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Thursday, May 12, 1983
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The Headlines
PRESIDENT PLEDGES TO SHIFT APPROACH ON ARMS CONTROL
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Beat It
Michael Jackson
#1 at the box office
Blue Thunder
$8,258,149
The must-have
Cabbage Patch Kids
You Share a Birthday With
- Florence Nightingale (1820)
- Rishi Sunak (1980)
- Katharine Hepburn (1907)
- Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895)
- Dorothy Hodgkin (1910)
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
Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, Internet (TCP/IP Standard) & Microsoft Word.
Cost of Living (1980)
Loaf of Bread
$0.50
Gallon of Gas
$1.19
Average Home
$47,200
New Car
$7,200
Time Elapsed
15,730 days ago
(43 years, 35 days)