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LEAD: In many ways, the beginning sessions of Bill Granville's Granville Academy resemble an introductory class in business administration, with the emphasis on accounting. Indeed, the class is held in a large lecture room at Rider College here, in the glistening new business administration building.
LEAD: New York City lost one of its major weapons for preventing the spread of homelessness yesterday as the United States Supreme Court decided not to tackle a city law aimed at saving single-room-occupancy hotels.
LEAD: Millions of Czechs and Slovaks walked off their jobs and into the streets at midday today, bringing Prague and the rest of the country to a standstill. It was a powerful demonstration of national solidarity in support of free elections and opposition to Communist domination.
LEAD: In its boldest move to expand investment banking operations outside West Germany, Deutsche Bank A.G. has agreed to buy Morgan Grenfell Group P.L.C. in a friendly deal that values the big British merchant bank at $1.48 billion, the companies announced today.
LEAD: The unmarked black sedan shot into the garage under One Police Plaza, giving the sentry barely enough time to leap to attention and snap off a crisp salute.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 22, 1989, covering November 28, 1989.
Milli Vanilli
Janet Jackson
Billy Joel
The Rolling Stones
Paula Abdul
1989Laura Alleway, Australian footballer[â ]
Laura Colleen Gloria Brock is an Australian former soccer player who played as a defender. She made her debut for the national team in 2010.
1989Jamie Buhrer, Australian rugby league player[â ]
Jamie Buhrer is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played as a second-row, lock and hooker for the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles and the Newcastle Knights in the NRL. He also played for NSW City and New South Wales.
1989JesĂșs Montero, Venezuelan baseball player[â ]
JesĂșs Alejandro Montero LĂłpez is a Venezuelan former professional baseball catcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees and Seattle Mariners.
1989Cold War: Velvet Revolution: In the face of protests, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announces it will give up its monopoly on political power.[â ]
The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which lasted from 1947 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The term cold war is used because there was no direct fighting between the two superpowers, though each supported opposing sides in regional conflicts known as proxy wars. In addition to the struggle for ideological and economic influence and an arms race in both conventional and nuclear weapons, the Cold War was expressed through technological rivalries such as the Space Race, espionage, propaganda campaigns, embargoes, and sports diplomacy.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[â ]