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New York City's 927,500 public school children will return to class today as the school system struggles to deal with depleted resources and school budget cuts that call for the layoff of 2,200 teachers.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7--The recession is just about past, Treasury Secretary G. William Miller says, adding that he believes "clear signs of recovery" will appear within the next three months.
DENVER, Sept. 7--There are many theories to explain the apparent drop in American productivity in the 1970's-- insufficient investment and capital, loss of a technological edge, the waning of the work ethic.
Indianapolis has the 500. Boston has the Marathon. Pamplona has the running of the bulls. And yesterday, Brooklyn got the Rollathon.
BERN TOWNSHIP, Pa., Sept. 7-- The gentle, rolling hills of this eastern Pennsylvania farm community seem an unlikely place for a small metal-fabricating company to be making a big investment in energy from the wind.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 3, 1980, covering September 8, 1980.
The Rolling Stones
Jackson Browne
Soundtrack
Queen
Diana Ross
1980Eric Hutchinson, American singer-songwriter[†]
Eric Hutchinson is an American singer-songwriter best known for his songs "Rock & Roll", "OK, It's Alright with Me", "Not There Yet", "Watching You Watch Him", and "Tell the World". Hutchinson was named an AOL "About to Pop" artist, Yahoo! Who's Next Artist, MSN "One to Watch" Artist and a "VH1 You Oughta Know" Artist. Hutchinson also wrote and performed the theme song for ESPN's Fantasy Focus podcast.
1980Willard Libby, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1908)[†]
Willard Frank Libby was an American physical chemist noted for his role in the 1949 development of radiocarbon dating, a process which revolutionized archaeology and palaeontology. For his contributions to the team that developed this process, Libby was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1960.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]