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In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]
1980Murtz Jaffer, Canadian journalist[†]
Murtz Jaffer is a Canadian entertainment journalist. He hosted the reality television show Reality Obsessed that aired on TVTropolis and the Global Reality Channel in Canada. He served as a freelance producer with Entertainment Tonight Canada, Canada AM, CTV News Channel and Pop Life on CTV. He is the television editor of InsidePulse.com, a freelance contributor with the Toronto Star, and an associate producer with The Morning Show.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 12--The United States has informed South Korea's military rulers that it will conduct future relations with Seoul on the basis of whether that Government carries out certain policies, including setting a timetable for political liberalization and ...
DETROIT, Aug. 12--The Chrysler Corporation tentatively plans to price its new compact "K car" models, on which it is depending for financial recovery, at between $6,000 and $7,000.
In a fleeting instant of personal triumph, Senator Edward M. Kennedy swept to the fore in the Democratic convention last night, beaming in the uproar from his defeated delegates and blistering the Republicans in the name of a cause, he stressed, rather than any candidacy.
CLINTON, Iowa COUPONS, Hundreds of thou sands of coupons. Millions of coupons. All being dumped on the long tables of the A.C. Nielsen facility here, where workers examine and count them, one by one ...
President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr's forced acceptance of an Islamic militant as his Prime Minister, a man he had described as stubborn, ill-informed and incapable ...
The Democratic National Convention rejected the wishes of President Carter yesterday and inserted into the 1980 platform all but one of of Senator Edward M. Kennedy's major economic planks.
This summer, the rock-concert business, which grosses approximately $2 billion a year, is coping with the repercussions of a tragedy. Last Dec. 3, 11 young ...
THE pursuit of the finer things of life, whether they be food, wine or styles of living, has be come a preoccupation of many consumers, and to aid in the search the public is subjected to endless categorizing of what is best and where to find it.
Institutional selling sent the stock market down sharply yesterday in continued heavy trading.
PARIS, Aug. 12--The retail price of oil is starting to edge downward in much of Europe as a result of a growing world glut caused principally by high production in Saudi Arabia and a recession-induced fall in Western demand, according to European oil company executives and dealers.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (UPI)-- Business inventories increased $1.4 billion in June, largely because of a pileup of unsold automobiles and other durable goods, the Commerce Department reported today.