And as former CBS 2 reporter Susan Anderson reported, the VCR was seen as a huge threat to the movie theater industry in the 1980s.
In 1985, a blockbuster could account for as much as 45 percent of industry revenues, but movie theater attendance had dropped 15 percent nationwide.
Nearly a third of all homes were expected to have VCRs by the end of 1985, and not too long afterward, they were ubiquitous, before being supplanted by DVD players.
1985 Jul 12, Lance Cpl. Suzanne Marie Collins (b.1966) was raped, murdered and mutilated near the Naval Air Station base at Millington, Tenn. Sedley Alley was convicted for the murder in 1987 and sentenced to death.
1985 Dr. Richard F. Marsh (d.1997 at 58) observed that the disease mink spongiform encephalopathy was very similar to bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease), and that food supplement made from cattle and fed to the minks was probably the route of disease transmission.
1985 In Nicaragua the 3,000 acre cotton ranch of Enrique Bolanos was expropriated by the Sandinistas.
1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar.
January 20 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan is sworn in for a second term in office.
January 28 - We Are the World, a 1985 song written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, produced and conducted by Quincy Jones was recorded by a supergroup of popular musicians billed as USA for Africa.
1985 is an attempt at growing on from and getting past a detesting of refinement and considering the learned and trained artist to be an oxymoron.
1985 is also a intrinsic part of MASA Records, a DIY "record label" that believes wholeheartedly in "art for peoples sake" and shudders at the notion of currancy and capital being attached to art.
In the case of 1985, ALL the money taken in from album sales is donated to various charities and organizations (except while on the road on tour, where the money is needed to feed and mobolize).
Although...Both sides (Roth and the rest of Van Halen) had been talking about it since 1985 began.
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1985 was the year that the Second British Invasion reached its pinnacle -- and then began a precipitous decline, as New Wave/New Romantic music suddenly lost much of its glitter.
Speaking of heavy metal, all those who had previously proclaimed that heavy metal was dead had egg on their face; in fact, 1985 marked the beginning of a renaissance in hard rock that would thrive through the end of the decade.
The Second British Invasion reaches its high water mark in 1985; as summer begins, Madonna is the only all-American act in the US Top Ten, the rest being British (except for The Power Station, which is Anglo-American.) Non-Americans have a record eight consecutive US chart-toppers and seven of these are British.
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Randall, J.E., E.A. Lachner and T.H. Fraser, 1985.
Sainsbury, K.J., P.J. Kailola and G.G. Leyland, 1985.
Randall, J.E., M.L. Bauchot, A. Ben-Tuvia and P.C. Heemstra, 1985.
CHIN, LARRY WU-TAI, retired CIA employee, was arrested 22 November1985 and accused of having carried out a 33-year career of espionage on behalf of the People's Republic of China.
HAWKINS, STEPHEN DWAYNE, was serving in 1985 as a Quartermaster Third Class at the Commander Submarine Group 8 in Naples, Italy.
In July1985, the KGB colonel who had initial contact with Pelton in Washington, DC, Vitaly Yurchenko, defected to the United States and provided information that led to his prosecution.
Regulations 3 and 5 amend section 255B of, and Part IV of Schedule 9 to, the 1985 Act to extend the provisions relating to companies which are holding companies of banking companies, to companies which are holding companies of credit institutions (as defined in section 262 of the 1985 Act).
Part IV is also amended so that companies to which it applies can if they so wish comply with Schedule 6 to the 1985 Act for the purposes of their accounts for a financial year, without the special adaptations made by Part IV of Schedule 9.
[1] 1985 c. 6; section 257 was inserted into the 1985 Act by section 20 of the Companies Act 1989 (c. 40).
This well-regarded cult film is a tense Kafka-esque tale concerning what happens to a likable computer guy who is in the wrong place at the wrong time in the city that never sleeps--New York.
Kiss Of The Spider Woman opened in a Manhattan cinema on July 26, 1985, the same week that a dying Rock Hudson flew to Paris on Concorde to try the experimental AIDS treatment, HPA-23.
This album came out in 1985 on the Wackies label, it was reissued by Blood and Fire in 1996.
It is a comprehensive team roster and player names are sorted by the fielding position where the most number of games were played during the regular season.
The 1985New York Yankees played 161 games during the regular season, won 97 games, lost 64 games, and finished in second position.
They played their home games at Yankee Stadium (Park Factors: 98/97) where 2,214,587 fans witnessed their 1985 Yankees finish the season with a.602 winning percentage.
Adopted at the 37th plenary meeting, 16 Oct. 1985 and the 120th plenary meeting, 17 Dec. 1985.
Conclusion of an international convention on the strengthening of the security of non-nuclear-weapon States against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons.
Adopted at the 37th plenary meeting, 16 Oct. 1985 and the 120th plenary meeting, 17 Dec. 1985.To be issued in GAOR, 40th sess., Suppl.
