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LEAD: The paradoxes of President Reagan's budget policies have left a seven-year record that has puzzled some fiscal experts and upset liberal critics and conservative supporters alike.
LEAD: Her desk is small, a table really, its grainy rosewood polished by her palms, the frayed bindings of dictionaries, the tissue-thin paper she fills with tiny ideograms.
LEAD: A NEW generation of drugs to treat depression is giving medical scientists a fresh view of the best strategies for coping with this severe and widespread mental disorder and important clues to its nature.
LEAD: Pearson P.L.C., the British conglomerate that owns The Financial Times, announced today that it had agreed to buy the Addison-Wesley Publishing Company for $283 million.
LEAD: Paul Schlichtman gazed at the 25 prospective taxicab drivers in a classroom in midtown Manhattan and opened the floor to questions. The drivers appeared suspicious. ''O.K., suppose you pick up a passenger,'' one said, finally, ''and he dies in the car?'' (''Call the morgue,'' said Mr. Schlichtman.) ''While you're looking at your map before the trip,'' asked another, ''can you turn the meter on?
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 10, 1988, covering February 16, 1988.
George Michael
Tiffany
Soundtrack
INXS
Michael Jackson
1988Diego Capel, Spanish footballer[†]
Diego Ángel Capel Trinidad is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a left winger.
1988Denílson, Brazilian footballer[†]
Denílson Pereira Neves, known as Denílson, is a Brazilian former footballer. Denilson mainly featured as a central midfielder who at times can also play in the role of defensive midfielder. He is also a former youth captain of Brazil.
1988Korbinian Holzer, German ice hockey player[†]
Korbinian Holzer is a German professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing for Adler Mannheim of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL). He previously played for the Anaheim Ducks, Nashville Predators, and Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League (NHL).
1988Zhang Jike, Chinese table tennis player[†]
Zhang Jike is a retired Chinese table tennis player.
1988Andrea Ranocchia, Italian footballer[†]
Andrea Ranocchia is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a defender.
1988Kim Soo-hyun, South Korean actor and singer[†]
Kim Soo-hyun is a South Korean actor. He is the recipient of five Baeksang Arts Awards, two Grand Bell Awards and one Blue Dragon Film Award. Kim made his television debut in 2007 with the family sitcom Kimchi Cheese Smile following a few theatrical performances. He went on to star in television dramas Dream High (2011), Moon Embracing the Sun (2012), as well as in the top-grossing films The Thieves (2012) and Secretly, Greatly (2013).
1988Ye Shengtao, Chinese writer, educator, and politician (born 1894)[†]
Ye Shengtao also known as Ye Shaojun, was a Chinese writer, journalist, educator, publisher and politician. He was a founder of the Association for Literary Studies (文學研究會), the first literature association during the May Fourth Movement in China. He served as the Vice-Minister of Culture of the People's Republic of China.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]