Sparsely populated in relation to its area, the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( DRC ) is home to a vast potential of natural resources and mineral wealth, its untapped deposits of raw minerals are estimated to be worth in excess of US $ 24 trillion, yet the economy of the DRC has declined drastically since 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.

TOW-2B was the first to use tandem warheads in the mid-1980s, an aspect of the weapon which the US Army had to reveal under news media and Congressional pressure resulting from the concern that NATO antitank missiles were ineffective against Soviet tanks that were fitted with the new ERA boxes.

New releases of material were not stopped by major studios until the mid-1980s in the US.

In the mid-1980s, the US launched retaliatory attacks against Libya after the country's leader, Muammar al-Gaddafi, was implicated in terrorist attacks against US military bases.

In the United States ( US ), as of the mid-1980s, the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) has increased its involvement in reviewing the development of medical device software, due to patient overdoses caused by coding errors in a radiation therapy device ( Therac-25 ).

In the US, stand-up comedy programs became popular on many cable television channels beginning in the mid-1980s, as such " brick wall " shows ( nicknamed for the stereotypical use of a fake brick wall as a backdrop ) were cheap to produce and air.

For example, in the chart at right, US income share of top earners was approximately constant from the mid 1950s to the mid 1980s, then increased from the mid-1980s through 2000s ; this increased inequality was reflected in the Gini coefficient.

Noise pop is a subgenre of alternative rock developed in the mid-1980s in the UK and US that mixes dissonant noise or feedback, or both, with the melodic instrumentation and production elements more often found in pop music, making it more melodic than noise rock.

Mercedes-Benz initially did not sell the model in the United States, but by means of " casual importation " grey-market in the mid-1980s, importers sold a number of G-Wagens which had been modified to meet the specifications by the US DOT, at about $ 135, 000.

In the mid-1980s, US 311 was moved onto new freeway through southeast Forsyth County.

Singles like " Burning Heart " ( US # 2 ), " The Search Is Over " ( US # 4 ), " High on You " ( US # 8 ), " Is This Love " ( US # 9 ) and " I Can't Hold Back " ( US # 13 ) continued to chart in the mid-1980s.

* By the mid-1980s, over 100 new corn alcohol production plants are built and over a billion US gallons of ethanol for fuel were sold per year.

With Duxford's association with the US Army Air Forces, in the mid-1980s plans developed for a commemoration of the role of American air power in the Second World War.

Clark even suggested to the president in light of foreign policy troubles bedeviling the US in the mid-1980s that Reagan consider not running for reelection in 1984.

Since the mid-1980s, several suffixed sections of MD 18 have been created, relocated, or received new designations due to expansion of US 50 and US 301 to a freeway.

Hits in the mid-1980s including " Leave the Message Behind the Door " and " Music Is the Answer " established him as a solo artist, initially in Europe and later in the US.

This network and other Sicilian suppliers dominated heroin trafficking since the mid-1970s until the mid-1980s when US and Italian law enforcement were able to significantly reduce the heroin supply of the Sicilian Mafia ( the so-called Pizza Connection ).

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.

Prior to the release of the TV series, the name Robotech was used by model kit manufacturer Revell on their Robotech Defenders line in the mid-1980s.

The first was an abridged edition, recorded in the mid-1980s by Stephen Moore, best known for playing the voice of Marvin the Paranoid Android in the radio series, LP adaptations and in the TV series.

Those same TV ads also were featured on TV channels in the St. Louis area for Laclede Gas during the mid-1980s.

Each episode was rerun a single time on the Nickelodeon cable television channel during the mid-1980s ; the program was also shown on TV Land for a brief time.

In the mid-1980s he was also immortalised in comic strip form when he spent a season playing for the fictional Melchester Rovers team in the " Roy of the Rovers " strip, in a team containing another former professional player turned TV presenter, Emlyn Hughes, and Spandau Ballet members Martin Kemp and Steve Norman.

The first was an abridged edition ( ISBN 0-671-62964-6 ), recorded in the mid-1980s by Stephen Moore, best known for playing the voice of Marvin the Paranoid Android in the radio series, LP adaptations and in the TV series.

The three girls were initially cast in the mid-1980s for a TV show to be called Fans, which was to feature chats and sing-alongs with guest stars.

* The Comedians ( TV series ), a British television show of the 1970s and mid-1980s

After being cast as yachtsman Dennis Conner in an Australian TV miniseries in the mid-1980s, Hammond liked the country so much, he decided to stay.

It is widely credited for jump-starting the boom of mid-1980s toy / TV / movie tie-in series aimed at boys aged 7 – 13.

Prior to that, she was a part-time model, appearing in a few television commercials and, in the mid-1980s, hostess on the last seasons of New Zealand TV game show, It's in the Bag.

In the late 1970s and mid-1980s, Allen sporadically returned to TV with miniseries efforts such as The Return of Captain Nemo / The Amazing Captain Nemo ( 1978 ) and a star-studded version of Alice in Wonderland ( 1985 ).

It started as band in mid-1980s but has since made both weekly radio show Alivaltiosihteeri and a few TV shows.

During the television coverage of the qualifying session of the 2012 German Grand Prix held on the new circuit, former F1 driver and current lead TV commentator for Sky Sports Formula One coverage Martin Brundle, stated that he, along with other drivers of his era ( mid-1980s to the mid-1990s ), didn't really enjoy racing at the old Hockenheim as the long straights often saw only seven or eight finishers from twenty six starters, with most dropping out through engine or transmission failure caused by the long periods at high speed on the forest straights.

From the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, Vanity guest-starred on numerous TV shows.

Original keyboardist Paul Antonelli, who left the band sometime in the mid-1980s, began composing and directing music for various TV series programs.

Glyn Griffith Owen ( 6 March 1928 – 10 September 2004 ) was a British stage, television and film actor, best known to British TV viewers for two roles: that of Dr Patrick O ' Meara in the long-running ITV hospital drama Emergency-Ward 10, and that of Jack Rolfe, the headstrong director of the Mermaid Boatyard in the mid-1980s BBC series Howards ' Way.

Taylor and her husband of 39 years, journalist / TV producer Jack Fries, produced and co-hosted the widely-acclaimed Little Rascals Family Theater on San Diego and Los Angeles television in the mid-1970s and mid-1980s.

* From the mid-1980s she began to gain popularity in TV dramas.

The first nations CBC TV series Spirit Bay was filmed on the lake at the Biinjitiwabik Zaaging Anishnabek First Nation Reserve in the mid-1980s.

Mazinger Z also had a short-lived U. S. TV broadcast in the mid-1980s under the title TranZor Z, but was regarded by many viewers as a rip-off of Voltron, despite the fact that Mazinger preceded the first Voltron series, Golion, on television in Japan by almost a decade.

He performed the same duties for two TV stations in the Northwest in the early to mid-1980s, chiefly Oregon NBC affiliate KOBI-TV, where he spent several years.