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Saturday, July 12, 1980
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The Headlines
REGAN CHALLENGES DELAY OF PROJECTS BY PORT AUTHORITY; SAYS MONEY SEEMS ADEQUATE Comptroller Criticizes the Linking of Toll Rise to Transit Outlays in New York and Jersey 'Revenues Appear Adequate' Letters to Carey and Byrne Regan Challenges Port Authority Dispute on Use of Revenues
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
- Pablo Neruda (1904)
- Henry David Thoreau (1817)
- Amedeo Modigliani (1884)
- Buckminster Fuller (1895)
- Richard Simmons (1948)
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
16,764 days ago
(45 years, 339 days)