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Gimli Glider The Eighties in America See also Blade Runner; Computers; Cyberpunk lit- erature; Information age;Max Headroo ...

staff overestimated the amount of fuel contained in the airplane’s tanks. For the pilots, the first sign of trouble occurred whe ...

Representative for Planet 8(1986) and an adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe’sThe Fall of the House of Usher(1988). The 1980’s were pr ...

a warm and caring manner, she was viewed as weak. On the other hand, if a woman appeared to be tough, logical, and unemotional—c ...

countries watched Hollywood movies and wore T-shirts ad- vertising American corporations. By the end of the decade, the fall of ...

that opponents of free trade would assert that it was causing the United States to lose jobs overseas, for example. By the end o ...

“Beneath the Blue Sky” and “Yes or No.” Both of the latter songs were written or co-written by Wiedlin, whose evolution as a son ...

Goetz, Bernhard Identification American electrical engineer involved in a subway shooting Born November 7, 1947 Goetz shot fou ...

Further Reading Fletcher, George P.A Crime of Self-Defense: Bernhard Goetz and the Law on Trial.Chicago: University of Chicago P ...

a toy gun. He handcuffed the forty-one-year-old Goldmark, his forty-three-year-old wife, Annie, and their two sons, Derek (twelv ...

Previously, this position was basically a figurehead responsible for formal communications between the Joint Chiefs and the secr ...

the club compromised the integrity of the game. If players were allowed to use Ping clubs, the USGA feared that skill would ceas ...

different kind for the PGA tour: By the end of that year, the organization had donated more than 100 million dollars to charitab ...

become the first American woman since Babe Did- rikson Zaharias to hold the world record in a multi- ple-discipline event. Edwin ...

preserving her artistic and religious integrity. The latter task would be difficult: No Contemporary Christian act had yet prove ...

invade the island, using airborne troops, special forces, and Marines diverted from an expeditionary force that had been headed ...

other areas, however, U.S. forces could exploit the weak resistance to overrun opposition and accom- plish key objectives, inclu ...

were Canadians generally, who disliked the idea of their greatest player transfering to a country where hockey was much less of ...

competition. She won gold medals in the 100-meter dash, the 200-meter dash, and the 4 × 100-meter re- lay race, as well as a sil ...

to the public’s hunger for “real” rock music, as op- posed to Top 40 pop. Guns n’ Roses’ songs were rawer in sound and more seri ...