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1983 Whereas Reagan’s predecessors had invoked American principles as the underpinning of a particular in rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Whereas Reagan’s predecessors had invoked American principles as the underpinning of a particular initiative—say, the League of Nations or the Marshall Plan—Reagan mobilized them as weapons in the day-to-day struggle against communism, as in this spe ●●

1983 3 It would be the precursor of his 1983 description of the Soviet Union as the “evil empire,” a dire rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 3 It would be the precursor of his 1983 description of the Soviet Union as the “evil empire,” a direct moral challenge from which all his predecessors would have recoiled. ●●

1983 Gromyko warns Bonn over Pershing deployment ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In early 1983, Gromyko visited Bonn to warn that the Soviets would walk out of the Geneva arms control talks the day the Pershings arrived in West Germany, a threat certain to inflame the German protesters. ●●

1983 Kohl visits Kremlin as Andropov warns on Pershings ai_extracted 1 cit. no story When Kohl visited the Kremlin in July 1983, Andropov warned the German Chancellor that, if he accepted the Pershing IIs, ●●

1983 Reagan announces MX missile deployment ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On May 16, 1983, he coupled an announcement that he was deploying the MX intercontinental missiles with the expression of his fervent hope that, somewhere along the line, the process would be reversed and that all nuclear weapons would be eliminated: ●●

1983 : University Publications of America, 1983), part I, vol rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story : University Publications of America, 1983), part I, vol. ●●

1983 Taylor, The Origins of the Second World War (New York: Atheneum, 1983), pp rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Taylor, The Origins of the Second World War (New York: Atheneum, 1983), pp. ●●

1983 Quoted in Paul Johnson, Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Eighties (New York: Harper rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quoted in Paul Johnson, Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Eighties (New York: Harper & Row, 1983), p. ●●

1983 Trump Tower opens on Fifth Avenue ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Trump Tower opened on Fifth Avenue in 1983, which the Gremlins 2 film later parodied through the Clamp Tower. ●●

1983 1983: Apple launched Lisa in January 1983 and then, more successfu... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Apple launched Lisa in January 1983 and then, more successfully, Macintosh a year later. Jobs knew when he unveiled the Mac that it would propel the personal computer revolution by ●●

1983 1983: Apple launched Lisa in January 1983 and then, more successfully, Macin rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Apple launched Lisa in January 1983 and then, more successfully, Macintosh a year later. Jobs knew when he unveiled the Mac that it would ●●

1983 Event of 1983 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story n aide in 1977 in a characteristically optimistic epigram: “We win, they lose.” The Nixon style of policymaking was important to restore fluidity to the diplomacy of the Cold War; the Reagan style was indispensable for the diplomacy of ending it. On ●●

1983 Information history in 1983 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story memes, I often find myself picturing an ephemeral flickering pattern of sparks leaping from brain to brain, screaming “Me, me! ” —Douglas Hofstadter (1983)♦ “NOW THROUGH THE VERY UNIVERSALITY of its s ●●

1983 e Edward S. Herman’s review of The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism, “Michael Novak’s Promised Land: rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story e Edward S. Herman’s review of The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism, “Michael Novak’s Promised Land: Unfettered Corporate Capitalism,” Monthly Review (October 1983), and the works cited in the preface, note 3. 26. Similar results are found in Peter D ●●

1983 erest in the West in this particular case. rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story erest in the West in this particular case. 122. The New York Times Index, for example, has seven full pages of citations to the KAL 007 incident for September 1983 alone. 123. Patriotic orgies, such as the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, the spa ●●

1983 ly restricted in 1982, allegedly for security reasons but making for longer lines. rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story ly restricted in 1982, allegedly for security reasons but making for longer lines. 66. “Media Coverage of El Salvador’s Election,” Socialist Review (April 1983), p. 29. 67. “Salvadorans Jam Polling Stations; Rebels Close Some,” New York Times, Marc ●●

1983 erage that showed the slightest degree of network enterprise, critical capability, and honesty, was rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story erage that showed the slightest degree of network enterprise, critical capability, and honesty, was a program “To Kill the Pope,” aired on “20/20” on May 12, 1983. Subsequently, ABC also had a program in which Sterling debated with Alexander Cockburn ●●

1983 Ben Bagdikian notes that when the first edition of his Media Monopoly ... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Ben Bagdikian notes that when the first edition of his Media Monopoly was published in 1983, fifty giant firms dominated almost every mass medium; but just seven years later, in 1990, only twenty-thre ●●

1983 Gannett 3,365 540 276 2,801 General Electric (NBC) 34,591 3,689... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 1,236 331 183 1,135 Gannett 3,365 540 276 2,801 General Electric (NBC) 34,591 3,689 2,492 36,725 Hearst3 4,040 NA 215 (1983) 2,100 (1983) Knight-Ridder 1,947 267 140 1,911 Mc ●●

1983 Chamber of Commerce had a 1983 budget for research, communications, an... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Chamber of Commerce had a 1983 budget for research, communications, and political activities of $65 million.73 By 1980, the chamber was publishing a business magazine (Nation’s Business) with a circul ●●

1983 Soviets shoot down Korean airliner KAL 007 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story This was true, for example, of the shooting down by the Soviets of the Korean airliner KAL 007 in early September 1983, which permitted an extended campaign of denigration of an official enemy and gre ●●

1983 officials, and examination of State Department cables, investigative r... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story officials, and examination of State Department cables, investigative reporters Craig Pyes and Laurie Becklund claimed in 1983 that D’Aubuisson had planned the assassination with a group of active-duty ●●

1983 He refused to go along with this request, with the consequence that on... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story He refused to go along with this request, with the consequence that on October 30, 1983, Ibarra was seized by the National Guard and tortured at its headquarters.66 Released only under U.S. ●●

1983 or another Kamm piece entitled “Italian Judge Inspects Apartment of Su... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 27, 1983), or another Kamm piece entitled “Italian Judge Inspects Apartment of Suspect in Bulgarian Case” (Jan. ●●

1983 Only the ABC “20/20” program of May 12, 1983, explored the Soviet moti... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Only the ABC “20/20” program of May 12, 1983, explored the Soviet motive in any depth, despite the constant mass-media reiteration of the SHK line. ●●

1983 But this tourist, who apparently looked exactly like Antonov, has neve... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story But this tourist, who apparently looked exactly like Antonov, has never been located, and the film from which this shot was taken has unaccountably disappeared.47 Agca’s alterations in his claims abou ●●

1983 Nigerian military seizes power after 1983 election ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Another chaotic and contested election in 1983 led the military to take over again. ●●

1983 Isam Nazer, “Recent Developments in Family Planning in the Near East,” November 14, 1968, IPPFA, ... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Isam Nazer, “Recent Developments in Family Planning in the Near East,” November 14, 1968, IPPFA, attached to Minutes of the Thirteenth Meeting of the Management and Planning Committee, 1.4.1.1.3, “... ●●

1983 Lee Kuan Yew's eugenics National Day speech ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1983, Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew declared in a National Day speech that if university-educated women continued having half as many children as those with little formal schooling, the quality of... ●●

1983 IPPF bars funding from pharmaceutical companies ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In a sign of the times, the IPPF adopted strict new rules in 1983 disallowing acceptance of funds from pharmaceutical companies. ●●

1983 But press reports showing the persistence of infanticide and physical compul- sion showed that th... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story But press reports showing the persistence of infanticide and physical compul- sion showed that the “incentives” and “disincentives” inherent in the one- child policy had unleashed forces no one cou... ●●

1983 Mavrogordatos, Stillborn Republic: Social Coalitions and Party Strategies in Greece, 1922–1936 (Berk rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Mavrogordatos, Stillborn Republic: Social Coalitions and Party Strategies in Greece, 1922–1936 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983). ●●

1983 Suriname enters agreements with Brazil ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In spring 1983, Suriname entered into agreements with the neighboring right-wing govern- ment of Brazil which provided f ●●

1983 The argument most often advanced by the Reagan rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The argument most often advanced by the Reagan administration to explain its reluctance to accept a Contadora agreement ●●

1983 156 (O’Shaughnessy was the Latin America correspondent for rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 156 (O’Shaughnessy was the Latin America correspondent for The Observer and before that for The Financial Times, both Lo ●●

1983 The Guardian (London) 23 July 1983 Bob Woodward, rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Guardian (London) 23 July 1983 Bob Woodward, VEIL: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987 (New York, 1987), p ●●

1983 Event rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Eustace Mullins, Secrets of the Federal Reserve (Virginia: Bankers Research Institute, 1983), p ●●

c. 1983 Pentagon spare-parts pricing scandal 0 cit. Investigative reporting and congressional hearings revealed the US military had paid grossly inflated prices for basic hardware, including widely publicized figures of over 400 dollars for a hammer and 600 dollars for a toilet seat cover, due to overhead accounting practices in defense contracts. The disclosures fueled a wave of procurement reform efforts and public distrust of defense spending during a period of rising Reagan-era military budgets. Several contracting practices were subsequently tightened, though cost overruns remained a recurring issue. economy / politics ●●

1983 Gates announces Windows in Manhattan ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gates unveiled Microsoft Windows in November 1983, two months before the Macintosh launch, angering Jobs. ●●

c. 1983 Chevening Scholarships launched 0 cit. The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office launched what became the Chevening Scholarships, a government-funded program bringing outstanding students, often identified as future leaders, from around the world to study at British universities. Named after Chevening House, the scheme is explicitly described by the UK government as a soft-power investment in the country's global relationships. It remains one of Britain's flagship international scholarship programs. culture / diplomacy ●●

c. 1983 Ghana adopts a World Bank-backed Economic Recovery Program 0 cit. Facing economic collapse, Ghana's government under Jerry Rawlings adopted an IMF- and World Bank-designed Economic Recovery Program involving currency devaluation, subsidy removal, and privatization of state enterprises. Often cited as the model case for African structural adjustment, it was credited with stabilizing some macroeconomic indicators while critics documented rising poverty and reduced public services during the adjustment years, illustrating the trade-offs built into externally designed reform programs. economy ●●

September 1983 The shootdown of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 0 cit. Soviet fighters shoot down a Korean Air Lines passenger jet that had strayed into Soviet airspace, killing all 269 people aboard. Moscow claimed the plane was on a spy mission; the West condemned it as the massacre of civilians. The incident deepened East-West hostility during one of the tensest years of the Cold War. politics / war ●●

November 1983 The Able Archer nuclear scare 0 cit. A large NATO command exercise called Able Archer 83 rehearsed procedures for nuclear war. Some Soviet leaders, already fearing a surprise Western first strike, reportedly mistook the drill for real preparations and placed forces on alert. Historians still debate how close the scare came to catastrophe, but it is often cited as a dangerous misreading that sobered leaders on both sides. politics / war ●●

1983 Noriega's Panama, backed then invaded 0 cit. Manuel Noriega worked for years as a paid CIA asset and pro-US strongman in Panama even as he ran drugs and rigged votes. When he turned unreliable and was indicted in the United States, the relationship collapsed, and in 1989 US forces invaded to remove and capture him. Panama shows the full arc from useful client to target. politics / war ●●

1983 The National Endowment for Democracy is founded 0 cit. Congress creates the National Endowment for Democracy to fund pro-democracy groups, parties and unions abroad, in the open rather than in secret. Its first head, Allen Weinstein, later said much of what it did had once been done covertly by the CIA, a widely quoted and documented remark. Supporters call it open democracy promotion; critics call it soft-power interference, and both readings are noted here. diplomacy / politics ●●

1 January 1983 TCP/IP and the birth of the internet 0 cit. Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn designed the TCP/IP protocols in the 1970s under DARPA contracts, and on this day ARPANET switched over to them. That common language let separate networks join into one network of networks, which is what we now call the internet. science / society / technology ●●●

c. 1983 The great famine of 1983 to 1985 0 cit. Drought combined with war and government policy to produce a famine that killed a very large number of people, with estimates commonly ranging from around 400,000 to a million dead. Television coverage of the crisis prompted the Live Aid concerts and a huge global relief effort. Researchers such as Alex de Waal argue that the Derg's counter-insurgency, forced resettlement, and use of aid as a weapon made the disaster far worse than drought alone, a point the government long denied. economy / politics / society ●●●

May 1983 The Mwanza deaths of three ministers 0 cit. In May 1983 the cabinet minister and party secretary-general Dick Matenje, ministers Aaron Gadama and Twaibu Sangala, and parliamentarian John Chiwanga die near Mwanza. The government calls it a car accident, but it is widely held that the four men were murdered on political orders. Years later a Malawian inquiry found they had been killed, and the case became a symbol of the regime's violence. politics ●●

1983 Anna Merz and the Craigs start the Ngare Sergoi rhino sanctuary 0 cit. Anna Merz, together with David and Delia Craig, sets aside part of the Craig family's Lewa Downs cattle ranch as the Ngare Sergoi Rhino Sanctuary. It is a response to heavy rhino poaching in Kenya. The sanctuary is the seed from which the Lewa conservancy and the wider northern conservancy movement grow. environment ●●

1983 Ranger and Hobsbawm publish 'The Invention of Tradition' 1 cit. Terence Ranger and Eric Hobsbawm edited a landmark volume arguing that many customs treated as ancient were in fact recent creations, and Ranger's chapter held that much of colonial Africa's tribal tradition was composed under European rule. The book gave the phrase invention of tradition to a generation of historians. It is a scholarly argument, offered as an interpretation of how identities were shaped, not a claim that precolonial peoples did not exist. The publication is a documented event that named a whole line of research. culture / society ●●

c. 1983 The Special Branch and detention without trial 0 cit. Moi's government used the Special Branch as a political secret police to watch, arrest, and break opponents. Under public security laws, critics could be held indefinitely without charge or trial. Writers, lawyers, and activists were jailed or driven into exile. politics / society ●●

18 November 1983 Congress creates the National Endowment for Democracy 0 cit. In 1983 Congress established the National Endowment for Democracy, a private nonprofit funded by an annual federal appropriation, and President Reagan inaugurated it that December. It grew out of Reagan's 1982 Westminster speech calling for open support of democratic forces abroad. NED was built to do openly, through public grants, work that had once been run covertly. diplomacy / politics ●●●

c. 1983 NED's four core institutes 0 cit. NED channels much of its money through four core institutes. The International Republican Institute and the National Democratic Institute are tied to the two US parties, the Center for International Private Enterprise to the Chamber of Commerce, and the Solidarity Center to the AFL-CIO labor federation. Working through counterpart parties, business groups, and unions abroad lets NED reach across a country's whole political spectrum. economy / politics ●●

April 1983 Ghana adopts a flagship structural adjustment programme 0 cit. Ghana's IMF- and World Bank-backed Economic Recovery Programme cuts subsidies, devalues the currency, and retrenches tens of thousands of civil servants and state-enterprise workers. It became the model adjustment case that lenders held up as a success. Critics counter that the cuts thinned out public administration and services that were hard to rebuild. economy / politics ●●

1983 Moi moves Kibaki from Finance to Home Affairs 1 cit. In a 1983 reshuffle, Moi stripped Kibaki of the finance ministry and moved him to Home Affairs while he remained Vice President. The shift reduced Kibaki's control over economic policy and marks the start of his slow movement away from the heart of Moi's ruling circle. politics ●●●●

1984 to 1989 Ex-MoF vice minister Sumita serves as BoJ governor ai_extracted 1 cit. From 1984 to 1989, during the inflation of the bubble, former MoF vice minister Satoshi Sumita served as governor of the Bank of Japan. ●●

1984 BoJ announces complete abolition of window guidance ai_extracted 1 cit. In 1984 the Bank of Japan announced the complete abolition of any form of window guidance, part of a series of official pronouncements the author argues misrepresented the continued use of the credit controls. ●●

December 1984 Maekawa hands over BoJ monetary policy control to Mieno ai_extracted 1 cit. After ten years running monetary policy as deputy governor and then governor of the Bank of Japan, Haruo Maekawa handed control to Yasushi Mieno in December 1984, freeing him to lobby for structural reform. ●●

19 December 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration 0 cit. Agreement providing for the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997 under the one country, two systems formula, with its way of life guaranteed for fifty years. Its status has been central to later disputes over Hong Kong. diplomacy / politics ●●●

1 January 1984 Independence of Brunei 0 cit. no story Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, ending the British protectorate over the sultanate. politics ●●

17 May 1984 Collapse of Continental Illinois 0 cit. A run on America's seventh largest bank, weakened by bad energy loans, forces the FDIC to rescue it with a guarantee of all depositors and creditors. The bailout makes 'too big to fail' a fixture of banking policy debates. economy / politics ●●●

1 January 1984 Founding of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China 0 cit. China spins the commercial banking business of the People's Bank of China into a new institution, completing the creation of the big four state banks. ICBC becomes the largest bank in the world by assets. economy ●●●●

1 January 1984 Breakup of AT&T 0 cit. A federal antitrust settlement splits the Bell System, separating AT&T from seven regional phone companies. The breakup ends a century-long telephone monopoly and opens U.S. telecommunications to competition. economy / politics / technology ●●●●

1 April 1984 Founding of ASML 0 cit. Philips and ASM International spin off ASML in Veldhoven to build chip lithography machines. Its extreme ultraviolet machines later become the only tools capable of making the most advanced chips. economy / technology ●●●

10 December 1984 Founding of Cisco 0 cit. Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner of Stanford found Cisco Systems to sell multiprotocol routers. Its equipment carries much of the internet's traffic, and in 2000 it is briefly the world's most valuable company. economy / technology ●●●

c. 1984 IMF austerity riots 0 cit. Cuts to food and fuel subsidies demanded under adjustment sparked protests and riots in countries from Egypt and Tunisia to Venezuela and Zambia. The unrest became a recurring political cost of the programs. politics / society ●●●

c. 1984 Muller's World Core Curriculum contested 0 cit. Robert Muller designed a World Core Curriculum for global education that he said drew on the teachings Alice Bailey attributed to a Tibetan master. It influenced some private Muller schools but was never a United Nations program, though critics often present it as one. politics / religion ●●

1984 TriStar Pictures uses Pegasus as its logo 0 cit. The film studio, founded in 1984, uses a winged horse as its logo, Pegasus of Greek myth, shown galloping in its opening sequence. culture / economy / religion ●●

1984 Titan watches are named for the elder gods of Greek myth 0 cit. Titan, the Indian watchmaker founded in 1984 as a Tata venture, is named after the Titans, the elder gods of Greek mythology. economy / religion / technology ●●

c. 1 January 1984 CIA mines Nicaraguan harbors 0 cit. The CIA secretly mined Nicaragua's harbors to pressure the Sandinista government, damaging foreign ships. The World Court later ruled the action unlawful. politics / war ●●●

c. 1 January 1984 to c. 1989 Foreign fighters flock to the Afghan jihad 0 cit. Thousands of Arab volunteers joined the war against the Soviets, drawn by recruitment networks like Abdullah Azzam's services bureau. These networks later seeded transnational jihadist movements. religion / war ●●●●

c. 1 January 1984 The Enterprise runs the off-the-books network 0 cit. Retired officers Richard Secord and Albert Hakim ran a private operation, nicknamed the Enterprise, that handled arms sales and Contra supply outside government oversight. It let officials fund the Contras while denying US involvement. economy / politics ●●●

1984 Original Apple Macintosh unveiled ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The original Apple Macintosh was unveiled in 1984 with a 3.5-inch floppy disk holding 400,000 bytes. Wood uses this to trace the growth of data storage toward the era of big data. ●●

1984 Judge Clark takes over Kansas City schools ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto describes how in 1984 Judge Russell G. Clark took control of the Kansas City school district after an NAACP desegregation suit. Clark ordered large tax increases and huge spending, which Gatto says produced no improvement. ●●

1984 Judge Casson reopens the 1972 Peteano bombing ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The book says that in 1984 Judge Felice Casson began digging into the unsolved 1972 Peteano car bombing that killed three police officers. His work is credited with beginning to unravel Operation Gladio. ●●

1984 CIA station chief Buckley kidnapped in Beirut ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Amid a wave of abductions in Beirut, CIA station chief Bill Buckley was kidnapped on his way to work. His captivity and torture would weigh heavily on Bill Casey and the White House. ●●

1984 CIA issues burn notice on Ghorbanifar ai_extracted 1 cit. no story After the Iranian middleman Manucher Ghorbanifar flunked lie-detector tests, the CIA formally certified him a fabricator and issued a worldwide burn notice. The agency nonetheless kept dealing with him. ●●

1984 11. Interview with Benjamin Ferencz, July 20, 1984. On postwar rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 11. Interview with Benjamin Ferencz, July 20, 1984. On postwar work with Augsburg and Hirschfield incident, see “Special Interrogation Report No. ●●

1984 20. On role of Exchange Stabilization Fund as funding source rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 20. On role of Exchange Stabilization Fund as funding source for clandestine operations: William Corson interview, March 26, 1984; Bokor interview, June 9, 1984, and Corson, op. ci... ●●

1984 Ryan, Barbie Report, p. 158, and Allan Ryan interview, May rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Ryan, Barbie Report, p. 158, and Allan Ryan interview, May 9, 1984. 39. ●●

1984 34–35, and U.S. Department of Justice press statement of August rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 34–35, and U.S. Department of Justice press statement of August 16, 1984. On Maikovskis’s ACEN role, see Assembly of Captive European Nations, op. ●●

1984 Casey briefs Reagan on the covert Afghan war ai_extracted 1 cit. no story CIA director William Casey briefed President Reagan about the progress of the covert Afghan war after four years of operations. ●●

1984 “We had the Continental Illinois Reassurance Brigade and we fanned ... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Continental began to unravel during the Fourth of July weekend of 1982 with the failure of the Penn Square Bank. This was the notorious Oklahoma shopping-center bank that had booked and resold to Continental $1 billion in bum energy loans. (One pi... ●●

1984 Morgan Grenfell's Mackworth-Young dies of lung cancer ai_extracted 1 cit. no story CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR BANG IN late 1986, Morgan Grenfell presented a curious study in contrasts. Outwardly it maintained a sedate air. Upholding a tradition of nearly 150 years, the bank posted no nameplate outside—the old brass plaques hung in the... ●●

1984 In 1984, Morgan Grenfell was approached by the brokerage house of R... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Morgan Grenfell’s bungling of Big Bang would do more lasting damage than the Guinness scandal. Early on, a split developed, mostly between the younger directors, who favored audacious, far-reaching action in response to the challenge, and the trad... ●●

1984 (Deutsche Bank had bought a 4.9-percent stake in 1984.) “He’s a bul... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On December 6, 1988, Morgan Grenfell abruptly shut its securities operation, ending its chances of becoming an integrated global investment bank. There was a wholesale firing of 450 people, or a quarter of its entire payroll—one of the biggest sac... ●●

1984 Only a thin, academic volume, published in 1984, chronicles the lif... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Although I didn’t realize it at first, this was a propitious time in which to write a history of the House of Morgan, perhaps the first time anyone could do it justice. Secrecy has always been a Morgan fetish, and almost all earli... ●●

1984 BM, July/August 1984 rejected ai_extracted 2 cit. no story 28. Ibid., Edward C. Grenfell File, letter from Edward C. ●●

1984 United States withdraws from UNESCO ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Reagan administration withdrew the United States from UNESCO, marking a dramatic reversal of Franklin Roosevelt's internationalist legacy and increasing American UN isolation. ●●

1984 Philadelphia schools conduct experiment with curriculum sung to students candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Philadelphia public schools embarked on an educational experiment in which children wearing Walkman equipment listened to rock music whose lyrics were about grammar and other academic subjects. The program was reported enthusiastically by WCBS-TV and WNBC-TV. ●●

1984 Paramount Pictures films Witness in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story A Paramount Pictures film crew descended upon Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in the summer of 1984 to film Witness, a movie about a detective played by Harrison Ford who falls in love with an Amish woman. Despite church restrictions, some Amish community members observed the filming. ●●

1984 The Genesis Project advertised to convert Bible into film series candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In the Winter 1984 issue of the Official Video Journal, an advertisement appeared for The Genesis Project, which aimed to convert the Bible into a series of movies called The New Media Bible consisting of 225 hours of film at a cost of a quarter billion dollars, with producer John Heyman and actor Topol involved. ●●

1984 1984 presidential debates between Reagan and Mondale rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Prior to the 1984 presidential elections, President Ronald Reagan and his challenger Walter Fritz Mondale participated in televised debates. Reagan succeeded in creating a memorable impression with a joke about his age, after which newspapers indicated he had KO'd Fritz with his joke. ●●

1984 Loudenback was next to go missing, rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Loudenback was next to go missing, on June 8, 1984. ●●

1984 Bethe and Teller prepared the consequent report, “Explosion of an inhomogeneous rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Bethe and Teller prepared the consequent report, “Explosion of an inhomogeneous uranium-heavy water pile.”1984, 1985 It found that such an explosion “will liberate energies which are probably smaller, and certainly not much larger, than those obtainable by the explosion of an equal mass of TNT.” If Heisenberg’s drawing told the physicists anything it ought to have told them that the Germans were far behind; it depicted sheets of uranium rather than lumps, an inefficient arrangement Heisenberg had clung to for a time even when his colleagues had argued the advantages of a threedimensional lattice. ●●

1984 Reagan and his advisers went a step further by treating human rights as a tool for overthrowing comm rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Reagan and his advisers went a step further by treating human rights as a tool for overthrowing communism and democratizing the Soviet Union, hence as the key to a peaceful world—as Reagan pointed out in his State of the Union Address on January 25, ●●

1984 Kennan, The Fateful Alliance: France, Russia and the Coming of the First World War (New York: Panthe rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Kennan, The Fateful Alliance: France, Russia and the Coming of the First World War (New York: Pantheon, 1984), Appendix II, p. ●●

1984 1984: 110 The Macintosh launch was accompanied by a memorable ad,... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The ovation lasted for five minutes. 110 The Macintosh launch was accompanied by a memorable ad, “1984,” that showed a young heroine outracing the authoritarian police to throw a hammer into a screen, ●●

1984 1984: In September 1984 he arrived back there to work with the gro... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story tware for publishing documents. But he got bored and applied for a fellowship at CERN. In September 1984 he arrived back there to work with the group that was responsible for gathering the results of ●●

1984 1984: 22, 1984, Charles Babbage Institute. rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story dral , 1395. 47. Hopper oral history, Smithsonian, Jan. 7, 1969. 48. Bloch oral history, Feb. 22, 1984, Charles Babbage Institute. 49. Robert Slater, Portraits in Silicon (MIT Press, 1987), 88; Beyer, ●●