The Eighties in America - Salem Press (2009)

Cleveland, Ohio, had been selected as the perma- nent home for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. Once the site had been ...

Impact The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Founda- tion created an enormously successful location for the preservation, commemoration ...

Major League Baseball—meaning that Rose could never again play or manage and that he would not be eligible for membership in the ...

hop icons. The group’s popularity also brought rap and hip-hop into the cultural mainstream, one of Run-D.M.C.’s greatest accomp ...

Impact After twenty-seven years as a major-league pitcher, Ryan retired in 1993 with an amazing fifty- three MLB records, includ ...

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St. Elsewhere Identification Television drama series Date Aired from October 26, 1982, to May 25, 1988 Unlike some previous ...

San Ysidro McDonald’s massacre The Event A seventy-seven-minute shooting rampage at a fast-food restaurant leaves twenty- one ...

The shootings were unprecedented in the United States. The closest parallel event had been the 1967 University of Texas clock to ...

Further Reading Sauvé, Jeanne.Selected Decisions of Speaker Jeanne Sauvé, 1980-1984/Recueil de Décisions du Président Jeanne Sau ...

Board, which had failed to effectively supervise the S&L industry. The government also created the Of- fice of Thrift Superv ...

in the S&L crisis. Includes the contributions of a diverse group of former regulators and scholars. Calavita, Kitty.Big Mone ...

the conviction of a senator, six congressmen, the mayor of Camden, New Jersey, and members of the Philadelphia City Council. How ...

viduals and damaging their reputations, the courts harshly criticized the FBI for its use of entrapment techniques in the Abscam ...

cal themes—with highly gestural paint application. Both of these characteristics were frequently “appro- priated” from earlier w ...

Proponents of school vouchers saw these govern- ment-funded tuition grants as a means of providing choice and competition in edu ...

The call for a voucher system continued, but the ar- guments shifted. During the 1980’s, many in the American middle class conti ...

Schreyer, Edward Identification Governor-general of Canada from 1979 to 1984 Born December 21, 1935; Beausejour, Manitoba Schr ...

House Committee on Armed Services. The House leadership granted her request, and she became the first woman to serve on that com ...

Schwarzenegger, Arnold Identification Champion bodybuilder and actor Born July 30, 1947; Thal, Austria Schwarzenegger began a ...

Leamer, Laurence.Fantastic: The Life of Arnold Schwarz- enegger.New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2005. Thomas R. Feller See also Ac ...