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.

It was designed to compete in the mid-1980s home computer market dominated by the Commodore 64 and the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, where it successfully established itself primarily in the United Kingdom, France, Spain, and the German-speaking parts of Europe.

The concept of a blitzkrieg Luftwaffe was challenged by Richard Overy in the late 1970s and by Williamson Murray in the mid-1980s.

By the mid-1980s at least 500 courses in business ethics reached 40, 000 students, using some twenty textbooks and at least ten casebooks along supported by professional societies, centers and journals of business ethics.

Production was declining by the mid-1980s, so mining of the sulfide zone of the gold ore body was commenced, requiring more extensive processing facilities than had previously existed.

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.

" The mid-1980s also saw the emergence of New York Garage, a house music hybrid that was inspired by Levan's style and sometimes eschewed the accentuated high-hats of the Chicago house sound.

The technology has been under development since the mid-1980s and at present is actively being researched in the United States by the Army Research Laboratory and private organizations.

In the mid-1980s, the US TV version, Terror of Mechagodzilla, was replaced by the theatrical edit, The Terror of Godzilla, on television and home video.

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.

Grindcore, as such, was developed during the mid-1980s in the United Kingdom by Napalm Death, a group who emerged from the anarcho-punk scene in Birmingham, England.

The show was produced by Yongestreet Productions through the mid-1980s ; it was later produced by Gaylord Entertainment, which distributed the show in syndication.

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.

" ( preceded from the mid-1980s to 1992 by " This has been a Gaylord Production from Opryland Studios!

The Camira lasted just seven years, and contributed to Holden's accumulated losses of over A $ 500 million by the mid-1980s.

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.

The last of the Westerners kidnapped by Hezbollah during the mid-1980s were released in May 1992.

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.

Since the mid-1980s, the donor community, led by the World Bank and the USAID, has recognized that Madagascar is one of the world's most unusual natural wonders.

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.

Until the mid-1980s, entry was typically by sitting special entrance exams.

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

In the mid-1980s, according to official statistics, Czechoslovak trade activities remained overwhelmingly oriented toward intra-Comecon trade.

In the mid-1980s, the country's overseas trade passed through East German, West German, Polish, and Yugoslav ports.

These included a Helicopter Operator ( www. heli-airwales. co. uk ), who later moved to Swansea Airport and still trade there today, the Cambrian and Pegasus Flying Clubs and later ( from the mid-1980s ) the Cardiff Wales Flying Club.

Viacom later purchased the station in a trade with Keymarket for a station that Viacom owned in Memphis Tenn in the mid-1980s that Keymarket wanted.

Until the mid-1980s, Japan's 74, 500 trade unions were represented by four main labor federations: the General Council of Trade Unions of Japan ( 日本労働組合総評議会 nihon rōdō kumiai sōhyōgikai, commonly known as Sohyo ), with 4. 4 million members — a substantial percentage representing public sector employees ; the Japan Confederation of Labour ( zen nihon rodo sodomei, commonly known as Domei ), with 2. 2 million members ; the Federation of Independent Labour Unions ( 中立労連 Churitsu Roren ), with 1. 6 million members ; and the National Federation of Industrial Organizations ( 新産別 Shinsanbetsu ), with only 61, 000 members.

PMG moved out of the motor trade over a number of years, from the mid-1980s.

From the mid-1980s foreign investment in the manufacturing sector boosted economic growth rates significantly.

Major growth occurred from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s.

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.

Churchville's population boom and growth as a commuter haven took place in the mid-1980s, just after the town lost it commuter railway line.

During the mid-1980s, growth of this network began to put considerable strain on the resources voluntarily provided by the larger UUCP hubs.

Inflation increased on an average of 100 % a year ( culminating to an unprecedented level of 159 % in 1987 ), unemployment rates soared to as much as 25 % during the mid-1980s, income declined and economic growth was erratic.

By the mid-1980s ACDEGAM and MAS had experienced significant growth.

In the mid-1980s, a group of growth theorists became increasingly dissatisfied with common accounts of exogenous factors determining long-run growth.

He developed an interest in environmental concerns during the mid-1980s, and became involved in campaigns to save Ontario's old growth forests.

A period of violence erupted during the mid-1980s, disrupting the peaceful growth.

The late 1970s to the mid-1980s was a period of rapid growth, through the acquisition of major fertilizer companies in France, Germany, Holland and the UK.

Holland's growth as a commuter haven took place in the mid-1980s, just after the town lost its passenger trains.

The period between the New Deal era and the mid-1980s witnessed a Court that generally utilized an expansive interpretation of the interstate commerce clause and the 14th Amendment to validate the growth of the federal government ’ s involvement in domestic policymaking.

However, residential growth has been steady since the mid-1980s and increasingly upscale with large lakefront houses, condominiums, and communities centered around golf courses.

In the mid-1980s with a loan of 250, 000 from ICICI Bank, Biocon was able to build a solid-state fermentation plant which helped in the growth of its R & D.

The increasing boldness of Singapore writers in sympathetically addressing LGBT themes is intertwined with the growth of English-language theatre from the mid-1980s.

But by the mid-1980s and the explosive growth of FM radio, WHBF's listenership began to wane.