' n roll revivalist, under the stage name Russ Le Roq.

In the mid-1980s RTÉ began a new radio soap entitled Harbour Hotel until the mid-1990s.

In the mid-1980s Turner began leaving day-to-day operations to the baseball operations staff.

Beginning in the mid-1980s, less invasive treatments such as extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy, ureteroscopy, and percutaneous nephrolithotomy began to replace open surgery as the modalities of choice for the surgical management of urolithiasis.

Beginning in the mid-1980s, Hughes ' health problems due to over eating, drugs and alcohol began to seriously affect his musical projects, and this contributed to very short stints with Gary Moore and Tony Iommi, as Hughes was unable to tour with them properly due to his bad health.

Forestry became important as an export trade in the mid-1980s, when the pine plantations planted in the 1950s and 1960s began to mature.

One of these was the high-performance hard disk drive market, which was becoming more lucrative as personal computers ( PCs ) began to include them in the mid-1980s.

ABC Radio began using the SEDAT satellite distribution system in the mid-1980s, switching to Starguide in the early 2000s.

By the mid-1980s, Irving associated himself with the IHR, began giving lectures to groups such as the far-right German Deutsche Volksunion ( DVU ), and publicly denied that the Nazis systematically exterminated Jews in gas chambers during World War II.

By the early to mid-1980s, the adult film industry began the transition of making porn movies on videotape instead of film.

In the mid-1980s, Silicon Graphics began to use the MIPS CPU as the foundation of their newest workstations, replacing the Motorola 68000.

In the mid-1980s, a transformation of the village center began with the opening of a store specializing in antique gardening books and horticultural prints.

The city's growth began in the mid-1980s, when Toyota built Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky, the first wholly owned United States plant, in a recently annexed part of the city.

By the mid-1980s, Berger, then editor of such DC titles as Wonder Woman and Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld, began assigning writers from the UK.

The 16, 000 capacity LG Arena was the largest multi-purpose arena in the UK when opening in the mid-1980s as " The NEC Arena " and is still a major popular venue for many large, international touring acts.

Later to join forces with Tackhead, was Gary Clail, who as MC for the touring version of the On-U sound system would shout and rant over Tackhead's live playing, and both were then mixed live by Sherwood to produce a wall of sound effect that was highly novel for the mid-1980s.

By the mid-1980s, The Fibonaccis had emerged as a prominent presence in the Los Angeles art rock scene, acting as touring support for the likes of Sparks, Oingo Boingo and Wall of Voodoo and performing as part of the 1985 New Music America festival.

Since their introduction in the mid-1980s, in-ear monitors have grown to be the most popular monitoring choice for large touring acts.

The mid-1980s saw Schlesser perform in touring cars and sports cars, winning the French Touring Car Championship in 1985 with a TWR Rover Vitesse, as well as driving the works TWR Jaguars in the World Sportscar Championship.

* Kye Kennedy — lead guitar: mid-1980s touring

Amorim started competing in circuit racing and rallying in 1982, but in the mid-1980s he was almost exclusively a touring car racing driver, becoming a mainstay in various one-make cups and the Portuguese Touring Car Championship.

In the mid-1980s Duncan revived the Quicksilver name and began touring with his own band even releasing an album, Peace by Piece.

Increased sales of Porsche's 928 model during the mid-1980s prompted executives to consider adding another large, sporty touring vehicle to the lineup, this time a 4-door that could serve as a more practical but equally powerful and exciting alternative to the 928.

In the mid-1980s, Baxter's interest in music recording technology led him to wonder about hardware and software that was originally developed for military use, i. e. data-compression algorithms and large-capacity storage devices.

Since Sedaka had lost his recording contract in the mid-1980s, he had used his own business, Neil Sedaka Music, to finance the recording, production, and distribution of new CDs and repackaging of his existing catalog of music.

She slowly returned to music during the mid-1980s, contributing songs to musical soundtracks and recording for various-artist compilations.

Since 1974, Fairport Convention had been staging the annual Cropredy Festival ; since 1979, this annual reunion had represented the height of their activity in that period as a band, but in the mid-1980s several members became interested in reviving the band more fully, stimulating creativity as a group and in recording new material.

Walden has also owned and operated Tarpan Studios, a well-known recording studio in San Rafael, California, since the mid-1980s.

Gary Smith is an entrepreneur, record producer, and artist's manager known for his work recording albums by alternative rock musicians since the mid-1980s at Fort Apache Studios.

Warburton, who was born in 1964 and raised in Worcestershire, graduated in the mid-1980s from the Tonmeister music and sound recording course at the University of Surrey.

Laff went out of business sometime in the mid-1980s, with their last " hit " recording being Kip Addotta's " Wet Dream " ( a favorite of fans of the Dr. Demento radio show ), but many of their more profitable recordings still circulated through other labels for sometime afterward.

They also signed James Brown to a recording contract in the mid-1980s and the US act ' Flag ' featuring Dave Cairns from Secret Affair and Archie Brown.

They began recording during the mid-1980s, and they released their first album, Play Deep, in 1985 through Columbia Records.