[word="1980s"] [tag=□]
[word="1980s"] [tag=","]
In the 1980s , my hometown of Sacramento , Calif ., had two Air Force bases and an Army depot that employed some 18,000 - - among them my father , a civilian engineer for the Air Force . In the early 1980s , Scully reintroduced color , space , and texture , through the application of multiple layers of paint , and thereby added an expressive element . The bad news is that skin cancer rates have continued to creep upward , at about 3 percent a year , since the early 1980s , according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention . By the 1980s , congressional preferences were solidly restrictionist , finally reflecting the pressures which had built over a decade of economic crisis and high migration . In the early 1980s , PCs used a 6 MHz processor ; today 's computers are powered by 200 MHz processors with wide 32-bit buses , advanced floating-point units , and extensive use of pipelining .