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Despite pressure on banks by the Carter Administration to refrain from raising interest rates, the Morgan Guaranty Trust Company yesterday increased its prime lending rate to 14 percent from 14 percent.
MERRILY and Endicott ("Hap") Hazard have a reputation for taking on unusual design jobs. It came as no surprise to them, therefore, when they were asked to do over a house for Trilby, the well-known stage dog.
HOME sweet home it may be, but the coziest nest can mask a houseful of hazards, recent Government reports sug gest. Potential threats to health and safety are now feared lurking behind the walls, underfoot, in plain sight or in the air, in the form of aluminum wiring, urea formaldehyde insulation, asbestos products, radioactive building
Further testing, repairs and possibly a complete replacement of the cooling-system plumbing at the Indian Point 2 nuclear reactor may keep the plant closed for several months, officials of Consolidated Edison said yesterday.
When Robert Marbut enrolled as an undergraduate at Georgia Tech, he picked architecture as his major. "Everyone said be an architect," he recalls. "and so I figured why not."
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 29, 1980, covering October 30, 1980.
Barbra Streisand
Queen
The Doobie Brothers
Bruce Springsteen
Pat Benatar
1980Rich Alvarez, Filipino-Japanese basketball player[†]
Richard Alvarez is a Japanese-born Filipino professional basketball coach and former player who is an assistant coach for the Basilan Starhorse of the MPBL. He played his whole career in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). He was the first overall pick of 2004 PBA draft by the Shell Turbo Chargers.
1980Choi Hong-man, South Korean wrestler and mixed martial artist[†]
Choi Hong-man, often anglicised to Hongman Choi, is a South Korean kickboxer, mixed martial artist, and former ssireum wrestler. In Asia, he is called "Che Man", "Techno Goliath", "Korean Monster" and "Korean Colossus". He won the 2005 K-1 Seoul Grand Prix beating Kaoklai Kaennorsing in the finals. He stands 2.18 m and weighs 160 kg.
1980Kareem Rush, American basketball player[†]
Kareem Lamar Rush is an American former professional basketball player. Rush's younger brother, Brandon, last played for the Minnesota Timberwolves, while older brother JaRon played college basketball for UCLA.
1980El Salvador and Honduras agree to put the border dispute fought over in 1969's Football War before the International Court of Justice.[†]
El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador, is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south by the Pacific Ocean. El Salvador's capital and largest city is San Salvador. The country's population in 2024 was estimated to be 6 million according to a government census.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]