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Congressional Republicans agreed to drop a series of pro-business amendments in the last spending bills, moving closer to a final budget deal with the White House. Article, Page A24.
Schools officials in Chappaqua, NY, Tabernacle, NJ, and other suburbs across New York region are trying to cope with increasingly crowded classrooms; are facing other problems such as lack of land, taxpayer resistance, not-in-my-backyard campaigns and regulatory hurdles that make building schools far more difficult now than in 1950's and 60's, last time baby boom sparked binge of school construction; growth has created odd quandary in suburbia as more parents flock there largely for schools that are increasingly unable to make room for their children; photos (M)
New York Jets beat New England Patriots, 24-17; photos (M)
Lobbying has turned into well-ordered global business, with influence game taking on decidely corporate look; Congress and rest of government has changed in myriad ways in quarter-century, and transformation has only accelerated with more recent explosion of information and technology; capital's government affairs and public relations business are changing, suddenly engaging in flurry of consolidations and mergers; latest and most sigificant acquisition came this month, when Shandwick USA bought Cassidy Companies; acquisition, valued at $70 million to $80 million, instantly gave Shandwick big presence in Washington, where it was virtually unknown a few years ago; graphs; photos (M)
National Transportation Safety Board may ask Federal Bureau of Investigation to take over probe of crash of EgyptAir Boeing 767 into Atlantic off Nantucket Island on November 1 shortly after leaving Kennedy International Airport, because of suspicions raised by data from plane's cockpit voice recorder; officials are focusing on cryptic utterance, possibly prayer, that may have been last words of pilot determined to destroy himself and airplane; say tape showed that after one of two pilots left cockpit, another crew member made utterance after which auto pilot was disconnected and plane began fatal plunge; safety board chairman James E Hall comments (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 10, 1999, covering November 16, 1999.
Santana
Master P
Lou Bega
Backstreet Boys
Britney Spears
1999Bol Bol, South Sudanese-American basketball player[†]
Bol Manute Bol is a South Sudanese–American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Oregon Ducks. A son of basketball player Manute Bol, who was known for being one of the tallest players in NBA history, Bol was born in Khartoum, Sudan, but was raised in the Kansas City area from a young age. In high school, Bol was considered one of the best players in the class of 2018, having been rated a consensus five-star recruit and earning McDonald's All-American honors. A center listed at 7 feet 3 inches (2.21 m), he is one of the tallest players in the NBA.
1999Mats Wieffer, Dutch footballer[†]
Mats Henrik Berne Wieffer is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder or right-back for Premier League club Brighton & Hove Albion and the Netherlands national team.
1999Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1928)[†]
Daniel Nathans was an American microbiologist. He shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application in restriction mapping.
In 1999, the world population was approximately 6,089,006,339 people[†]