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LEAD: Blue Arrow P.L.C., one of Britain's largest employment agencies, has offered to buy Manpower Inc., a worldwide temporary-help service company, for $1.2 billion.
LEAD: In a ceremony marked with a sense of sureness about its past but less certainty for the future, the Grumman Corporation, the largest employer on Long Island, rolled out its new Navy attack bomber today.
LEAD: The money was hot. Then it was cold - frozen, in fact, between layers of lasagna.
LEAD: The first comprehensive reappraisal in 27 years of California's huge system of higher education has found that the quality of teaching has diminished because of an overemphasis on faculty research.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 29, 1987, covering August 4, 1987.
Whitney Houston
Heart
Whitesnake
U2
Motley Crue
1987Marreese Speights American basketball player[†]
Marreese Akeem "Mo" Speights is an American former professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Florida Gators, where he was a freshman member of their NCAA national championship team in 2007. The Philadelphia 76ers selected him in the first round of the 2008 NBA draft with the 16th overall pick.
1987The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to give equal time to opposing views.[†]
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, internet, wi-fi, satellite, and cable across the United States. The FCC maintains jurisdiction over the areas of broadband access, fair competition, radio frequency use, media responsibility, public safety, and homeland security.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]