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President-elect Ronald Reagan spent the day in New York City yesterday, leaving the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel for the gloomy gray streets only twice, once to visit Terence Cardinal Cooke and once for a private dinner with a group of civic leaders.
Heating oil prices, which have risen 6 cents a gallon in the last few months, are expected to increase even more sharply in the next three months, possibly by as much as 20 cents, oil industry analysts said yesterday.
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WARSAW, Dec. 9--Leaders of a newfarmers movement, which says it represents 500,000 of Poland's 3.5 million private farmers, called today for a national meeting on Sunday to plan some form of protest action to force the authorities to register the movement as an independent union.
DURING the holiday season you would like to have a party and have 20, 30 or 40 friends over, but you are not sure how to feed that many people. The answer is simple: The easiest, fastest and least expensive way of receiving people is to set up a buffet.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 10, 1980, covering December 10, 1980.
Kenny Rogers
Barbra Streisand
Stevie Wonder
Bruce Springsteen
AC/DC
1980Sarah Chang, American violinist[†]
Sarah Chang is a Korean American classical violinist. Recognized as a child prodigy, she first played as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1989. She enrolled at Juilliard School to study music, graduated in 1999, and continued university studies. Especially during the 1990s and early to mid-2000s, Chang had major roles as a soloist with many of the world's major orchestras.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]