Syria has been allied with Tehran since the outset of the war between Iran and Iraq in 1980.

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

Weibrecht was born six years after the 1980 Lake Placid games in New York.

VOA: standard.2010.02.09

Juan Antonio Samaranch was president of the IOC from 1980 until 2001.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

The 1976 Games had left Montreal with a billion-dollar debt and the games were tarnished by Cold War boycotts of the 1980 Moscow and 1984 Los Angeles games.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

But in 1980,they started to develop their own math curriculum.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

In the 1980's it could be about AIDS;

VOA: standard.2009.11.23

In 1980,15 percent of American adults were obese.

VOA: standard.2010.07.02

And Little Havana's population swelled again during six months in 1980, when more than 100,000 Cubans were permitted to leave Castro's island en masse in what came to be called the Mariel Boatlift.

VOA: standard.2010.04.19

Team USA Associate general manager Dave Poile says only five of the players considered for the team had Olympic experience, and only seven of them were even alive when Team USA won its last hockey gold 1980 in Lake Placid,New York.

VOA: standard.2010.01.12

"I expect him to address the German situation as he did the Irish and I'll bet you that you'll see some kind of language that will - using very papal rhetoric, acknowledge that the way the bishops were dealing with it in 1980 or thereabouts, when he was in that role, was we now know, not the best way."

VOA: standard.2010.04.01