The Eighties in America - Salem Press (2009)

provide increased headroom for passengers and seats that could be removed or folded for the trans- port of cargo. Because of its ...

social, political, cultural, and economic life of the nation. Multiculturalists endorsed these policies as embracing a politics ...

The U.S. hockey team had won only a single Olym- pic medal since 1960 going into the 1980 Winter Olympics, and the 1980 squad ap ...

Two days later, still needing a victory over Finland to secure the gold medal, the United States once again came from behind in ...

Impact The missing children campaign fostered growth of nonprofit organizations with protocols for registration and tracking of ...

ily” path she proposed, and controversy over the concept of a mommy track swept across the United States. One perspective viewed ...

some examples of how businesses accommodated corporate mothers. “Harvard Business Review” on Work and Life Balance. Boston: Harv ...

foreign and domestic policies, traveling across the United States and the globe in this role. Carter and Mondale won the 1980 De ...

tendency for the Democratic Party to benefit from the “gender gap,” with women being more likely to vote for Democrats than Repu ...

Montana directed an eighty-nine-yard drive capped by the most famous play in 49ers history—“the Catch”—a six-yard touchdown pass ...

Critics praised the series for its innovations. Char- acters, particularly Addison, would often “break the fourth wall,” by spea ...

the movement was ecumenical in scope. Among its adherents were Catholics, Jews, Mormons, Evangeli- cals, and mainline Protestant ...

See also Conservatism in U.S. politics; Elections in the United States, 1980; Elections in the United States, 1984; Elections in ...

Four young men formed Mötley Crüe in the Los An- geles Sunset Strip music club scene in 1980 and 1981, calling themselves Nikki ...

scientific concern. A measurable harmonic tremor, a signal of underground magma movement, indi- cated that a large-scale eruptio ...

1980 and 1986. After the eruption, glacier growth resumed as well, reestablishing a potential flood hazard. Natural recovery wit ...

ade of their home at 309 North 33rd Street in the Powelton Village section of West Philadelphia on March 16, 1978. Five months l ...

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673 MOVE in their lyrics. Even with most of its members dead or imprisoned, MOVE remained an act ...

MTV Identification Cable television network Date Launched on August 1, 1981 MTV began as a cable television network entirely d ...

permeated the network was heavily influenced by their versions of New Wave music. Also known as Brit-Pop, or Synth-Pop, these ba ...