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Sarah B. Snyder, professor at the School of International Service, is a historian of U.S. foreign relations who specializes in the history of the Cold War, human rights activism, and U.S. human rights policy.
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In the mid-1980s there were 30 million personal computers in the US and only 50,000 in the USSR. On the borders of East Germany and Czechoslovakia, West German television stations could be received with images of life under capitalism.
In the early 1980s, starting teachers made only thirteen thousand dollars a year, compared to seventeen thousand for beginning accountants. Newly opened opportunities in the business world for women, who traditionally dominated the teaching field, drew away some of the best and the brightest for higher-paying careers.
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Dec 17, 2013 · These efforts, accompanied by increased media interest in the anti-apartheid struggle within South Africa itself, helped to educate an American public that in the mid 1980s largely never had heard the names of Nelson Mandela, martyred South African activist Steve Biko or Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who himself was arrested outside the South ...
Nov 23, 2016 · In this article, issues of success and failure of Wave 1 reform initiatives are explored. The paper begins with a review of the financial, political, and organizational factors that are often used to support the position that the types of reform measures common in the early and mid-1980s are likely to result in few substantive improvements.
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One development makes 1980 a watershed year in American education and calls for a look to the future. After over 200 years without a central education ministry, the President and Congress have established a cabinet-level Department of Education.
Jul 3, 2024 · This list includes some of the best American opera singers, along with bits of information such as what year they were born in and where they were born. If you're searching for a particular famous opera singer from United States, then use the "search" function to find who you're looking for.
