The Eighties in America - Salem Press (2009)

scored against Holmes in his seventy-five-fight ca- reer. Tyson continued to score dramatic victories dur- ing the remainder of ...

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Ueberroth, Peter Identification President of the 1984 Summer Olympics and commissioner of Major League Baseball, 1984-1989 B ...

ing little patience for baseball players who tested positive for drug use, he suspended and fined sev- eral players, continuing ...

Sharpe, Andrew. “The Canada-U.S. Unemployment Rate Gap: An Assessment of Possible Causes.” Research Paper R-96-15E.a. Ottawa: Hu ...

cyclical unemployment. Early in the decade, the Federal Reserve attempted to slow the growth of the money supply in order to red ...

See also Business and the economy in the United States; Demographics of the United States; Eco- nomic Recovery Tax Act of 1981; ...

year’s Master Steel Agreement negotiations. By 1986, less than 33 percent of major union contracts still had cost-of-living adju ...

Hormel and theChicago Tribunein 1985; Colt and Trans World Airlines in 1986; International Paper in 1987; and Eastern Airlines, ...

only two women and two minorities on the thirty- five-member board. Increasingly, union leaders were perceived as a clique of mo ...

the crisis of unions in the 1980’s. Extremely con- cise yet comprehensive. Brisbin, Richard A.A Strike Like No Other Strike: Law ...

combined to create a deadly scenario for the United Nations during the decade. As the levels of interest in many of the conflict ...

See also Africa and the United States; China and the United States; Cold War; Europe and North America; Foreign policy of Canada ...

The 1983 US Festival took place over two week- ends. One-day tickets cost twenty dollars. The con- cert began on Memorial Day we ...

See also Apple Computer; Country music; Farm Aid; Heavy metal; Live Aid; Mötley Crüe; Music; New Wave music; Osbourne, Ozzy; Pop ...

When a devastating famine struck Ethiopia in the fall of 1984, Americans began exploring ways to con- tribute to the relief effo ...

USA Today Identification First general-interest national daily newspaper Publisher Gannett Company Date Launched on September ...

TheStark’s crew was unaware of the firing of the first missile, which failed to detonate when it hit the port side of the hull. ...

See also Beirut bombings; Iranian hostage crisis; Libya bombing; Middle East and North America; USSVincennes incident; West Berl ...

Rajaee, Farhang, ed.The Iran-Iraq War: The Politics of Aggression. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1993. Rogers, Will, ...

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Valenzuela, Fernando Identification Mexican American baseball player Born November 1, 1960; Etchohuaquila, Mexico A Mexican- ...