American media mogul Ted Turner bought the rights to the Doraemon anime series in the mid-1980s for an English-language release, but canceled it without explanation before any episodes were aired.

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

Jon Petrovich was hired in the mid-1980s by Turner to lead Headline News.

Turner also coached the New Zealand side twice — once in the mid-1980s, when he presided over the team's first and ( to date ) only series victory in Australia, and again a decade later.

During the mid-1980s, many sysops opted for the less expensive, ubiquitous Commodore 64 ( introduced in 1982 ), which became popular among software pirate groups.

Between the late 1970s and mid-1980s, Italian cinema was in crisis ; " art films " became increasingly isolated, separating from the mainstream Italian cinema.

During the mid-1980s, MacLeod and his then ex-wife Patti became Evangelical Christians and remarried.

Although electron microscopy data revealing the stacked-ring structure of the proteasome became available in the mid-1980s, the first structure of the proteasome core particle was not solved by X-ray crystallography until 1994.

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.

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.

The modern-day desire for community was most notably characterized by the communal movement of the 1960s and 1970s, which became more focused and organized in the cohousing and ecovillage movements of the mid-1980s.

After the fair, the Playhouse became the Seattle Repertory Theatre ; in the mid-1980s it became the Intiman Playhouse.

He became popular in the mid-1980s after a string of appearances in comedy films, starting with Top Secret!

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

As RISC microprocessors became available in the mid-1980s, these were adopted by many workstation vendors.

One of the first homegrown soundsystems in the UK, The Wild Bunch became dominant on the Bristol club scene in the mid-1980s.

The RTM's product never really took off commercially and DEC stopped marketing them in the mid-1980s, as new techniques and in particular VLSI became more popular.

In the mid-1980s, Pacific Northwest became one of the U. S. Department of Energy ’ s multiprogram laboratories.

This became a landmark album for the songwriter and was voted " 3rd most important contemporary Christian album " in a mid-1980s poll of Christian music critics.

During the mid-1980s Hüsker Dü became SST's star attraction, their strong songwriting and increasingly melodic music becoming the key link between hardcore and the developing sound of college rock.

In the mid-1980s, the white T-shirt became fashionable after the actor Don Johnson wore it with an Armani suit in Miami Vice.

Dead Kennedys guitarist East Bay Ray and vocalist Jello Biafra formed the original Alternative Tentacles partnership, but the label is now run by Biafra, who became the sole owner in the mid-1980s.

The corporate headquarters of the Union Pacific Corporation were located in New York City from its initial founding in the 1860s until Drew Lewis became CEO in the mid-1980s, when they were relocated to Bethlehem PA, and then later to Dallas TX ; the corporate headquarters of the Union Pacific Corporation are now also in Omaha.

Before videotape became the exclusive transmission format during the early to mid-1980s, any ( color ) video recordings used in documentaries or filmed program inserts were usually transferred onto film.

As part of the former Benadir region, Shabeellaha Dhexe's capital was Mogadishu up until the mid-1980s, when the town of Jowhar became the capital.

This new form became known as lambada and soon moved to Bahia, Salvador by the mid-1980s.

It quickly became a hit and in the same year, Velasco began starring in an enormously successful series of low-budget comedies that became a mainstay in Mexican movie theaters through the mid-1980s.

In the mid-1980s, Mikan headed a task force with the goal to return professional basketball to Minneapolis, decades after the Lakers had moved to Los Angeles to become the Los Angeles Lakers and after the ABA's Minnesota Muskies and Minnesota Pipers had departed.

In the mid-1980s, most of the labor force was organized and was represented, at least in theory, by unions.

Fulton was the driving force behind the construction of the Nashville Convention Center in downtown Nashville during the mid-1980s.

The mid-1980s saw the virtual dissolution of the movement as a coherent force.

In the words of the philosopher Marilena Chaui, writing in the mid-1980s, malufismo stood for the privatization of political power: " a fringe form of the dictatorship as it turned from raw force into mob rule ".

From the mid-1980s through at least 1992, the United States was the primary source of military and other support for the UNITA rebel movement, which was led from its creation through 2002 by Jonas Savimbi.

Research in the mid-1980s found that juvenile salmon were suffering substantially from the predatory pikeminnow, and in 1990, in the interest of protecting salmon, a " bounty " program was established to reward anglers for catching pikeminnow.

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.

Strips begun during the mid-1980s or after ( such as Get Fuzzy, Over the Hedge, Monty, and others ) are known for their heavy use of storylines, lasting between one and three weeks in most cases.

In the mid-1980s, Chaosium entered into a complex arrangement with Avalon Hill to publish RuneQuest material while Chaosium maintained editorial control over Glorantha-based material for the game ( which Avalon Hill would publish ).

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.

That month, Holt, Rinehart, & Winston, the publishers of collections of Doonesbury until the mid-1980s, took out an ad in the New York Times Book Review, marking the occasion by saying: It ’ s nice for Trudeau and Doonesbury to be so honored, " but it ’ s quite another thing when the Establishment clutches all of Walden Commune to its bosom.

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.

From the mid-1980s the spread of videocassette recorders and the arrival of private TV channels such as RTL Television provided new competition for theatrical film distribution.

Starting in the mid-1980s, the Baltic states used the reforms provided by glasnost to assert their rights to protect their environment ( for example during the Phosphorite War ) and their historic monuments and, later, their claims to sovereignty and independence.

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 assembly sector, heavily dependent on U. S. markets for its products, employed nearly 80, 000 workers in the mid-1980s.

* Intermedia – A mid-1980s program for group web-authoring and information sharing.

* Storyspace – A mid-1980s program for hypertext narrative.

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.

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.

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.

Max Mathews designed a MIDI violin for Laurie Anderson in the mid-1980s, and MIDI-equipped violas, cellos, contrabasses, and mandolins also exist.

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.

As automakers were switching en masse from carbureted to fuel injected engines during the early to mid-1980s, the detergent additives that existed in most available gasolines proved not to be enough to prevent injection clogging, leading to drivability problems, Mobil received accolades from General Motors and other automakers for increasing the detergency of its Super Unleaded gasoline in 1984 to prevent formation or deposit build-ups of the injectors but also remove existing deposits as well in normal driving.