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Friday, October 7, 1983
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The Headlines
REAGAN REPORTED TO APPROVE MOVE FOR RE-ELECTION
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
You Share a Birthday With
- Vladimir Putin (1952)
- Niels Bohr (1885)
- Heinrich Himmler (1900)
- Desmond Tutu (1931)
- María Corina Machado (1967)
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
15,582 days ago
(42 years, 252 days)