At the peak of Bruce Springsteen's megastardom following the Born in the U. S. A. album and Born in the U. S. A. Tour in the mid-1980s, there were no less than five Springsteen fanzines circulating at the same time in the UK alone, and many others elsewhere.

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

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.

The large, continuously upgraded satellite ground stations, originally installed in 1972 to provide live coverage of the visits to China by U. S. president Richard M. Nixon and Japanese prime minister Kakuei Tanaka, still served as the base for China's international satellite communications network in the mid-1980s.

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.

The standard " Olympic Distance " of 1. 5 / 40 / 10 km (. 93 / 24. 8 / 6. 2 miles ) was created by long time triathlon race director Jim Curl in the mid-1980s, after he and partner Carl Thomas produced the U. S. Triathlon Series ( USTS ) between 1982 and 1997.

Fuzzy systems were largely ignored in the U. S. because they were associated with artificial intelligence, a field that periodically oversells itself, especially in the mid-1980s, resulting in a lack of credibility within the commercial domain.

) But since the mid-1980s, stricter border enforcement has restricted this movement, and tribal members born in Mexico or who have insufficient documentation to prove U. S. birth or residency, have found themselves trapped in a remote corner of Mexico, with no access to the tribal centers only tens of miles away.

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

This factory employed several hundred until the mid-1980s, when General Electric phased out most of their small motors production in the U. S. The building remains empty due to EPA regulations.

Seven years later, the Australian band Pseudo Echo covered " Funky Town ," updating the tune to fit the mid-1980s Dance-rock scene and taking it back to the U. S. top ten.

During the mid-1980s, Johnston toured U. S. clubs with a band called Border Patrol, which did not release any recordings.

* In addition, after the removal of 54 Titan IIs from alert status as ICBMs in the mid-1980s, about 50 of them were used as satellite launchers by the U. S. Air Force.

The company finally established nationwide distribution in the U. S. in the mid-1980s.

He has been involved with U. S. policy makers at the White House, State Department and Pentagon since the mid-1980s, and was the highest-ranking Muslim American in the Administration of U. S. President George W. Bush.

* In the early and mid-1980s, many U. S. industry and government leaders saw that a renewed emphasis on quality was necessary for doing business in an ever-expanding and more competitive world market.

This is partly because it took several years to reach full production and partly because U. S. production outside Alaska declined until the mid-1980s.

Profits reached record levels in the mid-1980s as the airline added service from new U. K. cities ( Cardiff, Newcastle, and Glasgow ).

Hackworth returned to the U. S. in the mid-1980s and began working as a contributing editor on defense issues for Newsweek.

Pyramid Lake, the second largest natural lake in the western U. S. prior to construction of the Derby Dam, has been the focus of several water quality investigations, the most detailed starting in the mid-1980s.

In 1995 the DHA began implementing a U. S. District Court order that came about after a mid-1980s challenge to desegregate the city's public-housing units.

One major exception is the Shelf Life Extension Program ( SLEP ) of the U. S. Department of Defense ( DoD ), which commissioned a major study of drug efficacy from the FDA starting in the mid-1980s.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

It was unlikely, however, that it would return to the robust form of the mid-1980s.

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

By 1966, when Graham appeared in Greenville, BJU enrollment had strongly rebounded and continued to grow thereafter until 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.

The droughts of the late 1960s, early 1970s, and mid-1980s caused Lake Chad to shrink once again, however.

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.

He helped create politically and socially conscious rap music in the mid-1980s as the leader of the rap group Public Enemy.

Also notable is the work of British zoologist and cryptozoologist Karl Shuker, who has published 12 books and countless articles on numerous cryptozoological subjects since the mid-1980s.

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

Australia undertook significant economic reform under the Australian Labor Party in the mid-1980s.

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.

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.

From the mid-1980s, as the Reagan administration and the rebels sought to portray the movement as the " democratic resistance ," members started describing themselves as.

By the mid-1980s this type of tube was functionally obsolete.

A mid-1980s debate about apologetic methodology between Ronald Enroth and J. Gordon Melton, led the latter to place more emphasis in his publications on differentiating the Christian countercult from the secular anti-cult.