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In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]
1980David Gyasi, British actor[†]
David Kwaku Asamoah Gyasi is a British actor. His films include Cloud Atlas (2012) and Interstellar (2014). On television, he is known for his roles in the BBC series White Heat (2012) and Troy: Fall of a City (2018), the CW miniseries Containment (2016), the Amazon Prime series Carnival Row (2019–2023), and the Netflix political thriller The Diplomat (2023).
One year into his second term, Governor Carey has brought New York State's government under tighter control of his executive staff, dramatically raising the power and profile of his top aide.
Ninety-day Treasury bill futures are booming, but one-year Treasury bill futures are barely breathing. Ginnie Mae futures are flying, but commercial paper futures can't seem to get off the ground. Treasury bond futures are ballooning, but Treasury note futures are as flat as flapjacks.
PIZZA, along with fried chicken and the hamburger, stands as one of America's favorite fast foods. Universally appealing, it's a dish that transcends age, class and nationality, finding favor among bona-fide junk food eaters as well as those who would rather die than raise an unhealthy calorie to their lips.
LONDON, Jan. 1--Britain, which many believe must increasingly live by its wits rather than by manufacturing, faces yet another economic problem: its "invisibles" are disappearing.
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 1--The University of Alabama's undefeated and untied football team earned the right to claim the mythical national collegiate championship today.
It took a bit of miscalculating and blundering for Time Inc. to get where it is today--well in the forefront of the emerging video industries, "video" being generic for the various nonbroadcast forms of television.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1--Bill Brook, the Republican national chairman, assailed President Carter today for what he called a "policy of deception" that sought to use national unity on the hostages in ...
New Year's Day: a day of recovery for some, for others a day of purpose and dedication, for still others just another day that happened to be Day 1 of Month 1.
MOSCOW, Jan. 1--The Soviet Union said today that the United States was enraged by Moscow's intervention in Afghanistan because Washington had been plotting to turn the country into an American base to replace the loss of Iran.
IT all started when such former film school students as Francis Coppola, George Lucas and Martin Scorsese made it big. Sudden ly, film schools--often ridiculed in the past by members of the movie industry ...