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As if dandelions and crabgrass were sprouting through the snow, tax panic is coming three months early this year. Today is the quarterly deadline for more than 12 million people, about one in 10 taxpaying Americans, to pay estimated taxes on income for the final three months of 1992.
In a move that could make it harder to avoid telephone calls, the Federal Communications Commission today assigned a small block of radio frequencies for new satellite paging services that would let people send and receive brief messages anywhere on the globe. The system would also make it easier to track stolen cars and find lost hikers. Using about two dozen small, relatively inexpensive satellites that orbit a few hundred miles over the earth, the services are expected to let people communicate with hand-held devices that cost a few hundred dollars each. They could also serve as tracking devices, pinpointing within one mile the location of a person or a vehicle with such a device.
The shooting at the Red Hook Houses started a few minutes after midnight Friday. Pop. Pop. Pop. At least six quick pops. Jennie Martinez listened to the shots and went to sleep. Over the years, Mrs. Martinez has learned to live with the dangers beyond her door. When she walks her two children the three blocks to Public School 15, she says, she is always ready to throw them to the ground and cover them.
In their raid on Iraq, American warplanes destroyed only one of the four Iraqi surface-to-air missile batteries they targeted, the Pentagon said today. Despite that assessment, the Pentagon characterized the raid as a success, saying that Iraq had been forced to disassemble the three other missile batteries and that two of Iraq's stationary air-defense command sites had been seriously damaged.
After years of preserving industrial zoning for thousands of acres of land in the futile hope that New York City's manufacturing base could be revived, the city's planners said yesterday that they wanted to open the land for more promising uses. The proposal by the City Planning Department, is aimed at improving neighborhood services, creating jobs and generating more tax revenues. In many cases, the plan would make it easier to put into productive use land that is now vacant, underused or has only abandoned multistory industrial buildings.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 13, 1993, covering January 15, 1993.
Whitney Houston
Garth Brooks
Michael Bolton
Eric Clapton
Billy Ray Cyrus
1993Kadeem Allen, American basketball player[†]
Kadeem Frank Allen is an American professional basketball player for Pallacanestro Forlì of the Lega Serie A2. He played college basketball for Hutchinson Community College and Arizona.
1993Sammy Cahn, American songwriter (born 1913)[†]
Samuel Cohen, known professionally as Sammy Cahn, was an American lyricist, songwriter, and musician. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to films and Broadway songs, as well as stand-alone songs premiered by recording companies in the Greater Los Angeles Area. He and his collaborators had a series of hit recordings with Frank Sinatra during the singer's tenure at Capitol Records, but also enjoyed hits with Dean Martin, Doris Day and many others. He played the piano and violin, and won an Oscar four times for his songs, including the popular hit "Three Coins in the Fountain".
In 1993, the world population was approximately 5,591,544,797 people[†]