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LEAD: It happens to many people sooner or later. The telephone rings and there is nothing on the line but heavy breathing. Or a too-ardent salesman. Or a stream of invective and threats, pouring out of the earpiece with smug anonymity. Who is this? Who is this?
LEAD: LAST week, the Guerrilla Girls, those intrepid and anonymous demographers of the art world status quo, released new information on the status of women - communicating, as usual, by posters peppering the building walls in SoHo and beyond. The most attention grabbing of the pronouncements compared the percentages of women represented by 33 prominent New York
LEAD: Where Americans tend to get mad at advertising, the British are advertising-mad.
LEAD: Even as Gov. Mario M. Cuomo's plan to close the Shoreham nuclear power plant nears final approval, many of the people responsible for the settlement, including the Governor, continue to attack a central element of the accord, the 5 percent annual rate increases granted to the Long Island Lighting Company.
LEAD: IT comes as no surprise to realize that the best musicals are still the best musicals.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 12, 1989, covering April 14, 1989.
Tone-Loc
Debbie Gibson
Madonna
Bobby Brown
Roy Orbison
1989Joe Haden, American football player[†]
Joseph Walter Haden III is an American former professional football player who was a cornerback for 12 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Florida Gators, earning unanimous All-American honors and was a member of a BCS National Championship team. He was selected by the Cleveland Browns in the first round of the 2010 NFL draft and played for them for seven seasons. He also played for the Pittsburgh Steelers for five seasons.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]