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Two of President-elect Ronald Reagan's closest advisers have urged on him an emergency program intended to head off what they describe as an "economic Dunkirk" threatening to overwhelm the new administration.
The British Broadcasting Corporation has agreed to make its several thousand hours of programming a year available in the United States exclusively for 10 years to a new cable television network. The network is scheduled to begin operations in January 1982 and will serve subscribers who pay a monthly fee.
BETHESDA, Md., Dec. 10--J.W. Marriott Jr., president and chief executive officer of the Marriott Corporation, spends a lot of time snipping ribbons these days.
An arbitrator recommended yesterday that New York City sanitation workers be paid an additional $11 a shift when they perform collection duties on new twoman refuse trucks. All the present trucks require three men.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10--A new Federal study calls for increased regulation of the markets for Governmentguaranteed securities because of evidence of trading abuses, fraud and overspeculation.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 10, 1980, covering December 11, 1980.
Kenny Rogers
Barbra Streisand
Stevie Wonder
Bruce Springsteen
AC/DC
1980Adi Keissar, Israeli poet[†]
Adi Keissar is an Israeli poet, and founder of the cultural group Ars Poetica.
1980Kristjan Kitsing, Estonian basketball player[†]
Kristjan Kitsing is an Estonian professional basketball player for TalTech of the Estonian–Latvian Basketball League and the Korvpalli Meistriliiga (KML). Kitsing is also a member of the Estonia national basketball team.
1980The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (Superfund) is enacted by the U.S. Congress.[†]
Superfund is a United States federal environmental remediation program established by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA). The program is administered by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and is designed to pay for investigating and cleaning up sites contaminated with hazardous substances. Sites managed under this program are referred to as Superfund sites. Of the tens of thousands of sites selected for possible action under the Superfund program, 1178 remain on the National Priorities List (NPL) that makes them eligible for cleanup under the Superfund program. Sites on the NPL are considered the most highly contaminated and undergo longer-term remedial investigation and remedial action (cleanups). The state of New Jersey, the fifth smallest state in the U.S., is the location of about ten percent of the priority Superfund sites, a disproportionate amount.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]