The Eighties in America - Salem Press (2009)

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Country music The Eighties in America Billboard Country Music Hit Singles of the 1980’s Year Song Performer 1980 “Tennesse ...

The Eighties in America Country music
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New Voices, New Forces Alabama, a country-rock group that owed more to Southern rock than to Willie Nelson, became the first gro ...

as “cow-punk” bands such as Jason and the Nashville Scorchers, whose lead singer’s style owed as much to Johnny Rotten as to Joh ...

changes in U.S. drug policy and a renewed focus on fighting a “War on Drugs.” The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 specifically alloc ...

Craft as anchor and reassigned her as a general- assignment reporter. The station defended its deci- sion based on negative view ...

Impact Although Christine Craft ultimately lost her sex-discrimination lawsuit against Metromedia, her legal battle brought grea ...

suspect arrested for the same crime. These trends were largely the result of a national drug policy that focused far more on inn ...

ment passed the Young Offenders Act, which insti- tuted different treatment for criminals between the ages of twelve and eightee ...

Doob, Anthony. “Transforming the Punishment En- vironment: Understanding the Public Views of What Should Be Accomplished at Puni ...

the Fourth of July(1989). The critically acclaimed film earned Cruise his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor and also ...

Virtual spaces contained within computers had previously been explored in a number of science- fiction novels from the mid-1960’ ...

(Max T. O’Connor). Meanwhile, cyberpunk fiction often described artificial intelligences (AIs) that were native to cyberspace an ...

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Dallas Identification Prime-time television soap opera Date Aired April 2, 1978, to May 3, 1991 Dallaswas the first prime-ti ...

Even after the show’s overall ratings began to slip, cliffhanger episodes in the spring and their resolu- tion in the fall were ...

program, particularly the influence of J. R. and his relationships with women. Hagman, Larry. “Hats Off to Ten Years ofDallas.” ...

tered these dances for the first time. Performers such as Michael Jackson, the “King of Pop,” greatly advanced the art of dance ...

following decade. These novels appealed to readers because of their ingenious, old-fashioned sto- rytelling, but also because of ...

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Day After, The The Eighties in America son Davies: A Mingling of Contrarieties. Ottawa, Ont.: University of Ottawa Press, ...

Decker, Mary Identification American middle-distance runner Born August 4, 1958; Bunnvale, New Jersey The only American runner ...