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Wednesday, August 31, 1983
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The Headlines
SCOTT MAKES UP LOST GROUND
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
Eurythmics
#1 at the box office
Mr. Mom
$8,221,715
The must-have
Cabbage Patch Kids
You Share a Birthday With
- Tsai Ing-wen (1956)
- Maria Montessori (1870)
- Hassan Nasrallah (1960)
- Théophile Gautier (1811)
- Richard Gere (1949)
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
15,619 days ago
(42 years, 289 days)