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| Reaganomics | The economic policies of President Ronald Reagan, which were focused on the granting of large tax cuts in order to increase private investment. |
| Supply-side economics | The idea that a reduction of tax rates will lead to increases in jobs, savings, and investments, and therefore to an increase in government revenue. |
| Strategic Defense Initiative | A proposed defense system--popularly known as Star Wars--intended to protect the United States against missile attacks. |
| Trade imbalance | A situation in which a country imports more goods than it exports. |
| Sandra Day O'Connor | The first woman appointed to the Supreme Court, a conservative judge, appointed by Reagan. |
| William Rehnquist | The most conservative of all the Supreme Court Justices, promoted to Chief Justice by Reagan. |
| Geraldine Ferraro | The first woman on a major party's presidential ticket, slected by Mondale to be his running mate in 1984. |
| AIDS (acquired immune deficency syndrome) | A disease caused by a virus that weakens the immune system, making the body prone to infections and otherwise rare forms of cancer. |
| Pay equity | The basing of an employee's salary on the requirements of his or her job rather than on the traditional pay scales that have frequently provided women with smaller incomes than men. |
| L. Douglas Wilder | The nations first African-American governor, elected in 1990. |
| Jesse Jackson | A Reverend who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988. |
| Affirmative action | A policy that seeks to correct the effects of past discrimination by favoring the groups who wwere previously disadvantaged. |
| Selena Quintanilla-Perez | A young singer, murdered in 1995, who became the subject of a commemorative edition of People magazine. |
