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LEAD: Warning that New York City's multibillion-dollar construction industry was ''infected'' by corruption and racketeering, Governor Cuomo yesterday urged developers and contractors to have the courage to help clean up the industry.
LEAD: As the deadlines draw near for the Bank of New York Company's hostile bid for the Irving Bank Corporation, neither company shows signs of giving up.
LEAD: THE frustrations of standing in a movie line, paying $7 a ticket and then being squeezed into a shoebox-sized theater might drive anyone to dream of a better way to go out and see a movie in New York. There are several. Beyond the 300 or so screens in commercial movie theaters in the city is an alternative network of museums, libraries, specialty film institutions and an assortment of other organizations that show classic
LEAD: The SmithKline Beckman Corporation said yesterday that it had agreed to invest $49 million in the Nova Pharmaceutical Corporation, a small research-oriented drug company based in Baltimore.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 18, 1988, covering May 20, 1988.
George Michael
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Soundtrack
Michael Jackson
Terence Trent D'Arby
1988Joel Moon, Australian rugby league player[†]
Joel Moon is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played as a centre and five-eighth in the 2000s and 2010s. He last played for the Leeds Rhinos in the Super League.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]