The Eighties in America - Salem Press (2009)

vestors and helped stimulate an inflow of interna- tional capital. Inflation in the United States lowered not only the internal ...

reserved for such programming, many viewers mis- took the claims of the advertisers as objective, factual information from autho ...

The Information Age Goes Public At the beginning of the 1980’s, the public became increasingly aware of how computers were to be ...

See also Apple Computer; AT&T breakup; Book publishing; Business and the economy in Canada; Business and the economy in the ...

portunity to respond before the missiles reach their targets. The Soviet deployment of such missiles in Europe upset the balance ...

the Soviet Union strongly objected, and the super- powers were in the midst of negotiating a separate ballistic missile treaty i ...

Inventions Definition Newly created or improved devices, objects, substances, techniques, or processes Inventions in the 1980’ ...

as commissioner. Quigg’s invention experience in- cluded overseeing patents at Phillips Petroleum be- ginning in 1945. Starting ...

been subjected to chemical processes to reinforce their structures or increase their ductile characteris- tics. Such materials h ...

inventors. On March 3, 1981, the Supreme Court voted five to four that computer programs qualified as a type of process that cou ...

nies in the hope of generating wealth. In November, 1988, a USPTO spokesperson revealed that inventors had filed for 650 patents ...

tional Inventors Hall of Fame inducted such notable 1980’s U.S. inventors as Andrew J. Moyer, whose two patents facilitated peni ...

Press, 2000. Documents each decade of the twen- tieth century in a separate chapter, providing patent illustrations and inventio ...

administration. The mines and the refusal of the Reagan administration to accept the World Court’s declaration motivated the U.S ...

return the money to the Contra slush fund. Suspi- cious that the activity might not have official U.S. ap- proval, Israel ceased ...

On April 13, 1989, the Kerry Committee Report was released by Senator John Kerry, revealing that a major source of funding for t ...

Since 1953, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi’s Iran had stood second only to Israel as the United States’ closest ally in the Middle E ...

ding documents. The scene was reminiscent of the last hours of the U.S. embassy in Saigon, Vietnam. 444 Days of Captivity The st ...

cle, the U.S. Army sought to ensure that a similar air disaster involving special operations forces would never be repeated. It ...

Irving’s friendship with fellow best-selling author Kurt Vonnegut is reflected in the plots of several of Irving’s novels. Unlik ...