The 1980s saw severe cuts in government funding and above-inflation increases in fares and the service became more cost-effective.

* At Corby, the closure of the former Stewarts & Lloyds site in the early 1980s saw the loss of 11, 000 jobs, leading to an initial unemployment rate of over 30 %.

The 1980s saw the onset of modern cheerleading with more difficult stunt sequences and gymnastics being incorporated into routines.

The 1980s also saw the cementing of relationships between established characters: Alf Roberts ( Bryan Mosley ) married Audrey Potter ( Sue Nicholls ) in 1985, Kevin Webster ( Michael Le Vell ) married Sally Seddon ( Sally Dynevor ) in 1986.

The 1980s, along with a rise in object oriented programming, saw a growth in how data in various databases were handled.

The massive development programme managed by the LDDC during the 1980s and 1990s saw a huge area of the Docklands converted into a mixture of residential, commercial and light industrial space.

The early 1980s saw further chart successes in the US with " Since I Don't Have You ", a new recording of " Castles in the Air " and " It's Just the Sun ".

The 1970s, 1980s and 1990s saw large-scale housing developments in the districts of Woensel-Zuid and Woensel-Noord, making Eindhoven the fifth-largest city in the Netherlands.

However, the group saw its membership fall sharply in the late 1980s, as many centre-right members moved to the rival European People's Party group, dominated by the German CDU and the ideology of Christian democracy in general.

The 1980s saw an increase in support for Faroese independence.

The 1980s saw the decline of the major Japanese film studios and their associated chains of cinemas, with major studios Toho and Toei barely staying in business, Shochiku supported almost solely by the Otoko wa tsurai films, and Nikkatsu declining even further.

Pioneers such as Horace Ové had been working in 1970s ( Pressure, 1975, funded by the British Film Institute ), but the 1980s saw a wave of new talent, with films like Babylon ( 1980 ), Burning an Illusion ( 1981 ), Majdhar ( 1985 ) and Ping Pong ( 1986-one of the first films about Britain's Chinese community ).

The 1980s saw the university expand with a new building being added on each year, including the Patriot Center.

Independent from the British scene, the late 1970s and early 1980s saw death rock branch off from American punk in California.

The 1980s saw a wave of gory " B movie " horror films – although most of them were panned by critics, many became cult classics and later saw success with critics.

The early 1980s also saw a number of experimental " hyperediting " functions in word processors and hypermedia programs, many of whose features and terminology were later analogous to the World Wide Web.

During the 1970s and 1980s, second-wave feminists saw the study of history as a male-dominated intellectual enterprise and presented " herstory " as a means of compensation.

The late 1980s and 1990s saw the production of a series of critically acclaimed and popular films such as Hidden Agenda, one of the rare films dealing with the political troubles in Northern Ireland, Carla's Song set partially in Nicaragua, and Land and Freedom examining the Republican resistance in the Spanish Civil War.

The 1980s and 1990s saw an influx of refugees from the Soviet war in Afghanistan into Karachi ; they were followed in smaller numbers by refugees escaping from Iran.

The 1980s saw the development of the first scanning probe microscopes.

The late 1970s and the 1980s again saw a period of economic hardship hit the city as several major employers closed or restructured.

* Kev Hopper, formerly the bass guitarist in the 1980s band Stump, made an album entitled Saurus in 2003 featuring six original saw tunes.

Nicaragua's economy was devastated in the 1980s by the Contra War, which saw the destruction of much of the country's infrastructure.

The 1980s and 1990s also saw an increasing interest in serious academic research and reconstructionist pagan traditions.

The surge in paranormal research continued into the 1980s: the Parapsychological Association reported members working in more than 30 countries.

Throughout most of the late 1980s, much of the growth of South Korea's automobile industry was the result of a surge in exports ; 1989 exports, however, declined 28. 5 percent from 1988.

* American basketball player Michael Jordan bursts onto the scene in the NBA during the 1980s, bringing a surge in popularity for the sport and becoming one of the most beloved sports icons in the United States.

A similar surge in ideological thought would not occur again until the late 1980s, leading up to the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s there was a surge of imports of action movies from Hong Kong.

The franchise exploded in size in the 1980s, when King Features began aggressively promoting the Bears to marketers amidst a surge in popularity following a series of animated television specials.

Boxing in the 1980s was shaped by many different situations, such as the continuous corporate battles between the different world sanctioning organizations, the void left by Muhammad Ali as the sport's ambassador and consequent search for a new boxing hero, the continuous presence of Don King as the sport's most famous promoter, the surge of rival promoters as Bob Arum, Butch Lewis and Murad Muhammad, and major rule changes.

With syndication of Doraemon on TV Asahi in 1979, a surge of popularity saw up to a dozen collaborative and solo works by Fujimoto and Abiko picked up for publication and syndication throughout the 1980s.

Leading into the 1990s the surge of Heavy Metal in the 1980s helped to shed another light on the role of females in music.

In the late 1980s, Bakhtin's work experienced a surge of popularity in the West.

The Canadian women's national team benefited from a surge in youth participation throughout the 1980s, and in 1995 Canada qualified for the FIFA Women's World Cup for the first time.

The 1980s saw a surge in intellectual material as the country emerged out of the conformity of the Cultural Revolution ; the time period between 1982 – 89 saw freedom of the press like never before, and has since then never been seen again.

The surge in user requirements during the 1980s allowed NASA to expand the network with the addition of more satellites, with some being co-located in a particularly busy orbital slot.

The 1980s marked a surge in Anti-Americanism in Korea, widely traced to the events of May 1980.

With the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, the surge in rubber glove usage revealed how many people were allergic to latex ( about 10 % of health care workers, according to OSHA ), and thereby created a niche market for guayule.

There were no broadcasts as part of the World War II propaganda campaigns and commercial as well as community stations alongside the taxpayer funded Australian Broadcasting Commission were available during the mid to late 1980s and early 1990s-a period when the UK was experiencing a surge in illegal broadcasts during the early days of acid house and the Second Summer of Love.

The term was coined by The World of Interiors magazine in the 1980s and became extremely popular in the US in the ' 90s with a certain eclectic surge of decorating styles with paints and effects, notably in metropolitan cultural centres on the West Coast of America, such as LA and San Francisco, with heavy influences from Mediterranean cultures such as Provence, Tuscany and Greece.

UK pirate radio ( unlicensed illegal broadcasting ) was popular in the 1960s and experienced another surge of interest in the 1980s.

A surge in pirate radio occurred when cheap portable transmitters became available and by the mid 1980s a 50 watt radio transmitter could be obtained for around £ 200, or could be built for less.

The field saw significant research findings and a fair surge of interest in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but has seen challenges of nomenclature, obtaining objective and repeatable results, scope, and the fact that some research rests on underlying assumptions about human perception, which is not fully understood.

In the late 1980s, with political and economic reform in the Soviet Union, there was a surge of interest in Soviet Life -- readership rose to over 50, 000.