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The Woolworth Corporation released a report yesterday clearing its senior executives of wrongdoing in accounting irregularities that caused it to misstate some interim quarterly results in 1992 and 1993. But the report chided those executives for failing to send a clear signal to employees that inaccurate and improper financial reporting would not be tolerated.
Nearly 20 years after the end of the war in Southeast Asia brought thousands of Cambodians, Laotians and Vietnamese refugees to this country, many still languish in poverty, giving Southeast Asians the highest rate of welfare dependency of any racial or ethnic group. More than 30 percent of all Southeast Asian households in the nation now depend on welfare for survival, according to a report on the economic diversity of Asian-Americans released Wednesday in Washington. Among some groups, like Cambodians and Laotians in California, the percentage of those on welfare reaches 77 percent. Nationwide, only 8 percent of households received public assistance in 1991.
THE attic is the seat of the soul, architecturally speaking. Some attics perch like gnarled crowns atop structures, puzzle boxes concealing layers of memories. They are places where beloved old clothes, paintings, pictures and forgotten toys that parents can't let go of acquire a musty odor. Since an attic usually lacks a finished ceiling or floor, it can be the most mysterious -- and fun -- space in the house. Just ask a kid.
New York, first in the American League, second in apple production, has slipped to third in population, behind not only California but now Texas. Texans have already laid claim to unofficial bragging rights as the nation's second most populous state. And yesterday, the Census Bureau disclosed population projections indicating that Texas had indeed overtaken New York sometime in January.
Take it or leave it, Christine Todd Whitman has been saying since she took office four months ago, pressing her unwavering drive for lower taxes and smaller, more efficient government. And while legislators wilt and worry, while state workers fume about attacks on their pensions and pay and while Wall Street frets about some of the Governor's budget plans, the people of New Jersey seem to be loving every minute of it, and of her.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 18, 1994, covering May 19, 1994.
Tim McGraw
Reba McEntire
Ace of Base
Pink Floyd
The Benedictine Monks Of Santo Domingo De Silos
1994Carlos Guzmán, Mexican footballer[†]
Carlos Alberto Guzmán Fonseca is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Monterey Bay FC in the USL Championship.
1994Jacques Ellul, French sociologist, philosopher, and academic (born 1912)[†]
Jacques Ellul was a French philosopher, sociologist, lay theologian, and professor. Noted as a Christian anarchist, Ellul was a longtime professor of History and the Sociology of Institutions on the Faculty of Law and Economic Sciences at the University of Bordeaux. A prolific writer, he authored more than 60 books and more than 600 articles over his lifetime, many of which discussed propaganda, the impact of technology on society, and the interaction between religion and politics.
1994Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, American journalist, 37th First Lady of the United States (born 1929)[†]
Jacqueline Lee Kennedy Onassis was an American writer, book editor, and socialite who served as the first lady of the United States from 1961 to 1963, as the wife of President John F. Kennedy. A popular first lady, she endeared herself to the American public with her devotion to her family, dedication to the historic preservation of the White House, the campaigns she led to preserve and restore historic landmarks and architecture, along with her interest in American history, culture, and arts. During her lifetime, she was regarded as an international icon for her unique fashion choices, and her work as a cultural ambassador of the United States made her very popular globally.
1994Luis Ocaña, Spanish cyclist (born 1945)[†]
Jesús Luis Ocaña Pernía was a Spanish road bicycle racer who won the 1973 Tour de France and the 1970 Vuelta a España. During the 1971 Tour de France he launched an amazing solo breakaway that put him into the Yellow Jersey and stunned the rest of the main field, including Tour champion Eddy Merckx, but he abandoned in the fourteenth stage after a crash on the descent of the Col de Menté. Ocaña would abandon many Tours, but he finished every Vuelta a España he entered except for his first, and finished in the top 5 seven times in a row.
In 1994, the world population was approximately 5,675,551,255 people[†]