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The Economy Women now in their 50's have piled into the work force in big numbers in the last 15 years. Often, the move into the workplace was forced by economic reasons largely new to their generation. Yet many say their jobs have been beneficial. [ Page A1. ]
Defense Secretary William J. Perry said he believes that Bosnia cannot reverse gains by Serbs, even with NATO help. Page A11.
NEW YORK CITY SPINS ITS DROSS INTO GOLD While collection is the most visible and expensive part of New York City's recycling program, officials say it is the reuse of those items -- as everything from traffic barricades to fishing piers -- that justifies the effort and may someday underwrite its cost, now $77 million a year for pickup and processing. And beyond creating new ways to use old materials, recycling is also creating jobs. In fact, New York's growing supplies of materials, combined with strong foreign and domestic markets, have spurred the establishment and expansion of so many private processing plants that the city, which contracts with 14 different companies, has all but abandoned a plan to build five city-owned plants. A1.
In the rain and cold, on a field that had all the traction of Silly Putty, Giants quarterback Dave Brown went through another one of his moments. He has been through plenty of them. There was the moment when, after the Giants' 3-0 start, he earned the respect of everyone around him. There was the moment he was benched and his pride was bruised. There was the moment last week when he lay on the ground, unconscious, for 30 seconds. And there was today's moment. It may turn out to be a big one for this season, for his career. Or it may be a blip on the Brown radar screen. This moment put Brown back in firmly as the starting quarterback of the Giants, and with the 21-19 victory over the Washington Redskins at R.F.K. Stadium, it kept the team's slim playoff hopes alive.
Heavy advertising and promotional campaigns helped draw shoppers into stores during the weekend, and several retailers reported that their sales in the first two days of the holiday shopping season were slightly better than expected. But most executives were circumspect about business, and one survey of foot traffic in 33 malls around the country found fewer shoppers this year than last year for the first weekend of holiday shopping.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 23, 1994, covering November 28, 1994.
Eagles
Nirvana
Boyz II Men
Jimmy Page & Robert Plant
Soundtrack
1994Nao Hibino, Japanese tennis player[†]
Nao Hibino is a Japanese professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as world No. 56 in singles and No. 43 in doubles by the WTA. Hibino has won three singles titles and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour. She has also won nine singles and eleven doubles tournaments on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour.
1994Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer (born 1960)[†]
Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal or the Milwaukee Monster, was an American serial killer and sex offender who killed and dismembered seventeen men and boys between 1978 and 1991. Many of his later murders involved necrophilia, cannibalism and the permanent preservation of body parts—typically all or part of the skeleton.
1994Buster Edwards, English boxer and criminal (born 1932)[†]
Ronald Christopher "Buster" Edwards was a British criminal who was a member of the gang that committed the 1963 Great Train Robbery. He had also been a boxer, and owned a nightclub and a flower shop.
1994Jerry Rubin, American businessman and activist (born 1938)[†]
Jerry Clyde Rubin was an American social activist, anti-war leader, and counterculture icon during the 1960s and early 1970s. Despite being known for holding radical views when he was a political activist, he ceased holding his more extreme views at some point in the 1970s and instead opted for a successful career as a businessman. In the 1960s, during his political activism heyday, he was known for being one of the co-founders of the Youth International Party (YIP) whose members were referred to as Yippies, and standing trial in the Chicago Seven case.
In 1994, the world population was approximately 5,675,551,255 people[†]