Noun
1980 (plural 1980s)
(snowboarding) A skill, where in a jump, the person turns 5 and a half times.
The roots of defeat which were put down by some of the elements of our party in the two or three years after 1980 made victory difficult to achieve. Neil Kinnock
In 1980 I was a red kid and no one could have said anything bad about the Soviet Union. At least this is how my grandfather used to remember me. Around 1981, I became a pro-capitalist person and it stuck. Luboš Motl
Between 1980 and 2000 the number of patents registered in Israel was 7652 compared with 367 for all the Arab countries combined. In 2008 alone Israeli inventors applied to register 9591 new patents. The equivalent figure for Iran was 50 and for all majority Muslim countries in the world with 5657. Niall Ferguson
"Those whom God hath joined together let no one put asunder." To Anne Hewlett Fuller on this, our 63rd Wedding Anniversary and my 85 Birthday-July 12, 1980. Buckminster Fuller
Constitutions do not emerge perfectly formed from the brain of the philosopher king, as Mr. Trudeau himself discovered in 1980 and 1981. They are always messy processes that are easier to knock down or tear apart than they are to construct. Bob Rae
While the 1980 book was being serialized in the Sunday Times, Charles attacked it through the Observer. Anthony Holden