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WASHINGTON, Feb. 23--For 40 of the country's most talented young scientists, Monday is a day long in coming. After months--for most, years--of studying, theorizing, tinkering, measuring, balancing, it's the day they will learn who among them has not just motivation, ingenuity and intelligence, but also promise.
If times were ordinary, the Pacific Gas and Electric Company probably would have raised $505 million in January by issuing long-term bonds, according to James T. Doudier, its treasurer.
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 24--Fifteen years ago the Whittaker Corporation was a classic example of the excesses of the conglomerate era. In one three-year period, the obscure aerospace concern acquired nearly 150 companies in disparate fields.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24--With all but two items agreed to, the "windfall" profits tax bill shaped by a House-Senate conference committee appears to give President Carter one of his biggest legislative victories since he took office.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 20, 1980, covering February 25, 1980.
Pink Floyd
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
Michael Jackson
Dan Fogelberg
Eagles
1980Kash Patel, American lawyer, former federal prosecutor and official[†]
Kashyap Pramod "Kash" Patel is an American lawyer and former federal prosecutor serving as the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation since 2025. He also served as acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives from February to April 2025.
1980Robert Hayden, American poet and academic (born 1913)[†]
Robert Hayden was an American poet, essayist, and educator. He served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1976 to 1978, a role today known as US Poet Laureate. He was the first African-American writer to hold the office.
1980The government of Suriname is overthrown by a military coup led by Dési Bouterse.[†]
Suriname, officially the Republic of Suriname, is a country in northern South America, also considered as part of the Caribbean and the West Indies. It is a developing country with a high level of human development; its economy is heavily dependent on its abundant natural resources, namely bauxite, gold, petroleum, and agricultural products. Suriname is a member of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), the United Nations, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and the Organization of American States.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]