The Eighties in America - Salem Press (2009)

tated, because the soggy ground resulting from ear- lier rainfall allowed their roots simply to pop out of the ground. Hugo move ...

turies of Storms at Sea and Shore. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006. A history of more than eighty hurricanes and tropi ...

played another of his melancholy characters, a travel writer who slowly recovers from the death of his son and the breakup of hi ...

ment Cases.Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum As- sociates, 2002. Stein, Laura.Speech Rights in America: The First Amend- ment, Demo ...

gaging narrative and an exploration of Orientalism, particularly of the intersection of traditional West- ern representations of ...

I Iacocca, Lee Identification Automobile industry executive Born October 15, 1924; Allentown, Pennsylvania A business turnaround ...

Under Iacocca’s leadership, Chrysler reversed its poor fortune. In 1983, Chrysler repaid its guaran- teed loan in full, and shor ...

gration and Naturalization Service (INS) that they had been living continuously in the United States since 1982. Second, it impo ...

Kingdom on territories neighboring Hong Kong ap- proached, the British began to believe that they could not maintain Hong Kong a ...

grants are admitted to serve Canada’s economic interests. Li, Peter.Destination Canada: Debates and Issues. New York: Oxford Uni ...

bodia, and Laos were resettled in North America in the early 1980’s. In 1980 alone, over 170,000 people from these three countri ...

gal immigrants, and it offered legal status to immi- grants who had entered the country illegally before January 1, 1982. The go ...

and it contributed to a much more ethnically diverse population. Immigration, especially undocumented immigration from Mexico, b ...

while some 20 percent remained unemployed for more than six months. Unemployment was most likely to affect those with less than ...

Annual Income of U.S. Households, 1980 and 1989 Number ofHouseholds(in 1,000s) % Under$10,000 % $10,000-$14,999 % $15,000-$24,99 ...

justed for inflation, per capita disposable income rose by 18 percent and consumption rose by 20 per- cent during the decade. Pa ...

the extent of economic inequality in the United States increased. Further Reading Cox, W. Michael, and Richard Alm.Myths of Rich ...

became fabulously wealthy. The most profitable fa- cilities were those located near large urban areas, such as the Mashantucket ...

Impact The rapid rise of inflation all over the devel- oped world posed a major problem for the govern- ment. The pressure from ...

slowing of inflation was aided by declining world oil prices, which helped household energy prices (which shot up by 30 percent ...