The Eighties in America - Salem Press (2009)

Iowa, emergency preparedness procedures were studied after the crash, so emergency responders could improve their readiness for ...

dren (ranging in grade level from college to kindergarten), it was a landmark show. Noth- ing like it had been seen on televisio ...

program shown from 1946 to 1998, with cast lists, airdates, and occasional critical insights into why a show succeeded or failed ...

Youth Movement, a division of WAR that targeted skinheads for recruitment, and included an Aryan Youth Movement newspaper among ...

SkyDome’s roof consists of three interlocking panels that cover the baseball diamond and grandstand when the roof is in place. I ...

tured in 1980’s ad campaigns, most notably in the slogans “Made the American way” (Miller High Life) and “Pump your money back i ...

teens in the San Fernando Valley in California, nor necessarily only to females. Much of what came to be called “valspeak” was t ...

to conquer the United States. Excerpts of Samantha’s letter were published in the Soviet dailyPravda, but when the girl did not ...

Impact Samantha’s courage and childlike approach to Andropov became a symbol of hope for the peace- ful resolution of world prob ...

cigarettes had stopped. The poor, less educated, and minority groups did not experience the same degree of reduction in smoking ...

sets. The “supercouple” phenomenon—which had its origin in the 1970’s—was fully developed, and “love in the afternoon”—originall ...

narratives usually centered on melodramatic power struggles and glamour. Impact Daytime and prime-time soap operas in the 1980’s ...

the United States failed to qualify for the 1986 World Cup. From 1985 to 1988, U.S. professional soccer was played primarily ind ...

munities began to thrive. Moreover, the sport be- came increasingly popular among young people and college students in the Unite ...

support, and it was unanimously rejected by the Re- publican-controlled Senate. After this defeat, Reagan sought political cover ...

the United States, 1980; Income and wages in the United States; Reagan, Ronald; Reagan Revolution; Reaganomics.
Soviet Union a ...

insurgent Contras battled the left-leaning govern- ment of Daniel Ortega. To some degree these efforts backfired. The fundamenta ...

the two countries reached an arms reduction treaty. In 1988, Moscow left Afghanistan. Ultraconservative supporters of the presid ...

old Cold War was coming to an end as Gorbachev in- troduced liberalization into the Soviet Union in part because of pressure fro ...

augural flight was made by the space shut- tleColumbiaon April 12, 1981. However, the disastrous explosion ofChallengerwhile lau ...