The Eighties in America - Salem Press (2009)

hop nor any other new musical genre had emerged to capture the public imagination the way disco had in the 1970’s. CDs altered t ...

nyl’s advocates claimed possible was prohibitively ex- pensive. Moreover, the average listener lacked the aural training to dete ...

Computers Definition Electronic devices that receive, process, store, and output data based on programmed instructions In the ...

One of the first serious business applications for microcomputers was the spreadsheet program, the first of which was VisiCalc, ...

what came to be called the Internet. Tim Berners- Lee created a hypertext language to support the sharing of textual information ...

computers. The release of several relational data- bases led to an improved way of handling data, and further research done in t ...

Confederacy of Dunces, A Identification Prize-winning novel Author John Kennedy Toole (1939-1969) Date Published in 1980 The rea ...

concerning the rapidly growing federal deficit. This situation gave rise to political gridlock, as the gov- ernment found it ext ...

The Reagan administration and Republicans in Congress experienced a severe legislative defeat in 1981 and suffered long-term pol ...

ery other state and nearly 59 percent of the popular vote. In the wake of Reagan’s landslide reelection, the Republicans gained ...

invading Grenada; and refusing to make major con- cessions to the Soviet Union in nuclear arms negoti- ations. As a result, U.S. ...

year-old male page in 1973. Because the age of con- sent in the District of Columbia was sixteen, the rela- tionships were not i ...

saw the emergence of neoconservatism, a move- ment of disaffected liberals who believed that the ex- pansion of the welfare stat ...

were largely unacknowledged during the decade. As a result, Vice President George H. W. Bush was able to win election to the pre ...

type of program, the prime-time soap opera, in- cludedDallasandDynasty—shows that featured the wealthy and extravagant lifestyle ...

stant gratification, and the most common venue for both qualities was the marketplace. Commodities had been marketed throughout ...

parents Russell (Earl Hyman) and Anna (Clarice Taylor) Huxtable. Special guests included Stevie Wonder, Placido Domingo, Sammy D ...

the top of the Nielsen ratings: In its first year, it rock- eted to third place, and for the next four years, 1985- 1990, it was ...

debuted at a time when the public image and reputa- tion of the sciences in the United States was begin- ning to recover from se ...

Impact Kevin Costner made it acceptable for cin- ema’s leading men to be wholesome and even old- fashioned after his 1980’s brea ...