The Eighties in America - Salem Press (2009)

many Native Americans during the 1980’s was the development and expansion of gambling casinos on tribal reservations. As Cheroke ...

Natural disasters Definition Meteorologic and geologic events resulting in significant loss of life or property Key natural di ...

Charles County, Missouri, which lies in a floodplain at the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, occurred in 1986. ...

quire stricter codes for mobile home construction. Increasing damage figures also triggered insurance- industry crises, especial ...

ability to the media made her a popular sports cham- pion and role model for other lesbians. Further Reading Blue, Adrianne.Mart ...

Naylor’s subsequent novels were increasingly am- bitious. The narrative structure ofLinden Hillspar- allels that of Dante’sInfer ...

color schemes, amateurish drawing techniques, and some bizarre and at times revolting images, they were, thankfully, breathing l ...

Tom Brokaw began coanchoring theNBC Nightly Newsin 1981. Two years later, his coanchor moved on, leaving Brokaw as the sole host ...

Allen, Craig M.News Is People: The Rise of Local TV News and the Fall of News from New York. Ames: Iowa State Press, 2001. Allen ...

Further Reading Hayes, Constance L.The Real Thing: Truth and Power at the Coca-Cola Company. New York: Random House, 2004. Olive ...

Outside, state police and National Guard units, directed by Governor Bruce King and Deputy Secre- tary of Corrections Felix Rodr ...

The Eighties in America New Wave music
707 Selected 1980’s New Wave Singles Year Song Performer 1980 “Call Me” Blondie “Brass ...

1981, several New Wave bands capitalized on the new format to promote their music. They added a “look” to their videos that garn ...

inated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Sup- porting Role. He also won praise for his understated role as a Texas border ...

liam Kennedy. He and costar Meryl Streep were both nominated for Academy Awards. Nicholson’s final role of the 1980’s, the Joker ...

shooting two victims in the head; the wife survived. He drew another pentagram at the scene and wrote lyrics from a heavy metal ...

Canadian and American Nobel Prize Winners, 1980-1989 Year Chemistry Economics Literature Peace Physics Physiology or Medicine 19 ...

worked at the Center for the Study of Public Choice in Fairfax, Virginia. The laureates’ areas of achieve- ment were creation an ...

and summaries of the research leading to the award are included. Woodward, Robert B., and Roald Hoffmann.The Conservation of Orb ...

year later, North testified before Congress at the tele- vised Iran-Contra hearings. The handsome, young colonel soon became a m ...