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Thursday, February 12, 1981
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The Headlines
DROUGHT PRODUCES A NEW WATER ETHIC
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
$4,000,000
The must-have
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
You Share a Birthday With
- Abraham Lincoln (1809)
- Charles Darwin (1809)
- Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (1768)
- Christina Ricci (1980)
- Anna Pavlova (1881)
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
16,549 days ago
(45 years, 124 days)