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Deregulation and privatization of formerly publicly-owned utilities , services and corporations becomes increasingly popular around the world.
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Suspense and thriller film director
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Arthur Koestle was a Hungarian-British author
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Leonid Brezhnev waas one of the leaders of the communist party of the Soviet union
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Assassinated by gunshot. One of the world-popular Beatles
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Carter was not the most liked preseident, and was easily beaten by Reagan in 1981.
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First affordable IBM Personal computer goes on sale and opens the way for the modern personal computer revolution
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STDs multiply and the number of infections soars, leading to suffering debility, sterility and death.
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This decade is sometime considered the Reagan decade as he brought America back to being great.
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U.S. federal debt spins out of control and, by the late 1990s and early 2000s, it doesn’t matter whether liberals or conservatives are in charge, no one seems concerned truly to address the problem.
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AT&T antitrust lawsuit leads to breakup of the telephone monopoly and subsequent proliferation of telephone options and unbelievably lower long-distance prices.
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CD is introduced and begins to take off. This is crazy! In merely 30 years, this invention was popular, and now almost obselete.
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Cable television comes into its own
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Public disaffection with the Soviet government becomes so great in Russia and the Soviet states that the Soviet Union falls apart after “glastnost”. “Peristroika” = economic restructuring in 1987 leads to massive inflation and there are shortages of food, clothes, and other basic supplies.
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Nuclear accident that dessimated an entire town.
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U.S. Savings and Loan Crisis leads to the closure of half of all “Thrifts” and a bill to U.S. taxpayers in excess of $125 billion.
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In Cameroon, a deathcloud passed over the river Nyon and killed over 1,700 people.
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Channel connecting France and the U.K. under water. It is the longest underwater tunnel in the world and the 2nd longest tunnel in the world at 31 miles
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