The Eighties in America - Salem Press (2009)

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On October 23, 1984, rock star Bob Geldof watched British Broadcasting Company (BBC) correspon- dent Michael Buerk’s special rep ...

Besides the live acts performing in the two major venues, the concerts included real-time video trans- missions of live performa ...

Impact Besides the 162,000 people who attended the live concerts, about 1.5 billion people in about one hundred countries either ...

done to transportation arteries. The Bay Bridge, which links San Francisco to Oakland, sustained a steel truss failure, causing ...

Further Reading Hough, Susan Elizabeth.Earthshaking Science: What We Know (and Don’t Know) About Earthquakes. Port- land, Oreg.: ...

and-a-half somersault pike and hit his head on the board. He completed the dive, but he required four stitches to stop the bleed ...

fair than might otherwise have done so; instead of eleven million visitors, the exposition drew only a lit- tle more than seven ...

ject that also pertains to some of the child-abuse and Satanism accusations of the 1980’s and 1990’s. Further Reading Cox, Mike. ...

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McEnroe, John Identification American tennis player Born February 16, 1959; Wiesbaden, West Germany (now in Germany) McEnroe ...

Wmbledon final, McEnroe came back to win the title in 1983 and 1984. The year 1984 was a banner year for McEnroe: He won not onl ...

quired that excess federal property be offered as temporary, emergency sanctuaries for homeless peo- ple, but seventeen months a ...

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McMartin Preschool trials The Eighties in America stories. One child even identified actor Chuck Norris, a city attorney, ...

Madonna Identification American singer, songwriter, producer, actor, and entertainer Born August 16, 1958; Bay City, Michigan ...

True Blue, Madonna served for the first time as the al- bum’s producer. The album spawned three number one hit singles: “Live to ...

Magnet schools have several distinguishing charac- teristics: an enrollment policy that opens the school to students beyond the ...

ton, D.C.: Magnet Schools of America, 1999. The senior author has been executive director of Mag- net Schools of America, so he ...

past actions might not have an immediate impact on any individual weekly narrative, the overall effect was to expand the range o ...

go for part of the day for individualized tutoring or small-group instruction. Some schools brought an- other teacher into the c ...

Malathion spraying The Event An insecticide is widely used on crops and released over populated areas Date July, 1981 Though u ...