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Friday, July 31, 1981
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The Headlines
BONN BUDGET PLAN FOR THE MILITARY CUT IN REAL TERMS
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Jessie's Girl
Rick Springfield
#1 at the box office
The Empire Strikes Back (reissue)
$7,001,282
The must-have
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
You Share a Birthday With
- J. K. Rowling (1965)
- Milton Friedman (1912)
- Louis de Funès (1914)
- Primo Levi (1919)
- Premchand (1880)
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
16,380 days ago
(44 years, 320 days)