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In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]
1989Nick Foles, American football player[†]
Nicholas Edward Foles is an American former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 11 seasons. A member of six teams, he achieved his greatest success with the Philadelphia Eagles, leading the franchise to their first Super Bowl title.
1989Alex Grant, Canadian ice hockey player[†]
Alex Grant is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman. He is currently an unrestricted free agent. He most recently played under contract with Barys Astana in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). Grant was selected by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 4th round of the 2007 NHL Entry Draft.
1989Jared Waerea-Hargreaves, New Zealand rugby league player[†]
Jared Waerea-Hargreaves is a New Zealand professional rugby league footballer who plays as a prop for Hull KR in the Super League and New Zealand at international level.
1989Alamgir Kabir, Bangladeshi director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1938)[†]
Alamgir Kabir was a Bangladeshi film director and cultural activist. Three of his feature films are featured in the "Top 10 Bangladeshi Films" list by British Film Institute.
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LEAD: A bruising round of central bank intervention and an increase in interest rates in Europe stopped the dollar rally yesterday, but some traders said they still expected the dollar to move higher.
LEAD: Americans begin the Bush administration in a buoyant mood, optimistic about the country and the new President and especially satisfied with their own lives, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll.
LEAD: If President Bush follows his plan to use the phrase ''thousand points of light'' in his address to those attending the inaugural balls Friday night, 40,000 points will shine.
LEAD: To meet its expanding needs, the New York City water-supply system will likely have to begin to take up to 300 million gallons of water a day from the Hudson River, a state report says. The report also says that Long Island will probably need to be connected to the city's system soon to prevent depletion of its ground-water acquifers.
LEAD: Poland's leaders today published the long-awaited text of the Communist Party resolution calling for talks leading to legalization of new unions, including Solidarity, which was banned more than six years ago.
LEAD: McCaw Cellular Communications Inc., the nation's largest cellular telephone operator, and Affiliated Publications Inc., owner of The Boston Globe and specialty magazines, yesterday announced plans for separate but related financial transactions that change the structures of both companies.
LEAD: If Ronald Reagan represents the apotheosis of cowboy values, symbolizing the enduring American myths of self-help, self-sufficiency and self-confidence, George Bush embodies the patrician ideal of responsibility begotten by privilege: an equally American tradition reaching back through the many Presidents more at home in mansions than log cabins, from Washington of Mount Vernon to Jefferson of Monticello to Roosevelt of Hyde Park.
LEAD: Prices rose three-tenths of 1 percent in December, contained by a sharp drop for gasoline. For 1988 prices rose 4.4 percent, the same as in 1987.
LEAD: In the latest example of New York City's inability to track troubled families, a Bronx woman whose 10-month-old boy suffocated last week was supposed to be contacted by city caseworkers once a month but had not been visited since last April.