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Monday, February 2, 1981
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The Headlines
U.S. TO ACT ON POSSIBLE LEAKS AT ATOMIC SITE UPSTATE
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Celebration
Kool & the Gang
#1 at the box office
Fort Apache, The Bronx
$4,565,000
The must-have
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
You Share a Birthday With
- James Joyce (1882)
- Shakira (1977)
- Ayn Rand (1905)
- Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (1926)
- Park Geun-hye (1952)
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
16,559 days ago
(45 years, 134 days)