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In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]
1990Bobby Wagner, American football player[†]
Bobby Joseph Wagner is an American professional football linebacker for the Washington Commanders of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Utah State Aggies and was selected by the Seattle Seahawks in the second round of the 2012 NFL draft. Wagner also played for the Los Angeles Rams in 2022.
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LEAD: Two bicycle riders described their terror as they were confronted in Central Park by a gang of youths who the police say minutes later raped and viciously beat a jogger.
LEAD: As part of the proposed revamping of RJR Nabisco Inc., partners of Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Company have renegotiated how they will be repaid a $500 million bridge loan they made to the company when their firm took RJR private in 1989.
LEAD: Hilda is from Barbados and Julia from St. Vincent, and they met when the children they watch, Jessie and Max, started playing together in Central Park's 85th Street playground. The baby sitters heard each other's accent and knew they were from kindred islands.
LEAD: COMPANIES Donald Trump narrowly avoided missing a payment deadline that could have led to personal bankruptcy. But the hard-fought deal with bankers comes at a humbling cost: He has been forced to cede management control over his multibillion-dollar empire, at least temporarily, to the bankers who came to his rescue.
LEAD: Some Iranians Balking At Aid From Enemies Debate raged within the Iranian Government over the propriety of accepting earthquake relief aid from what are seen as Teheran's enemies, like the United States, Iraq and the novelist Salman Rushdie. Page A3. What Happened at the Met? Executives and employees of the Metropolitan Opera said that Hugh Southern's resignation as general manager last week was in fact a dismissal.
LEAD: The Continental Bank Corporation announced today that it planned to reduce its staff by 900 employees. It said it would establish a $50 million reserve to cover the costs and would have a loss for the second quarter as a result.
LEAD: The current task of Teterow's biggest employer is to work itself out of a job. But then that's what most of East Germany is doing these days.
LEAD: If Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd., the maker of Subaru automobiles, were an American company it would probably be a prime takeover target these days, a slowly dying auto maker forced to merge or eventually face bankruptcy.
LEAD: WHEN Maitreya Kadre, a writer, visits the Vidal Sassoon salon in Chicago, she takes along her laptop computer.
LEAD: Wrapping up a hard-fought deal with bankers yesterday, Donald J. Trump narrowly avoided missing a payment deadline that could have led to personal bankruptcy.
LEAD: In H. G. Wells's ''The War of the Worlds,'' invaders from Mars crushed the most powerful weapons the panicked human race could throw at them and were on the brink of total conquest when they were wiped out by the humblest of earthly organisms - bacteria. Now, bacteria are being embraced as potentially potent allies in a more realistic battle against a growing number of hazardous wastes in soil and water.
LEAD: Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez yesterday rejected one of three candidates to be superintendent of District 19 in Brooklyn. Mr. Fernandez based his decision on what he said was the official's flawed leadership as a principal and his personal conduct.