But the debacle of the Soviet Army's performance in Afghanistan in the 1980's largely put paid to this myth of invincibility.
Both the U.S. and Soviet Union tested anti-satellite technology in the 1980's, and the U.S. even shot down one of its orbiting satellites in 1985.
Given America's huge internal and external problems, that is a little surprising: even at best, Mr Obama cannot expect a landslide like Franklin Roosevelt's first win in 1932 or Ronald Reagan's in 1980.
"In the 1980's somebody came to me and said that there was a new creature in the river Nile, " says Khalil.
Economic data shows that the share of the manufacturing sector in Brazil's GDP fell from a peak of 27% in the late 1980's to 15% now.
Alcala was convicted in Samsoe's killing in 1980 and sentenced to death, but the California Supreme Court subsequently overturned his conviction.
In 1980 China's median (the age at which half the population is younger, half older) was 22.
Serene in a softer way was Sir Anthony Van Dijck, a restaurant designed by Vervoordt in the 1980's.
Maxima's father, Jorge Zorreguieta, had been Minister of Agriculture in the junta of General Jorge Videla, which terrorized Argentina in the 1980's.
Green Throttle is striving to create an open platform in order to push the industry forward and regain the creativity that was evident with games in the 1980's.
In the 1980's, Americans protested South Africa's odious apartheid policy.
McNally was selected as the band's official historian in 1980, and in 1984 became the band's publicist.
In 1980 South Korea's GDP per person was barely a quarter the level of Japan's.
In the mid 1980's, Bollywood's biggest star Amitabh Bachchan fought the elections on a Congress party ticket from his northern hometown of Allahabad.
He attacked the management brought to the Bulletin after the McLeans essentially gave away the failing paper in 1980 to Florida's Charter Co.
European governments, companies and banks simply did not share the U.S. view that Moscow should be penalized for its sponsorship of repressive martial law in Poland (and near Soviet invasion) in the early 1980's, but instead should be de facto rewarded with the largest single Western taxpayer-subsidized transaction in the history of East-West trade.
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Hunter's congressional career began when he won election to represent California in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1980.
His team explored these risks in a 2009 study -- and found that for both men and women, the rate of cardiac deaths in Los Angeles increased following the city's Super Bowl defeat in 1980.
But his efforts to recreate on screen the drama of the secret operation by the CIA and Canada to extract six U.S. embassy workers from revolutionary Iran in 1980 haven't been overlooked by Tehran's Art Bureau.
But in 1980, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held in Filartiga v.
There has been no precedent in a similar case in Israel since the 1980's.
In 1980, the U.S. spacecraft Voyager I sent back the first close-up pictures of the planet Saturn.
The exhibition also features Geordie frontman Brian Johnson who joined the band in 1980, following Scott's death.
Ideal Toys brought the cube to the U.S. in 1980 and sold 100 million of them in three years.
FORBES: That 1980s puzzle fad is back. No batteries required.
Zimbabwe gained independence under Mr Mugabe's leadership in 1980, after a long guerrilla campaign from bases in newly-independent Mozambique.
Alcala was convicted of Samsoe's death in 1980 and sentenced to death, but the California Supreme Court overturned his conviction.
We do have the man behind it all, the man who negotiated the new Zimbabwe back in 1980, Peter Carrington's here.
Democrats divided during the rest of his presidency, and his plummeting popularity opened the door to Ronald Reagan's victory in 1980.
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