Quotes About 1980

So with the endorsement of the Chamber of Commerce, in 1980 Sparky Harper invited fifty travel writers from all newspapers all across North America to come to Miami during Orange Bowl Week and sail the Friendship Cruise. Of course, 1980 was the year of the Liberty City Riots and the Mariel Boatlift, so only nine travel writers showed up, several of them carrying guns for protection.

I was part of the Indian contingent that went to Karachi for an invitational meet, before the Moscow Olympics of 1980 and I was taking B-Complex in liquid form, as advised by Dr. P.M.K. Nambiar, a cardiac specialist based in Kannur.

I moved to Chicago in 1980 to go to college.

I saw what politics did to the Olympic Games in 1980 and 1984, and I would defend the right of a sportsman to go and play and perform where they want.

If the World Series runs until election day, the networks will run the first one-half inning and project the winner.

I moved to Dallas in 1975 and stayed there until 1980. That's when I decided it was time to move to L.A.

Apple went public the morning of December 12, 1980. By then the bankers had priced the stock at $ 22 a share. It went to $ 29 the first day. Jobs had come into the Hambrecht & Quist office just in time to watch the opening trades. At age twenty-five, he was now worth $ 256 million.

Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.

I was deeply involved in the decision that President Jimmy Carter made to boycott the Olympics in Moscow in 1980.

I fell in love with athletics watching the 1980 Moscow Olympics, aged seven. I thought: 'These people aren't human, they're immortal.'

In 1980, the year Deng began his reforms, McLean initiated the first container service to China.

In 1980, Osho left India for America. I, like many other sannyasins, moved to Oregon where work had begun on the 'new commune'. Osho named it Rajneeshpuram.

I came into the Republican party in 1980, when I was a college student at Georgetown.

In 1980, "radical chic conductor Leonard Bernstein said Reagan's election would unleash the forces of fascism in America.

By 1980, when I came out of prison, The Sun did a campaign to stop putting vice girls in prison. We've talked about it ever since and nothing has been done about it.

Back in 1980, the science-fiction author Isaac Asimov wrote, "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

Interviewed on the David Letterman show in October 1980, famed science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov exclaimed, "I enjoyed The Empire Strikes Back so much that when they finished it, I jumped up in my seat and yelled, 'Start the third part!' I figure at the rate they're going, they'll do the last few after I'm dead, which doesn't strike me as fair." (Asimov passed away in 1992.)

At the time 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger.

President Carter attempted to negotiate the release of the hostages. When this failed, he authorized a military rescue mission, launched in April 1980. It was a disaster, and it turned out to be the hammer that would drive the final nail into Carter's presidential coffin.

Always celebrate losses. Even when Museveni lost 1980 parliamentary election, God had arranged his presidential seat and here he is..