The Eighties in America - Salem Press (2009)

Business and the economy in Canada Definition Structure and functioning of the Canadian economy, including the production and ...

owning provincial governments was less than the price U.S. loggers had to pay to the private landown- ers from whom they bought ...

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Business and the economy in the United States The Eighties in America Volcker to chair the Federal Reserve Board. The elec ...

private-capital investments. However, home mort- gage rates continued to decline, although they were still around 10 percent in ...

able to continue their inroads into the American market. The biggest increases in employment were in trade and services. Rapidly ...

Financial Shocks The macroeconomy was able to enjoy steady expansion after 1982 in spite of signifi- cant financial disturbances ...

brief and minor interruption; then, boom condi- tions continued. The stock decline was buffered by Federal Reserve action to rai ...

particularly those relating to poverty. Phillips, Kevin.The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American Electorate in the ...

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Cabbage Patch Kids Definition Children’s dolls Manufacturer Coleco (licensee 1982-1989) The Cabbage Patch Kids were one-of-a ...

ally high for the Cabbage Patch Kids, fueled by Rob- erts’s marketing genius, including the 1985 publicity coup of sending an as ...

strating the network’s achieved legitimacy. In 1981, MTV (music television) was launched with the iconic symbol of an astronaut ...

ular preacher, built the Christian Broadcasting Net- work, which became Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). Jim Bakker and his w ...

the growth in viewership stalled. Viewers com- plained of repetitious programming. In response, cable companies instituted origi ...

agers and chief executive officers (CEOs) to imple- ment the technology. Doing so was a big risk for some firms and a drastic ch ...

small independent contractors to large corporations. CAD and CAM reduced errors in transcription, doc- umentation, design, analy ...

to coexist with many local mom-and-pop establish- ments, rather than driving them out of business. By the late 1980’s, the natio ...

At the same time that the show struggled with controversial story lines, it also struggled to stay on the air. In 1983, CBS canc ...

band and high-band. High-band recorded a greater range of luminance. While low-band gave 250 lines of resolution, high-band prov ...

parliament, it was the most important part of the Canadian constitutional process since the British North America Act of 1867 fi ...

dress their concerns. After the referendum failed, he initiated a process to make significant amend- ments to the country’s cons ...