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Wednesday, May 18, 1983
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The Headlines
STUDY OF LOVE CANAL FINDS NO DIRECT LINK TO GENETIC DISEASES
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Let's Dance
David Bowie
#1 at the box office
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
$7,053,016
The must-have
Cabbage Patch Kids
You Share a Birthday With
- Pope John Paul II (1920)
- Bertrand Russell (1872)
- Omar Khayyam (1048)
- Nicholas II (1868)
- Walter Gropius (1883)
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
15,724 days ago
(43 years, 29 days)