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Friday, July 29, 1983
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The Headlines
KAISER STEEL ACCEPTS $270.8 MILLION JACOBS BID
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Every Breath You Take
The Police
#1 at the box office
National Lampoon's Vacation
$8,333,358
The must-have
Cabbage Patch Kids
You Share a Birthday With
- Benito Mussolini (1883)
- Dag Hammarskjöld (1905)
- Fernando Alonso (1981)
- Alexis de Tocqueville (1805)
- Eyvind Johnson (1900)
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
15,652 days ago
(42 years, 322 days)