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.

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

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.

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.

The NIAID reports that, " In the mid-1980s, clinical trials enrolling patients with AIDS found that AZT given as single-drug therapy conferred a modest survival advantage compared to placebo.

Starting in the mid-1980s, the wedding and banquet business changed dramatically with the introduction of DJ music, replacing the bands that had been the norm.

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.

A few months later, the first eukaryotic genome was completed, with the 16 chromosomes of budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae being released as the result of a European-led effort begun in the mid-1980s.

Less than half of Honduras's cultivable land was planted with crops as recently as the mid-1980s.

Since the mid-1980s, there are some overlaps in ideas and members with the computer security hacking community.

In 1977 they upgraded and extended their Artist range and introduced a number of other top quality original designs made to match or surpass famous American brands ; the Performer and short-lived Concert ranges which competed with the Les Paul ; through neck Musicians ; Studios in fixed and through neck construction ; the radically shaped Iceman and the Roadster which morphed into the Roadstar range, precursor to the popular superstrat era in 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.

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.

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.

Marked improvements occurred by the mid-1980s with an influx of foreign technology and increased domestic production capabilities.

In March 1985, the Apple LaserWriter was the first printer to ship with PostScript, sparking the desktop publishing ( DTP ) revolution in the mid-1980s.

The 3000 series made from the mid-1970s to mid-1980s were cheaper instruments with bolt-on 21 fret necks.

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.

The Coens co-wrote Crimewave and The Hudsucker Proxy with Raimi in the mid-1980s ( though Hudsucker was not produced for almost a decade ).

Trip hop may have originated in the mid-1980s in Bristol, UK, during a time when American hip hop started to gain increasing popularity there along with the then exploding popularity of the house music and dance scene.

From independence in 1961 until the mid-1980s, Tanzania was a one-party state, with a socialist model of economic development.

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.

It grew quickly, reaching its peak in membership in the mid-1980s with 6 sub-chapters and over 250 members.

By the mid-1980s, KPF had nearly 250 architects working on projects in cities throughout the United States.

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

In the mid-1980s, the World Bank reported that only 10, 000 new jobs were created annually ; the low rate of job creation resulted in 20, 000 people being added to the ranks of the unemployed every year.

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.

By the mid-1980s, observers estimated there were between 300, 000 and 350, 000 Brazilians in the eastern border region.

Nevertheless, Riverton's population more than tripled between 1970 when it totaled 2, 820 inhabitants, and the mid-1980s when it reached around 10, 000.

By the mid-1980s the power stations may easily be turning out 200, 000 lb of the stuff each year.

By the mid-1980s, the Last Days Magazine was sent out to over 500, 000 people worldwide.

By the mid-1980s, 600, 000 people per year were visiting the building, which was designed for only 100, 000.

In the mid-1980s the physics department built a $ 330, 000 small laser laboratory ( known as the " laser palace "), which includes 800 5 mW small lasers and more than 500 mirrors.

The 16, 000 capacity LG Arena was the largest multi-purpose arena in the UK when opening in the mid-1980s as " The NEC Arena " and is still a major popular venue for many large, international touring acts.

At one point in the mid-1980s, the MAS grew to be the second largest left organization in Argentina and was the largest Trotskyist organization in the world with over 13, 000 members.

Despite financial difficulties in the mid-1980s, the festival has grown steadily, reaching 353, 000 visitors in 2010.

During the mid-1980s, £ 300, 000 was spent on a series of improvements to the Bootham Crescent ground, which was funded by money generated during York's FA Cup run in the 1984 – 85 season, which included games against Arsenal and then Liverpool, including a replay at Liverpool in front of a crowd of 43, 000. York's average league attendances at Bootham Crescent from 1932 to 2011 The improvements included building hospitality suites behind the main stand, new club offices, turnstiles, new crush barriers, and the addition of more seats to the Popular Stand, giving a seating capacity of 2, 883 seats out of a total capacity of 13, 185.

The period saw increasing popular support ( surpassing 10 % for the first time ) and membership totals, numbering over 1, 000 by the mid-1980s.

The original run of the first series was watched by up to 900, 000 viewers ; however, by the mid-1980s, ratings were some of the highest for Channel 4 at around seven million.

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.

The Malay Mail ’ s circulation has slid from its peak of over 60, 000 in the mid-1980s.

In the mid-1980s it had around 25 000 members.

Despite its sensitivity to climate conditions and propensity to produce variable yields of variable quality wine, Verdicchio was a very popular planting in central Italy with an estimated 65, 000 hectares planted in the mid-1980s.

That number is dramatically reduced from the number of plantings of Verdicchio in the mid-1980s when there was an estimated 65, 000 hectares ( all in Italy ).