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Saturday, May 12, 1984
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The Headlines
BOON TO SMALL BUSINES: ELECTRONIC LEDGERS
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Hello
Lionel Richie
#1 at the box office
The Natural
$5,088,381
The must-have
Transformers
You Share a Birthday With
- Florence Nightingale (1820)
- Rishi Sunak (1980)
- Katharine Hepburn (1907)
- Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895)
- Dorothy Hodgkin (1910)
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
Apple Macintosh, CD-ROM & Flash Memory.
Style of 1984
Silhouette: Athletic and layered
Material: Spandex and sweat
- Leg warmers
- Headbands
- Oversized sweatshirts
Cost of Living (1980)
Loaf of Bread
$0.50
Gallon of Gas
$1.19
Average Home
$47,200
New Car
$7,200
Time Elapsed
15,364 days ago
(42 years, 34 days)