The Eighties in America - Salem Press (2009)

is also the year that the Portland Trailblazers, who had the second pick in the draft, made perhaps the gravest mistake in the h ...

rights legislation, universities took it to mean just that and adjusted scholarship budgets to accom- modate the burgeoning wome ...

view of the evolution of the women’s game, chart- ing the progress of women’s participation in basketball from its onset in the ...

figures, body parts, and symbols of death. Basquiat was only twenty-seven when his promis- ing career ended with a drug overdose ...

Beattie, Ann Identification American novelist and short-story writer Born September 8, 1947; Washington, D.C. During the 1980’s, ...

Beirut bombings The Event Terrorist bombings of the U.S. embassy in Beirut and the U.S. Marine compound at Beirut International ...

The Barracks Bombing The First Battalion Eighth Marines, under the U.S. Second Marine Division, had established its headquarters ...

The Eighties in America Beloved
103 With four novels already under her belt, Toni Morri- son was recognized as an important no ...

Bennett, William Identification Chair of the NEH, 1981-1985; U.S. secretary of education, 1985-1989; and director of national dr ...

Bentsen, Lloyd Identification U.S. senator from Texas from 1971 to 1993 and Democratic vice presidential candidate in 1988 Born ...

Berg, Alan Identification Jewish radio talk-show host in Denver assassinated by neo-Nazis in 1984 Born January, 1934; Chicago, I ...

ade in 1949, the British, French, and American occu- pation zones in Germany were merged to create the Federal Republic of Germa ...

steadfast, but events overtook him. Massive demon- strations in East German cities in September and Oc- tober, 1989, swelled bey ...

Few film critics or movie pundits could have pre- dicted the impact that Lawrence Kasdan’s 1983 film The Big Chillwould have on ...

Bioengineering Definition The modification of organisms by means of biological techniques, especially by the direct manipulation ...

tance to the whole idea of genetically modified or- ganisms (GMOs). Discussion of the possibility of mounting a proj- ect to seq ...

and thereafter declines sharply until forty, after which it becomes problematic, although women’s health sources emphasize great ...

categories of insecticide. In 1983, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found DDT in 334 out of 386 domestic fish tested, eve ...

Ellis, Barbara W., and Fern M. Bradley, eds.The Or- ganic Gardener’s Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Control. Emmaus, Pa. ...

complete basketball players ever to play in the NBA, Bird recorded an amazing sixty-nine “triple dou- bles” (games in which thre ...