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Saturday, September 26, 1981
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The Headlines
NEW POLISH LAWS GIVE WORKERS ROLE IN RUNNING PLANTS
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Endless Love
Diana Ross and Lionel Richie
#1 at the box office
Mommie Dearest
$4,667,761
The must-have
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
You Share a Birthday With
- T. S. Eliot (1888)
- Martin Heidegger (1889)
- Pope Paul VI (1897)
- Petro Poroshenko (1965)
- Serena Williams (1981)
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
16,323 days ago
(44 years, 263 days)