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LEAD: Because she wanted more free time, Sue Alstedt quit her job as a manager at A.T.&T. Then, to save even more time, she bought equipment to do her banking at home. But she soon became impatient with the computer because it was not as fast as the one she had used at work. ''I couldn't stand to wait for it, even though it was coming out at the rate of speech,'' she said.
LEAD: The Soviet Union today entered a critical phase in Mikhail S. Gorbachev's attempt to resuscitate the economy, in which workers will be asked to change their notion of work radically without yet having enjoyed any great rewards from two years of economic experiments and promises.
LEAD: President Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev exchanged televised New Year's greetings to the Soviet and American peoples today.
LEAD: The Koch administration, working to keep viable its disputed plan for developing Columbus Circle, has agreed to a new proposal that includes no reference to the height of the project, reduces its purchase price and bulk, and places a new financial constraint on the developer.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 30, 1987, covering January 2, 1988.
Soundtrack
Michael Jackson
George Michael
Whitesnake
Tiffany
1988Germán Cano, Argentine footballer[†]
Germán Ezequiel Cano Recalde is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a striker for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Fluminense.
1988Luke Harangody, American basketball player[†]
Luke Cameron Harangody is an American former professional basketball player who last played for Divina Seguros Joventut of the Spanish Liga ACB. He completed his college career at the University of Notre Dame in 2010. He is the only men's player in the history of the Big East Conference to average 20 points and 10 rebounds per game in conference play for his career. He was the 2008 Big East Player of the Year, and was named to the second team on the 2008 Associated Press All-America team. He is also the first Notre Dame men's player to be a three-time first-team All-Big East selection (2008–2010), and the first men's player to lead the conference in both scoring and rebounding in consecutive seasons.
1988Damien Tussac, French-German rugby player[†]
Damien Tussac is a rugby union player for Castres Olympique in the Top 14 and the German national rugby union team. He is a French citizen but qualifies to play for Germany because of a German grandmother.
1988Condor Flugdienst Flight 3782 crashes near Seferihisar, Turkey, killing 16 people.[†]
Condor Flugdienst Flight 3782 was an international charter flight from Stuttgart-Echterdingen Airport, West Germany to Adnan Menderes Airport, Turkey that crashed near Seferihisar, Turkey on 2 January 1988. At the time, Condor was a 100% subsidiary of Lufthansa.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]