The Eighties in America - Salem Press (2009)

no additional birth defects or premature deliveries. However, it was revealed that some of the male Medflies released were actua ...

Further Reading Bigsby, Christopher W., ed.The Cambridge Companion to David Mamet.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Br ...

Fox Foundation following his death. Grants from the foundation to cancer researchers have been cited as critical in the developm ...

collar workers, and another 8.7 percent were at the professional-managerial level. Males made up a lop- sided majority of 70.2 p ...

since 1980 and ordered them released. By then, an- other 1,700 had been returned to Cuba. Impact The Mariel crisis reflected def ...

Divorce Marital dissolution had risen for the two decades preceding the 1980’s. However, the divorce rate stabilized at the begi ...

stitution itself, as indicated by the fairly high rate of remarriage. At the end of the 1980’s, approximately half of all marria ...

was conceived as the antithesis to the idealized por- trayal of a middle-class family in most 1980’s sitcoms, especiallyThe Cosb ...

Martial arts Definition Specialized forms of hand-to-hand combat and self-defense that are also practiced as sports During the ...

starring in the movieThe Jerk, which he also cowrote. By the 1980’s, Martin had a following comparable to those of rock stars of ...

Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1971, when the organization presented Congress with three million signatures supporting the esta ...

end the series after ten seasons, but the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) and Twentieth Century- Fox persuaded them to partic ...

Ogden Stiers) works with a five-piece Chinese or- chestra, which is subsequently killed in a truck bombing as they leave for an ...

Impact The series was short lived, lasting only four- teen episodes, but it attracted a cult fan base and gar- nered critical pr ...

sexual feelings. Others argued for a role of “sperm overload.” In 1983 and 1984, a newly discovered vi- rus, eventually named hu ...

bacterial infections also made their appearance. A new class of antibiotics known as fluoroquinolones were introduced in 1986, t ...

Garrett, Laurie.The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World out of Balance. New York: Pen- guin Books, 1995. Chronicle ...

Further Reading Monahan, Patrick J.Meech Lake: The Inside Stor y.To- ronto: University of Toronto, 1991. Waller, Harold M. “How ...

Impact Meese has been called one of the leading figures of the conservative revolution of the 1980’s, especially in regard to le ...

Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson Identification U.S. Supreme Court decision Date June 19, 1986 The Supreme Court’s unanimous rul ...