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LEAD: Douglas Elliman & Company, one of Manhattan's largest and most prominent residential brokerage and management companies, has been sold, a victim of internal dissension and the sour real estate market. Founded in 1911, the firm was bought by a partnership involving five members of the Milstein family, which is active in New York real estate.
LEAD: FOUL odors rising from the Huntington town landfill in East Northport have given Long Island a whiff of what is to come, as towns strive to seal garbage dumps that rise like pyramids from the Island's flat terrain.
LEAD: Eager to trust but determined to verify, many single women in this age of risky romance are hiring private detectives to check the backgrounds of their suitors.
LEAD: Money has apparently reached such stratospheric heights in baseball that players can afford to leave a million or three on the table.
LEAD: The core market of consumers is aging. . . . Costs are out of control. . . . Five out of six new products lose money. . . . The most talented workers increasingly look to competing industries for most of their livelihood. . . .
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 6, 1989, covering December 10, 1989.
Milli Vanilli
Billy Joel
Janet Jackson
Paula Abdul
New Kids on the Block
1989Marion MarĂ©chal-Le Pen, French politician[â ]
Marion Jeanne Caroline Maréchal, known as Marion Maréchal-Le Pen from 2010 to 2018, is a French politician who has served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2024. She is part of the Le Pen family, as the granddaughter of National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen and niece of its later leader Marine Le Pen.
1989Tom Sexton, Australian-Irish rugby player[â ]
Tom Sexton is a professional rugby union player who plays for The Western Force in the Super Rugby competition. His usual position is hooker.
1989Mongolian Revolution: At the country's first open pro-democracy public demonstration, Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj announces the establishment of the Mongolian Democratic Union.[â ]
The Mongolian Revolution of 1990, known in Mongolia as the 1990 Democratic Revolution, was a peaceful democratic revolution which led to the country's transition to a multi-party system. It was inspired by the economic reforms of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s and was one of the many revolutions of 1989. It was led mostly by young demonstrators who rallied at SĂŒkhbaatar Square, in the capital city Ulaanbaatar. The main organisers of the demonstrations included SanjaasĂŒrengiin Zorig, Erdeniin Bat-ĂĂŒl, Davaadorjiin Ganbold, Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj, Bat-Erdeniin Batbayar.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[â ]