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LEAD: The Reagan Administration has agreed to give doctors substantially more procedural protections before suspending them from the Medicare program for violations of professional health-care standards, Federal officials said today.
LEAD: COMPANIES Burlington Industries will pay $80 a share for up to eight million shares of its common stock and explore a restructuring to benefit the remaining shares. It was Burlington's latest initiative to frustrate the hostile $67-a-share tender offer by a group that includes Asher B. Edelman and Dominion Textile.
LEAD: When a compulsive gambler from out of state sits shivering in his car all night in Atlantic City, broke, hungry and - because he is out of gasoline -cold, chances are he will soon be talking to Arnie Wexler.
LEAD: The global push for cutting tax rates, spanning ideological boundaries, has come even to Sweden, home of the world's highest taxes.
LEAD: IN SEEKING to understand the tenacity of prejudice, researchers are turning away from an earlier focus on such extreme racism as that exhibited by members of the Ku Klux Klan to examine the pernicious stereotypes among people who do not consider themselves prejudiced.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 6, 1987, covering May 12, 1987.
U2
Beastie Boys
Bon Jovi
Poison
Paul Simon
1987Lance Lynn, American baseball player[†]
Michael Lance Lynn is an American former professional baseball pitcher. Between 2011 and 2024, he played 13 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals, Minnesota Twins, New York Yankees, Texas Rangers, Chicago White Sox, and Los Angeles Dodgers.
1987Kieron Pollard, Trinidadian cricketer[†]
Kieron Adrian Pollard is a Trinidadian cricketer, who captained the West Indies cricket team in limited overs cricket. He used to play in various T20 leagues around the globe as an all-rounder. He also used to captain MI Cape Town, MI Emirates and MI New York in the SA20, ILT20 and MLC respectively. He is currently playing for and captaining the Trinbago Knight Riders in the Caribbean Premier League. He is also the batting coach of the Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League and was the assistant coach of the England cricket team for the ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2024. He was part of the 2012 ICC World Twenty20 winning team for West Indies. During his period, he was one of the most aggressive batsmen and he also has the record of six 6s in an over against Sri Lanka.
1987Darren Randolph, Irish footballer[†]
Darren Edward Andrew Randolph is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper. He is currently a free agent. Randolph also represented Republic of Ireland national team and Ireland at basketball.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]