The Eighties in America - Salem Press (2009)

The runaway success of Amy Tan’s debut novel,The Joy Luck Club, was the literary surprise of 1989. Fea- turing four Chinese moth ...

Junk bonds Definition High-risk, high-yield securities During the 1980’s, junk bonds helped fuel the frenzy of cor- porate mer ...

Just Say No campaign Identification A slogan of the 1980’s war on drugs popularized by First Lady Nancy Reagan This slogan typ ...

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Just Say No campaign The Eighties in America users rather than focusing solely on drug suppliers. Soon after Nancy Reagan ...

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Keillor, Garrison Identification American radio humorist and writer Born August 7, 1942; Anoka, Minnesota As creator and hos ...

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cal Companion.Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999. Simmons, Diane.Jamaica Kincaid. New York: Twayne, 1994. Ann D. Garbett See ...

short-story collection. Books about King’s writing began to appear in the mid-1980’s, and the genre of King criticism would burg ...

Harrison, Pat.Jeane Kirkpatrick.American Women of Achievement. New York: Chelsea House, 1991. Kirkpatrick, Jeane.Making War to K ...

Klinghoffer, Leon Identification American victim of terrorism Born September 24, 1916; New York, New York Died October 8, 1985 ...

Knoxville World’s Fair The Event International exposition focused on energy and energy-related technologies Date May 1, 1982 t ...

cies of newly elected president Ronald Reagan be- cause of his strong anti-feminist, anti-gay, and anti- abortion positions. His ...

AIDS and unsafe sex practices. He called on all U.S. schools to begin education programs stressing those dangers and teaching th ...

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L.A. Law Identification Television drama series Producers Steven Bochco (1943- ), David E. Kelley (1956- ), and William M. F ...

LaRouche, Lyndon Identification American political activist and candidate Born September 8, 1922; Rochester, New Hampshire Ove ...

Further Reading King, Dennis.Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism. New York: Doubleday, 1989. Mintz, John. “Presidential ...

Christgrossed less than $8.4 million in the United States and approximately half that amount in other countries. Suits brought a ...

Honduran secret police, tortured, and thrown alive from helicopters. John Negroponte, the ambassa- dor to Honduras from 1981 to ...

States Militar y Intervention in Latin America from the Spanish-American War to the Invasion of Panama. New York: Macmillan, 199 ...