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Thursday, May 1, 1986
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The Headlines
BUSINESS DIGEST: THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1986
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Addicted to Love
Robert Palmer
#1 at the box office
Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
The must-have
Lazer Tag
You Share a Birthday With
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769)
- Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852)
- Joseph Addison (1672)
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881)
- Joseph Heller (1923)
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
Disposable Camera, Pixar & Mir Space Station.
Cost of Living (1985)
Loaf of Bread
$0.55
Gallon of Gas
$1.12
Average Home
$84,300
New Car
$12,650
Time Elapsed
14,645 days ago
(40 years, 45 days)