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UPTON, L.I.--Several years ago, when the price of home-heating oil was just starting to rise, Federal housing officials politely urged real-estate developers and builders to change their methods of construction and to turn to...
THE bus ride from Nashville to Orlando, Fla., takes 10 hours. Hardly anybody flies in the minor leagues. Minor league baseball players are supposed to ride buses. They are told it builds character.
PEKING, Aug. 30--With words and phrases such as "profit," "increased competition" and "market forces" echoing through the Great Hall of the People, Chinese leaders met today in what they said would be a historic session of the National People's Congress to transfer governmental power to a new generation of leaders and further loosen central control of the economy.
In every agency where George Lois hangs his hat and name (and there have been many), perhaps advertising's best-known art director has treated space similarly. Each of his offices have been impressively large and sparsely furnished.
Revived and maybe even rescued, the New York Yankees made it three straight over the Seattle Mariners last night in Yankee Stadium and stretched their lead to 2 games in the chase for the American League's Eastern title.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 27, 1980, covering August 31, 1980.
The Rolling Stones
Jackson Browne
Billy Joel
Soundtrack
Queen
1980Joe Budden, American broadcaster and former rapper[†]
Joseph Anthony Budden II is an American broadcaster and former rapper. He first gained recognition with his 2003 single "Pump It Up", which peaked in the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 and preceded the release of his eponymous debut studio album (2003). A critical and commercial success, the album peaked in the top ten of the Billboard 200, although it was his only major label release for Def Jam Recordings. He released seven more independent albums to continued critical praise. While doing so, he performed as a member of the hip hop supergroup Slaughterhouse, who signed with Eminem's Shady Records in 2012; the group released two studio albums.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]