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Friday, January 9, 1981
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The Headlines
News Summary; FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1981
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
(Just Like) Starting Over
John Lennon
#1 at the box office
9 to 5
$6,388,982
The must-have
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
You Share a Birthday With
- Richard Nixon (1913)
- Simone de Beauvoir (1908)
- AD 727 (727)
- Karel Čapek (1890)
- Joan Baez (1941)
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
IBM PC, MS-DOS & Space Shuttle.
Cost of Living (1980)
Loaf of Bread
$0.50
Gallon of Gas
$1.19
Average Home
$47,200
New Car
$7,200
Time Elapsed
16,583 days ago
(45 years, 158 days)