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Tuesday, October 4, 1983
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The Headlines
NEW YORK AND UNION REACH PACT ON MEDICAL FACULTY INCOME LIMIT
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Total Eclipse of the Heart
Bonnie Tyler
#1 at the box office
Never Say Never Again
$10,958,157
The must-have
Cabbage Patch Kids
On This Day
Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 miles per hour (1,019.468 km/h) at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Rutherford B. Hayes (1822)
- Susan Sarandon (1946)
- Buster Keaton (1895)
- Charlton Heston (1923)
- Vitaly Ginzburg (1916)
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
15,585 days ago
(42 years, 255 days)