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Friday, July 11, 1980
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The Headlines
New Test Links Species Over 40,000 Years; Protein Albumin Used Species Linked Over 40,000 Years
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Coming Up
Paul McCartney
#1 at the box office
Airplane!
$2,739,328
The must-have
Rubik's Cube
You Share a Birthday With
- John Quincy Adams (1767)
- Giorgio Armani (1934)
- Alexander Prokhorov (1916)
- Robert the Bruce (1274)
- Yul Brynner (1920)
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
16,766 days ago
(45 years, 341 days)