Restless Giant: The United States From Watergate to Bush v. Gore (84 page)

Spain,
202
,
304
,
337
,
380

Special interest groups,
86
–87,
89

Spielberg, Steven,
xii
,
285

Spock, Benjamin,
53

Sports, America and,
278
–79,
278
n
65

Springsteen, Bruce,
13
–14

Srebrenica,
368
,
370

Sri Lanka,
199
,
337

“Stagflation,”
xii
,
7
,
62
,
94
,
155

Stagnation, of economy,
59
,
74

Stallone, Sylvester,
68
,
206
,
206
n
25

Stanford,
263

Star Wars,
68

“Star Wars.”
See
SDI

Starr, Kenneth,
86
,
325
,
342
–43,
388
–96,
388
n
1

START I,
229

START II,
229

Steel, decline of,
7

Stern, Howard,
281
,
281
n
73

Stevens, John Paul,
31
,
417

“Stimulus” package,
113
,
127

Stock market,
350
–51,
351
n
13,
404

Stockman, David,
165

Stone, Oliver,
186
,
276

Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty.
See
SALT I

Strategic Defense Initiative.
See
SDI

Streisand, Barbra,
6

Strikes,
64
–65,
158
n
13.
See also
PATCO

Students for a Democratic Society.
See
SDS

Suburbia,
37
–38,
78
,
348

Sudan,
393

Suharto,
198

Sullivan, Andrew,
393

Sullivan, Ed,
46

Sunbelt,
58
–59

Sunnis,
230
,
237
,
337

Sununu, John,
238

Superfund,
119
,
119
n
30

“Supermoms,”
178

Supplementary Security Income,
8
n
21,
67

Supply side economics,
154
–55,
166
,
246

Swaggart, Jimmy,
265

Symbionese Liberation Army.
See
SLA

Syrian forces,
207

Taiwan,
121
,
146

Talese, Gay,
48

Taliban,
196
,
379
,
381
,
383
–86

TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families),
374
–76

Tanzania,
381
,
392

Tax base, deteriorating,
39
“Tax revolt,”
xii

   Taxes,
65
,
151

   2000 election and,
406

   Bush, George H. W., and,
219
,
246
–47

   capital gains,
66
,
378

   Clinton and,
249

   Ford and,
96
–97

   income,
66

   property,
66

   Reagan and,
154
,
155
–57,
162
,
165
–66,
166
n
42,
170
,
191

Taxi Driver,
13
,
42

Technology, advances in,
14
,
58
,
385

   biotechnology as,
61

   in household appliances,
61
–62

   medical,
61
,
71

Televangelists,
xii
,
140

Television: America and,
259
,
282
–83,
285
,
286
,
288
–89

   politics and,
90

   sexual revolution and,
46

   shows,
286
–84

   violence on,
42

Tellico Dam,
118
,
119

Temporary Assistance to Needy Families.
See
TANF

Tennessee Valley Authority.
See
TVA

Terminator
2
: Judgment Day,
285

Terrorism: domestic,
12
,
198
,
379
–86,
383
n
111

   foreign,
336
,
393

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,
42

Thatcher, Margaret,
216
,
230

“The Second Coming” (Yeats),
254

Third World,
104

Thomas, Clarence,
173
,
243
–44,
244
n
61,
366

Three Mile Island,
118

Three’s Company,
46

Thy Neighbor’s Wife
(Talese),
48

Tiananmen Square,
197
,
199

Tibbett, Paul,
262

Time,
6
,
14
,
31
,
60
,
101
,
108

“Time of Conflict,”
10

Time Warner,
285
,
351

A Time to Heal
(Ford),
93

Titanic,
284

de Tocqueville, Alexis,
363
,
364

Toleration,
11

The Tonight Show,
48
,
343

Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976,
116

Toy Story,
287

“Tracking,”
313

Trade deficit,
402
,
402
n
36

Traditional Values Coalition,
145

Tragic Failure,
305

Trans-Alaska Pipeline,
60
–61

“Travelgate,”
328
,
342

Travolta, John,
14

Tripp, Linda,
388
–89

Trudeau, Garry,
328

Trujillo, Rafael,
72

Truman, Harry,
78
,
81

Trump, Donald,
185

Tsongas, Paul,
84
,
247
–50

Tucker, Jim Guy,
397

Turks, in Cyprus,
4

TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority),
118

2000 election,
398
,
404
–25,
405
n
44,
409
n
51,
410
nn
52–53,
413
nn
56–57,
415
n
60,
416
nn
63–64,
417
n
65,
419
nn
69–71,
422
nn
75
–77

Tyler, Anne,
288

Tyson Foods,
361

Udall, Morris,
105

UK.
See
Great Britain

Umbrella Voice,
145