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Tuesday, May 14, 1985
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The Headlines
4-STATE PANEL DECLARES A DROUGHT EMERGENCY
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Don't You (Forget About Me)
Simple Minds
#1 at the box office
Code of Silence
$2,803,483
The must-have
Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
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
Windows 1.0, Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) & DNA Fingerprinting.
Cost of Living (1985)
Loaf of Bread
$0.55
Gallon of Gas
$1.12
Average Home
$84,300
New Car
$12,650
Time Elapsed
14,997 days ago
(41 years, 32 days)