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In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]
1990Rachel Hurd-Wood, English actress[†]
Rachel Hurd-Wood is an English actress. She is known for her performances in the fantasy adventure film Peter Pan (2003), the thriller film Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006) and the BBC Three television series Clique (2017–18).
1990Pearl Bailey, American actress and singer (born 1918)[†]
Pearl Mae Bailey was an American actress, singer, comedian and author. After appearing in vaudeville, she made her Broadway debut in St. Louis Woman in 1946. She received a Special Tony Award for the title role in the all-black production of Hello, Dolly! in 1968. In 1986, she won a Daytime Emmy award for her performance as a fairy godmother in the ABC Afterschool Special Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale. Her rendition of "Takes Two to Tango" hit the top ten in 1952.
LEAD: The jury in the Central Park jogger case deliberated for an eighth day without reaching a verdict yesterday - another day of steadily rising tension, reread testimony and a confusing flurry of notes to the judge.
LEAD: THE tragedy of ''Richard III'' is in the title character's perverted brilliance. In a world of dissemblers, he appears to be the only one with a comprehension of the abuses of politics, as he manipulates his way to the crown and, inevitably, falls to his doom. Any actor attempting this awesome role must be able to convey
LEAD: IT is not difficult to come to New York City and go away believing that Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis lives in a town house on ''Beekman Hill'' overlooking the East River, that the rules of baseball were made up in a building called the ''Republican Club'' at 62d Street and Fifth Avenue, that Mount Sinai Hospital is known for the face lifts it performs on movie stars, and that whites abandoned Harlem en masse in 1901 because somebody built factories across the river in New Jersey that year.
Ex-con and girl's Carolina-to-Texas odyssey. Cockeyed and defiant but intriguing mosaic, via Lynch.
LEAD: The stock market tumbled yesterday to its lowest close in more than three months after being pummeled throughout the day by a worse-than-expected inflation report, falling bond prices, higher oil prices and unsettling news from the Middle East.
LEAD: Since Iraq's occupation of Kuwait, many industrialized nations have looked nervously to countries like Mexico, one of the largest producers of oil outside the Middle East. But Mexico's state-owned oil company, long past the glory days of the early 1980's when prices were high, will probably not be much help.
LEAD: The fast and furious ''fare of the day'' game played by airlines in the last two weeks reflects how the industry is caught between the rising cost of fuel and depressed travel caused by a soft economy.
LEAD: In a court decision that may strengthen the hand of cooperative apartment owners in financially troubled buildings, a New York State Supreme Court judge yesterday upheld the right of the owners of a Greenwich Village building to auction off 106 apartments owned by a sponsor who is far behind in his maintenance payments.
LEAD: The Commission on Quality Care for the Mentally Disabled recently released a list of the state's 14 worst adult homes. Their residents are mainly former mental patients or poor people unable to care for themselves. Inspectors noted that many homes resembled old back wards of state hospitals.
LEAD: The chief executive of the Cetus Corporation has resigned in the wake of a severe blow from the Food and Drug Administration that has clouded the company's future.
LEAD: In a sign of inflation's persistent grip on the economy, the Labor Department said today that the Consumer Price Index rose by four-tenths of 1 percent last month, a higher-than-expected increase that came despite a sharp drop in energy prices just before the Middle East crisis.
LEAD: Maj. Gen. William G. Pagonis keeps his gas mask and protective clothes in a bag by his feet as he surveys senior officers inside the Saudi Air Force Base at Dhahran, where they are directing the largest American troop deployment since the Vietnam War.