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Monday, June 22, 1981
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The Headlines
PORT AUTHORITY AGREES WITH CITY TO EXPAND TWO MAJOR AIRPORTS
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Bette Davis Eyes
Kim Carnes
#1 at the box office
Superman II
$10,765,687
The must-have
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
You Share a Birthday With
- AD 1000 (1000)
- Meryl Streep (1949)
- Erich Maria Remarque (1898)
- Dan Brown (1964)
- Giuseppe Mazzini (1805)
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
16,419 days ago
(44 years, 359 days)