The Eighties in America - Salem Press (2009)

sector effort to raise funds to restore the Statue of Liberty. A partnership formed between the govern- ment, represented by the ...

of rivets were replaced, and any seams or open holes were sealed. A significant feature of the restoration was the re- placement ...

Stealth fighter Definition Innovative military aircraft Manufacturer Lockheed Advanced Development Projects Unit of Lockheed M ...

are modified to make it less visible to enemies in the air and on the ground. Impact The F-117 Nighthawk was kept secret from th ...

Further Reading Bane, Vickie, and Lorenzo Benet.The Lives of Danielle Steel.New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994. Hoyt, Nicole.Dan ...

Sting pursued a minor acting career during the decade, appearing in such films asDune(1984), Plenty(1985),The Bride(1985),Bring ...

Stone, Oliver Identification American film director and screenwriter Born September 15, 1946; New York, New York The 1980’s ma ...

Further Reading Beaver, Frank.Oliver Stone: Wakeup Cinema. New York: Twayne, 1994. Kagan, Norman.The Cinema of Oliver Stone. New ...

able future. They therefore argued that it repre- sented a massive waste of resources. Others saw SDI as a waste of resources ev ...

cused by critics of potentially provoking a new Cold War-style arms race. Further Reading Guertner, Gary L., and Donald M. Snow. ...

Cr y in the Dark(1988; also known asEvil Angels), she depicted an Australian mother unjustly accused of killing her child. In th ...

cans, however, nor did it endear him to the press. In 1991, Sununu was accused of misusing govern- ment aircraft for personal us ...

of about 40 Kelvins for superconductive materials. Many scientists quickly saw that the BCS theory was inadequate to make sense ...

sics of superconductivity, Mayo emphasizes the possible applications of high-temperature super- conductors for computers, medici ...

ous waste dumps in the United States. However, the government’s funding was inadequate, and the pri- vate companies failed to co ...

Supreme Court decisions Definition Rulings made by the highest court in the United States A number of U.S. Supreme Court decis ...

During the decade, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) stopped providing tax-exempt status to private schools that discriminated ...

was intended to promote a religious belief. The Court said that the state law had no secular purpose and endorsed religion in vi ...

regulation violated the free speech rights of public broadcasters because it curtailed the expression of editorial opinion that ...

Pornography During the 1980’s, antipornography groups and some feminists convinced some state and local governments that pornogr ...