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1970 – The Public Broadcasting System (PBS) begins operations, succeeding National Educational Television (NET). 1970 – Singer-songwriter-guitarist-musician Jimi Hendrix dies of a drug overdose at the age 27. 1970 – Singer Janis Joplin dies of a drug overdose at the age of 27. 1970 – The Environmental Protection Agency is created.
Also by the mid-1970s, the Justice Department significantly reduced its list of subversive organizations (young hirees for government agencies in the 1970s were still being asked if they had served in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade during the 1930s). Other restrictions barring Communist Party members and homosexuals from government jobs were lifted.
In addition, the media and entertainment industry during the 1980s glamorized the stock market and financial sector (e.g. the 1987 movie Wall Street), causing many young people to pursue careers as brokers, investors, or bankers instead of manufacturing and making it unlikely that any of the lost industrial base would be restored any time soon.
Beginning in 1978, inflation began to intensify, reaching double-digit levels in 1979. The consumer price index rose considerably between 1978 and 1980. These increases were largely attributed to the oil price shocks of 1979 and 1980, although the core consumer price index which excludes energy and food also posted large increases. [6]
The 1970s and '80s were filled with memorable but not-so-healthy foods. ... Pudding Pops hit stores in the late 1970s but were a kids' staple in the 1980s with Bill Cosby as their genial promoter ...
Conservative Republicans, who had never fully accepted Bush despite his move towards the right during the 1980s, were outraged by the deal. [28] Adding to the administration's challenges, the country entered a recession in 1990, with the national unemployment rate rising to 7.8%. [29]
The 1970s and '80s were filled with memorable but not-so-healthy foods. ... Children of the 1970s and 1980s had a veritable smorgasbord of ill-conceived and nutritionally suspicious fare to enjoy ...
The seeds of change were planted in Miami Beach in the late 1970s and into the ‘80s. ... Younger people moved in and visited. ... By late 1970s and early ‘80s, Miami Beach, after its first ...