Until the 1980s, the flagship of the ocean-going navy was the aircraft carrier Minas Gerais ( the ex-British HMS Vengeance ), which has been in service since 1945.

Until the early 1980s, they were known as video display terminals and were physically attached to the computer and keyboard.

Until the 1980s Black British and Asian British culture was significantly under-represented in mainstream British cinema, as they were in many areas of British life.

Until the 1980s it was rare for graduate programs to teach how to teach ; the assumption was that teaching was easy and that learning how to do research was the main mission.

Until the 1980s most multihull sailboats ( except for beach cats ) were built either by their owners or by boat builders on a semi-custom basis.

Until the 1980s, Saudi Arabia had lakes at Layla Aflaj and deep waterholes at ' Al-Kharj, fed by huge underground aquifers, formed in prehistoric times and non-renewable.

Until the late 1980s, UMIST's official alumni organisation was called the Manchester Technology Association, a name which was a relic of UMIST's past incarnation as ' The Tech '.

Until the early 1980s the arrival of Finnic peoples, the ancestors of the Estonians, Finns, and Livonians, on the shores of the Baltic sea was associated with the Comb Ceramic Culture.

Until the late 1980s the M61 primarily used the M50 series of ammunition in various types, typically firing a 3. 5 oz ( 100 gram ) projectile at a muzzle velocity of about.

Until the development of reinforced barbed tape in the early 1980s, it was rarely used for military purposes or genuine high security facilities because, with the correct tools, it was easier to breach than barbed wire.

Until the 1980s, three-point belts were commonly available only in the front outboard seats of cars ; the back seats were only often fitted with lap belts.

Until the 1970s and 1980s, when the disease's molecular genetics became known, the juvenile and adult forms of the disease were not always recognized as variants of Tay – Sachs disease.

Until the 1980s, pachinko machines were mechanical devices, using bells to indicate different states of the machine.

Until 1980s, Kaznacheyev and his team carried out about 12 000 experiments.

Until the late 1980s this was considered an area of poverty, since these houses were, and in most areas still are, mostly unlivable.

Until the 1980s, the association did not offer women's athletics.

Until the late 1980s PRC used quotation marks around terms for all official ROC positions and organisations such as " President " and " government " to imply non-recognition, a practice that was reciprocated by the ROC.

Until the end of the 1980s Delta published about 200 science fiction books.

Until the 1980s this idea was not taken seriously, but opinions changed following the discovery of the Chicxulub Crater, which was further reinforced by witness to the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 event.

Until the 1980s, many of Austria's largest industry firms were nationalised ; in recent years, however, privatisation has reduced state holdings to a level comparable to other European economies.

Until the 1980s all Moskvitch cars were compact rear-wheel drive saloons and estates with solid rear axles suspended by leaf springs.

Until the late 1980s and early 1990s, much of Chesapeake was either suburban or rural, serving as a bedroom community of the adjacent cities of Norfolk and Virginia Beach with residents commuting to these locations.

Until the 1980s and before the Fuzhou influx, what is now the western section of Chinatown or known as the Old Chinatown of Manhattan was the original size of Manhattan's Chinatown with The Bowery at the time serving as the original eastern borderline of Chinatown and this was where the Chinese population mostly concentrated on the Lower East Side, mostly the Cantonese.

Until 2009 Allegan was the longstanding manufacturing base of the Haworth ( company ) Seating Plant ; the City of Allegan lost a major UAW-organized Rockwell manufacturing plant in the early 1980s.

The prices of all five metals increased between 1950 and 1975, but Ehrlich believes three of the five went down during the 1980s because of the price of oil doubling in 1979, and because of a world-wide recession in the early 1980s.

Originally given to the Roman Catholic Church by the Duke of Devonshire in 1950 to commemorate Holy Year, it was replaced in the 1980s.

Slovincians began to ask for the right to emigrate to West Germany, and virtually all of the remaining Slovincian families had emigrated there by the 1980s, if they had not already been expelled there by the Polish authorities between 1945 and 1950.

Malcolm Jack Blight AM ( born 16 February 1950 ) is a former Australian rules footballer who represented Woodville Football Club in the South Australian National Football League ( SANFL ) and in the Victorian Football League ( VFL ) during the 1970s and 1980s.

Christopher Crawford ( born 1950 ) is a computer game designer and writer noted for creating a number of important games in the 1980s, founding The Journal of Computer Game Design, and organizing the Computer Game Developers ' Conference.

Peter Jurasik ( born April 25, 1950 ) is an American actor known for his television roles as Londo Mollari in the 1990s science fiction series Babylon 5 and Sid the Snitch on the 1980s series Hill Street Blues and its short-lived spinoff Beverly Hills Buntz.

Andrew Maxwell Haden ( born 26 September 1950 ) is a former New Zealand rugby union player, who was a lock-forward for Auckland and New Zealand in the 1970s and 1980s.

From 1950 the ethnic composition of the church changed, with the assimilation of Irish Australians and the arrival of Eastern European Displaced Persons from 1948 and more than one million Catholics from countries such as Italy, Malta, the Netherlands, Germany, Croatia and Hungary, and later Filipinos, Vietnamese, Lebanese and Poles around the 1980s.

Benefits that are commonly quoted include: the GDP of Tibet Autonomous Region ( TAR ) today is 30 times that before 1950 ; it has 22, 500 km of highways, all built since 1950 ; all secular education in the region was created after integration into the PRC ; there are 25 scientific research institutes, all built by the PRC ; infant mortality has dropped from 43 % in 1950 to 0. 661 % in 2000 ; life expectancy has risen from 35. 5 years in 1950 to 67 in 2000 ; the collection and publishing of the traditional Epic of King Gesar, which is the longest epic poem in the world and had only been handed down orally before ; allocation of 300 million Renminbi since the 1980s to the maintenance and protection of Tibetan monasteries.

She served in World War II, was sold to the Egyptian Navy in 1950 being renamed Port Said, and served into the 1980s as a training ship.

Margaret Popkin ( 1950 – 2005 ) was a prominent civil rights lawyer and activist, known particularly for her work in El Salvador during the civil war of the 1980s.

From 1950 to 2009, the party participated in six governments ; two 1960s national governments ( Lyng's Cabinet and Borten's Cabinet ), one 1980s Conservative Party minority government ( Willoch's First Cabinet ), two 1980s three-party governments ( Willoch's Second Cabinet and Syse's Cabinet ), and finally the 2000s ( decade ) Bondevik's Second Cabinet.

Herbert Jackson Youngblood, III ( born January 26, 1950 ) is a former American college and professional football player who was a defensive end for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League ( NFL ) for fourteen seasons during the 1970s and 1980s.

Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker ( abbreviated ZAZ ) are an American comedy filmmaking trio consisting of Jim Abrahams ( born May 10, 1944 ) and brothers David ( born October 16, 1947 ) and Jerry Zucker ( born March 11, 1950 ) who specialize in slapstick comedy films during the 1980s and the early 1990s.

By 1967, the company had ended publication, except for its commercial comics division, Custom Comics ( established in 1950 ), which lasted until the early 1980s doing work for a variety of clients such as Montgomery Ward, Tupperware, and the United States Air Force.

The seat was abolished in 1950 but recreated in 1974, and is a set of neighbourhoods in the inner London Borough of Lewisham, though collectively they have swung a long way against the Conservatives since the 1980s when the then Sports minister Colin Moynihan represented the seat-the Tories now find themselves in third place having lost it at the 1992 general election.

Randolpho Francisco Castillo ( December 18, 1950 – March 26, 2002 ) was best known as Ozzy Osbourne's drummer during the mid 1980s to the early 1990s, and later as drummer for Mötley Crüe, from 1999-2002.

He had many television and film roles from the 1930s to the 1980s, including Mowbray in the 1950 version of Richard II, John Wesley in the 1954 film of the same name and Lord Mount Severn in East Lynne from 1976.