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LEAD: Just moments from the heart of downtown oozes Oil City, an industrial wasteland of oil tanks, junkyards, toxic dumps and corroded buildings hugging the shore of Onondaga Lake, itself a hazardous waste site.
LEAD: A comprehensive national study has found that measures to limit Federal health costs have not reduced the quality of hospital care for the elderly, as many experts had feared.
LEAD: SOMETIMES people have no idea what they are eating, and more often than not it is probably better that they not ask.
LEAD: A TALL, regal woman with a shock of white hair and a swath of Joan Crawford-red lipstick swept into the ballroom of the Plaza Hotel at 6:30 P.M. Monday, a cyclone of Fracas perfume in her wake. Elaine Whitelaw, the grande dame of the March of Dimes, had arrived. She was wearing a shimmering silver and black striped dress and carrying an unlighted Camel filter cigarette.
LEAD: Hanson P.L.C. said yesterday that it had agreed with Sir James Goldsmith to swap its 49 percent interest in the Newmont Mining Company for Cavenham Forest Industries. Cavenham, a large United States forest products company, is controlled by the British-French financier.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 17, 1990, covering October 17, 1990.
M.C. Hammer
George Michael
Mariah Carey
Wilson Phillips
INXS
1990Paolo Campinoti, Italian footballer[†]
Paolo Campinoti is an Italian footballer, who plays as a left midfielder for S.S.D. Massese.
1990Maica García Godoy, Spanish water polo player[†]
María del Carmen "Maica" García Godoy is a Spanish water polo player, playing at the centre forward position. She is 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) tall and she plays for the Spanish club CN Sabadell. Maica is part of the Spain national team.
1990Ronald González Tabilo, Chilean footballer[†]
Ronald Damián González Tabilo is a Chilean footballer who plays as a winger for Provincial Ovalle in the Segunda División Profesional de Chile.
1990Saki Kumagai, Japanese footballer[†]
Saki Kumagai is a Japanese footballer who plays as a midfielder or defender for Women's Championship club London City Lionesses and captains the Japan national team. A versatile defensive midfielder with keen sense of anticipation and exceptional tactical acumen, she is also able to be deployed as a central defender. She is regarded as one of the finest Asian female midfielders of all time. She is one of the most successful East Asian footballers, of any gender, at club and international level.
1990Patrick Lambie, South African rugby player[†]
Patrick Jonathan Lambie is a retired South African professional rugby union player who last played for Racing 92 in the French Top 14. He announced his retirement in January 2019 due to multiple concussions.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]