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Friday, August 26, 1983
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The Headlines
U.S. SUING TO FORCE GLEN COVE TO ALLOW RUSSIANS ON BEACHES
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Every Breath You Take
The Police
#1 at the box office
Mr. Mom
$6,445,106
The must-have
Cabbage Patch Kids
You Share a Birthday With
- Mother Teresa (1910)
- Antoine Lavoisier (1743)
- Chris Pine (1980)
- Guillaume Apollinaire (1880)
- Julio Cortázar (1914)
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
15,624 days ago
(42 years, 294 days)