The Eighties in America - Salem Press (2009)

neys who filed frivolous suits. Contingent fee ar- rangements were also limited so that attorneys would have less incentive to s ...

assembled a staff of twenty-three employees and be- gan searching for evidence. In addition to investigating the Iran-Contra aff ...

cluded that a strategic opening to Iran was a worthwhile objective, but that the U.S. government should not have en- gaged in an ...

story of Iran-Contra from the point of view of the independent counsel who conducted the crimi- nal investigation from 1986 to 1 ...

figure line in which the toy guns and vehicles could be used by children to interact with the television series. In 1982, Hasbro ...

inspired a spin-off line for girls, She-Ra: Princess of Power, featuring He-Man’s sister. An ill-fated live- action movie releas ...

dolls, inspiring marketers and toy companies to fo- cus on creating the next big “craze.” The dolls gener- ated more than $2 bil ...

lier generation of antirejection drugs had been ini- tially developed for use in cancer chemotherapy and were too toxic for more ...

United States in 1982. The company that purchased the game, Selchow and Righter, employed a word-of- mouth advertising strategy, ...

See also Advertising; Cabbage Patch Kids; Fads; Hobbies and recreation; Toys and games.
Tron Identification Science-fiction fi ...

puter information was popular among audiences. A Tron video arcade game, which included four subgames based on sequences in the ...

back to Canada from the United Kingdom and, in the process, amended. The major amendment in- volved the creation of a Canadian C ...

Trudeau’s return to power in February, 1980. Thompson, John Herd, and Stephen J. Randall. Canada and the United States: Ambivale ...

Further Reading Cahill, Jack.John Turner: The Long Run. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1984. Weston, Greg.Reign of Error: The ...

Turner, Ted Identification American media mogul Born November 19, 1938; Cincinnati, Ohio In 1980, Turner founded the first maj ...

for expansion was coming to an end. A $40 million divorce payout was another setback for Turner. Impact Turner transformed cable ...

was extremely well attended by celebrities and the general public and was hailed by the music press as Turner’s “comeback perfor ...

ments on May 19, 1987, the jury delib- erated for nine days and returned not guilty verdicts for all defendants. The acquittal w ...

before or after the product was sold. Prior to the re- call, three more citizens in the Chicago area were found dead as a result ...

that would become the signature Tyler protagonist: an ordinary Baltimore-area resident (in this case, Morgan Gower) who addresse ...