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On the date
Friday, July 4, 1980
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The Headlines
NEW YORK SEEKING NEW MONEY TO PAY FOR UNION ACCORD; Not a Great Problem in 1981, Koch Says, but '82 Budget Gap Will Be More Than $1 Billion Bigger Gap in '82 Budget Rohatyn Voices Misgivings City Seeks Funds to Pay for Union Pact Ratification Vote Awaited Some Names on a Piaque Some Firemen's Views The Issue of Danger
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Coming Up
Paul McCartney
#1 at the box office
The Empire Strikes Back †
$2,893,659
The must-have
Rubik's Cube
You Share a Birthday With
- Calvin Coolidge (1872)
- Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804)
- Gina Lollobrigida (1927)
- Alfredo Di Stéfano (1926)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
awesomebodaciouscheesychill
Valley Girl
as ifbarf me outgag me with a spoongrodytotally
Hip Hop
baddefdopeflyfreshword
Yuppie
greed is goodpower lunchnetworking
Tech Check
Fax Machine Boom, Pac-Man & Flash Memory.
Style of 1980
Silhouette: Oversized inverted triangle
Material: Lycra and sequins
- Shoulder pads
- Perms
- Neon accessories
Cost of Living (1980)
Loaf of Bread
$0.50
Gallon of Gas
$1.19
Average Home
$47,200
New Car
$7,200
Time Elapsed
16,772 days ago
(45 years, 347 days)