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Companies United Airlines announced layoffs, salary cuts, fewer flights and other measures aimed at cutting operating expenses by $400 million a year. [ Page D1. ] Ford outdealed Honda to claim the best-selling car title. Ford's 409,751 Tauruses compared with 393,447 Accords sold in 1992. [ D1. ] Sales of domestically made cars and light trucks fell 1.5 percent in the final 10 days of 1992. [ D5. ]
Citing chaotic industry conditions and annual losses of hundreds of millions of dollars in recent years, United Airlines yesterday announced a package of layoffs, salary cuts, fewer flights and other measures aimed at cutting operating expenses by $400 million a year. Stephen M. Wolf, United's chairman and chief executive, described the industry's ills as "well documented" and "pervasive," pointing especially to the fare wars led by carriers like Continental Airlines, Trans World Airlines and regional competitors that are operating in bankruptcy and benefiting from court orders cutting their costs.
ON a rainy winter afternoon, the writer Sandra Cisneros stands before a ragtag group of children and adults in the tiny Brownsville branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, and with orange and black cat-eyed glasses perched atop her head, begins her song of life in the barrio. One hand clutches her open book. The other moves passionately, as does her face, which she scrunches into a knot and then opens with delight as she reads aloud of wise children and foolish adults, of tangled Latino and American cultures, of noise and silence and Proustian moments, of intense love and intense anger.
NEW YORK CITY ON THE BRINK WITH THE DAILY NEWS Mortimer B. Zuckerman is expected to complete his purchase of The Daily News as soon as today, which could prompt a new newspaper war in New York City and tempt the fates that have long declared that the city cannot support four newspapers. The purchase could also ignite an angry and tangled fight with labor unions, notably the Newspaper Guild. A1.
Responding quickly to new projections of larger deficits from President Bush, President-elect Bill Clinton appeared today to back off his campaign pledge to cut the Federal budget deficit in half in four years. Mr. Clinton said the Bush Administration had camouflaged the magnitude of the deficit.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 6, 1993, covering January 7, 1993.
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1993The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as president.[†]
The area of the Republic of Ghana became known in Europe and Arabia as the Ghana Empire after the title of its Emperor, the Ghana. Geographically, the ancient Ghana Empire was approximately 500 miles (800 km) north and west of the modern state of Ghana, and controlled territories in the area of the Sénégal River and east towards the Niger rivers, in modern Senegal, Mauritania and Mali. The empire appears to have broken up following the 1076 conquest by the Almoravid General Abu-Bakr Ibn-Umar. A reduced kingdom continued to exist after Almoravid rule ended, and the kingdom was later incorporated into subsequent Sahelian empires, such as the Mali Empire. Around the same time, south of the Mali empire in present-day northern Ghana, the Kingdom of Dagbon emerged. The decentralised states ruled by the tindaamba were unified into a kingdom. Many sub-kingdoms would later arise from Dagbon including the Mossi Kingdoms of Burkina Faso and Bouna Kingdom of Ivory Coast. Dagbon pioneered Ghana's earliest learning institutions, including a university town, and a writing system prior to European arrival.
1993Bosnian War: The Bosnian Army executes a surprise attack at the village of Kravica in Srebrenica.[†]
The Bosnian War was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995. Following several earlier violent incidents, the war is commonly seen as having started on 6 April 1992 when the newly independent Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina was internationally recognized. It ended on 21 November 1995 when the Dayton Accords were initialed. The main belligerents were the forces of the government of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and those of the breakaway proto-states of the Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia and the Republika Srpska which were led and supplied by Croatia and Serbia, respectively.
In 1993, the world population was approximately 5,591,544,797 people[†]