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Friday, August 9, 1985
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The Headlines
BUSINESS DIGEST: FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1985
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Shout
Tears for Fears
#1 at the box office
Back to the Future †
$8,074,395
The must-have
Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
You Share a Birthday With
- Whitney Houston (1963)
- Jean Piaget (1896)
- Romano Prodi (1939)
- Gillian Anderson (1968)
- Amedeo Avogadro (1776)
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
14,910 days ago
(40 years, 310 days)