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Despite a series of interest-rate increases this year, the American economy grew at a surprisingly rapid 3.4 percent annual pace during the summer, Government figures showed today. Consequently, 1994 is now shaping up as possibly the second-best year in a decade. Yet inflation still showed no acceleration and, at least by some gauges, slackened a bit during the July-September quarter.
He is the institution who cannot act like one, the silver-haired Speaker of the House who quotes Winston Churchill in the other Washington but is forced to shoulder a buffalo rifle here to prove he is still Tom Foley of eastern Washington. Trying to save a 30-year Congressional career in his run for re-election, Mr. Foley has endured an unusual number of onion-smothered chili dogs, insinuations that because he has no children he is out of touch with the concerns of families, and disgruntled questions about why he built a million-dollar house on the East Coast and not in Spokane, where he owns a co-op apartment.
In the race for New York Attorney General, Dennis C. Vacco accused his Democratic opponent, Karen Burstein, a lesbian, of promoting a gay "agenda." Page 25.
Concluding that the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel was negligent by failing to set up adequate security during the Tailhook Association's bawdy 1991 convention here, a jury today awarded $1.7 million to a former Navy lieutenant who was among several dozen women sexually assaulted at the gathering. The victory by former Lieut. Paula A. Coughlin seems certain to set the stage for at least a dozen other lawsuits against the Hilton, the site of the notorious gathering at which, Navy and Pentagon investigators concluded, 83 women were assaulted or at least harassed by naval aviators at the Hilton Hotel.
Bishops Act on Role of Nuns A Roman Catholic synod said that nuns would have a bigger role in the church, but still appeared to exclude them from top-level jobs. Page 5. End to a Housing Fight One of the longest rent strikes in New York City's history ended when the Belnord's owner gave up the West Side building. Page 21. Jackpot Grows, as Do Lines No, food shortages aren't afflicting New York. The lines are for the $70 million lottery jackpot -- the drawing is tonight. Page 23.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 26, 1994, covering October 29, 1994.
Boyz II Men
R.E.M.
Eric Clapton
The Offspring
Green Day
1994Danielle Hunter, American football player[†]
Danielle Hunter is a Jamaican-American professional football defensive end for the Houston Texans of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the LSU Tigers and was selected by the Minnesota Vikings in the third round of the 2015 NFL draft. Hunter made four Pro Bowls with the Vikings prior to signing with the Texans in 2024.
1994Shlomo Goren, Israeli rabbi, general, and scholar (born 1918)[†]
Shlomo Goren, was a Polish-born Israeli rabbi and Talmudic scholar. An Orthodox Jew and Religious Zionist, he was considered a foremost rabbinical legal authority on matters of Jewish religious law (halakha). In 1948, Goren founded and served as the first head of the Military Rabbinate of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), a position he held until 1968. Subsequently, he served as Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv–Jaffa between 1968 and his 1972 election as the Chief Rabbi of Israel; the fourth Ashkenazi Jew to hold office. After his 1983 retirement from the country's Chief Rabbinate, Goren served as the head of a yeshiva that he established in Jerusalem.
1994Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House; he is later convicted of trying to kill U.S. President Bill Clinton.[†]
Francisco Martin Duran is an American convicted criminal and attempted assassin who, on October 29, 1994, fired 29 rounds from a semi-automatic rifle at the White House in an attempt to kill United States President Bill Clinton. Duran was convicted of attempted assassination and was sentenced to 40 years in prison.
In 1994, the world population was approximately 5,675,551,255 people[†]