Mirroring the mood in the United Kingdom, the family's lowest approval was during the mid-1980s to 1990s, when the children of the monarch were enduring their divorces and were the targets of negative tabloid reporting.

Former Member of Parliament Clare Short campaigned vigorously, albeit unsuccessfully, in the mid-1980s, and again in 2004, to have topless Page Three girls banned from newspapers.

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.

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 United Kingdom, the film was one of the first to be labeled a video nasty during the mid-1980s controversy over such movies and was finally released uncut in 2001.

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.

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 anarcho-punk scene also spawned bands such as Napalm Death, Carcass, and Extreme Noise Terror that in the mid-1980s defined grindcore, incorporating extremely fast tempos and death metal – style guitarwork.

In general, they are not signed by the Pope, but Pope John Paul II introduced in the mid-1980s the custom by which the Pope signs not only bulls of canonization but also, using his normal signature, such as " Benedictus PP.

However, since the mid-1980s, as part of a joint effort between the cruise ship industry that serves Puerto Rico and Puerto Rican politicians such as then Resident Commissioner, U. S. non-voting Representative Baltasar Corrada del Río, obtained a limited-exception since no U. S. cruise ships that were Jones Act-eligible were participating in said market.

Since the mid-1980s, Peart has used MIDI trigger pads to trigger sounds sampled from various pieces of acoustic percussion that would otherwise consume far too much stage area, such as a marimba, harp, temple blocks, triangles, glockenspiel, orchestra bells, tubular bells, and vibraslap as well as other, more esoteric percussion.

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.

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, actors such as the burly ex-bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone wielded automatic weapons in a number of action films.

Apple has manufactured several popular examples of all-in-one computers, such as the original Macintosh of the mid-1980s and the iMac of the late 1990s and 2000s.

Tattoos or piercings performed either before the mid-1980s, " underground ," or nonprofessionally are of particular concern, since sterile techniques in such settings may be lacking.

In the mid-1980s, northern West Coast state bands such as Melvins, Flipper and Green River developed a sludgy, " aggressive sound that melded the slower tempos of heavy metal with the intensity of hardcore ," creating an alternative rock subgenre known as grunge.

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

In the mid-1980s local industrial plants manufactured products such as clothing and farm implements, and there were four large cattle-feeding enterprises nearby.

In the mid-1980s the first problems appeared in the Harz, such as bark beetle and fungal infestation.

Though the origins of gangsta rap can be traced back to the mid-1980s style of Philadelphia's Schoolly D and the West Coast's Ice-T, the style broadened and came to apply to many different regions in the country, to rappers from New York, such as Notorious B. I. G and influential hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan, and to rappers on the West Coast, such as Too Short and N. W. A.

Yellowman's sexually explicit lyrics in popular songs such as " Them a Mad Over Me " boasted of his sexual prowess, like those of other reggae singers / deejays, earned Yellowman criticism in the mid-1980s.

The Monarchist League had become virtually dormant by the mid-1980s, although Michael Wynne-Parker continued to engage in debates on behalf of the league, such as the one in 1982 at Wymondham College, Norfolk, when the motion, proposed by a Mr. Matehall, a member of the Communist Party, was " This House would Abolish the Monarchy ".

By the mid-1980s the troupes were dropped and the audience took a more active role, often dancing in more prominent areas such as behind performing acts on the back of the stage, and on podiums.

Shoot ' em ups such as SNK's Ikari Warriors ( 1986 ) featuring characters on foot, rather than spacecraft, became popular in the mid-1980s in the wake of action movies such as Rambo: First Blood Part II.

These ships, delivered to MSC in the mid-1980s, built at Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Chester, Pennsylvania and converted at National Steel and Shipbuilding Company, San Diego.

Thanks in large part to the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities, public radio continued to air a smattering of audio drama until the mid-1980s.

Its original building in midtown Haifa, in use by the Technion until the mid-1980s, now houses the Israel National Museum of Science, Technology and Space.

In the mid-1980s some Nepali speaking groups in West Bengal began to organize under the name of Gorkhaland National Liberation Front, calling for their own Gorkha state, Gorkhaland.

There have been numerous small airplane crashes over the last couple decades, one of which knocked down the 1st National Bank ( now NBT Bank ) sign in the mid-1980s.

The National Park Service removed the line in the mid-1980s when electric lines were buried along the Monument ’ s main road.

In the mid-1980s, Ossman temporarily left the group to produce shows for National Public Radio.

Gujral left the Indian National Congress party in the mid-1980s and joined the Janata Dal.

In the mid-1980s, summer concerts were often held at the Suffolk home of Edgar Griffin, a Conservative Party activist and father of Nick Griffin, an NF organiser who later became the national chair of the British National Party.

* BBC political editor, Nick Robinson, who was National Chairman of the YCs in the mid-1980s, elected as a moderate candidate.

He also played for the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League from early to mid-1980s.

In the mid-1980s, debate arose about the establishment of a national training institution for discussing and disseminating information on security policy issues similar to institutes that already existed in other countries ( such as the National Defense University in Washington, the Institut des Hautes Etudes de Défense Nationale in Paris or the Royal College of Defence Studies in London ).

Research organizations explicitly dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of complexity were also founded in this era: the Santa Fe Institute was established in 1984 by scientists based at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the BACH group at the University of Michigan likewise started in the mid-1980s.

Wakeford's mid-1980s membership in the British National Front and the appearance of a track from his band, Above The Ruins, on the " No Surrender!

In the mid-1980s the group adopted Livingstone as something of a figurehead, regarding Arthur Scargill and Tony Benn as spent forces, and according to Atma Singh was " instrumental " in getting Livingstone elected to the Labour Party's National Executive Committee in 1987 and 1988.

PNB's first merger involved Hamilton Bank of central Pennsylvania ; later, in the mid-1980s, it would take control of New Jersey National Bank of Trenton, New Jersey.

In the mid-1980s, he and McKellen formed an actor-centred troupe within the National Theatre ; their first productions were Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi.

During the mid-1980s, Peter Hall at the National Theatre repeatedly refused to allow him to direct his new play Human Cannon, written for Yvonne Bryceland and the wide stage of the Olivier.

By the mid-1980s he was vice minister of the Petroleum Industry, and from 1996 General Manager of the China National Petroleum Corporation, China ’ s largest energy company.

In the mid-1980s, Jim Crockett Promotions ( which eventually became World Championship Wrestling ) was a member of the National Wrestling Alliance and recognized the NWA World Women's Championship, which was held by Debbie Combs.

It lies within the Lewes Downs SSSI ( designated in 1953 ) and the Mount Caburn National Nature Reserve was established in the mid-1980s.

In the mid-1980s, the functions performed by the Council of State included representing the country abroad and ratifying and terminating international treaties ; supporting local assemblies in the implementation of their economic and budgetary plans ; administering electoral laws that govern the selection of local assemblies on the community, city, county, and district levels ; discharging responsibilities for the maintenance of the country's defense with the assistance of the National Defense Council ; and administering the activities of the Supreme Court and the Office of the Prosecutor General to ensure their actions were congruent with the Constitution and the civil law.

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.

Legal observers were used by Liberty ( then known as the National Council for Civil Liberties ) in Wapping, London, during the mid-1980s.